Products: our biggest success
Digital signage was too complicated and too expensive, so most businesses ignored the screens they had. ScreenCloud made it simple to turn any screen into a sign using consumer hardware. It began as a prototype in Codegent Labs in 2014 and became a company of its own.
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2014
Prototyped in Codegent Labs. Tested on every kind of screen in a lab in Bangkok, where one of the first screens showed the city’s weather.
2015
Spun out. ScreenCloud became its own company, and was named in Unilever’s Foundry50, “Europe’s 50 hottest startups”, at Cannes.
2025
Private equity. ScreenCloud raised investment as an independent company, and in 2025 the investor Tenzing bought a majority stake.
And the rest
From Red5 in 2005 to Moovrs in 2015, the SaaS and mobile products we designed, built and ran ourselves. Our apps had over 20 million downloads between them.
No longer involved. Back in 2005 we helped pioneer one of the first, and most successful, open source Flash projects. Red5, a Flash media server, delivered video streaming and multi-user features to projects. It even powered Facebook’s self-record video feature.
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Exited. A subscription Twitter monitoring tool that helped businesses keep an eye on their mentions and hashtags and manage their online reputation, with near real-time results, an archive, and search by an area drawn on a map.
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Exited on merger with eMoov. An online-only estate agency we co-founded with Sarah Beeny. It advertised homes on Rightmove and Zoopla, ran from a single call centre, and automated uploading property, booking viewings, making offers and collating documents for conveyancing.
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No longer active. A neat way for developers to let their visitors take pictures and videos with their webcams. Airbnb, DailyBooth and Brizzly used it.
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Exited. Our first mobile app, Learn Thai, started a range of phrasebook apps. We evolved it several times and rolled it out in 20 languages, and it was downloaded 19 million times over ten years.
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No longer active. We wanted a really simple resource scheduling tool and couldn’t find one without bells and whistles we didn’t need, so we built our own. Other people liked it, so we made it a service.
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Sold to private equity. Fun, educational apps for babies, toddlers and young children, built on what we knew about how youngsters learn. One of our most successful products: over 3 million downloads, and sold to a private equity fund.
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No longer active. Instagram had no iPad app, even though people loved browsing photos on a tablet, so we made one. The tech press liked it and Apple featured it.
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No longer active. A free iPhone app that put the fun back into property search, built around the three Ps: place, price and pictures.
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