Mulenga Agley
CEO , Growthcurve
Mulenga Agley is one of the wizards behind London's fast growth startup scene. As Founder of his agency, Growthcurve, Mulenga and his team employ the latest performance marketing techniques to help VC backed startups grow exponentially. Former IPG and WPP ad man Mulenga Agley left clients like BMW, Coca Cola, eBay and NatWest where he spearheaded national and international digital campaigns to join the founding team at UK fintech Monese, the first ever fully mobile current account in the market in 2014. As VP of Marketing and Growth, Mulenga grew the challenger bank (and the UK's next unicorn business) from scratch to record breaking customer growth and a valuation making over £1BN worth of transactions within two years. Mulenga's time at Monese won him a host of accolades including Visa Europe's Financial Inclusion Programme of the Year 2016 award, the EU's Horizon 2020 Award for Innovation, and he was named as one of Business Insider's Top 40 Coolest People in UK Fintech. Mulenga successfully exited Monese following its $60M series B fundraise to set up Growthcurve in December 2017. With first hand understanding of building and growing a successful business, Mulenga is well positioned to help ambitious startups and corporates to scale and achieve exceptional growth. His agency's data driven growth platform combines the latest in web, mobile and marketing technologies with high impact creative and growth strategies designed for the digital age. Operating in stealth mode since its inception and with all new business generated by referral, Mulenga has already built up an enviable client list (Coinbase, Koyo, Monopoly, Finimize, Curated.com, Chelsea FC 50/50 draw, Hubpay, Love Island, Founders Factory, King of Crabs, Enhance fitness, Unilever, Olympic Combat, Google, Midnite.com, ANNA money) with plans to increase headcount to 30 people by the end of Q2 2024.