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Entrepreneur, developer, and designer in San Francisco. Originally from Sydney, but have lived in the UK, South Africa, and Dubai.
Making ExamplePy, a set of basic examples of types of models (CNN, Transformer etc) for educational purposes
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2016 - 2024 | Founding team @ Tilt.com, a billion dollar fintech, backed by Sequoia, Initialized, and many more. Ran Tilt’s first international market in Mexico to 7 figure revenue
2014 - 2015 | Founded Robby, a retail worker app that grew so popular with Apple Retail they shut it down and built their own version
Mentor to First Round Capital portfolio companies. Angel investor in companies and various funds.
Media
TechCrunch | Sequoia-backed startup Empower aims to replace your bank’s app - 2017
TechCrunch | Mobile banking app Empower Finance just closed a $20 million Series A round - 2020
Inc. 5000 company | No. 258 (2025) | No. 65 (2024) | No. 56 (2023) | No. 55 (2022)
Empower Signs Deal to Acquire Petal, Completes Purchase of Cashalo
Empower Finance Acquires NIRA to Accelerate Credit Access in India's Underserved Markets
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