Amir Nooriala and Claire Valoti.
Husband and Wife, Parents, Angel Investors, NEDs and Board Advisors.
“Work hard and be nice to people” is our philosophy in work and life.
We are married with 3 daughters and are both ex-operating executives of technology companies.
We invest as a couple. We invest in founders and their ideas. We invest in ideas that present novel solutions to real problems and that we can add value to.
Claire ran Display and Digital advertising for Mindshare (WPP), was the MD for O2 Media, joined Facebook UK to build out their ad business and was then headhunted to build out Snapchat’s international business. She grew it from 0 to >$1bn in revenue. Claire is currently the co-founding partner of Haylo Ventures, a deep-tech venture operator. Claire sits on the board of Howbout and Genius Sports.
Amir started his career in Silicon Valley with Cisco, relocated to London with Accenture, before a long stint in Banking Tech as a MD. He was then headhunted to be the Series A COO of OakNorth, then after asked to be the Series A CCO of Callsign. Giving him C-Level experience at 2 UK unicorns, raising >£600m from Softbank and PIF and leading their ‘blitz-scale’ phases. Amir is currently the co-owner and CEO of Saepio. Amir sits on the board of Konvi.