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.

Green Fund Alliance

Capital structuring & market access. We turn regenerative projects into bankable, investor-grade opportunities.
I structure deals for green bond issuance, engineer blended capital stacks, and connect founders and governments to institutional & sovereign capital pools others can’t access.

Faster closes, stronger terms, and structures that survive policy shifts and market volatility. Aligning capital with SDG and post-SDG regenerative goals.

Founder & Managing Partner 

Coalescence

Partnership & EkoPod™ development engine.  I design partnership ecosystems that close structural gaps and create a commercial advantage for every stakeholder.
Through our EkoPod™ model, I deliver investment-ready initiatives that issue green bonds, stack catalytic capital, and attract high-value partners.

Best fit for founders, investors, and governments aiming to leap beyond compliance into system-wide regeneration.

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Taeda House

Sovereign capital & asset protection arm of the ecosystem. I steward sovereign capital to design SPVs, fund regenerative ventures, and build intergenerational wealth infrastructure.
We keep capital sovereign, mobile, and shielded — serving both present needs and future generations with privacy and power.

Structures that protect assets from political, market, and institutional overreach. Rapid capital deployment into high-impact ventures. Legacy planning as infrastructure, not just inheritance.

Principal

AracenCO

Acquisition, incubation, and scale platform. We buy, build, and grow regenerative businesses — leveraging capital, operational expertise, and ecosystem access for long-term dominance.

Founder

I Build Strategic Alliances Between UNSDG Advancing Orgs || CEO @ Synergy818 a Partnerships For The Goals Org || Founder - 3X Exits

I build sovereign capital ecosystems that move ideas from vision to realization — architectures where capital circulates as power, not permission.

Through my companies, I design the connective tissue between capital, partnerships, and execution — transforming regeneration into infrastructure.

Taeda House — the sovereign capital and asset-protection arm, structuring SPVs and wealth infrastructures that safeguard intergenerational power.

Green Fund Alliance — a capital-structuring and market-access platform that translates regenerative projects into investable, place-based economies.

Coalescence — the partnership and EkoPod™ design engine, crafting cross-sector alliances that activate catalytic change.

Aracen Co — the venture and incubation hub for scaling high-impact, regenerative enterprises.

Each entity stands alone yet operates within a shared architecture — a closed-loop system designed to source, structure, and scale projects that lead in a post-global economy.

If you’re a founder, investor, or sovereign actor, this ecosystem is where your vision becomes capital that remembers its purpose.


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