Anisah Osman Britton (born 1993) is a British tech entrepreneur. She is one of the youngest people to be awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours. [1] She received the honor for her contributions to 'Diversity in the Technology Sector. [2]
In 2019, she was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for her work as a social entrepreneur. [3] In the same year, she was included in the Financial Times' list of '100 Bame leaders influencing the tech sector'. [4]
Osman Britton was born in London in 1993. [5] Her family moved to Spain when she was three, and then India when she was 11. [6] [7] She went to university in Bilborough Sixth Form College in Nottingham. [1]
At 2012, at age 19, she founded her first company, Pockitmuni. [5] [8]
In 2016, at age 26, Anisah Osman Britton co-founded a coding school for women and minority genders called 23 Code Street. [7] [9] [10] Profits from 23 Code Street are put towards teaching disadvantaged women from the slums in India how to code. [11] Her work with 23 Code Street saw her nominated as a finalist for the 2017 Precious Awards. [11]
In 2018, Osman Britton became one of the Directors of Backstage Capital, an accelerator and fund that backs underrepresented founders. [12] In December 2020 to November 2023, was one of the trustees of Social Tech Trust. [13] [14]
She is the co-author of a newsletter called 'Startup Life', published in Sifted, in which she writes about what it takes to build a business. [15] She is also the author of Brown Bodies, a platform which explores love and sex in the South Asian disapora. [16] [17]
Anisah Osman Britton on Forbes.
Anisah Osman Britton on Companies House.
Anisah Osman Britton on Twitter.
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