Our Team
Guy Holmes
Founder
Guy is a business strategist, venture capitalist, and music industry veteran based between London, Los Angeles, and Singapore.
He started his career after being expelled from school at 16, leaving with no qualifications. At 17, he got a job as a postboy at United Artists/EMI Music. After a year as a postboy, he was elevated to the radio and television promotion department, becoming responsible for media coverage of EMI artists. His first major success was Duran Duran, leading him to be elevated to national promotion manager for EMI at 19. After that, Guy joined Island Records, where he was responsible, amongst many artists, for U2 and their early success. He was made head of promotion at 23. Eventually, he decided to start his own independent promotion company at 27, which evolved into an independent multimedia label, with many successes. The first single released, Right Said Fred's song, "I'm Too Sexy", was a massive worldwide hit, reaching Number One in twenty-eight countries, including Number One in the United States.
Guy has built his career off of being the first to discover and support great talent, and then developing them to their full potential. He intuitively understands that the most talented often don’t fit in and he is deeply keen on working with the outliers who will define tomorrow.
Today, Guy leverages many years of expertise in business, marketing, and strategy to support committed people building great companies.
He holds that enduring success stems from empowering those who challenge the norm and by fostering genuine, lasting connections.
Siddhartha Sensharma
Investment Director
Sidd is a founder, student, and venture capitalist based between Oxford and Singapore. At 14, Sidd founded Newton’s Meter, a machine learning based personal safety and security startup as part of a mission to ensure that people could always get timely medical attention, even if they were incapacitated or alone. He raised funding from the government, and was selected to exhibit in Eureka Park at CES in Las Vegas at 16.
At the University of Oxford, Sidd reads Experimental Psychology and has been elected an academic scholar of his college. He draws on his operational experience to support early stage founders through running the OX1 Incubator, holding workshops and awarding equity-free grants to promising founders.
Sidd served as a section commander in the Singapore Combat Engineers, and strongly believes that trust and collaboration are the keys to success. He looks forward to supporting founders through every step of their journey, far beyond writing a cheque.