Toby Allen is an executive product leader and founder based in London with 20+ years of experience building and scaling AI, XR, gaming, blockchain and fintech products across startup and enterprise contexts. He has raised and deployed over $16M, led global teams of up to 160 people, and taken R&D projects to commercial market-fit—most recently guiding AI product and strategy at GameDataCore while running venture builder StartupMill. Toby combines deep technical fluency in GenAI, mixed reality and distributed systems with hands-on GTM, pricing and developer-relations experience (notably shipping the Quark networking engine into major blockchain metaverse projects). He has repeatedly turned niche tech into revenue-generating platforms—founding the largest video game acquisition marketplace IndieAcquire and creating a specialist recruitment ecosystem for next-gen tech. Comfortable moving between B2B and B2C ecosystems, he also builds tooling to automate dealflow and investment decisions using AI, reflecting a pragmatic blend of product, finance and engineering instincts.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Hult International Business School
BA International Relations, BA International Relations at University of Leeds
IB International Baccalaureate, IB International Baccalaureate at International School of Brussels
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