Alex Algard is the founder and CEO of Hiya, a mobile caller identity company. See portfolio, sector focus and contact routes.
Alex Algard is the founder and CEO of Hiya, a mobile caller identity company, and previously founded and led Whitepages.com and Ekata, which sold to Mastercard for $850 million. As an angel investor, he focuses on mobile, information technology, and caller ID sectors, primarily within the United Kingdom and broader Europe. He has made nine documented angel investments, though his typical check size and whether he leads or follows are not publicly specified. Notable portfolio companies include Hiya, Ekata, Whitepages.com, and CarDomain, all ventures he founded or chaired rather than external investments. Algard is recognized as one of the industry’s earliest mobile caller identity visionaries, having launched the first Android caller ID app in 2008. There is no publicly available distinctive point of view, published thesis, or public writing attributed to him as an investor beyond his entrepreneurial track record.
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