CEO and Founder
Samir is CEO and Founder of Super Payments. Super was launched in 2022 to power free payments forever for businesses and more rewarding shopping for shoppers. The business raised £22.5m in one of the largest ever pre-seed funding rounds in Europe. It is backed by the same group of investors behind Facebook, Spotify, Stripe, Monzo, and Twitter, and high-profile angel investors including the former CEO of WorldPay and founder of Betfair.
Samir was previously a co-founder and CEO of Funding Circle from 2010 to 2021 which has lent c. £14bn to 120,000 businesses creating an estimated 135,000 jobs in 2021 alone.
Samir remains an NED at Funding Circle. Samir was awarded a CBE for services to financial services in 2016 and previously was a consultant and investor at BCG and Olivant.
