Matthew Connor, CFA

Investor at BGF

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2025
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Nov 2025
We are global experts in Mobile Number Intelligence™, providing businesses with the insights needed to build trust, prevent fraud, and make informed decisions throughout a customer lifecycle. We specialise in two key areas: - Mobile Identity: Delivering real-time insights that verify users, detect risks, and ensure secure interactions - from onboarding to offboarding. - Number Intelligence: Enabling precise routing of SMS and voice traffic with unmatched speed, accuracy, and coverage to prevent fraud and reduce costs. Trusted by leading organisations, we empower businesses to reduce friction, optimise efficiency, and protect customer journeys with confidence. From stopping fraud to streamlining customer experiences, our solutions work in real-time to safeguard trust at every moment. We’re not just providing a service; we’re creating a new standard for security, transparency, and customer care.
Board Observer
Nov 2022
Wiserfunding is a London-based credit analytics platform that helps small and medium enterprise (SME) lenders strengthen the size and health of their portfolios. Our solutions provide the fastest, most accurate analytical tools that enable lenders to screen, underwrite, monitor, and manage their portfolios with transparency and ease. Customers at a variety of lenders, from neobanks to asset managers to embedded lenders, use Wiserfunding to scale their credit decisions while reducing costs from provisions, losses, and operations. Using industry-specific credit models tailored to SMEs, our insights are grounded in five decades of academic research at the forefront of SME credit risk, unifying data from an array of public, private, and unstructured datasets that yield the most comprehensive view of a company’s creditworthiness. Wiserfunding was founded in 2016 by Dr. Gabriele Sabato and Dr. Edward Altman, founder of the Altman Z-Score, to help address the $5tn funding gap to SMEs. Backed by BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active growth investor, Wiserfunding supports 100+ clients who have lent £3bn+ across 5 continents.
Board Observer
Mar 2021
Invizius is a spin-out based on world-class research carried out at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Invizius is developing Second Generation Complement Therapeutics to significantly improve the clinical outcomes of patients with Acute Kidney Injury receiving CRRT and patient on Renal replacement Therapy receiving Peritoneal Dialysis. Despite significant improvements in haemodialysis membranes Complement activation by contact with a foreign surface remains a serious issue with short, medium and long term clinical implications. Complement activation has also been associated with Peritoneal Dialysis(PD) and may be a driver of fibrotic changes that limit PD duration.
Board Observer
Aug 2020
Maven Screen Media (“Maven”) is a UK-focused private media and entertainment development, production, and advisory company founded in 2020 by Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler. Maven is dedicated to producing multi-platform film and television content and increasing representation for women in front of and behind the camera.
Board Observer
May 2020
Whether youre scheduling staff on the shop floor or rostering your healthcare workforce, support your people with a leading scheduling and workforce management solution. What is Rotageek? Put simply, we provide an app-based workforce management and scheduling software solution that helps you plan labour to demand more efficiently. Whether youre scheduling staff on the shop floor or rostering doctors, we’ll help you create the perfect workforce schedule every time, broadcast it to your employees, fill and mitigate shift gaps, improve your labour to demand match and increase your sales or patient care. Our workforce management solutions range from intuitive digital schedules to AI optimised rotas using forecasts from data points at your locations. And with tools to book leave, track time and attendance, clock in and out for shifts, a self-serve employee app and integrations into HR & Payroll integration, we can provide an all-in-one workforce management solution. Customers include: Pets at Home, Lakeland, Merlin Entertainment, Charlotte Tilbury, Sephora, Morleys Department Stores, The Entertainer, Lush, Pret, Caffe Nero, Lolas Cupcakes, The Grove Hotel and many more!
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2025
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Nov 2025
We are global experts in Mobile Number Intelligence™, providing businesses with the insights needed to build trust, prevent fraud, and make informed decisions throughout a customer lifecycle. We specialise in two key areas: - Mobile Identity: Delivering real-time insights that verify users, detect risks, and ensure secure interactions - from onboarding to offboarding. - Number Intelligence: Enabling precise routing of SMS and voice traffic with unmatched speed, accuracy, and coverage to prevent fraud and reduce costs. Trusted by leading organisations, we empower businesses to reduce friction, optimise efficiency, and protect customer journeys with confidence. From stopping fraud to streamlining customer experiences, our solutions work in real-time to safeguard trust at every moment. We’re not just providing a service; we’re creating a new standard for security, transparency, and customer care.
2024
Investor
Oct 2024
About Us We are a diverse team of marketing specialists that bring a powerful mix of creativity and commerciality to our clients. A combination of art and science; of right brain and left brain; of imagination and insight. It’s marketing activity with business impact. What We Do We are a fully integrated consultancy and creative marketing agency, delivering brand communication strategies that focus on growing the retail and property businesses we work with. Who We Are We were founded in 1995 by two entrepreneurs who have a strong history in the growth of property and retail brands. Our unique understanding of the industry, its challenges and its opportunities means we can get to work quickly to ensure sales results that continue to deliver. How We Do It We immerse ourselves in your business, your brand, your market and your audience. We will develop insight-driven brand and communications strategies that will maximise investment and deliver against business objectives, while bringing strategy to life through integrated digital, print, experiential and broadcast activations. We take your brand from strategy to execution, with clear goals and tracking metrics to monitor effectiveness and capture fresh insight. Wed love to hear from you: hello@bwpgroup.com
2022
Board Observer
Nov 2022
Wiserfunding is a London-based credit analytics platform that helps small and medium enterprise (SME) lenders strengthen the size and health of their portfolios. Our solutions provide the fastest, most accurate analytical tools that enable lenders to screen, underwrite, monitor, and manage their portfolios with transparency and ease. Customers at a variety of lenders, from neobanks to asset managers to embedded lenders, use Wiserfunding to scale their credit decisions while reducing costs from provisions, losses, and operations. Using industry-specific credit models tailored to SMEs, our insights are grounded in five decades of academic research at the forefront of SME credit risk, unifying data from an array of public, private, and unstructured datasets that yield the most comprehensive view of a company’s creditworthiness. Wiserfunding was founded in 2016 by Dr. Gabriele Sabato and Dr. Edward Altman, founder of the Altman Z-Score, to help address the $5tn funding gap to SMEs. Backed by BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active growth investor, Wiserfunding supports 100+ clients who have lent £3bn+ across 5 continents.
Investor
Oct 2022
BGF is the most active and influential investor in small and mid-sized businesses in the UK. An established and independent company, we have £2.5bn to support a range of growing companies – early-stage, growth-stage and quoted – across every region and sector in the UK and Ireland. BGF is a minority, non-controlling equity partner with a patient outlook, based on shared, long-term goals with the management teams we back. With a 150+ strong team, BGF offers an unparalleled international network of business leaders, sector experts and board-level non-executives. We also provide in-house support, including chair and senior executive selection and appointments. BGF UK: http://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/
2021
Assistant Director
Jun 2021
Calculus specialises in creating and managing venture capital funds for individuals. Calculus is a pioneer in the tax-efficient industry having set up the UK’s first approved EIS fund in 1999. Through the Calculus EIS Fund, Calculus VCT and Calculus Knowledge EIS Fund - investors can access a diverse portfolio of innovative UK companies. Important note: EIS and VCT investments are high risk and capital is at risk. Past performance is not indicative of future performance. Tax benefits depend on the individual circumstances of each investor and may be subject to change in the future. Calculus Capital is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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