About Nick Halstead
Nick is widely acknowledged as having one of the smartest technical brains in software. Having invented the embedded Retweet button, something that is now ubiquitous on almost every website in the world, he went on to found DataSift, a venture backed (c $72 million to date) business that helps businesses create value from social data streams. While at DataSift, he served as CEO, CTO then again as CEO before stepping down from the rapidly growing organisation late last year to found InfoSum.
BSkyB
February 2009 - We launch the TweetMeme Retweet Button: Link
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August 12th 2010 - Sold Retweet Button to Twitter: Link
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August 2009 - We were serving 1.6 billion Buttons Per month: Link
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August 2009 - We Launch TweetMeme V2 with revamped visuals & built in commenting: Link
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May 5th 2009 - Techcrunch says "TweetMeme is Getting Freakin Awesome": Link
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July 2008 - We launched TweetMeme V1: Link
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January 2008 - First prototype version of TweetMeme goes Live: Link
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September 2012 - We shut down TweetMeme (it still had 3 million users!): Link
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October 2015 - Nick Halstead steps down as CEO of DataSift
March 2015 - DataSift Announces an exclusive deal with Facebook: Link
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December 2013 - DataSift raised $42m in funding in a Series C from Insight Venture Partners: Link
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November 2012 - DataSift raised $15m in Series B from Scale Venture Partners: Link
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May 2012 - We announce follow on investment from Series A (GRP & IA again): Link
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December 2011 - We announce Twitter Historic Access: Link
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November 2011 - DataSift goes LIVE
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July 2011 - We raise $6m in funding for GRP & IA Ventures
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Launched Gaming on Sky Interactive Platform (Red Button)
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Launched Tetris, Worms and many other major brands on the Sky platform
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First to use Sky payment system to charge for games & offer prize money
Argonaut Software
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Programmer on 5 games & producer of 4 titles
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First game in world to use Dolby Surround Sound (King Arthurs World)
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First 3D fighting game on a Console (FX Fighter)
Fav.or.it
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Identified Twitter as a key data source in 2008 (when Twitter was still tiny) - built first demo of Twitter Link Aggregation over a weekend
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Launched fav.or.it in 2008 - and quickly built to 500,000 Monthly users
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October 2008 - TC wrote "Is Fav.or.it a Digg Killer" (turns out we were!)
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Company Founded October 2007
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Raised £150,000 (and Founder also put in £200,000)
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Founded on principle that Consumers and Businesses both need content curated
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Original product was a next generation RSS Aggregator called fav.or.it
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Contact
Nick is a highly sought-after speaker and has presented at many events. If you'd like him to speak at yours get in touch.
