AS

Alex Stephany

Founder of Beam

London Area, United Kingdom

Overview 

Alex Stephany is the CEO of Beam, a social entrepreneur recognized as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2022. With a background in venture capital and entrepreneurship, Alex has successfully led Beam and invested in impactful companies like Oto Health, while actively hiring for over 20 roles to expand the team. Highlights of Alex's career include being named Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 and leading Beam as its Founder & CEO, showcasing expertise in venture capital, market research, and fostering strategic partnerships to drive social impact and business growth.

Work Experience 

B

Beam

  • Founder & CEO - we’re hiring! 🚀

    2017 - Current

    Beam is the world’s first crowdfunding platform for homeless people. Funded by the Mayor of London and the UK's leading tech entrepreneurs, Beam has proven a powerful new model to help homeless people get into work. Beam has been covered widely including by the BBC, The Times, The FT, The Independent, London Evening Standard, Sky, Time Out and others and has been named by The Guardian as one of the most important social tech innovations of 2018. www.beam.org

  • Supporter

    2017

    Supporting Beam’s members by donating and encouraging them on and offline to achieve their career goals.

FP

Founders Pledge

  • Pledger

    2019

    I have signed Founder's Pledge - a group of entrepreneurs and investors who have pledged to give a substantial part of any future proceeds to charitable causes.

CF

Code First Girls

  • Investor

    2022

g

greenworkx

  • Investor

    2023

S

Sourceful

  • Investor

    2020

A

Academy

  • Investor & Advisor

    2021

H

Humanloop

  • Investor

    2020

Humanloop is the LLM evals platform for enterprises.

Raised $2,725,000.00 from Shane Curran, Gerald Parloiu, Raphael Danilo, Index Ventures, Y Combinator and UCL Technology Fund.

humanloop.com
F

FLOWN

  • Investor

    2020

H

Heights

  • Investor

    2020

J

JustPark

  • Board Advisor

    2015

    Continuing to support JustPark and our vision of taking the pain out of parking.

  • CEO

    2012 - 2015

    JustPark (formerly ParkatmyHouse) is the world's leading online marketplace for parking with over 3.5m customers. We are backed by leading international venture capital firm, Index Ventures, and the venture capital arm of BMW. In 2015, we also closed the largest ever equity crowdfunding round for a tech startup, raising EUR 5M from almost 3,000 investors, of whom more than a thousand are JustPark customers.

  • COO

    2011 - 2012

    Getting my hands dirty with everything I could from above-the-line and PPC marketing and inventory acquisition to customer support and PR before being promoted to CEO at the end of 2012.

Education 

Investments 

Oto Health

Pre Seed

Total funding: $3.7M

Articles About Alex

Relevant Websites