Startups
I like founders who get on with things.
Twenty-plus years of angel investing has mostly taught me how little certainty exists at the beginning.
What gets my attention.
- A real problem rather than an invented category.
- Founders with speed and self-awareness.
- Evidence customers care.
- Capital efficiency, especially early.
- A reason this team sees something others missed.
- Technology as leverage, not costume jewellery.
Portfolio context
Technology. Health. Consumer. AI. Space.
My wider portfolio and project history includes companies across these categories. See the personal site for the current public list.
See public project listWhat help can look like.
Capital
Write a cheque.
Where the opportunity and structure make sense.
Experience
Share scars.
Pricing, growth, hiring, sales, margins, expansion and the things founders discover too late.
Network
Open a door.
Only where the introduction is genuinely useful to both sides.
What I do not want.
- A deck sent to 400 investors.
- Growth charts with the y-axis removed.
- “No competitors”.
- A business model that begins after Series C.
- Founders who outsource conviction to their advisors.
Bring us something worth thinking about
Got a startup?
Three paragraphs are enough to start: what you do, why it matters, what you need.
Tell us what is missing