Ben Way is a serial entrepreneur and best selling[1] author[1] best known for his appearance on Secret Millionaire, The Startup Kids and as a cast member on Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, he started his first company at the age of 15.

[16] During this time he was also chief innovation officer for Brightstation Ventures a $100m technology VC fund[8] started by Dan Wagner and Shaa Wasmund.

[19][20] In 2009 Rainmakers opened a United States (US) branch and consequently became involved in a number of US startups, including Traffic Spaces, the ad management platform, and BoostCTR, the Google adwords optimizer.

[21] Way was also involved in a number of green start-up companies, such as SellMyMobile and SellCell,[19] and is a cofounder with Paul Williams of Freetricity, a renewable energy provider based in the UK and the US.

He is involved in his sister's production company Newspepper,[25][26] a citizen journalism site that covers a large number of UK tech sector events.

[27] Way and his sister developed GoIgnite, a health and lifestyle smartphone app and hardware for the Bravo TV reality television show they both appeared in.

[31] In 2006, he appeared on the Channel 4 TV show Secret Millionaire where he gave away £40,000 in a philanthropic act after spending two weeks in Hackney as a volunteer.

In 2012 he appeared as one of the main cast on Bravo's TV Show Start-Ups: Silicon Valley[38] with his sister Hermione Way working on an mHealth innovation called Ignite and raising $500,000 for it from investors including Esther Dyson.