Member Benefits
VenturePath draws together an unrivalled network and experience into one community for high growth entrepreneurs essentially seeking a ScaleUp Blackbook of fellow founders, proven specialist scaleup experts, a calendar of exceptional events, live & library learning modules, and if needed, engaged involvement from the UK’s leading investors.
Funded Founders
VenturePath is an invite only community of the most ambitious tech founders, beginning to scale and potentially raise VC investment. Learn from each other, replace trial and error with trusted recommendations. Founders can message other founders for tips, advice, and intros.
Meet Your Fellow Founders
David Doyle
Managing Director, Forestreet
David was previously the partner leading the analytics practice at PwC.
Alex Miller
Managing Partner, Forestreet
Alex was COO of Octopus Ventures and formerly Head of Strategy and Operations for Lloyds Banking Group.
Jon Cornwell
CEO, Newsflare
Jon previously held consulting roles at EY, Cap Gemini, dunnhumby and Clear Cell.
Marcus Ginn
CEO, Edozo
Marcus is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded HPS Services before starting Edozo.
Simon Shaw
CEO, Fifty Technologies
A former professional sailor & yacht racing consultant, Simon is instrumental across the board. His industry experience & competitive nature sets the pace at Fifty.
Seb Robert
CEO & Founder, Gophr
Seb held senior positions across several digital agencies and the music industry at Absolute Label Services.
Richard Heyns
CEO, Brytlyt
Richard has previously held senior technology roles at Novartis, BHP Billiton, Virgin and Jet2.
Dorian Spackman
CEO, Colateral
Dorian is a serial entrepreneur and award-winning technologist with a passion for building businesses and developing talent.
Jon Shapiro
Co-Founder, Optalitix
Jon is a serial entrepreneur with experience founding business across financial services and IT software.
Dani Katz
Co-Founder, Optalitix
Dani is an experienced founder in insurance and technology. Skilled in data analytics, AI, insurance risk management, pricing and reinsurance.
Leadership Learning
Training covering every growth challenge
A blend of live interactive and on-demand digital library scaleup training content delivered by vetted scaleup experts, fellow funded founders, VCs, strategic partners and our staff team to give you a shortcut to the right answers. Content themes focus on sales optimisation, marketing, resourcing high growth teams and tech, market research, pitch skills, financial management and investor readiness.
See the leadership learning available
ScaleUp Masterclasses
Growth Diagnostic
Fortnightly
Expert speaker & interactive clinic
Quarterly
Mapping the path to growth, signposting support
ScaleUp Support Showcases
Deals, Debate & Discussion
Bi-monthly
Partner led sessions
Bi-annual
Panel, pitches and VC networking
Sector Spotlights
Bi-monthly
VC led, sector round table updates and discussion
VC investor events
Bi-annual
Live & online hosted sessions
VCs
Below are some of the VCs who’ve funded / supported our client companies.
ScaleUp Expertise
Carefully curated, tried and tested by us and your fellow founders - our ScaleUp Blackbook service.
Members can quickly assess their skills and book a free initial consultation with them through our platform.
VenturePath members have up to 50 hours of free consultancy time from within the ScaleUp Expert community.
Meet The Experts
Philippa Seal
Commercial
Jayne Chace
Commercial
Chris Clarke
Technology
Carl Coddington
Talent
Alan Furley
Talent
Kate Renna
Pitching
Phil Guest
Commercial
Alex van Klaveren
Talent
John Purkiss
Executive Search
Christina Richardson
Leadership Coaching
Bob Apollo
Commercial
Alison Spencer
Customer Success
Matthew Stone
Commercial, Mentor, Exited, NED
Dr. Richard Wheater
Finance, Mentor, Exited, NED
Hugo Drayton
Media/Commercial, Mentor, Exited, NED
John Straw
Commercial, Mentor, Exited, NED
Bill Flind
Commercial, Mentor, Exited, NED
Andy Evans
Commercial, Mentor, Exited, NED
Nick Suckley
Commercial, Mentor, Exited, NED
Andy Yates
Commercial, Mentor, Exited, NED
Ami Shpiro
Commercial, Technical, Finance, Mentor, Exited, NED
Lisa Powis
Operations, Mentor, Exited, NED
Andy Williams
Commercial
Rob Wirszycz
Commercial, Mentor, Exited, NED
Nick Kingsbury
Commerical, Operations, Technical, Finance, Mentor, Exited, NED
Damon Bonser
Commercial, Manufacturing, Design, Mentor, Exited, NED
Cordelia Meacher
Communications
Sree Kamineni
Financial, Commercial, Mentor, Exited, NED
Stuart Mason
Technical, Manufacturing, Exit Planning
Lilly Wiggins
Communications
David Bareham
Financial, Tax, Share Schemes, Incentive Schemes
Dominic Noakes
Financial, Accounts, Systems, Due Diligence, Cash Flow
Tanya Yeremenko
Financial, M&A, Exit, DD, Sale Support
Graham Halliday
Legal, Fundraising, Corporate Transactions
Bradley Heath
Legal, Fundraising, Corporate Transactions
Alex Lee
Legal, Contractual, IP, Data Protection, Privacy
Strategic Partners
VenturePath community members have access to an established ecosystem of additional support, covering the investment industry, Government, policy, data and insights, coaching, peer entrepreneurs, underrepresented communities and media partnerships. In addition, our founding members include the Great British Entrepreneurs award-winning business growth training company and one of the UK’s most effective corporate finance firms.
