👨‍💻 Alex Stephany

👨‍💻 Alex Stephany 👨‍💻 Alex Stephany is an influencer

CEO of Beam, Purpose Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 - HIRING for many roles at Beam - join us! 🚀

London, England, United Kingdom
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I love to run and grow businesses by attracting and nurturing the most talented people.

In my last role as CEO of JustPark, I grew revenue over 10-fold in 3 years, raised funding from Index Ventures, and closed the largest equity crowdfunding for a startup in history.

I'm now CEO of Beam (www.beam.org), bringing AI to welfare services and working with over 100 government partners. Enabled by tech and AI, our expert caseworkers have supported thousands of underserved people into homes and jobs, while our software has slashed admin for thousands of frontline workers.

I'm also the author of a business book on the sharing economy, The Business of Sharing (Macmillan). http://amzn.to/13QZHgH. I provide expert comment on social impact, homelessness, the sharing economy and startups and have appeared on Bloomberg, Sky, NPR, the Guardian and BBC among others.

Many people have kindly helped me over the years and I like to give back to the tech community whenever I can. I am very lucky to have mentored some hugely talented entrepreneurs through TechStars.

I love to hear from smart, creative, hungry people who want to solve meaningful problems. If you want to reach out and we've never met, you can grab me via Twitter. @AlexStephany

Articles by 👨‍💻 Alex

  • My letter - a call for optimism

    Hi there. So here we are - 2024.

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  • Beam stands with the Black community

    I do not know what it’s like to experience the everyday prejudice and racism that has become part of life for so many…

    2 Comments
  • The talent we never spot - until we’re forced to

    Recently, the Financial Times published an article about how UK employers are beginning to open their minds to the…

    10 Comments
  • How Beam got started

    I’ve lived most of my life in London and have always been troubled by homelessness – and how it can be as huge a…

    17 Comments
  • 12 EQUITY CROWDFUNDING TIPS FOR ENTREPRENEURS

    Background Last year, I led JustPark through what was until recently the largest ever equity crowdfunding for a tech…

    6 Comments
  • Can you help us solve the world's parking woes? #PitchToRich?

    JustPark is only a handful of votes away from making the final round of Richard Branson's #PitchToRich startup…

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  • Give the people what they want

    In Ancient Rome, Pliny the Elder recorded a tale about an inventor granted an audience with the Emperor Tiberius to…

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  • Amazing news for anyone interested in #crowdfunding!

    JustPark, the startup that's bringing parking into the digital era, reached their £1million crowdfunding target in only…

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Experience

  • Beam

    Beam

    7 years 9 months

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      Founder & CEO - we’re hiring! 🚀

      Beam

      - Present 7 years 9 months

      London, United Kingdom

      Beam is a social enterprise bringing AI to welfare services, trusted by over 100 government partners. Enabled by tech and AI, our expert caseworkers have supported thousands of underserved people into homes and jobs, while our software has slashed admin for thousands of frontline workers.

      Funded by the Mayor of London and the UK's leading tech entrepreneurs, Beam has proven a powerful new model to help homeless people get into work.

      Beam has been covered widely including by the…

      Beam is a social enterprise bringing AI to welfare services, trusted by over 100 government partners. Enabled by tech and AI, our expert caseworkers have supported thousands of underserved people into homes and jobs, while our software has slashed admin for thousands of frontline workers.

      Funded by the Mayor of London and the UK's leading tech entrepreneurs, Beam has proven a powerful new model to help homeless people get into work.

      Beam has been covered widely including by the BBC, The Times, The FT, The Independent, London Evening Standard, Sky, Time Out and others and has been named by LinkedIn as one of the UK's Top 15 Startups.

      www.beam.org

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      Supporter

      Beam

      - Present 7 years 9 months

      Supporting Beam’s members by donating and encouraging them on and offline to achieve their career goals.

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    Pledger

    Founders Pledge

    - Present 6 years 4 months

    I have signed Founder's Pledge - a group of entrepreneurs and investors who have pledged to give a substantial part of any future proceeds to charitable causes.

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    Investor

    Collider

    - Present 1 year 2 months

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    Investor

    Stackfix

    - Present 1 year 2 months

  • Code First Girls Graphic

    Investor

    Code First Girls

    - Present 2 years 11 months

  • greenworkx Graphic

    Investor

    greenworkx

    - Present 2 years 4 months

  • Sourceful Graphic

    Investor

    Sourceful

    - Present 5 years 2 months

  • Academy Graphic

    Investor & Advisor

    Academy

    - Present 4 years 4 months

  • Humanloop Graphic

    Investor

    Humanloop

    - Present 4 years 11 months

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    Investor

    FLOWN

    - Present 4 years 11 months

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    Investor

    Heights

    - Present 4 years 8 months

  • JustPark

    JustPark

    13 years 9 months

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      Board Advisor

      JustPark

      - Present 9 years 9 months

      London, United Kingdom

      Continuing to support JustPark and our vision of taking the pain out of parking.

