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.

Gateway Angels

Director

Manager

Petra Consulting

Strategic Business and Communications Consultancy

Founder

Fund Her North

Steering Committee Member

Isle of Man Department for Enterprise

The Digital Agency is responsible for developing and implementing a strategy which will support sustainable economic growth and establish the Isle of Man as a centre of international excellence for the digital economy. 

The Island’s digital business community represents a dynamic, evolving and high profile economy, encompassing some of the most innovative and ground-breaking business concepts and initiatives across e-gaming, the digital economy and digital media and creative industries; most notably within gaming clusters, white label operators, content suppliers, fintech, blockchain, e-business, digital currency, telecoms, broadcasting & film, animation, video & games, distribution & advertising and the creative industries.

Non Executive Board Member - Digital Isle of Man Executive Agency

E-Sign

Head Of Brand and Communications

Isle of Man Business Network

President

Chairman

Vice Chairman

Assist in the organisation of learning and networking events held by the network. Work with other team members on the overall running and functioning of the network, with a particular focus on Communications.

Head of Communications - Executive Council Member

KPMG in the Crown Dependencies

Acted as lead contact connecting investors, entrepreneurs & mentors and working with them to accelerate early stage, scale-up & growth companies on, or re-locating to the Isle of Man.
Responsibility for the day-to-day operations of Bridge including: financial and cost management, strategy delivery, event management, business development, key stakeholder management and client relationships. 

Bridge supports early stage businesses in many ways, from organising networking events with the investment community, to connecting them with incubator space and to organising experienced mentors. Entrepreneurs get free access to the knowledge and experience of the sponsors (KPMG, Continent8, PDMS, Sure and Dandara) and other local supporting organisations.

Manager Bridge Angel Network

Victim Support

Victim Support is an Isle of Man charity, which offers free and confidential help to victims and witnesses of crime, their family and friends.

Trustee

PADDYPOWER

Planning, delivery and optimisation of mobile and desktop display acquisition campaigns for Paddy Power Sportsbook, Casino, Games and Bingo products in the UK, Italy and Ireland.
Ensuring advertising campaigns successfully meet acquisition targets while adhering to tight deadlines & stringent industry requirements.
Developing strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and media partners. 
Scoping new opportunities to proactively develop and grow the display channel.
Working closely alongside the brand marketing team to bring concepts to life in display media and ensuring consistency across marketing channels.
Evaluating opportunities, expected returns and suitable costs for premium deals.
Managing briefs for digital creative, video edits and landing pages across multiple products and channels with both internal and external agencies.
Trafficking, optimising and scheduling creative (using the Google DoubleClick suite of products) and reporting on performance.

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