Tom Girón-Littler

Head of Incubator

• Joined ZAP through its acquisition of Medley. After finishing the Medley integration, I was charged with running i42, the group's venture arm, which deployed tens of millions of dollars across early-stage companies.
• Led product across three concurrent portfolio companies: Nunchi (DeFi derivatives platform), M7 (Telegram trading terminal), and Portl (nightlife discovery app).
• Nunchi and Portl both scaled to meaningful traction before graduating the incubator.
• I owned product strategy, hiring, and roadmap across the three products, and contributed the majority of the early code.

Co-founder, CEO

• Founded Medley to help creators sell products and build their audience across multiple channels.
• Raised initial VC; acquired by ZAP twelve months later.
• Led product and marketing, bootstrapping our first users on next to no budget.

Co-founder, Product Manager

• Lithium was a crowdfunding site. It allowed projects to raise capital from community and early investors.
• It was fairly profitable, doing significant GTV at a healthy margin, and launched a token that hit a $28m market cap.
• I co-founded the company and built out the engineering team and product.

Co-founder, Product Manager

• I founded simpl after a terrible experience (I’m still waiting on a good one) with an estate agent. The vision was to create an app that would allow landlords to manage tenants directly, without using a third party service.
• Simpl now does seven figures in ARR.
• I left simpl when we pivoted to the Polish market (UK was too saturated). I don’t speak Polish and startups are difficult enough without the problem of not being able to speak to your customers. I still advise simpl.

• I graduated with a 1st in Chemical Engineering (Aston University), with the highest mark in my graduating class.
• I worked in oil & gas for a year (Suez), then as an automotive engineer (JLR).
• After a brief engineering career I worked at a couple of startups and learnt product management (Urban, Zeelo).

• I have a YouTube channel teaching product management and entrepreneurship. It’s small (3kish subs) but does decent revenue for its size — I’ve made over £10k from course sales. My pseudo-intellectual newsletter has 7k subs.
• In Covid I created myKanban, a productivity hardware product. We sold over £20k on Kickstarter + D2C sales.
• I have many tech-bro stereotypical hobbies. Chess (bad), Jiu-Jitsu (worse). Am currently learning Spanish (B2, and my mother in law assures me I am showing early promise). Periodically I enjoy long motorcycle adventures.