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      CEO

      JustPark

      - 3 years

      London, United Kingdom

      JustPark (formerly ParkatmyHouse) is the world's leading online marketplace for parking with over 3.5m customers.

      We are backed by leading international venture capital firm, Index Ventures, and the venture capital arm of BMW.

      In 2015, we also closed the largest ever equity crowdfunding round for a tech startup, raising EUR 5M from almost 3,000 investors, of whom more than a thousand are JustPark customers.

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      COO

      JustPark (formerly ParkatmyHouse)

      - 1 year 2 months

      United Kingdom

      Getting my hands dirty with everything I could from above-the-line and PPC marketing and inventory acquisition to customer support and PR before being promoted to CEO at the end of 2012.

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    Advisor

    Seoul Metropolitan Government

    - 4 years 1 month

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    Advisor

    Spacehive

    - 2 years 10 months

    London, United Kingdom

    Working with the CEO and Board to help crowdfunding startup Spacehive continue its vision of empowering people to transform where they live.

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    Fellow

    Anthemis Group

    - 6 months

    London, United Kingdom

    Anthemis is an investment and advisory firm focused on reinventing financial services for the 21st century.

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    Entrepreneur in Residence

    Rainmaking Innovation

    - 4 months

    London, United Kingdom

    Working with some of London's top senior talent building startups for global companies.

  • Founder

    Various startups

    - 7 months

    Hustling my way into tech through countless Meetups and coffees. I started 2 businesses - a CSR/loyalty app and marketplace for independent retailers - before taking up an offer at a VC-backed startup to accelerate my learning even more.

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    Management Consultant

    FreshMinds

    - 7 months

    I advised leading financial and professional services firms including Big Four accountancy firms and Tier 1 private equity houses.

  • Director of Sales, Author, CFA

    Startup

    - 8 months

    A brilliantly busy time spent advising a luxury drinks brand, writing a novel, and studying for CFA Level 1: trade fairs, creative writing and bond valuation - an unlikely but fun combination.

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    Lawyer

    Law For All

    - 5 months

    Providing free legal services to economically and socially disadvantaged Londoners. I applied practical solutions to a range of distressing, personal legal issues with a focus on employment matters. I also achieved a success rate of >90% representing clients at high-pressured tribunals.

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    Lawyer

    Clifford Chance LLP

    - 2 years 2 months

    London office
    Training and practising in three market-leading commercial law departments: Private Equity, Real Estate Finance and Litigation, advising clients such as Barclays, 3i and JP Morgan.

    I also contributed two white papers and templates to ‘Know-How’: Clifford Chance’s best practice knowledge bank.

    Prague office (six month secondment)
    Acting as the go-to lawyer on English corporate law for the entire office and assisting with sales and business development through…

    London office
    Training and practising in three market-leading commercial law departments: Private Equity, Real Estate Finance and Litigation, advising clients such as Barclays, 3i and JP Morgan.

    I also contributed two white papers and templates to ‘Know-How’: Clifford Chance’s best practice knowledge bank.

    Prague office (six month secondment)
    Acting as the go-to lawyer on English corporate law for the entire office and assisting with sales and business development through preparing pitch materials.

  • English Teacher

    Institute of Technology

    - 1 year 2 months

    China

    I taught English to classes of Chinese students ranging in size from eighty to one hundred. I also thrived as one of four non-Chinese people living in a district of over a million inhabitants. I substantially improved many students’ conversational English by setting up and running the school’s first extra-curricular conversation classes, ‘English Corner’

Education

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    University of Oxford

    English Language and Literature First Class Honours

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  • CFA Institute

    Level 1 Financial Mathematics

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    Level I of the most challenging financial analysis certification. Areas of study included: company accounting; economics; stock and bond valuation; derivatives; corporate finance. Thought I'd move into asset management - then got excited by startups.

  • Nottingham Law School

    GDL and LPC Law

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    Receiving a commendation for both qualifications.

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    Université Paris-Sorbonne

    Langue et Civilisation French Language and Culture Top level pass (Niveau Superieur).

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Volunteer Experience

Skills

Publications

Honors & Awards

  • 1st Prize, London Homelessness Awards, 2018

    London Housing Federation

  • Best Innovation in Employability, 2019

    ERSA

  • Best Social Enterprise Entrepreneur in the UK, 2019

    Enterprise Awards

  • CISCO Big Awards, Finalist

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  • Excellence in Technology in Homelessness, 2018

    Homeless Link

  • Hottest Tech for Good in Europe, 2019

    The Europas

  • Wonga Future 50, Winner

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Languages

  • French

    Professional working proficiency

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