About

We loved what digital could do.

Digital technology had the power to make us more productive, better connected, happier, richer and wiser. We pulled together a team of people who shared that excitement, in London and Bangkok, from 2004 to 2021.

Founded in London, 2004

It started with three.

  • Mark McDermott

    Co-founder, creative director

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  • David Hart

    Co-founder, managing director

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  • Luke Hubbard

    Co-founder, technical director

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Codegent was incorporated on 1 May 2004. The three had met at Reading Room, and began in a borrowed room at the top of Mark’s parents’ office.

Seventeen years

2004 to 2021.

  1. 2004

    Founded. In London on 1 May, in a borrowed room. In Bangkok, the first office and staff were in Luke and Khum’s house.

  2. 2005

    Red5. Our first product, an open source Flash media server that later powered Facebook’s self-record video.

  3. 2006

    Clapham. The top floor of the Plough Brewery on Wandsworth Road, with views to Battersea Power Station.

  4. 2009

    Bangkok office. Bangkok moved into a proper office, and the Gherkin film had a Webby nomination and an FITC award.

  5. 2012

    Old Street. We bought Thin Martian and moved both teams into one warehouse floor on Cowper Street.

  6. 2014

    Ten years. ScreenCloud was prototyped in Codegent Labs.

  7. 2015

    ScreenCloud. Spun out as its own company.

  8. 2016

    Products. All the agency work went into Thin Martian, and Codegent became a digital innovation studio.

  9. 2017

    Thin Martian. Sold to the Konekt Group.

  10. 2021

    Closed. Codegent went into voluntary liquidation.

  • 82 People on the team in London and Bangkok, as thanked on our tenth birthday.
  • 20m+. Downloads of our own apps, 19 million of them for Learn in 20 languages.
  • 10. Products of our own, from Red5 in 2005 to Moovrs in 2015.
  • 437. Posts on our blog, by 34 people.

Afterwards

What happened to Codegent.

Codegent closed in 2021 and went into voluntary liquidation. Its best-known product, ScreenCloud, began as a prototype in Codegent Labs in 2014 and became its own company in 2015.

ScreenCloud went on to raise investment as an independent company, and in 2025 the private equity investor Tenzing bought a majority stake.

This site is kept as a record of the studio, its products and its blog. Our social accounts are still online as archives and are no longer updated: X, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Everyone who worked here