Simon Menashy
Partner at MMC Ventures
Simon Menashy
Partner at MMC Ventures
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2011 - Current
VC at MMC Ventures, a leading early-stage venture capital firm based in London. We back and support the most cutting-edge, fast-growing tech and data companies across Europe. We invest from seed through to Series A.
Board Director
2020
Consumers increasingly expect realtime live experience to be the norm, whether that is instant messaging, transit updates or live scores. But delivering that experience takes significant engineering complexity. Ably is a global enterprise realtime communication platform which allows its customers to stream live data anywhere, at scale and between any device, reliably. We led Ably's Series A in 2019 and supported it through US expansion and its $70 million Series B.
Board Director
2019
Lookiero is an innovative online personal styling experience, delivering hand-picked fashion to women across ten countries. It's also a leading-edge data science company, combining human stylists and algorithms to provide the best possible fit for every customer. We first invested in 2019 and the company has continued to scale across Europe.
Board Director
2016
Signal turns the world's information into knowledge, helping businesses monitor the world's media by making the unknown, known. Our AI-powered platform digests and analyses millions of articles each week, allowing companies to track what's changing in their world and stay ahead of news, regulation and more. MMC led Signal's Series A in 2016, together with our friends at Hearst Ventures. We have backed the company through four funding rounds and supported growth to over 200 people in Europe, the US and Asia.
Board Director / Observer
2015
Masabi is the global leader in mobile ticketing for transportation. We help make city transport smarter by simplifying ticketing, validation and management and enabling passengers to use their smartphone or contactless cards. Masabi's Justride platform is deployed in major cities including New York, Boston, London, LA and Athens. We led Masabi's Series A in 2014 and have supported the company through several funding rounds and expansion to serve more than 100 transit agencies around the globe.
Board Observer
2013
MUBI is a curated online cinema. Available to stream in over 200 countries around the globe and on multiple devices, MUBI brings you unforgettable films hand-picked from the best of studio, indie, art-house and cult classics. I've had the pleasure of working with MUBI's wonderful team for nearly a decade as they have built a world-leading streaming technology business and scaled across the world.
Board Director / Advisor
2017 - 2023
DigitalGenius is a no-code platform that helps ecommerce businesses automate support resolutions for their customers. It combines AI integrations and workflows to make their customers, teams and inboxes happy. I co-led DigitalGenius's Series A in 2017 and continue to advise the team.
Board Director
2017 - 2022
Senseye uses data science to predict machine failure, allowing industrial facilities to target predictive maintenance and avoid expensive downtime. I led Senseye's Series A in 2017 and supported it through international expansion. The company was acquired by Siemens in June 2022.
Board Director
2015 - 2019
Sky-Futures has built the future of drone-based industrial inspection. Its technology platform is used by customers in oil and gas, infrastructure, transport and telecoms to collect data using unmanned aerial systems and analyse and visualise that data using Sky-Futures' software tools. The company has operations in London, Aberdeen, Houston, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi. Sky-Futures was acquired in 2019 by ICR Integrity, four years after we led its Series A round. We spun out the computer vision and analytics technology as Inspection², which was acquired by Dronebase in 2022.
Board Director
2014 - 2019
Brightpearl automates retail - providing powerful, integrated retail management software with real-time accounting and inventory management. Brightpearl helps its customers to grow faster and become more profitable, handling more than $2bn of retail sales each year. Having first invested in 2014 and led several rounds of funding, we supported Brightpearl through to exit in 2021, when it was acquired by Sage Plc for $340m.
Education
BSc
2004 - 2007
Postgraduate Diploma
2007 - 2008