The Interest Network
Products to make everyday choices easier. On a mission to source, substantiate & serve the most trusted recommendations, without the hustle.
- Stage Prototype Ready
- Industry Lifestyle
- Location London, GB-ENG, United Kingdom
- Currency GBP
- Founded November 2012
- Employees 5
- Website intrst.net
Company Summary
Social tech co amassing a pool of recommendations from credible sources. Serving these across the web at the right time to the right people to help them make choices. Launching 'Gather' our content discovery & distribution platform for interest groups. Creating a plug-in version of Gather to provide existing publisher & blogger sites our group infrastructure. Adding Squirrel a 'stashing' app to source & serve recommendations to a mass audience.
Team
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Andy HewittCo-Founder: Solve
15 years of delivering ‘firsts’ in commercial, comms and tech. Andy creates clarity and opportunity from mess - balancing solutions for users and commercially.
Andy’s knowledge of what works in the new world is drawn from experience in transitioning brands away from prod category marcoms to emotive, relational and attitudinal marketing supported by data driven market segmentation. His career maps closely to this change in marketing technique
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Nick HoskinCo-Founder: Create
Distinguished design career developing consumer-centric products worldwide. Understands the opps of tech and uses this to turn solutions into products people love.
Nick has led the creation and global implementation of Sony Ericsson’s integrated eCommerce offering across 39 markets / languages, as well as delivering highly complex CMS’s for Video on Demand services and recently, Global Dawn’s own platform Admin Manager and Analytics offerings.
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Clive BlackCo-Founder: Money
25 years in management inc. director Warner Brothers Music + MD of EMI. The last 10 years heading his own diverse entertainment company. Clive steers the ship, opens doors and keeps pushing to make this dream a reality.
In his mid-late 40’s Clive is hungry to channel all his years of experience and success in the music industry and combine these with the opportunities the social web and tech has thrown up to turn dreams into reality
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Gavin ClarkBuild
Highly regarded hacker who builds award winning tech for the largest brands. Focused on data and dev teams that deliver game changing tech.
Always looking at the big picture Gav has led teams on massive site rebuilds for Rolex, quick turnaround campaigns for Intel and week-long art hackathons with Usman Haque. Always delivering an innovative and (sometimes) award- winning product.
Advisors
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Davenport LyonsLawyerUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Kate Glick (Edge VCT)UnconfirmedNick Gatfield (Chairman Sony Music)UnconfirmedStephanie Allen (MD Millennium Capital)Unconfirmed
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