Andy Budd

Andy Budd is a Designer turned Investor, Advisor and Coach. Andy recently became a Venture Partner at Seedcamp—one of the most successful and best known early stage venture funds in Europe. As well as helping source and review new investments, Andy uses his knowledge of sales, marketing and product led growth to help portfolio companies prepare for Series A and beyond. Andy is using this experience as the basis for his new book "The Growth Equation." In it he aimes to help founders find their early customers, land their first $1m ARR, and reach Product Market Fit.

Prior to joinnig Seedcamp Andy founded and sold Clearleft, an award winning design consultancy which pioneered the field of Web Standards and User Experience Design. During this time he helped clients like Just Eat, FarFetch, Rapha Cycling, Funding Circle, Mozilla, Virgin Atlantic, Penguin Books and Burberry make the most of their digital experience. While at Clearleft Andy also helped found the Leading Design and UX London conferences, a community of 2,000 Heads Directors and VPs of Design, and a city-wide arts and cultiure festival in Brighton.

On top of working for Seedcamp, Andy advises a small number of founders on the concepts found in his book, as well as coaching high potential design and product leaders. In his spare time Andy—a former dive instructor and “shark wrangler”—loves exploring underground cave systems and tropical atolls. As a recently qualified pilot, when he’s not under the water he can be found soaring over the Sussex countryside in a rented Cessna 172.