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Charles Read

Founding Partner at Rarestone Ventures

London, England

Overview 

Charles Read is the Founding Partner at Rarestone Ventures in London, England, specializing in startups, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. With a background in business development and growth, he has successfully invested in companies like Ringfence and Eesee at the seed stage, focusing on sectors such as Space and Web3/Crypto.

Work Experience 

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i42

  • Founder

    2025 - Current

    Building Software for when good enough isn't good enough. i42 is a global software development firm and incubator backed by a team who build products people love.

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Rarestone Ventures

  • Founding Partner

    2020

    Since 2020 Rarestone Ventures has invested in over 100 bleeding-edge technology companies that make up the Web3 stack.

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LaunchTeam

  • Partner

    2019 - 2021

Niche marketing agency, accelerator, and management consulting firm that leverages a private network of expert partners to drive growth.

launchteam.lpages.co
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Zumo

  • Head of Growth

    2019 - 2020

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BlockTeam Ventures

  • Consultant

    2018 - 2019

BlockTeam Ventures is a management consulting firm focused on blockchain.

launchteam.lpages.co
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Evernym, Inc.

  • Business Development Consultant

    2019 - 2019

Evernym is a software company that develops decentralized, self-sovereign identity applications in order to form more trusting interactions

Raised $16,500,000.00 from Kosmos Ventures, Medici Ventures, Barclays Ventures, Blockwall, Alumni Ventures, Outlier Ventures and Fantail Ventures.

evernym.com
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Rowlingstone.com

  • Research Analyst

    2017 - 2018

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Carbon60

  • Senior Information Technology Recruitment Consultant

    2016 - 2017

  • Recruitment Consultant

    2015 - 2016

Education 

Investments 

Ringfence

Seed

Total funding: $2M

Eesee

Seed

Total funding: $2M

Composable Finance

Seed

Total funding: $14M

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