Martin Smith

Owner & Founder of Talent Group Managing Director at Talent Drive & CEO at Talent Finance

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2023
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Aug 2023
Fruitlab is a unique blockchain powered social platform that brings the Play-to-Earn model to Games, Esports and Social Content. Bringing together Gamers, Content Creators and Game Developers, we are redefining the gaming ecosystem by integrating Esports and Social together and powering it with our own cryptocurrency, PIP. For Content Creators, we are providing a content sharing platform that rewards you from the first view. For Gamers we are providing Play-to-Earn on AAA games enabling you to earn from your gameplay. For Esports teams and Players, we bring a Player-to-Player Esports platform and additional revenue opportunities. For Game developers, we are providing the additional revenue streams and an existing audience reducing your cost of user acquisition. We have significant traction to date with over 790k users who call Fruitlab home. We are about to commence a significant growth strategy and are keen to discuss partnerships with Content Creators, Esports teams, Gamer developers and Brands. If this is you, please get in touch!
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Mar 2023
Elevating human capabilities with AI-powered wearable technology.
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Founder
Aug 2023
We are Talent Group. A collaborative group of specialist recruitment companies across a diverse range of sectors, with a mission to help modernise and innovate the recruitment industry. After the successful launch of Talent Drive in 2019, our specialist Procurement and Supply Chain recruitment agency, we have continued to build our brand portfolio with the launch of Talent Finance, a specialist accountancy and finance recruitment agency in 2023. We also have plans to diversify into other industry sectors as we continue to expand. What do we do? Talent Group invest in entrepreneurs and ambitious recruitment professionals, who want to build brands in high growth markets. Our investment strategy is simple. We invest in recruiters who back themselves and want to set up their own recruitment business with a drive to scale. We take the stress away by managing all operational costs and activity, financially backing these individuals and helping them create a business strategy in order to take their brand to market. We provide training, mentoring and ongoing support through every step of their journey, helping them scale their business and realise their dream.
Investor
Aug 2023
Fruitlab is a unique blockchain powered social platform that brings the Play-to-Earn model to Games, Esports and Social Content. Bringing together Gamers, Content Creators and Game Developers, we are redefining the gaming ecosystem by integrating Esports and Social together and powering it with our own cryptocurrency, PIP. For Content Creators, we are providing a content sharing platform that rewards you from the first view. For Gamers we are providing Play-to-Earn on AAA games enabling you to earn from your gameplay. For Esports teams and Players, we bring a Player-to-Player Esports platform and additional revenue opportunities. For Game developers, we are providing the additional revenue streams and an existing audience reducing your cost of user acquisition. We have significant traction to date with over 790k users who call Fruitlab home. We are about to commence a significant growth strategy and are keen to discuss partnerships with Content Creators, Esports teams, Gamer developers and Brands. If this is you, please get in touch!
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Mar 2023
Elevating human capabilities with AI-powered wearable technology.
2019
Managing Director
May 2019
Delivering talent with impact. A specialist Procurement and Supply Chain Recruitment Organisation across the UK and Europe. Talent Drive was born of a vision to help both large and SME organisations find the most talented and driven Supply Chain and Procurement Professionals. “Delivering with Impact” is the mantra we work by, epitomising our sole focus; sourcing the best talent quickly, and effectively. We believe this can only be achieved by collaborating fully with your organisation and truly understanding what it takes to fit both culturally and professionally into your team, ensuring maximum impact upon arrival. We want to be able to act as an ambassador of your brand and become an extension of your HR or recruitment function. This way, we can talk with passion about your brand as if it were our own to ensure we attract and deliver the talent you need. Specialising solely in Supply Chain and Procurement recruitment, Talent Drive was founded by Martin Smith - a recruitment expert with over a decade of in-house and agency experience hiring Supply Chain and Procurement professionals across the UK and Europe. Martin’s extensive experience has created the foundation upon which Talent Drive was built, which is why we are unique in the way we collaborate fully with all decision makers in a recruitment process, it is a benefit we recognise for both us and you. Talent Drive is not just about transacting with an organisation on a vacancy requirement. We endeavour to build long lasting, rewarding partnerships with organisations and the real barometer of success for us is being our candidates and clients first call when they need recruitment support.
2009
Principal Consultant-Procurement Team
Sep 2009
Bramwith Consulting is an award-winning, international recruitment firm specializing in the Procurement & Supply Chain markets. Our expert recruiters work on contingent and retained search mandates for permanent and interim vacancies from Buyer up to CPO level on an authentically global scale. With offices in London, Amsterdam, and New York, we have a global reach with a well-established client and candidate database in Europe & North America. Awards in 2019: WINNER - Investing in Talent Awards - Most Inspiring Senior Manager/Director (Ben Riley, Director) WINNER - Investing in Talent Awards - Best Recruitment Agency to Work for Awards in 2018: WINNER - Investing in Talent – Best Recruitment Strategy for Disadvantaged & Underrepresented Groups Previous Nominations: Investing in Talent – Best Recruitment Agency to Work for Investing in Talent – Most Inspiring Recruitment Agency Leader – Saffa Ayub IRP Awards - Best Company to Work for Global Recruiter Awards - Best Recruitment Business LinkedIn Awards – Search & Staffing Talent Engagement Award Recruiter Awards – Agency Recruitment Leader of the Year - Saffa Ayub Recruiter Awards – Recruitment Agency of the Year Recruiter Awards – Best Client Service Recruitment International - The Best Company for Candidate Care Recognized by BITC as a Top 65 UK Best Employer for Race Ethnicity (BAME) For more information, please contact: - Ben Riley at b.riley@bramwithconsulting.co.uk - Amit Desai at a.desai@bramwithconsulting.co.uk