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Robert Gelb

Founder
Campfire.scot

Robert Gelb is an Edinburgh-based founder who has built technology, impact, and media startups for the past 10 years. In 2016 he started Kindaba, a private social network for families serving 10k+ users. Following Kindaba, he ran HeySummit, an online events platform serving 2.5m+ attendees a year. He's currently in the early stages of a new startup serving the games industry, and is building a board game business.

Aside from directly building companies, he is the managing editor of Campfire.scot, a weekly news publication focused on the startup founder community in Scotland. He has also led the Founders Survey for Scottish Founders, and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of St Andrews Entrepreneurship Centre.

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