Bevan Clark is a serial founder and early stage investor, a founder of RetailMeNot.com, the world's largest marketplace for digital offers. RetailMeNot began with a $20 investment in a domain name and with no further outside investment, grew into Australia's largest home grown consumer internet property - albeit with an American audience. Over four years the site grew to over 20 million visitors a month, who completed over $1 billion in sales at any one of the 30,000 online retail stores in its marketplace.
In 2010 the RetailMeNot founders sold a majority stake to a United States based venture capital backed consortium who listed it on the American stock exchange, NASDAQ in 2013. It peaked with a Market Cap over $2 billion before being sold to a private company.
During this period Mr Clark began contributing back to the Australian startup ecosystem through investment and mentoring with various start-up accelerators. He joined the founding team at LIFX in 2012 with the aim of reinventing one of the world's most ubiquitous household electric appliances - the lightbulb. LIFX has since sold more than 200,000 energy saving, wifi connected, multi-coloured smart bulbs in more than 10,000 retail locations all over the world.
Mr Clark is currently is an investor, advisor or board member in more than 20 high growth companies including LIFX, Rome2Rio, Canva, Zoox, Pin Payments and YourGrocer.com.au . He gets most excited by building companies that can make significant positive change around the world.
