Alastair Shortland

Alastair Shortland

Inventor, serial web founder, investor

About

I enjoy helping charities, SMEs and local community groups to adopt & benefit from emerging sci/tech. In 2005 I founded and was CEO/CTO of www.textlocal.com, a cloud-based mobile messaging web tool. It enables businesses to instantly reach customers for appointments, offers & reminders. From bedroom startup & with the very best business partner, incredible world leading staff across offices in Malvern and Chester - we created the fastest growing web company in Europe by 2013 (both Deloitte Europe Fast 50, Sunday Times Tech Track 100). In 2014 Textlocal was acquired by imiMobile (now Cisco). Having reached £20m+ turnover, 150,000 users, sent 3bn messages, I departed in 2017 to catch my breath and be a full time Dad.

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Maker History

  • PinSwarm
    PinSwarmShare Content Locally, Live!
    Jun 2023
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    Joined Product HuntMay 11th, 2021

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PinSwarm - Share content locally, live

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