Has lived with severe visual impairment since childhood. Took a master’s at the University of Northampton with a thesis on smart glasses for blind people, which became Mavis. Previously founded and scaled an internet service provider to 46 employees and 180 towers, exiting in 2019. He designs the product, and he uses it.
Clint Schick chairs the board: he co-founded Strata Health, grew it to $14M ARR across six countries and sold it to VitalHub (TSX: VHI) in 2024, after a senior role integrating a $1.4B business at Saputo; IoD Certified Director. Pritul Khagram leads go-to-market and product: he founded an HR, HR-tech, payroll and immigration consultancy and sold it to PwC in 2023. Pete Jackson is CFO. All three have invested their own money in both rounds.
The team in Northampton
Five people today, including two graduate engineers who themselves have sight loss and joined in September 2026. This round adds an electrical engineer and two assembly technicians, then the sales hires that take channel work off the founder from 2027.
A cost base built from drivers, not guesses
Every role in the plan is derived from volume or service load: assembly technicians from units per technician per year (300 rising to 440 as tooling matures), support agents from subscribers and minutes used per month. Headcount grows from 5 in 2026 to 111 in 2031 while payroll falls from 48% of revenue in 2027 to 19%.