Profiles | ||
Kieran Lewis O'Neill (born 19 August 1987) is an English entrepreneur best known for founding several Internet companies.
He started one of the first video sharing websites, similar to YouTube, when he was 15 and sold it aged 19 for $1.25M.
He subsequently co-founded Playfire, the largest social network for video games. Playfire raised $3.1M in funding from prominent investors including Niklas Zennström (the founder of Skype), Michael Birch (the founder of Bebo), Chris Deering (the former Chairman of Sony), William Reeve (the founder of LOVEFiLM) and others. The company grew to over to 1 million users and was subsequently acquired by a games retailer in May 2012.
He is currently CEO of fashion startup Thread.com, though little is publicly known about it at present. British Vogue included Thread in their list of the Top 100 fashion websites, saying the service offers personal styling online for free. In June 2016, Beringea led a £4 million funding round with participation from existing backer Balderton Capital and a number of angel investors, bringing total funding for Thread to around $16 million.
O'Neill was born in Bermuda and moved to Winchester, England when he was 14. He currently lives in London.