Tom Blomfield is a Group Partner at YC. He was co-founder of Monzo, one of the first app-based challenger banks in the UK. Monzon raised more than £500m, counts for 10% of the UK population as customers, and was the #1 recommended brand in the UK for two years running. Previously, he founded GoCardless (YC S11), an online payments processor for the Direct Debit system. In 2019, he was awarded an OBE for increasing competition in the banking sector.