James Buckley Thorp

Serial founder who’s raised £17m breaks a year of silence with an AI bet on construction

London, 21 October 2026. He turned £40 into a multimillion-pound retail tech business, who also built Britain’s first life insurance app, Bequest, backed by Aviva. He was in the early team at Zego, which became Britain’s first insurtech unicorn. Now, after a year of silence, James Buckley-Thorp is back, and he’s going after the £200bn […]