Alan Walsh

Connectd is a people-first platform connecting startups and scaleups with experienced fractional executives and strategic advisors. Using AI-powered insights and smart matching technology, we help ensure the right experts are placed with the right companies, so both sides can grow with confidence. In a world shaped by transformative technology, we provide a human-centred ecosystem where companies access the guidance they need to scale, and senior leaders find meaningful, flexible work that puts their experience to powerful use. Since 2019, Connectd has facilitated over 35,000 connections across the UK and US, helping both sides of the ecosystem succeed: startups and scaleups gain trusted leadership at pivotal moments, and senior leaders and executives build dynamic, rewarding fractional careers.

Regulated Electronic Money Institution (EMI) empowering UK businesses with seamless, scalable, and secure working capital solutions through innovative, automated, and real-time financial services, ensuring continuous growth and financial stability. Bourn aims to revolutionise business financing in the UK by becoming the leading enabler of flexible, efficient, and transparent working capital solutions, fostering a thriving ecosystem where businesses can flourish without financial constraints.

Trade Ledger exists to drive positive change in the world by reinventing how business lending works - so capital flows more freely into businesses and the communities they support. Our lending-as-a-service platform brings together all the data that business lenders need throughout the customer lifecycle, analyses that data, and automates key processes. With Trade Ledger, lenders can lend faster, to more businesses, more sustainably. From origination to decision and structuring, we’ve made traditionally complex loan products simple. Our configurable product designs give you the tools to embed, launch and scale new loan products fast. Including but not limited to Asset-Based Lending, Invoice Finance and Receivables Finance. Our platform is designed from the ground up for rapid and flexible deployment of integrated working-capital loan journeys. API-first, cloud-native, configurable and totally SaaS. It’s composable too - which means you can connect Trade Ledger to an infinite number of independent, best-in-class systems.

Connectd is a people-first platform connecting startups and scaleups with experienced fractional executives and strategic advisors. Using AI-powered insights and smart matching technology, we help ensure the right experts are placed with the right companies, so both sides can grow with confidence. In a world shaped by transformative technology, we provide a human-centred ecosystem where companies access the guidance they need to scale, and senior leaders find meaningful, flexible work that puts their experience to powerful use. Since 2019, Connectd has facilitated over 35,000 connections across the UK and US, helping both sides of the ecosystem succeed: startups and scaleups gain trusted leadership at pivotal moments, and senior leaders and executives build dynamic, rewarding fractional careers.

DueDil (now FullCircl) is a company intelligence platform that delivers insights on more than 50 million companies and the people behind them. We provide a complete view of the UK and Irish market so the SME onboarding process is as robust as it is frictionless. We provide all of this in a single KYB for Life platform that is easy to consume, whether you’re looking to automate or give your team a leg up. We believe that creating a best in class customer experience starts with best in class customer insights. We all know that context matters when making important decisions. The FullCircl Business Information Graph (B.I.G.)™ ingests billions of data points a day and surfaces more than 270 million connections between companies, directors and shareholders. In January, for the second time in a row, we were named RegTech Vendor of the Year at the 2019 British Banking Awards in recognition for its work in financial services transforming the digital customer journey for tens of thousands of UK SMEs. Investors include Augmentum Fintech plc, Oak HC/FT and Notion Capital.

Bud makes every financial decision simple by turning transactional data into rich customer insight