Tom Blomfield — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Group Partner at Y Combinator
Co-founded GoCardless in January 2011, which raised approximately £35 million and hired 100 people
Founded Boso.com in 2004, an "eBay for students," which expanded to 50 UK universities and was sold for "several million dollars"
Joined Starling Bank as an early employee, one of the first digital banking companies
Earned a degree in law (jurisprudence) from the University of Oxford

Biography

Thomas Benjamin Blomfield, born on August 11, 1985, is a British entrepreneur. He grew up in Buckinghamshire and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School. His first business venture involved building a website for a local estate agent.

Blomfield earned a degree in law (jurisprudence) from the University of Oxford, where he also completed an exchange at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University to study French and European law. While at Oxford in 2004, he founded Boso.