Simon Devonshire Co-founder, Wayra and Entrepreneur in Residence - Scale-up, UK government Written by The Startups Team Published on July 30, 2015 Our experts We are a team of writers, experimenters and researchers providing you with the best advice with zero bias or partiality. Written and reviewed by: The Startups Team Simon Devonshire is Entrepreneur in Residence – Scale-up for the UK government and co-founder of Wayra Europe, the business accelerator that belongs to Telefonica. To date, Wayra has invested in 234 fast-growth digital businesses and its portfolio is valued at more than €300m.In-parallel to his corporate career, Simon is also a serial entrepreneur. He has co-founded and helped scale-up a remarkable portfolio of businesses, three of which are in multi-million revenues. His personal investments include Zopa.com, Local Data Company and TalentCupboard.com.Simon also created One Water, a charity water organisation that has donated £10m to clean drinking water projects in Africa. Simon is passionate to see entrepreneurs and their businesses realise their fullest potential. Share this post facebook twitter linkedin Written by: The Startups Team