Cufflink.io
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Cufflink.io was a data-privacy and cyber-security company based at M-SParc (Menai Science Park) on Anglesey, Wales, co-founded in 2018 by Billy Williams and Boris Grekov. It built a free consumer app that stored and encrypted personal data on the user's own device, letting owners control what they shared with friends and family or licensed to companies. Alongside the app it offered a corporate SaaS product that gave organisations a more secure and compliant way to manage customer contact data, using patent-pending distributed-ledger and encryption technology.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Cufflink was co-founded by Billy Williams and Boris Grekov in Anglesey, Wales, to redefine how personal data is stored and shared.
- Seed round
Cufflink secured more than 500,000 pounds in equity and grant funding, led by the Development Bank of Wales with London-based angel investors, plus grant funding from Innovate UK in collaboration with Bangor University.
- Growth and funding push
Named one of the top five tech startups in Wales, Cufflink opened a 1.3-million-pound EIS funding round with a team of 10 technologists and privacy advocates. No later public disclosures of a shutdown, acquisition or insolvency were found.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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