Anisah Osman Britton


Anisah Osman Britton is a British tech entrepreneur. She is one of the youngest people to be awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours. She received the honor for her contributions to 'Diversity in the Technology Sector.
In 2019, she was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for her work as a social entrepreneur. In the same year, she was included in the Financial Times' list of '100 Bame leaders influencing the tech sector'.

Early life

Osman Britton was born in London in 1993. Her family moved to Spain when she was three, and then India when she was 11. She went to university in Bilborough Sixth Form College in Nottingham.

Professional life

At 2012, at age 19, she founded her first company, Pockitmuni.
In 2016, at age 26, Anisah Osman Britton co-founded a coding school for women and minority genders called 23 Code Street. Profits from 23 Code Street are put towards teaching disadvantaged women from the slums in India how to code. Her work with 23 Code Street saw her nominated as a finalist for the 2017 Precious Awards.
In 2018, Osman Britton became one of the Directors of Backstage Capital, an accelerator and fund that backs underrepresented founders. In December 2020 to November 2023, was one of the trustees of Social Tech Trust.
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. She is also the author of Brown Bodies, a platform which explores love and sex in the South Asian disapora.