Monty Munford (born 4 June 1961) is an

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-born

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Career

Munford worked for several years as a motorbike dispatch-rider in London, before retraining as a journalist at the

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in 1998. In the past 27 years, he has forged a career as a tech writer, a investment consultant who has helped companies raise money and exit for more than €1.6 billion and he has spoken on stage at more than 200 global events as a keynote speaker, emcee and moderator.

Writing

Munford, as of 2025, regularly writes for The Economist, CoinTelegraph and Tech.eu and contributes to many other Tier 1 publications. In 2023 he was featured as a journalist who also works as an entrepreneur and investment consultant by ''

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''. From 2015-2019 Munford was a tech columnist for ''

'' in New York and ''

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'' in London. He has also contributed to

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, ''

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'', ''

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,'' ''

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''.

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,'' ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He has a Google News-verified tech blog, Mob76 Outlook. He has interviewed on stage Kim Kardashian, Sir Tim Berners-Lee,

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co-founder

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, and many other tech luminaires. In August 2019, Munford reported on the BBC that he had been defrauded of £25,000 in cryptocurrency, mainly

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and

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, when his

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were stolen from his

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account. Munford has also written and self-published The Dust Bowls of Maturity.

Business

In 2005 Munford joined

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games publisher and distributor Player X having previously worked for

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testing house Babel Media. Munford left Player X to devote his time to connecting UK and Indian mobile content providers working with in Paramount and

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, as well as to pursue acting in Bollywood. In 2011, he returned to the UK and set up his own consultancy. He works with companies to help them raise money, raise their profile, connect with the right network and eventually exit via acquisition. As of 2025, he had helped more than 45 companies raise money and exit to the value of €1.6 billion.

Acting

Munford has acted in two Bollywood films: as a 1930s British officer for the

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film ''

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'', and as a

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gangster in the

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film '' Dum Maro Dum''.

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