Alex Gordon-Furse

portday

Portday is an AI-powered platform built just for shipping agents.

It automates your Proforma & Final Disbursement Accounts (PDA/FDA), handles port tariff updates, invoice reconciliation, document generation and more.

It does this all from one clean software product so that you can spend less time on manual data entry and more time managing your clients.

Co-Founder & CEO

Playmaker

Intelligent document processing for traditional industries, with customers across Financial Services, Real Estate, Logistics and more. 

After finding a specific need in the maritime logistics industry in late 2024, we decided to focus fully on that industry in early 2025.

Stealth Startup

Refining my opinions on where the world is going, and learning what people will need more of :)

Building something new

Community Hacked

Founded and ran a side project with a few of my friends where we built a global community of the best community builders & experts. 

Ran many events where I interviewed the global heads of community from companies like Salesforce, Notion, Peloton, Airtable, Canva, Zendesk and many more.

Co-Creator / Founder

Startup Grind

CSO for Startup Grind global: the world’s largest startup community across 600 locations in 120 countries.

Helped thousands of pre-seed and seed-stage startups gain access to funding, mentorship and customers.

Closed several $million in sales relating to innovation and sponsorship with some of the world's biggest tech brands like Microsoft and Snowflake during my time there.

We also ran the largest tech conference in Silicon Valley, hosting speakers like the founders/CEOs of Google, OpenAI, Zoom, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Uber, A16Z, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital and many more.

Chief Strategy Officer

VP Sales & Startups

Director, Startup Programs

SG DAO

Built a DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) that aimed to be the world's first truly community-owned accelerator. 

Pivoted into a community-backed micro VC run by Startup Grind that invested into pre-seed and seed-stage companies. 

We made 8 investments before I left in Feb '23

Co-Founder & Co-Lead

Multiple startups

Angel investor in companies like Bevy (https://www.bevy.com/), Odin (https://www.joinodin.com/), Goodloans (https://www.goodloans.co/) and Paus (https://paus.tv/).

Angel Investor (temporarily paused)

Freshworks Inc. (formerly Freshdesk)

Led Freshservice (Freshworks's fastest-growing product) GTM in UK&I

One of the 5 winners of the first ever President’s Club in 2017.

Freshworks IPO'd in 2021 on NASDAQ under the ticker FRSH

Head of UK & I Sales

2nd hire in EMEA

Worked on developing and executing the go-to-market

Accenture

Front-to-back systems transformation project at UBS Investment Bank and blockchain research project for a presentation to the board of HSBC UK.

Won multiple awards as a top-performing Analyst at both Accenture and UBS Investment Bank.

Business & Systems Integration Consultant

iris worldwide

Worked on the ideation and development phases of projects for the Adidas and Durex accounts.

Account Management Intern

Co-Founder at Playmaker

Empowering shipping agents from across the world to transform their operations with AI.

Learn more at https://www.portday.com/

Co-Founder/Co-Lead

Aiming to be the world's first community-owned accelerator, and has recently pivoted into being an LP in the new community-backed Micro VC run by Startup Grind that is investing into pre-seed and seed-stage companies.

DigiBio Healthtech Innovation Fellowship

DigiBio Healthtech Innovation Programme Operations Manager

Connectd

Working with high potential start-ups from across to the United Kingdom to support strategic decision making and implement processes which will form the foundations of future external investment proposals.

Board Advisor

First Momentum Ventures

Responsible for sourcing potential investment opportunities amongst early-stage startups with high growth potential.

Venture Scout (UK and I)

Startup Grind is a the largest community in the world, delivering education, connections, and opportunities to help start-ups grow. As country manager I am responsible for designing and delivering local events, flagship global conferences, start-up membership packages, partnerships, mentor and investor programmes , and online content for the 6,000+ members located throughout the country.

Country Manager - Ireland

Director - Dublin Chapter 

RevTech Labs

Working at an advisor level with accelerator clients who have received seed stage investment to deliver on commercial objectives and develop technical capabilities.

About RevTech Labs

RevTech Labs is a venture capital fund that seeks to invest in Series A financial services technology (Fintech) companies. RTC expects to derive a substantial portion of its deal flow from RTC’s proprietary relationship with the Queen City Fintech accelerator (QCF) and to invest follow-on capital in the best-performing accelerator graduate companies

Strategic Advisor

YTILI | Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative

The Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative (YTILI) is the U.S Department of State's flagship programme for developing cultural ties between ambitious European entrepreneurs and the America ecosystem. The programme is implemented by World Chicago

Board Member

Dundalk Institute of Technology

The New Frontiers Programme is Ireland's national entrepreneurial development programme for ambitious early-stage entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas which have the potential to scale and provide high skilled employment.

New Frontiers Programme Manager

Local Enterprise Offices

Local Enterprise Offices are government-supported organisations in Ireland that provide a range of services to help entrepreneurs and small businesses start, grow, and succeed.

As a Senior Enterprise Development Officer I was responsible for supporting and fostering the growth of a portfolio of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the management of funding and training programmes.

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