Mayku

Mayku are revolutionising the way we make our ideas real. We're building the world's first desktop factory to make creating products as simple as cooking.

  • Stage $1M in TTM Revenue
  • Industry Consumer Products
  • Location London, United Kingdom
  • Currency GBP
  • Founded September 2015
  • Employees 9
  • Incorporation Type LLC
  • Website mayku.me

Company Summary

Mayku are revolutionising the way we make our ideas real.

We’ve pre-sold £750k of the FormBox, our first product, to 2200 customers. Manufacturing is set up for scale, with a capacity of 4,500 per month. We’ve signed up the UK’s largest technology distributor and are on track for £2.8m revenue in 2018.

We also sell a range of consumables to go with our machines that provide a recurring revenue stream.

Team

  • Alex Smilansky
    Co-Founder & CEO

    Before starting Mayku Alex lead the strategy team at startup studio Mint Digital where he lead the development of multiple new ventures for large corporates and in house teams. Before that he worked at Special Projects Studio and has a first in design & innovation from Goldsmiths.

  • Benjamin Redford
    Co-Founder

    Ben previously Founded 2 startups. Projecteo, the miniature instagram projector and Candy Mechanics a customised candy business. Before that he helped grow an online community for StickyGram (now Sticky 9) before its sale to PhotoBox, worked at Saatchi & Saatchi and studied design at Goldsmiths University.

  • Sian Hannah
    Sales Director

    Former sales director at Toshiba and Tech 21. 20+ years experience in distribution.

  • David Rae
    CFO

    More than 20 years experience as CFO of multiple high growth manufacturing companies.

  • Chris Waring
    CTO - Digital

    Front-end Developer and Digital Product Designer. Former Technical Director at Substrakt. On contract.

  • Paul Hofland
    Head of Logistics

    Ex Toshiba - Thirty years experience in product management, sales and logistics planning. On contract.

  • Laura Scott
    Head of Marketing

    Award winning marketer - Former clients include: Google, Samsung, Rapha and Ebay.

Advisors

Previous Investors

  • Available on request
    Unconfirmed

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