Nutmeg co-founder Nick Hungerford dies aged 43, months after setting up charity

Technology entrepreneur Nick Hungerford, whose girl inspired him to acceptable up a foundation to enactment bereaved children, has died astatine the property of 43.

Mr Hungerford, who had terminal bony cancer, acceptable up Elizabeth's Smile, which is named aft his two-year-old daughter.

The foundation said on its website that it was "deeply saddened" to stock the quality of its founder's death.

"Nick's grin volition inspire, always," the foundation said.

Mr Hungerford co-founded the concern level Nutmeg successful 2011. The thought was famously rejected 45 times successful a enactment by funders, but the concern was bought by JP Morgan successful 2021 for a reported £700m.

He was archetypal diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a uncommon signifier of bony crab successful 2019 erstwhile helium felt a symptom successful his close thigh, and had an cognition to region his femur.

But astatine the extremity of 2021, the crab returned and helium revealed 2 weeks agone in The Telegraph that helium had 2 oregon 3 months near to live.

Nutmeg said successful a statement that Mr Hungerford was 1 of Britain's "most palmy fintech entrepreneurs".

"Nick was passionate astir helping empower radical to execute their afloat potential," the institution said.

"We are incredibly arrogant of the travel Nick started."

Announcing Mr Hungerford's passing, Elizabeth's Smile said helium died connected 6 July.

"We are profoundly saddened to stock the quality of Nick's death. In loving representation of our founder, our enactment to marque definite grieving children scope their afloat imaginable continues," the foundation said.

He told the BBC connected 30 June that helium had had the "opportunity to bespeak connected beingness successful a mode that truthful galore radical don't get to do", and that helium felt determination was a "real deficiency of understanding" of the interaction connected children of losing a parent.

"I don't privation to comparison it to concern problems, but it was similar seeing a immense spread successful the market," helium said, adding that helium recovered it unacceptable that his girl and different children should person to unrecorded with the affectional interaction of bereaved parents.

His foundation Elizabeth's Smile is focusing connected gathering up cognition with researchers and clinicians astir the satellite astir the interaction connected a kid of losing a parent.

Mr Hungerford said the probe would lend towards processing products for the 2nd portion of the charity, the Smile Network, which already has a bid of books guiding those astir bereaved children connected however to woody with parental loss.

It volition besides assistance link bereaved children to a web that has been acceptable up by a parent, truthful that erstwhile the genitor dies, the kid tin proceed to person proposal and guidance astir things similar which assemblage to spell to, oregon wherever to work.

Mr Hungerford said that his girl Elizabeth had been "very, precise brave" and wanted "to beryllium a doc truthful she tin assistance radical similar Daddy".

He said helium had acceptable up an artificial quality website with videos of himself answering hundreds of idiosyncratic questions, truthful that his girl would beryllium capable to log connected and "talk" to him.

"She volition person pictures, stories and entree to my web of friends, truthful she volition beryllium capable to physique up a afloat representation of me," helium said.