Richard Muirhead
Co-founding Chairman @ Firestartr
London, United Kingdom
Richard Muirhead is a seed investor at Firestartr in London focused on Software and SaaS. Since 1995, Richard Muirhead has been involved in starting, funding, building and finding long-term homes for innovative software and internet businesses. He is currently Chairman of Tixdaq (www.tixdaq.com) and investor/advisor to T5M (www.t5m.com).From October 2002 to 2009, he was Chairman, CEO and Founder of [Tideway Systems](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tideway) which with its IT discovery platform tackled the persistent and fundamental challenge of managing change in distributed applications. Tideway's hundreds of clients included JPMorganChase, Avis, CarphoneWarehouse, Wachovia and BT. Tideway was acquired for cash by BMC Software in October 2009 and its product Foundation is a key strategic platform for BMC going forward.Between 2001 and 2002, Richard was Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Accel Partners at the inception of their London office.From 1995 to 2001, he was a co-founder SVP of Orchestream. Listing on LSE and NASDAQ, with a peak market capitalization that reached £1.0 billion. Now sold and supported by Oracle, Orchestream's IP service activation software products are automating operations at service providers such as AT&T, Telstra and Vodafone to this day.Richard was a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum for 2009, a finalist in the UK Technology Innovation & Growth Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2006 and runner-up in the British Computing Society's Intel IT Leader of the Year Award for 2008.Richard holds an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University and is a citizen of both Australia and the United Kingdom.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Richard Muirhead invests in
Stages Richard Muirhead invests in
Countries Richard Muirhead invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (25%)
- SaaS 2 (17%)
- Messaging 2 (17%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (17%)
- iOS 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (42%)
- Series A 3 (25%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 2 (17%)
- United Kingdom 2 (17%)
- Israel 1 (8%)
- Hungary 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM. | $6M / Seed / Oct 03, 2024 | ||
| Addressable is an innovative end-to-end Web3 marketing solution. The company’s best-in-class SaaS platform provides Web3 marketing teams with a powerful platform to effectively target new audiences by matching blockchain activity with social profiles. Addressable is a trusted partner of leading Web3 companies including Polygon, Bancor, Immutable,and Kryptomon. Founded by data analytics veterans Tomer Sharoni, Tomer Shlomo and Dr. Asaf Nadler, Addressable has raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round led by Viola Ventures and Fabric Ventures. | $6M / Seed / Dec 21, 2023 | ||
| Addressable is an innovative end-to-end Web3 marketing solution. The company’s best-in-class SaaS platform provides Web3 marketing teams with a powerful platform to effectively target new audiences by matching blockchain activity with social profiles. Addressable is a trusted partner of leading Web3 companies including Polygon, Bancor, Immutable,and Kryptomon. Founded by data analytics veterans Tomer Sharoni, Tomer Shlomo and Dr. Asaf Nadler, Addressable has raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round led by Viola Ventures and Fabric Ventures. | $7.5M / Seed / Jan 31, 2023 | ||
| Railsr is a financial services company. They provide the creation of digital ledgers, connecting digital ledgers to bank accounts, receiving money, sending money, converting money, issuing cards, and managing credit through the API that enables banks and corporate customers to transact digitally. | $37M / Series A / Nov 12, 2020 | ||
| Railsr is a financial services company. They provide the creation of digital ledgers, connecting digital ledgers to bank accounts, receiving money, sending money, converting money, issuing cards, and managing credit through the API that enables banks and corporate customers to transact digitally. | $10M / Series A / Sep 04, 2019 | ||
| Bitrise is a platform for mobile app development, enabling tens of thousands of developers to automate integration, testing, and deployment. Through 200+ integrations with the services developers know and love, Bitrise frees up developers to iterate and improve their workflows for ever faster and better results. It offers more than 300 steps andintegrations to easily connect the processes and services you use in your mobile development workflows.With tens of thousands of developers and customers spanning unicorn startups (Careem, Traveloka) to established enterprise companies (Virgin, TNT), Bitrise is the defacto standard for mobile CI/CD and automation. | $20M / Series B / Jun 19, 2019 | ||
| Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet. Orchid uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet. Orchid Labs was founded in 2017 by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, Jay Freeman,Brian J. Fox, Gustav Simonsson, and Stephen Bell. | $4.7M / Seed / Oct 26, 2017 | ||
| Railsr is a financial services company. They provide the creation of digital ledgers, connecting digital ledgers to bank accounts, receiving money, sending money, converting money, issuing cards, and managing credit through the API that enables banks and corporate customers to transact digitally. | $1.4M / Seed / Aug 09, 2017 | ||
| Bitrise is a platform for mobile app development, enabling tens of thousands of developers to automate integration, testing, and deployment. Through 200+ integrations with the services developers know and love, Bitrise frees up developers to iterate and improve their workflows for ever faster and better results. It offers more than 300 steps andintegrations to easily connect the processes and services you use in your mobile development workflows.With tens of thousands of developers and customers spanning unicorn startups (Careem, Traveloka) to established enterprise companies (Virgin, TNT), Bitrise is the defacto standard for mobile CI/CD and automation. | $3.2M / Series A / Jul 31, 2017 | ||
| Outlyer is a self-service infrastructure monitoring platform made for DevOps and microservices. We monitor your full stack—from servers and cloud providers to databases, containers and custom metrics. We give you dashboards, analytics and alerts that are easy to set up and customize for both developer and operations teams.Outlyer is monitoring,done differently. | $5M / Series A / Jun 20, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Firestartr
Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond. Beyond providing capital, they draw on their entrepreneurial successes and senior operational experience with leading technology companies to support sustainable growth in their portfolio. Their deep domain expertise, combinedwith an unrivalled network of advisors, enable us to make meaningful connections at the right time and propel companies with hands-on support.
Firestartr Contacts
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Axel Wehr
Partner
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Chipper Boulas
Co-Founder, Partner
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Mark Mitchell
CFO
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Rachel Finegold
Investment Associate
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Rachel Finegold
Investment Associate
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Richard Muirhead invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Messaging startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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