Richard Lawrence Hargreaves

Director

2016 - Current

Boku is the leading independent company specialising in direct carrier billing which allows smart phone users to charge purchases to their phone bills. It is sole supplier to Apple and Sony. It was listed on AIM in November 2017

Business angel investment specialist and author

2021

During the first lockdown a wrote a book called Business Angel Investing in which I tried to put everything I know about this subject, learnt over many years, into one place for others to benefit from. The first edition of this book was published in 2013 under the title How To Become A Business Angel: Practical Advice For Aspiring Investors In Unquoted Companies. Angel investment was then the UK’s most important source of equity capital for companies seeking less than £2m and it remains so. However, much has since changed in the world of financing unquoted companies, which is the reason for a second edition. The book covers all aspects of investing in unquoted companies as a private individual. It offers practical guidance, both to those who wish to make angel investments for the first time and to those have invested before but who would like to develop a more systematic approach. It discusses how to find investments, assess them, structure them, manage them and finally – and importantly – exit from them. I have invested in private companies for most of my life and I have had many successes and many failures. So I do know a lot about the ups and downs of backing smaller companies and would not swap the excitement and satisfaction of that for something less challenging. If my experiences and thoughts encourage some to become involved – or more deeply involved – with this fascinating activity and, at the same time, helps improve their chances of success it will have served its purpose. You can find the book on Amazon or the publishers website: https://harriman-house.com/Businessangelinvesting If you go there you can buy with a 25% discount using the code BUSINESSANGEL25

Director

2021

Director

2021

Director

2020

Director

2017

The company operates in the fast growing field of software automation. I was lead angel for the government's Angel CoFund investment. My relevant experience was my earlier involvement with Blue Prism Group plc which pioneered robotic process automation of which it is a world leader. It is now listed on AIM valued at c£1bn and investors made more than 150x money on every £ invested in 2006 if they kept those shares

Director

2010

Numecent has a suite of patents on virtualisation and data streaming across the internet. Its product Application Jukebox allows any Microsoft application to be virtualised. It invented CloudPaging which allows large applications to be delivered quickly and efficiently across the Internet by only supplying the "pages" needed by the user at any time

Director

2009

sales-i has a sales productivity tool delivered as SaaS. The majority of sales are to the USA.

Chairman

1989 - 1990

Chair the council

London Office Manager

1973 - 1982

Invest in smaller UK companies