Tom Blomfield

Tom Blomfield is a General Partner at Y Combinator based in London, United Kingdom. He previously co-founded GoCardless, an online payments processor for Direct Debit systems that participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2011 accelerator batch. Following this initial venture, Blomfield co-founded Monzo, a mobile-first challenger bank that successfully raised over £500 million in venture funding and acquired approximately 10% of the UK population as retail customers. In recognition of his entrepreneurial efforts to increase market competition within the British banking sector, he was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2019. In his current investment capacity, he focuses on sourcing, evaluating, and supporting early-stage technology startups across the venture firm's extensive global portfolio. Blomfield's professional background centers on disrupting traditional financial services and building highly scalable payments infrastructure for modern consumer markets.