Charlie
The free HR platform for small businesses.
Signals
X account@joincharlie · created May 12, 2015 (11 years old) · 4,709 followers
Website registeredMar 11, 2015 (11 years old)
Timeline
- Distro 1
5500 Global · batch
Source: 500.co - 2016
SSeedcamp · batch
Source: seedcamp.com - X account created
- Website created
Founders and team
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Ben Gateley Foundersource: 500.coRO
Rob O'Donovan Foundersource: 500.coTC
Tom Carrington Smith Foundersource: 500.coAB
Alex Balhatchet Head Of Engineering
Investors
5500 Globalaccelerator
77percent Ventures
AADV
AAndy Chung
AAngel Investment Network
IIan Hogarth
MMarcus Exall
PPareto Holdings
SSeedcampaccelerator
UUpscale
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Sources and API
Every amount links to the page it came from. * Estimated from an accelerator's published standard deal, not a company-specific disclosure. How Recent Funding sources and verifies funding data. The same data as JSON: /api/v1/companies/charlie (get a free API key).