Our AI startup is growing 40% a month helping financial advisers do what they love: giving advice

Shakeel Lala (L), Ben Robertson and Hardy Michel, co-founders of Marloo. (Credit: courtesy of Marloo)

Before we built our current startup, we spent seven years building retail investment platforms that introduced millions of people to investing for the first time.

Sharesies and Lightyear were highly regulated companies that now manage more than £7 billion in assets, and time and time again customers would ask us: what should I invest in? It frustrated us that we couldn’t help them in any meaningful way.