Matt Hagger

Founder and Creator

2020 - Current

All children are creative geniuses. All of them! I am on a mission to help children hold onto their genius through a brand-new program and platform called Taletree. The digital destination for TaleTree kids is the Emerald Forest, which aims to foster creativity and kindness in children. Our platform allows children to showcase their talents and develop their social and emotional skills and inner confidence while discovering their passions and purpose from an early age. At TaleTree, children can explore our virtual emerald forest, where they can accept challenges, share creative projects, and encourage each other to be generous and supportive. Our platform works closely with parents, schools, brands, small businesses, and non-profits to ignite children's creativity, passion, and purpose.

President

2019

Nurturing over 20 investments that began at E-Man Venture Labs as ideas that have become active independent companies. $400m+ raised and 2000 people hired.

St John’s Innovation Centre graduate and Startup Mentor

2004

Received $200,000 in funding in 2004 from St Johns Innovation Centre at Cambridge University Science Park as a 21-year-old graduate for my real-time news alerts pilot. This pilot later evolved into Sky Sports desktop news alerts. After celebrating 20 years at E-Man, I was honored to be invited to mentor other graduates and academics who have also received funding from St Johns Innovation Centre. It is a great opportunity to share my experience and expertise, and support aspiring entrepreneurs in their journey.

Co-Founder

2015

Co-founded Zoomdoc alongside Kenny Livingstone with the aim of revolutionizing the home visiting GP marketplace. We invested in the development of Version 1.0 and subsequently raised £500,000 at a £2.5 million pre-money valuation, successfully bringing Andy Murray on board as an investor. Zoomdoc has since expanded its services and now caters to prominent organizations in the UK, including McDonald's, David Lloyd, and many others, providing on-demand GP services and testing. In 2022, we proudly launched the first medical letters platform, which has already saved over 40,000 NHS appointments since its inception. This platform has been instrumental in improving efficiency and reducing the burden on the healthcare system.

Member Board Of Directors

2020

Founding CTO shareholder and Board Advisor

2016

Company Owner

2018

Play to earn pocket mobile game. Plays games to earn miles to access tickets to access prizes and discounted services.

Founder and CEO

2016 - 2020

The worlds first birthday discovery engine. Building a social platform connected by birthdays. Successfully launched an astrology app that has over 500k MAU's and is revenue-generating before acquistion.

Board Advisor

2019 - 2019

Helping the board of a wonderful company to drive growth on a project I am hugely passionate about. I believe that nutrition is the key to a happy and healthy life. Purpose before profits, project.

CEO and Founder

2000 - 2019

Matt Hagger is a serial entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of technology, with a track record. Matt's first business, creating and selling games aged 16 and a music magazine aged 18 Matt loved bringing ideas to life. In 2000 he founded E-Man and by age 21, created the first real-time desk-top news alerts platform in the world, pre-RSS feeds. Net Sorcerer was granted a patent and raised a 6 figure investment from Cambridge University enterprise, backed by the Department of trade and industry. Net Sorcerer provided the intellectual property for Sky Sports and News Alerts. 20 years later Matt is now a mentor to Cambridge University academics and entrepreneurs as he strives to pay it forward. An early innovator in the mobile space creating one of the first 5 productivity apps ever to appear on Android market in 2009 and prior to Android, one of the first-ever location and photo/video capturing platforms, using a combination of Java ME and Flash lite in 2008, running on Nokia N95 devices. This became the prototype for Zkatter his next venture: Zkatter helped Samsung mobile innovator launch and grow their native OS 'Bada' through building a number of pioneering apps on the system. Matt scaled E-Man to an internationally respected venture studio with offices in 2 continents, collaborating with founders to built the next big thing, across Europe and America. Matt has consulted for Disney, 20th Century Fox, BBC, NHS, speaking at major conferences such as Mobile World Congress, representing Samsung, Awards Won: 2009: Top 30 entrepreneurs under the age of 35 by Growing Business magazine. 2009: Smarta winner Bizkit 2010: Smarta for Zkatter, Red Herring for Bizkit, 33rd new best start in UK Bizkit. 2010: Samsung's World Developer challenge winner: Zkatter 2012: Great Britons Olympic award for Technology, sponsored by British Airways. Matt comments on technology for many leading publications and media houses, including a weekly BBC programme in 2012-2014.