Henry de Zoete

Non Executive Director

2022 - Current

Angel Investor

2018

Investor in 100+ startups, usually at pre-seed / seed including: Organise, Zbiotics, Zen Educate, Kidadl, Moneyhub, Screenloop, Glitzi, Terra, Cliff.ai (acquired 2022), Story Terrace, Mojo, Thursday, Tuli Health, Kiwi Biosciences, Secret Spa, Quickbus, Oto Health, Just Wears, Pinter, Learney, Verdn, Rayday, Stripe and Stare, Sama, BeZero Carbon, Crowd Data Systems, Lindus Health, UDroppy, Hirebolt, Fella, Right Charge, Electric Car Scheme, Court Correct, Lapse, Lottie, Truck it in, Footium, Studystream, Mytos, SockSoho, Titan Academy, Loma, Sportas, Trevor, Playter, Clara, Cheq, Flown, Condense Reality, Kanda, Voco, Repool, Stackflow, Here We Flow, Triskbio, Stretch, Sooper Books, Steadypay, Lovecast, Ember, Servo, Channel, Springchat, Docbot, Granular, Ophelos, Emperia, Phycoworks, Volunteero, Ferly, Roleshare, Eraser, Payflows, Playbook, Relay, Kadence, Petsapp, MotherTree, Dines, Quester, Devyce, Days, Lightguard, Worldover, Dosen, Natter, Revenir, Lopay, Sequel, Linq, Taxzap, Cala, Greenworkx, Homecooks, Thema.ai, Statement, Tangent. Later stage (Series A and after): Pipe, Levels, Eight Sleep, Reachdesk, Rejuveron, Maximus, Scratchpad, TeachFX.

Non Executive Director

2020 - 2024

Prime Minister’s Adviser on Artificial Intelligence

2023 - 2024

Advisory Board Member of No10 Innovation Fellowship Programme

2020 - 2023

The new No.10 Innovation Fellowship programme, run jointly by Number 10 and the Government Digital Service (GDS) and inspired by the US Presidential Fellowship programme, aims to attract top talent from the digital and tech sector into government to help transform the delivery of public services. Details here: https://no10innovationfellows.campaign.gov.uk

Non Executive Director

2022 - 2023

Advisory Board Member to GOV.UK

2020 - 2023

Co-Founder & CEO

2018 - 2021

- Largest auto-switching service in the UK with over half a million members - Y Combinator Winter 2018 batch raising money from investors in California, New York and London - Best deal in the history of Dragons' Den - Acquired by GoCo Group PLC (GoCompare) July 2019 Launched in January 2018, Look After My Bills is the largest energy auto-switching service in the country with nearly a million members. We moved over £450 million of energy custom saving our members more than £120 million in total on their energy bills. We negotiated the best equity deal in the history of Dragons' Den. We've had investment from the world-renowned Silicon Valley start-up accelerator Y Combinator who have previously funded AirBnB, Dropbox, Stripe, Coinbase and numerous other successful companies. Look After My Bills is a new service from consumer collective The Big Deal which has moved over £125 million of energy custom saving our users over £25 million. Launched in 2014 we negotiated one off deals with dozens of energy companies that beat the market. We did the largest ever mass consumer switch to green energy.

Co-founder

2014 - 2021

Using people power to lower energy bills and save the environment. Collective bargaining for consumers. 400,000 members and growing. We've moved £125 million of custom and saved the British public £25 million. Families saving as much as £475 each. Our Clean Energy Switch was the biggest mass consumer switch to clean energy ever. We used people power to reduce the cost of green energy so people can go clean AND save money. We're now using people power to help families save on broadband. Our campaigns are reported across the media: from the front page of the Sun, Independent, Evening Standard, Mirror and FT to the BBC Today programme, LBC and Sky News. thebigdeal.com @BigDealEnergy

Board Member

2015 - 2018

Three year term as board member at the grassroots campaigning organisation with millions of members all over the country.

Special adviser to the Secretary of State for Education

2010 - 2013