Alex Gordon-Furse

portday

Portday is an AI-powered platform built just for shipping agents.

It automates your Proforma & Final Disbursement Accounts (PDA/FDA), handles port tariff updates, invoice reconciliation, document generation and more.

It does this all from one clean software product so that you can spend less time on manual data entry and more time managing your clients.

Co-Founder & CEO

Playmaker

Intelligent document processing for traditional industries, with customers across Financial Services, Real Estate, Logistics and more. 

After finding a specific need in the maritime logistics industry in late 2024, we decided to focus fully on that industry in early 2025.

Stealth Startup

Refining my opinions on where the world is going, and learning what people will need more of :)

Building something new

Community Hacked

Founded and ran a side project with a few of my friends where we built a global community of the best community builders & experts. 

Ran many events where I interviewed the global heads of community from companies like Salesforce, Notion, Peloton, Airtable, Canva, Zendesk and many more.

Co-Creator / Founder

Startup Grind

CSO for Startup Grind global: the world’s largest startup community across 600 locations in 120 countries.

Helped thousands of pre-seed and seed-stage startups gain access to funding, mentorship and customers.

Closed several $million in sales relating to innovation and sponsorship with some of the world's biggest tech brands like Microsoft and Snowflake during my time there.

We also ran the largest tech conference in Silicon Valley, hosting speakers like the founders/CEOs of Google, OpenAI, Zoom, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Uber, A16Z, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital and many more.

Chief Strategy Officer

VP Sales & Startups

Director, Startup Programs

SG DAO

Built a DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) that aimed to be the world's first truly community-owned accelerator. 

Pivoted into a community-backed micro VC run by Startup Grind that invested into pre-seed and seed-stage companies. 

We made 8 investments before I left in Feb '23

Co-Founder & Co-Lead

Multiple startups

Angel investor in companies like Bevy (https://www.bevy.com/), Odin (https://www.joinodin.com/), Goodloans (https://www.goodloans.co/) and Paus (https://paus.tv/).

Angel Investor (temporarily paused)

Freshworks Inc. (formerly Freshdesk)

Led Freshservice (Freshworks's fastest-growing product) GTM in UK&I

One of the 5 winners of the first ever President’s Club in 2017.

Freshworks IPO'd in 2021 on NASDAQ under the ticker FRSH

Head of UK & I Sales

2nd hire in EMEA

Worked on developing and executing the go-to-market

Accenture

Front-to-back systems transformation project at UBS Investment Bank and blockchain research project for a presentation to the board of HSBC UK.

Won multiple awards as a top-performing Analyst at both Accenture and UBS Investment Bank.

Business & Systems Integration Consultant

iris worldwide

Worked on the ideation and development phases of projects for the Adidas and Durex accounts.

Account Management Intern

Co-Founder at Playmaker

Empowering shipping agents from across the world to transform their operations with AI.

Learn more at https://www.portday.com/

Co-Founder/Co-Lead

Aiming to be the world's first community-owned accelerator, and has recently pivoted into being an LP in the new community-backed Micro VC run by Startup Grind that is investing into pre-seed and seed-stage companies.

M1-project AI

Our AI Marketing Assistant helps marketing agencies create custom GTM strategies for clients 10x cheaper by cutting 90% of manual labor on data collection and analysis without sacrificing quality or risking AI hallucinations.

Start with our free trial: https://m1-project.com/

Founder

CMO Alliance

The CMO Alliance is a global hub for current and aspiring Chief Marketing Officers. Through exclusive councils, peer meetings, articles, podcasts, events, and reports, we aim to help CMOs grow their businesses, meet targets, learn from peers, and advance both personally and professionally.

Member

M1-chat.com

Now, you can create a ChatGPT-like chatbot trained on your website content.
It will know everything about your website and it replies based on that content.

Axwill.com

A website builder for online stores (with domain, payment system, analytics, etc.). The service allows you to create a fully functional website by completing a quiz survey with ready-made options. No coding knowledge or even a computer is required to create the website; everything can be done in a mobile application.

SpyWords

The service provides analysis of the contextual advertising market by collecting information about which advertising campaigns are displayed to your selected target audience.

M1.top

A major CPA network supplying leads for various products in 20+ countries worldwide.

With over a decade of entrepreneurial experience, I've launched more than 10 projects, successfully selling 5.

I am passionate about discovering new business niches and leveraging the latest technologies to create value in every deal. While I'm not a technical specialist, my strengths in networking, marketing, and sales help me grow and scale my ventures.

My largest project, M1.top, was an affiliate marketing network where I led a team of over 300 employees, achieving annual revenues exceeding $12 million.

Currently, I am the founder of M1-project.com. 

Our AI Marketing Assistant helps marketing agencies create custom GTM strategies for clients at a cost 10 times lower by cutting 90% of manual labor on data collection and analysis, without sacrificing quality or risking AI hallucinations.

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