Hello.

I’m British so this is awkward but to follow is a quick summary of what I’ve done and what I’m doing now. To make it marginally less awkward I will write this in the third person :/

Tom is Managing Partner of GV (Google Ventures), based in the London office. GV has over $10bn under management and more than 400 portfolio companies. Tom’s investments include Lemonade.com (NYSE), Snyk, Blue Vision Labs (sold to Lyft), Biomodal, Autolus (NASDAQ), Nothing, Scandit, Multiverse, Blockchain.com, GoCardless, Currency Cloud (sold to Visa) and most recently Q.ai (Apple’s second biggest acquisition ever).

Prior to launching GV in Europe, Tom led IDEO’s startup efforts globally, incubating Omada Health (NASDAQ) and multiple other startups.

Tom has also been an Angel Investor in over 30 startups; his seed investments include MileIQ (exited to Microsoft), Divimove (exited to Freemantle), GoCardless, Cliqz (exited to Burda), Llustre (exited to Fab), SMOL, Massive Health (exited to Jawbone), LostMyName, Tray.io and Olix.

Tom’s TED talk on design has been viewed over 1.7 million times, he has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is featured in WIRED UK’s Top 100 Digital Power Brokers and the Evening Standard list of London’s 1000 Most Influential People. Tom was awarded an MBE in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours for his military service.

Tom earned a first class bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Bristol, an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he received the Baker Scholar Award of high distinction and an Honorary Doctorate in design from the University of the Arts London.

Anyway, I’ll continue to post to this blog [irregularly] but it’s best to get hold of me @thulme on Twitter or Instagram: thulme

Cheers

T :)

PS You’ll notice I use a standard template in my Weiji Blog posts. wēijī is the Chinese word for crisis – I find it inspiring because it comprises the symbols for “danger” and “opportunity” (although this is certainly up for debate if you look here). My weiji blog entries are a standard format – I present context as “danger” and a company’s creative approach as “opportunity”. I then offer a quick provocation that I hope might offer you some inspiration…