Selected engagements with UK startups and investors.

Challenge

A UK fintech preparing its FCA authorisation needed a defensible five-year financial model and valuation to support its regulatory business plan and capital adequacy assessment.

Approach

• Built a fully integrated three-statement model with driver-based revenue build, unit economics and cohort assumptions.
• Stress-tested liquidity, ICARA and wind-down scenarios in line with FCA expectations.
• Delivered DCF, comparable company and precedent transaction valuations with sensitivities.

Impact

• Financial model successfully submitted as part of the regulatory authorisation pack.
• Capital requirement optimised through refined cost phasing.
• Investor-ready valuation used in a subsequent funding round.

Challenge

A UK fintech evaluating expansion into the UAE needed a credible TAM/SAM/SOM view and an entry-mode financial model to support board approval.

Approach

• Primary and secondary research across UAE payments, SME lending and consumer fintech segments.
• Built market sizing model triangulating top-down regulator data with bottom-up customer economics.
• Modelled three entry routes — DIFC subsidiary, ADGM passport and partnership — with capex, opex and licensing implications.

Impact

• Board approved a phased market entry strategy.
• Avoidable setup cost identified and eliminated from the chosen entry route.
• Financial case supported subsequent partnership discussions in-region.

Challenge

A UK private equity sponsor evaluating a greenfield healthcare equipment manufacturing investment required commercial due diligence and a feasibility view ahead of IC.

Approach

• Mapped the UK and EU competitive landscape, regulatory pathway and procurement dynamics across NHS trusts and private operators.
• Built a feasibility model covering capex phasing, unit economics, working capital and IRR sensitivities.
• Tested management projections against benchmark margins and lead times from comparable operators.

Impact

• Due diligence and feasibility approved by the Investment Committee.
• Investment thesis sharpened around the highest-conviction product lines.
• Revised offer aligned to a defensible, risk-adjusted base case.

Challenge

A UK aggregator of recurring-revenue service businesses needed a proactive origination engine to source proprietary deals across multiple geographies.

Approach

• Defined investment criteria, scoring framework and geographic priority list.
• Built a long list of 600+ potential targets across the UK, North America and APAC.
• Ran qualification, outreach and founder conversations to convert long list into a curated pipeline.

Impact

• Qualified targets advanced into management meetings within the first programme cycle.
• Multiple LOIs signed and acquisitions completed off the curated pipeline.
• Repeatable origination engine handed over to the in-house corporate development team.