Shadow Foundr offers a fast and simple investment model for companies seeking to raise funds. With our FCA-compliant, automated platform, the support of our dedicated, world-class team and access to our global investor network, we are perfectly placed to help you raise funds, whatever stage your business is at. Shadow Foundr has become one of the UK’s leading equity investment platforms and through our private investor network and successful collaborations, we have helped raise huge sums for many early-stage, high growth businesses.
Developing a series of hyperscale, fully licensed data centre campuses in key locations across China.
Chayora CEO
Oliver originally qualified as a chartered surveyor and, after completing his MBA at London Business School in the late 1980s, specialised in corporate finance, complex outsourcing transactions and property operating-related investment deals. As a co-founder of Chayora, Oliver’s principal areas of focus include team leadership, investor management, securing tenants and raising the profile of the venture with key stakeholders.
Delivering affordable, low carbon renewable energy solutions for local communities across the globe.
Drenl CEO
James is an internationally-recognized business leader with operational experience in the media (CEO of Epic Interactive Media plc) and environmental industries (Chairman of SEAL Ltd and former Board Member for the Environment Agency). Jim has been a key proponent of the Innovation and Environmental Industry sectors in the South East region throughout the last decade, as Chairman of SEEDA and Pathway to a Circular Economy in the South East, the successor to European Pathway to Zero Waste for London and South East England Regions.
Future Earth Energy is an innovative clean energy infrastructure platform delivering distributed energy solutions to commercial and industrial end-users.
Future Earth Energy CEO
Isobel is the CEO and Founder of Future Earth Energy, a technology agnostic partner for local renewable energy projects. FEE combines technological and market insights, project development skills, corporate finance and private equity expertise to deliver solid returns in a rapidly growing renewable energy industry. Isobel holds a PhD in Energy Policy and is also the author of many publications including a Financial Times Management Report on ‘The Electricity Industry in Spain. She is an experienced leader with exceptional skills in delivering sustainable solutions in complex infrastructure projects. Isobel has significant world-wide experience advising utilities, developers, lenders, investors, investment funds, governments and regulators.
Synapse has re-engineered the spreadsheet you have on your desktop to connect to powerful cloud databases.
Synapse CEO
Brian founded his first major business, Constellar, in the late 1990s. In the process of growing the business, he migrated to Silicon Valley after being offered US VC funding. Brian took Constellar to a total of 70 major customers and 160 staff before it was profitably sold to IBM. Brian has seen companies, large and small, struggle with spreadsheets to automate business critical operations. The fundamental solution to this problem became the basis of Synapse.
Conceiving and building the award-winning
Smart World Pro™ software platform.
CityZenith CEO
An impassioned architect, urbanist and entrepreneur, Michael has founded and led high-growth companies in the US and Asia for more than two decades. He studied architecture at Yale and Cambridge, earned a Fulbright Scholarship and worked as an architect in India and China for several years leading the Asia practices of two major US-based international architecture firms. In 2004, he founded a major BIM services company in India backed by Sequoia Capital which grew to over 500 employees in just 4 years. In 2010, Michael assumed the helm at CityZenith as CEO and embarked on his personal mission to transform life in cities around the globe.
Michael has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and in several major business, government and AEC publications worldwide. He has also received awards for his work, including Building Design and Construction’s ’40 Under 40’ award. In 2014, Michael was honoured as a World Cities Summit Young Leader in Singapore for his life-long contribution to improving sustainability and the quality of life in cities.
The largest real online educator, providing online skill development courses like photography, financial trading, digital marketing, & nutrition.
Shaw Academy CEO
Founder and CEO of Shaw Academy, James spent many years honing his skills in customer acquisition, conversion and retention. In education, especially, James identified two fundamental problems; firstly, that education was too expensive due to the limitations of physical classroom size; secondly, without engagement with students, you are not offering education, instead a library. The answer was simple – digitise the classroom and build classrooms without limits. With Shaw Academy, James has been the global leader in disrupting the centuries-old education industry by offering affordable, accessible education to everyone, everywhere. James is a constant innovator and lives by the passion of EGBET – making everything get better every time.
Delivering affordable, low carbon renewable energy solutions for local communities across the globe using the best in class technologies – bringing power to the people.
PeerBrief is a job and talent referral system that makes it easy and rewarding for the right talent and opportunities.
'Who's Who' of the Advertising World Join Forces to Disrupt Television Commercial Delivery.
A leader in the Chinese Data Centre market, Shadow Foundr facilitated a secondary market for seed investors, following a $20m corporate equity investment . This resulted in some early investors realising an 8x return within 3 years.
We bring high growth, scalable businesses with traction to our network of private investors.
Highly specialized and disruptive company with a mission to design and develop...
The Price Comparison Website (PCW) market is in dire need of disruption;...
Exploiting the $10Bn CPM market, Synapse has already generated £6m in revenues...
Assetly is a digital asset exchange based on blockchain that allows anyone...
Free Piston Engines eliminate the entire mechanical drivetrain of a conventional engine,...
Internet service providers today face the huge challenge of delivering more, for...
Nimbus has built, and now operates, the largest, most comprehensive database of...
A biotech company with an innovative breakthrough therapy for pancreatic cancer...
The online education platform that generated €11m in 2017 by educating over...
Europe's leading online rental portal for classic and unique dream cars, buses,...
Small-scale, low-cost cooling technology using the waste heat from diesel generators, gas...
Disrupting the television commercial ads delivery via programmatic ad buying, recently merged...
Healthy fast food franchise which has grown revenue from €0.5m to €8m...
BBC South East on 13th February 2017: “A Sussex man who lost his mother to cancer is raising money to pioneer a breakthrough treatment.
Last year, socially-minded Biotech LIfT BioSciences caught the headlines with the news that it had made an astonishing breakthrough in its research into finding a cure for cancer...
The scene is straight out of Silicon Valley: bean bags litter communal areas; jeans are the norm; and there’s a canteen offering everything from fresh fruit, herbal teas, energy drinks and fine coffee.
But this isn’t a workplace in California’s tech hub, nor in London’s so-called "Silicon Roundabout". Instead, it’s the office of Shadow Foundr, one of the many fintech start-ups that have set up shop by the seaside, in Brighton, south-east England...
Raising growth capital is a vital activity for any aspiring start-up, scale-up business or established company which wishes to grow bigger faster. In recent years, there has been an explosion of options in this space, but many involve debt, high cost and risk.
Many companies have been going on about Blockchain technology and we have seen plenty of valuations inflated unnecessarily just because companies claim to be incorporating the blockchain into their businesses; but we have not seen a practical use for the technology until now.
We are extremely excited to be participating in this year’s VCT & EIS Investor Forum. The forum is a fantastic opportunity to meet experts in the private equity space, to learn more about the current state of play and the challenges and opportunities Brexit could provide.
Synapse has made some real inroads on its £900k funding target, with £758k raised to date and some other significant pledges in the offing.
First of two free Autumn investment surgeries on Tuesday 25th September - featuring Shadow Foundr, Edwards Accountants and Cresco Innovation, supported by the D2N2 Growth Hub.
A poll commissioned by the British Business Bank (BBB) has revealed that one in three UK business owners want to grow their business but are unsure how.
