Xavier Azalbert, 36

First-e

What does it do? Online banking.

How it's gone: Has attracted £37.8m investment. In November last year Azalbert left to took over at Xelector, a Dublin-based provider of comparison-shopping technology for the net, which raised £15m to finance a pan-European expansion.

Valuation: New company worth £175m, but Azalbert's stake unknown.