Founder Profile
Tom Blomfield
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Tom Blomfield?
Tom Blomfield is a founder of Monzo Bank Limited, which was founded in 2015 with Jonas Huckestein.
- Company founded
- Monzo Bank Limited
- Founded
- 2015
- Co-founders
- Jonas Huckestein
Background
Before Monzo, Blomfield co-founded payments company GoCardless and briefly worked at Starling Bank. He studied law at the University of Oxford.
Founding Story
Tom Blomfield co-founded Monzo (originally Mondo) in 2015 and was its CEO until 2020, leading it from a prepaid card to a licensed UK bank with millions of customers. He stepped back to a president role in 2020 and left in early 2021, later becoming a group partner at Y Combinator.
Tom Blomfield was born in 1985 in Hong Kong. Education: Dr Challoner's Grammar School.
Thomas Benjamin Blomfield was born on August 11, 1985. He is a group partner at Y Combinator.