Founders, operators, builders.
Grey Wizard is a small, senior outfit. The work is led by people who have raised the round, run the board, and shipped the code — and who pull in a wider bench of AI innovators when an engagement calls for it.
Andrew Shaw
Founder of Grey Wizard. Operator-turned-AI-engineer. Hands on every engagement.
LinkedInAndrew has taken multiple venture-backed companies from zero to one. He has chaired and sat on boards of regulated businesses, answering to financial regulators on capital, governance, and customer protection. And he has stayed hands-on with code — building AI operations, training and shipping models, and wiring them into the workflows that move a company's numbers.
That combination — the cap-table view, the board view, and the terminal view — is what every engagement starts from.
Co-founded Coya, a Berlin digital insurer. Raised a $30M Series A led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures.
TechCrunch, June 2018Ran Coya as a BaFin-licensed insurance carrier — the German federal regulator's bar for capital, governance, and customer protection. Sold to Luko in 2021.
Coya AGJoined Kreditech as employee #1 and CIO. By 2014 the company closed a $40M Series B — at the time the largest ever round for a German financial-services technology company.
TechCrunch, June 2014Kreditech took home Fintech Startup of the Year at the inaugural FinTech Summit Hamburg, awarded by the paymentandbanking jury for its data-driven technology and international momentum.
FinTech Summit Hamburg, 2014Kreditech ranked #7 worldwide on the 2017 KPMG Fintech100 — the only European company in the global top ten that year.
KPMG Fintech100, 2017Comet, Andrew's current venture, was named to Notion Capital's Cloud Challengers Top 100 B2B in 2024 — the firm's annual ranking of Europe's leading cloud companies.
Notion Capital, 2024A network, not a roster.
Andrew is joined by a closely held network of senior AI innovators and operators — engineers who have shipped frontier models, founders who have built and exited AI-native businesses, and operators who have run AI inside regulated and high-stakes environments.
We pull from this bench by sector and by problem shape. You get the right people for your engagement — not whoever happens to be on payroll.