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Imran Ghory

Partner at Blossom Capital

London, England

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2018 - Current

    Co-founder of Blossom Capital, Europe's leading Series A focused VC firm. Portfolio includes Checkout, Moonpay, Tines, Pigment, Frontify, Spacelift and Cado.

  • Head of Data Insights

    2015 - 2017

    Led our team spanning data science, data infra engineering and BI. Member of the exec team as the company scaled from Seed to Series B.

  • Investment Team

    2012 - 2014

    Led data-driven deal sourcing across seed/venture/growth. Also worked on evaluation of tech infra investments and on internal projects supporting our portfolio companies.

  • Founder

    2010 - 2012

    Founded the UK's leading developer-first recruitment platform. CoderStack reached more than 7,000 software developers each month, working with some of the top technology and media companies at the time (include Cisco, MetaSwitch, deviantArt and Net-a-Porter).

  • VP Engineering / FX Developer

    2010 - 2010

    Led the development of Dresdner Kleinwort's (acquired by Commerzbank) eFX Spot pricing system (algos, architecture, global price distribution). The pricing system was responsible for the real-time pricing of billions of euros of currency transactions across all major currency pairs on a daily basis, both via direct client trades and via the major FX markets (ICAP, Reuters, etc).

  • FX Software Developer (Front-Office)

    2007 - 2010

    Worked on the design and development of low-latency/high-frequency pricing and trading systems. Combinined solid business knowledge and in-depth understanding of full technology stack (algorithms, java, linux, hardware, network) to achieve PnL maximizing optimizations of latency and throughput. Used strong knowledge of Java (J2SE) and TCP/IP optimization and worked with JRE and Kernel source code to ensure optimizations were as effective as possible. Sat with trading desk and worked with quants on a daily basis to develop FX Spot pricing algorithms.

  • Software Developer (Fixed Income Electronic Trading)

    2006 - 2007

    Project manager and developer for credit derivative (credit default swap) settlement system. Worked directly with both our internal business team and external partners. Managed project resources and was involved in a hands-on capacity in the development on both GUI and server side. Prior work included an Interest Rate Swap trade ticketing system and protocol/log analysis tools.

  • Equities Software Developer

    2004 - 2006

    Worked as a developer for Bloomberg's industry-standard Equity VWAP and CIX price engines. Led the development of TCA<go> an application for equity transaction cost analysis. I was also involved in running the department's graduate recruitment scheme for which my duties included CV screening, interviewing and running career stands at milkround events.

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