Ksubaka Revenue & Valuation (2021)

Giles Corbett

CEO

I’m a serial entrepreneur in mobile games, mobile advertising and global OTT platforms with over 20 years experience advising, leading, growing, acquiring and investing in companies from start-ups to multinationals. Prior to my current role as CEO and Co-Founder of Ksubaka, I was Founder and Head of Libon, a skunk-works operation within the Orange Group where I built an award-winning mobile/OTT platform with over 4 million active users in 100 countries. I have also served as an advisor to BBC Mobile, CEO of mobile virtual network operator Eccosphere, led the building (and sale to Microsoft) of France’s first mobile ad platform, Co-CEO of Europe’s first mobile games company In-Fusio, and more. My brother Julian and I co-founded Ksubaka initially as a new way for brands to advertise to shoppers in stores at mass scale. But working with retailers, we came to understand the need to improve the in-store experience and so shifted our focus to help physical retailers revitalise by providing in-store digital interface products and services. The Covid pandemic was transformative for us. First every single one of our clients closed down (yes, that was tough), but then we saw an emerging opportunity with independent and scale up retailers who were all becoming Shopify and Woocomerce experts. We could build a solution that would tap into these platforms to instantly deliver an in-store ecommerce solution to support these smaller retailers as they re-opened. We loved the idea, and created a new company, cloudshelf, to deliver it.