I have tried to give both time and capital to charity throughout my career; it's been inspiring to be part of a group that is committing to this on an ongoing basis - we will hopefully all do it smarter as a result.
Tom Hulme is a General Partner of Google Ventures, a European fund that invests $125m per annum into high growth technology ventures across Europe & Israel. Previously, he founded OpenIDEO in 2007, an open innovation platform that has over 58,000 users from more than 170 countries. OpenIDEO allows a global community of users to tackle big design challenges for social good. A serial entrepreneur, Tom also invests in startups, including: thread.com, YPlan, GoCardless, Qriously, Wonga, Duedil & Moveguides.