Aymeric Monod-GayraudCo Founder

United Kingdom - London, England

THE PRESENT
Today, I am dedicated to helping UK-based households alleviate the cost-of-living crisis via my latest digital venture – ZIPZERO.

ZIPZERO offers a mass-market consumer solution to the cost-of-living crisis --> Shopping via the ZIPZERO app earns you cash to pay your bills. The cash rewards are funded by retailers & CPG brands, who gain access to a formidable over-the-top commerce media platform.

Via the ZIPZERO app, we crowdsource receipt-level SKU data directly from consenting consumers, allowing ZIPZERO to (1) act as a real-time consumer insights platform and (2) serve as a marketing conduit to CPG brands & retailers. In the process, advertisers are able to directly impact the livelihoods of their very own customers by rewarding their purchases with cash to pay their bills.

Consumer empowerment is at the heart of our mission – we enable consumers to extract maximum value from their shopping data, in a way that is fully transparent and under their control.

ZIPZERO's goal is to change the way digital advertising budgets are spent --> We’re focused on diverting the >£26bn spent yearly on digital advertising towards the payment of consumers’ utility bills – corresponding to a whopping £80 per month per UK household!


THE PAST
I was born into a French-Polish family and immersed into Anglo-American culture at the ripe age of 10 (via the American School of Warsaw). Following studies at Sussex, Cambridge and Oxford (on a British Council "Entente Cordiale" Scholarship), I initiated my career with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the London-based Telecoms, Media & Technology investment banking team, eventually moving on 6 years later to put my entrepreneurial prowess to the test.

Whilst at BAML, I advised many of Europe’s largest TMT companies and private equity firms on a varied list of prominent mergers & acquisitions and capital raisings.

My entrepreneurial journey started in 2011 upon moving back to Warsaw, where I founded one of Europe's first digital loyalty platforms - aggregating thousands of individual loyalty programmes into one app - and exited to Poland’s largest mobile operator, the former Vodafone-owned asset.


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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
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“Ad Summa Nitor” ("Strive for the highest")