Building Again After a 320x Exit with Husayn Kassai

​Building Again After a 320x Exit

​What drives a founder back to day one — after already winning?

​Join Husayn Kassai, co-founder of Onfido and founder of Ollo, for a fireside chat on what it really takes to build, scale, and exit a company — and why the best founders don't stop there.

​Husayn co-founded Onfido, the AI-powered identity verification company, and scaled it to a landmark exit that returned investors 320x. He's now building again.

​In this session, he'll share the unfiltered lessons from Onfido's journey — from early-stage conviction to navigating hypergrowth, through to life on the other side of an exit — and what's driving him to do it all over again.

​Key takeaways

• ​Building AI before AI was cool — and why being early is the ultimate competitive advantage

• ​The honest truth about Onfido — what went well, what went wrong, and what he'd do differently

• ​What a 320x exit actually teaches you

• ​What's different about building again the second time round

• ​A curated evening with high-growth founders and investors

​​Who should attend

​​This event is designed for:

​​• Startup founders and C-suite (pre-seed to Series A)
• Early-stage investors and angels

​​Spaces are limited to keep the conversation and networking high quality.

​​​​Agenda

​​​​​6:30pm: Welcome drinks

​​​​​7pm: Warm welcome from Novabook

​​​​​7:10pm: Fireside chat with Husayn Kassai

​7:40pm: Audience Q&A

​​​​​8pm: Networking over drinks & canapés

​​​9pm: Event close

​​Speaker

​Husayn Kassai
Co-Founder and CEO of Onfido
Founder and CEO of Ollo

​Ollo is the agentic OS for mid-market companies. Ollo connects to your company tools so you get accurate, reasoned responses and agentic workflows that work. All powered by AI that has your unique context without any massive IT overhead.

​​Hosted by

​​Stephen Wilks
Co-founder and CEO, Novabook

​​Novabook is the accounting firm for startups. We give founders access to the best UK accountants to handle all your accounting, with real humans you can call whenever you need. Alongside this, Novabook has built a software platform that automates the admin founders hate - no invoice chasing, no missed emails, and no manual payments. We save founders time and money with the most responsive accounting solution for your startup.

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