haysmacintyre
haysmacintyre is an award winning top 30 firm of chartered accountants and tax advisors, with 37 partners and over 400 staff, providing advice to scaleup entrepreneurs, fast-growing and owner-managed businesses and a Key Sponsor.
Marriott Harrison
Marriott Harrison is a specialist legal transactional and advisory firm focused on technology, growth, and change. It’s 70+ team works with ambitious entrepreneurs and insightful investors to build, evolve, and monetise successful companies. With a 30-strong corporate team, led by 11 partners, it is recognised as one of the leading VC and M&A practices in the UK. They are a key sponsor.
A founding partner of VenturePath. Corporate financiers White Horse Capital have advised on 60+ Series A-B (£1-20m transactions), seeing clients raise over £500m+. We’ve moved the process of securing growth investment from being a disruptive and risky transaction to a value-adding relationship led partnership. This underpins VenturePath’s Investment Advisory activity.
Beauhurst collects, curates, and analyses data on the high-growth economy and its participants, from growing companies to investors and advisors. They provide that data through a searchable online platform, used by thousands of professionals to deepen their understanding of the high-growth space. They also work closely with clients in both the public and private sectors, providing insight to some of the UK’s most respected institutions.
We are proud to be a General Partner member of the British Venture Capital Association. Our relationship includes regular participation in each other’s events, and co-hosting the leading bi-annual VC industry gathering “Deals, Debates and Discussions” where VenturePath members can present their businesses to the UK’s leading VCs.
We are proud to have been long standing supporters, and represented for 5 years on the board, of Capital Enterprise; the UK’s startup experts, connecting & energising a world-class entrepreneurship ecosystem. Capital Enterprise’s startups can progress to VenturePath when they achieve £1m revenue and begin to think about scaling further.
The Entrepreneurs Network is a think tank for Britain’s most ambitious entrepreneurs. We bridge the gap between entrepreneurs and policymakers. We have a network of over 10,000 entrepreneurs and are the Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Entrepreneurship.
The Great British Entrepreneur Awards celebrates the hard work and inspiring stories of entrepreneurs in the UK. Born out of a belief that entrepreneurs are as much about their story as they are the balance sheet, the awards celebrate and champion the entrepreneurs behind brilliant businesses.
OneTech is on a mission to tackle: Gender inequality; Lack of diversity; Investment imbalance; Disability disparity and connects underserved communities with opportunities.
Tech London Advocates is a network of more than 14,000 tech leaders, entrepreneurs, and experts in London, across the UK and in over 50 countries worldwide. Proudly independent, private sector-led and not backed by government.
Weare3Sixty is all about supporting the humans behind the world’s most ambitious scaleups - making sure that every founder and startup leader in the ecosystem has the support and skills to reach their full potential as resilient, high-performing leaders.
A founding partner of VenturePath. The Accelerator Network has trained 1,000+ startups/scaleups, delivering 3,500 learning hours, across 70+ cohorts, and 5,000+ expert intros. They've helped founders create their own expert networks, receive the best growth training, nurture relationships with each other and access growth capital. This underpins VenturePath’s leadership learning content.
The Centre for Entrepreneurs is the UK’s leading entrepreneurship foundation. We work to make the country more entrepreneurial. Activities focus on advancing the entrepreneurship agenda for the UK.
FieldHouse Associates is a public relations and communications agency with a difference. They are entirely focused on working with high-growth tech businesses and entrepreneurs, their angel and venture capital investors, and the ecosystem that surrounds them – including corporates, professional service firms, accelerators, events and more.