Perspectives on growth, capital and strategy

For most founders, raising money is a daunting process. Finding money is rarely the problem. Finding the right money, from the right source, at the right time and on the right terms, is considerably harder. Funding needs to be considered as a journey.

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It is one of those questions founders hear repeatedly when raising capital. It sounds perfectly reasonable, but it can cause considerable confusion because it mixes together three very different things: the business journey, the investor's capital journey and the founder's personal journey.

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Behind every privately owned business are people with their own ambitions, responsibilities and ideas about what success actually means. Those two journeys cannot sensibly be considered in isolation.

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UK venture-backed businesses attracted around $23.7 billion of investment during 2025, a 33% increase on the previous year. Across Europe, private capital funds are estimated to be holding more than 450 billion euros of available capital. Investors haven't stopped investing; they're simply becoming more selective.

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Choosing the right source of capital is only part of the challenge. Designing how capital supports a business throughout its journey is where real value is created. The difference between raising money and developing a capital strategy has significant implications for ownership, financial flexibility and long-term value.

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Preparing a business for growth, investment or strategic change is a complex undertaking involving multiple specialist disciplines, stakeholders and interdependent workstreams. Commercial strategy, capital planning, financial modelling, valuation, governance, legal structuring, technical due diligen

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Global venture capital investment recovered strongly during 2025, with almost US$470 billion invested worldwide. Yet despite increasingly sophisticated investment processes, the pattern of outcomes remains remarkably familiar. Perhaps we've been asking the wrong questions for decades.

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Over the course of my career I have worked across everything from institutional venture-backed businesses through to UHNW and Family Office backed projects where funding decisions could happen in weeks rather than over multiple investment committee cycles stretching across months.

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