Alex Stephany
Founder of Beam
Alex Stephany
Founder of Beam
London Area, United Kingdom
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO - we’re hiring! 🚀
2017
Beam is the world’s first crowdfunding platform for homeless people. 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 The Guardian as one of the most important social tech innovations of 2018. www.beam.org
Supporter
2017
Supporting Beam’s members by donating and encouraging them on and offline to achieve their career goals.
Pledger
2019
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.
Investor
2022
Investor
2023
Investor
2020
Investor & Advisor
2021
Investor
2020
Investor
2020
Investor
2020
Board Advisor
2015
Continuing to support JustPark and our vision of taking the pain out of parking.
CEO
2012 - 2015
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.
COO
2011 - 2012
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.