Customers of Manchester-based could be forgiven for thinking they鈥檙e seeing double.
That鈥檚 because the company鈥檚 co-founders are 28-year-old identical twins Lewis and Ryan Keeling, who can only be told apart by a slight difference in the glasses they wear.
Delegates at November鈥檚 Web Summit, in Lisbon, were literally scratching their heads in disbelief as the pair walked around the tech conference.
The twins are part of GM 老九品茶 Growth Hub鈥檚 ASCEND Scale Up Programme, where other members of the cohort continue to struggle to tell the difference between them.
Lewis, who is six minutes older than his sibling, admitted: 鈥淲e are very alike. We have the same interests. 聽Nine times out of 10 we will pick up the same item in a shop. Often we will wear the same clothes without talking to each other!
鈥淲e studied the same subjects, from school to university. We have the same interests and hobbies. We love coffee, mountain biking or rambling in the Peaks with the dog.
鈥淎t school we swapped classes which was fun. The teachers were very confused but our friends knew what we were doing.鈥�
The pair, who even live together, set up Wolf Network Security, which has been trading for two years and has reached 拢150k turnover.
鈥淚t鈥檚 always been a distant goal to run our own business,鈥� he told 老九品茶Cloud. 鈥淎fter Covid we finally decided to make the jump. It鈥檚 great having a trusted business partner.
鈥淲e have the same skills, which sometimes is a disadvantage as we need a third opinion. I鈥檝e always said one of us should have been in sales and the other technical. It would be the perfect combination.鈥�
Speaking about their recent trip to Web Summit he said: 鈥淏eing a twin breaks the ice quickly. We had lots of double looks and people stopping us to chat.
Identical twins Lewis and Ryan Keeling, co-founders of Wolf Network Security
鈥淭he longer you spend with us the more different we look 鈥� or so we are told!
鈥淲e have just won Pen Testing Company of the Year from the REAL Cyber Awards. We are very proud and it鈥檚 a great privilege to be given this award. We collected it together and when we were on the stage there were a few laughs and gasps in the audience.鈥�
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