Luke Rynne Cullen

Dublin-born 🇮🇪, working in Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Experienced in product at startups 🚀, scaleups 📈, and public companies 🔔
Always finding new tools to use, focusing on automation & low-code options 👨‍💻
Passionate about helping founders 💡

Socials

Email / LinkedIn / Instagram / X

Currently

Product @ Curve Royalty Systems (part of Downtown Music)

• Spearheading the development of a payments solution embedded within the accounting system, streamlining client workflows for fund & payee details collection, as well as mass payouts.
• Managing the sales pipeline end-to-end, onboarding enterprise clients with significant payout volumes, whilst ensuring robust compliance (KYC) standards are being met.

Founder @ Precital & WaveQuery

Formerly

Product @ FUGA (part of Downtown Music)

• Managed an accounting system processing hundreds of millions in royalties annually, ensuring a near-100% sales match rate was maintained whilst handling new catalog types & revenue streams.
• Launched a widely anticipated royalty splits feature & revamped the financial dashboard, expanding the product fit for enterprise opportunities & opening up opportunities in the UGC space.

Technology, Marketing & Community @ Scale Ireland

• Secured over €1M in partnership benefits for the founders’ community, growing the Slack network to 1,100+ founders, investors, & operators with a subscription model rolled out to ensure the organisation remains self-sustaining.
• Organised high-profile webinars with executives from Stripe, Google, & Amazon while driving national press coverage across RTÉ, Business Post, & more, achieving 250k+ social media impressions during key campaigns.

Appearances

• 30 under 30: The young guns of Irish business aiming high
• Business Post's 100 Hot Start-Ups
• Mastercard Gateway Unlocked Podcast - Architects of the Modern World
• Tech startups make music and events a smooth operation - Irish Examiner
• Extra.ie presents 30 under 30: The young rising stars of Ireland
• Irish startup Applaud wants to streamline gig bookings for musicians
• TuneRelease leads chorus to promote Irish music
• Rebels & romantics - meet the members of Ireland's coolest orchestra

Awards

• Part of the Winning Team in FUGA's AI hackathon
• Part of the Winning Startup in the TES Dragons Den Competition
• Winner of the Blackstone LaunchPad Sprints Competition

Conferences

• SISTEM Conference Founders Fireside with Luke Rynne Cullen - The impact of the no-code movement on early-stage startups