Mark Onyett

NoBa Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled businesses shaping the Future of Work. We are high-conviction, hands-on investors, and apply different investment strategies and support depending on the stage of the business. Our mission is to positively impact the lives of 10 million workers by investing in ambitious start-ups changing the Future of Work. Our portfolio companies deliver worker centric solutions that make this possible. Whether its through providing access to work opportunities, improving career development, enhancing diversity and inclusion, providing financial stability, supporting wellbeing, or fostering flexibility.

Tully is on a mission to help the 20 million people in the UK who are worried about money.

Founded in 2015, our mission is at the forefront of everything we do: to help millions of employees worldwide become financially healthier and happier. We partner with leading employers across the UK to help their people take control of their finances, which can help improve their health, happiness, and work and home life. We do this by providing access to the most comprehensive suite of responsible financial wellbeing benefits available to employees. Learn more at salaryfinance.com

Liberis is an embedded finance partner for platforms, including vertical SaaS providers, marketplaces, payment processors, and payment companies. Liberis enables platforms to offer tailored financial solutions to their merchant ecosystems, supporting growth across businesses of all sizes. Liberis partners closely with platforms, combining merchant data and distribution with over a decade of finance expertise and lending experience across economic cycles. By understanding merchant behaviour and business rhythm, Liberis embeds finance directly into platform workflows, delivering funding and financial tools at key moments in the merchant lifecycle. Rather than offering standardised products, Liberis co-creates solutions around each partner’s brand, technology, and merchant needs. Its flexible, API-driven architecture allows platforms to configure, launch, and scale embedded finance offerings across 15 markets, with the ability to add new products over time without requiring further platform integration. For platforms, Liberis delivers recurring revenue opportunities and supports merchant acquisition and retention. For merchants, Liberis provides fast and transparent access to capital, from $500 to $1M+, with clear pricing, flexible repayment aligned to business performance, and dedicated support. Embedded Finance. Built Together.

At Modulr, our vision is a world where all businesses are powered by embedded payments. Modulr enables thousands of businesses, from SMEs to enterprise, across the UK and Europe to efficiently pay-in, collect and disburse funds instantly via a range of payment methods, accounts, and card products. We’ve created an industry-leading platform with comprehensive online tools and API access, to meet the demands of daily business payments. We are connected to an expanding network of accounting and payroll platforms, including Sage, Xero, BrightPay and IRIS. Our payments expertise and extensive product capability also enables us to build tailored solutions to solve complex payment problems for hundreds of clients in a range of industries, including Travel, Merchant Payments, Lending, Wage Advance and Investment & Wealth. We are deeply integrated into the payment eco-system. In the UK, we are direct participants of Faster Payments and Bacs, and hold settlement accounts at the Bank of England. Our payment network connectivity includes CHAPS, Open Banking, SEPA, SWIFT and account issuance in a range of currencies. We are principal issuing members of Visa and Mastercard across the UK and Europe. Our regulatory permissions and governance structure underpin our business. We are regulated as an Authorised Electronic Money Institution (AEMI) in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority and in the Netherlands by De Nederlandsche Bank. Today we handle over 200m transactions and £100bn payment volume on an annualised basis handling more than 30 API calls per second.

We make Open Banking work. We build the technology that makes Open Banking work. Our toolkit makes it easy for people to securely share financial information with the businesses they trust, so those businesses can deliver better, more personalised products and services.

BCI Capital is an investment manager specialising in asset-backed credit for alternative finance businesses. We provide structured, receivables-backed lending solutions that help our borrowers expand their balance sheets, scale across markets, and grow enterprise value. Our facilities are built to evolve with borrowers’ needs, and we look to partner with borrowers for them long-term, from early-stage funding through to more mature, co-lending arrangements. Our Credit Opportunities Fund, was established in 2011 and gives our investors access to a hard-to-reach segment of private credit — with disciplined underwriting and flexible structuring enabling a strong track record of risk-adjusted returns. As part of Blenheim Chalcot, the UK’s leading digital venture builder, we work closely with a network of fintech leaders. This gives us a deep, operator-level understanding of modern lending businesses—and how to structure capital that supports long-term success.

Contentive is a global digital media company, specialising in B2B publishing and information. We provide an engaging mix of news, events, intelligence and training across Digital Marketing, FinTech and Business Media verticals. Founded in 2012, we now have a team of 70 employees across the UK and New York and are continuing to expand. Reinventing B2B Media & Events - Contentive runs premium B2B websites and events within four key professional communities: Finance, Fintech, HR and Digital Marketing. In each of those markets we aspire to be the primary source of trusted content to help our communities succeed in their work. We are a technology-led business, constantly innovating to improve the experience we offer our professional communities, as well as the marketers looking to understand and connect with them. Contentive provides B2B marketers with a cost-effective, reliable, scalable source of qualified leads from within the professional communities we serve: Finance, Fintech, HR and Digital Marketing. Our London team are located in the Scale Space community based in West London, White City, which brings together UK's leading venture builders and help innovate the business scale – all backed by the Blenheim Chalcot group, leading active investors with annual sales of over £300M. To find out more, or to explore our career opportunities, please visit: www.contentive.com

Oakbrook is a digitally enabled consumer finance and technology business, removing the barriers between consumers that want to borrow and investors that want to lend. Formed in 2011, Oakbrook has brought together people with deep expertise in consumer lending, advanced analytics, and forward-thinking technologists, with a shared belief that there is a better way to do consumer lending – by being more personalised and customer focused. Oakbrook comprises of 2 FCA regulated consumer lending businesses and O6K, a business-to-business technology and analytics company.

Founded by Matt Denman and Mark Hawkins, HD Decisions develops data and technology products for the financial services market. HD Decisions is the provider of “Apply With Confidence” and other pre-qualification solutions used by price comparison sites and lenders, in both the credit cards and loans markets.

Larwood Advisors: a Network of Experienced Professionals to Support your Business as it Scales

NoBa Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled businesses shaping the Future of Work. We are high-conviction, hands-on investors, and apply different investment strategies and support depending on the stage of the business. Our mission is to positively impact the lives of 10 million workers by investing in ambitious start-ups changing the Future of Work. Our portfolio companies deliver worker centric solutions that make this possible. Whether its through providing access to work opportunities, improving career development, enhancing diversity and inclusion, providing financial stability, supporting wellbeing, or fostering flexibility.

Tully is on a mission to help the 20 million people in the UK who are worried about money.

Founded in 2015, our mission is at the forefront of everything we do: to help millions of employees worldwide become financially healthier and happier. We partner with leading employers across the UK to help their people take control of their finances, which can help improve their health, happiness, and work and home life. We do this by providing access to the most comprehensive suite of responsible financial wellbeing benefits available to employees. Learn more at salaryfinance.com