Carl Uminski
Angel Investor
London, United Kingdom
Carl Uminski is a seed investor in London focused on Artificial Intelligence and iOS. Carl is a digital industry pioneer with over two decades of experience in creating new products, state-of-the-art platforms and leading scalable growth strategies for businesses across the globe. As Co-Founder & CEO at Somo, the UK’s largest independent digital product accelerator, Carl led the sale of the company to global specialistCI&T for £49 million, opening up even more growth opportunities, scale and digital expertise.Having built Somo from scratch to 300 people, across multiple locations in the UK, US, and Colombia, he led the delivery of its proposition and championed the agency values of Create Success, Lead with Knowledge, Love Innovation and Be Brave — values that he co-created and that have helped Somo win a succession of global best places to work awards in recent years.At Somo, Carl generated strong business performance for its global clients across a plethora of industries. Wielding extensive and uniquely diverse knowledge of the digital sector, Carl built solutions to meet any technical challenge the company faced, while crafting feasibility assessments and strategies for brands to succeed in an increasingly mobile world. He has advised and worked with the leaders of over 60 of the world’s biggest brands such as Audi, HSBC, Vodafone, Groupon, Zynga, BP, and British Gas’ Hive. Guiding these giants on their digital transformation journeys, Carl ensured they could meet rising customer expectations and create a radical differentiation that placed them at the forefront of their respective industries. Prior to founding Somo, Carl was a co-founder at Overture Europe, the company that pioneered the multi-billion dollar pay-per-click advertising industry in Europe. As CTO, he was integral in leading the business to success in 15(16?) European countries, and its eventual sale to Yahoo! for $1.63 billion in 2003. A leader in search and social networking, he was headhunted by the titans of Silicon Valley, and it was there he created Yahoo! One Search mobile platform, working with some of the world’s largest mobile brands. Previously, Carl was responsible for running real-time systems such as aircraft parking, flight information and security at seven British airports including London’s Heathrow Airport. In addition, Carl is a dedicated advisor, an active investor, board member and advisor to a number of successful technology start-ups including Swiftkey (sold to Microsoft), Hubble (Commercial Real Estate), Clim8 (Pioneering investments in Green businesses), The Ultimate Travel Club (a new disruptive travel technology company), Howsy (disrupting real-estate), Homelyfe (redefining insurance), Brewbroker (craft beer marketplace), Airspace (drone security), Careology (health tech) and others. Carl has been named the Most Influential Person in Mobile in The Drum’s Mobile Top 50, selected as one of the 20 Most Influential People in Mobile by Business Insider and honoured with the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 Best Management Team Award.
- Total investments:
- 4
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Industries Carl Uminski invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (50%)
- iOS 1 (25%)
- Mobile 1 (25%)
- Rental 1 (25%)
- Android 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
- Series B 1 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (25%)
Investments
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| 5Mins s a gamified learning platform designed to help employees improve their skills .It curates short-form video content from leading creators around the world and makes it available to teams and businesses via adaptive and gamified learning engine. | $5.7M / Seed / Nov 07, 2022 | ||
| Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants. Howsy. A new concept designed to shake up the way of renting works for good. Its on a mission to create a simple, intuitive and fairly priced experience that’s powered by new ideas and brilliant technology. | $1.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 08, 2017 | ||
| SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages.SwiftKey wasfounded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom. | $17.5M / Series B / Sep 04, 2013 | ||
| SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages.SwiftKey wasfounded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom. | Series A / Dec 07, 2011 |
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What does Carl Uminski invest in?
Carl Uminski invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, iOS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Carl Uminski last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Carl Uminski closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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