Jack Wall

Entrepreneur, Investor & Engineering Leader

- Techstars, Wayra & Springboard Alumni -

Collective Benefits

Insurance and benefits for independent work

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Lenny

Short term, flexible car insurance for the sharing generation

Download Lenny for pay as you go car insurance to borrow someone else’s car. Easily buy temporary or short-term policies, straight from your phone. Get car insurance by the hour, day, week or month with policies from 1 hour to 28 days.

Lenny’s perfect for borrowing and insuring a car from a friend or parent and getting on the road in less than five minutes.

Lenny insurance is great for younger drivers as well as those with a lifetime of experience on the roads. Lenny can currently offer cover to people aged 19-70 with a full GB licence.

Whether you’re a student back home for the holidays, a weekend adventurer looking to escape the city or someone with a boot-load of stuff to take to the tip, Lenny means you can borrow a car and get yourself from a to b.

Key Features

  • Instant cover: You can get on the road in no time with a super simple sign-up process and an instant short-term car insurance quote.
  • Total flexibility: Hourly car insurance, daily car insurance, weekly car insurance, you’re in the driver's seat. And if you fancy turning a weekend into a long one our pay as you go insurance means you can extend on the fly in just a few taps.
  • Cover ahead of time: Need short term insurance but not right now? No sweat, Lenny allows you to book your temp car cover up to 28 days in advance. Getting pre-approved means when the time comes, you can jump in the driver's seat and go!
  • Comprehensive insurance policies: windscreen cover, personal belongings cover, courtesy car for the owner and emergency medical treatment. So if anything goes wrong you know you’re covered.
  • Owner peace of mind: rest assured when you borrow a car from a friend or family member, the owner’s no-claims bonus is totally unaffected by any claim. Lenny policies are underwritten by a Standard & Poor’s A+ stable rated insurer with 1.5 million policyholders in the UK alone.

Compare the Market

The Meerkat app is where you’ll find all the best things that Compare the Market has to offer.

Key Features

  • Over 6 million users and almost 2 million Monthly Active Users
  • I lead and grew the Mobile function to over 20 engineers in 2 countries (UK & Belarus)
  • The mobile app was marketted regularly with dozens of commercials across TV and Cinema in the UK
  • The mobile app grew to house many products including Customer Rewards, Insurance Comparison, Bills & Savings, Open Banking
  • We released native mobile apps for Android and iOS, across Mobile Phones & Tablets
  • I was responsible for People, Tech, Architecture & Strategy across Mobile

Penny

Serious, smart savings are only a swipe away

In late 2016 the Togethera/Upshot team explored an idea we called Penny. The vision was to build an automated personal assistant to manage your household bills - insurance, energy, broadband, TV & more.

I learned a lot about insurance, regulation and the FinTech space in general. We designed and prototyped some interesting ideas, but ultimately decided not to pursue the idea further.

App prototype

We built this early prototype used to communicate our vision to investors.

Genius recommendations

A stack of cards with easily actionable recommendations to save you money.

Advisor

Receive advice and recommendations from an expert in insurance or finances.

Upshot

A fun, realtime, automatic photo & video sharing Mobile app for events and group nights out

When it became clear Togethera wouldn’t reach the critical mass required to continue, our team decided to utilize the technology which we had developed for Togethera to build Upshot.

Upshot solved the problem of groups of friends hassling each other the day after a get-together for the photos. Your group switched live-streaming on at the party and closed the app.

All the photos & videos taken with your normal camera app were then automatically synced with the group in the background. This was an experience similar to Snapchat but for groups.

As with Togethera, I was responsible for building the Android mobile app. The Apple Editorial Team featured Upshot under 'Editor's choice' globally at launch.

Key Features

  • Automatic background detection and uploading of new photos and videos taken using any camera app
  • Time based activation to only capture events and nights out
  • Auto content deletion after preset time (7 days)
  • Hundreds of thousands photos; shared, liked and remixed
  • Featured by Techcrunch
  • Featured multiple times by Apple & Google alongside apps such as Instagram and Snapchat

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Togethera

A privacy, family focussed social network for Web and Mobile

Togethera, a private social network for families. It was designed to be simple enough for kids, grandparents and your least tech savvy relatives to create a timeline of cherished family memories. Togethera brought thousands of families around the world closer together before shutting down in 2016.

I was responsible for building the Android app (Native Java) as well as helping out with the Web app (AngularJS) and Backend services (Python). Apple and Google featured our apps dozens of times over the years, but the best recognition came from the reviews and messages of thanks from families whose lives Togethera touched.

"Our promise to non tech-savvy users like my grandmother was that all they needed to do was swipe up and down on a single interface to keep up to date with family news - they’d never need to leave the timeline."

Key Features

  • Share photos, videos, emoji reactions and comments
  • Share across multiple groups in a single tap
  • Full offline support, including content creation
  • Low-res and Full High-res uploads
  • Premium membership with enhanced functionality
  • Realtime in-app updates
  • Featured by Techcrunch, Wired, Gizmodo and more
  • Featured by Apple and Google in over 100 countries

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