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SwiftKey (originally TouchType Limited) was formed as an AI keyboard start-up in co-founder Ben Medlock's shed in 2008, a decade before AI finally started to explode (after various false starts in the 60s, 70s, 80s, etc). Its investors included Stephen Fry.

It started expanding in 2011 having moved to offices in North Lambeth - during which time its predictive Android keyboard reached one million installs - before moving again to Union Street in Southwark.  Still expanding, it moved again to Southwark Bridge Road as the keyboard became more and more popular. 

The company was acquired by Microsoft in 2016 and in early 2017 was moved over to Microsoft's offices in the boondocks of Paddington, making the cycle to work jump from a modest eight-mile round trip to around 18 miles. 

In 2018 the keyboard celebrated the milestone of 100 million active users, and by around 2022/23 was being shown on Google Play as having achieved over one billion installs. At the point of leaving the company, Nosher was responsible for 8% of the Android app's codebase.

SwiftKey's keyboard remains popular and has had various magazine articles written about it, in particular in Wired. It has also appeared in numerous XKCD cartoons, giving it the ultimate geek cred.