Born and raised in south London, Rich runs a Y Combinator backed startup, Business Score, connecting online businesses with growth capital.

He spent his early years in #activism from representing his local town Croydon as youth MP.

He also worked on social and political campaigns including the #LivingWage campaign. He studied at the London School of Economics where he was also elected the universities Court of Governors.

Rich then worked at McKinsey in London before starting his #entrepreneurial journey. Business Score is a funding marketplace for eCommerce companies.

Rich has gone through an amazing journey, from concept, through the Y Combinator process and now back in the UK to landing his first clients, building a platform to support fast growth ecommerce business.

His goal is to totally automate the supply of money to ecommerce businesses where traditional funding just cannot deliver using old systems and measurements.

Along the way he has met Silicon Valleys finest and most famous investors and is one of the rare UK founders who have applied, won a place and graduated from the Y Combinator process.

Business score is a funding platform designed to help high growth ecommerce businesses through automated lending.