Sam Horbye is the co-founder of Olsam, a company that acquires ecommerce and marketplace brands and draws on its in-house technology and digital marketplace experience to scale them globally.
Horbye founded Olsam in 2020 with his brother Ollie. It acquires brands created by solopreneurs and develops brands in-house and aims to make them “blow up” on Amazon and other digital marketplaces, channels and retailers.
The London-based company has raised $165m from VC funds including Christian Angermayer’s Elevat3 Capital, which counts Peter Thiel as a strategic partner, and Apeiron Investment Group.
Prior to founding Olsam, Horbye worked in New York supporting Fever-Tree’s launch into the North American market and has managed some of the UK’s largest third-party Sellers on Amazon’s worldwide marketplaces....