Darren is well-known in Yorkshire business circles, and is an adviser, non-exec and investor in numerous Northern-based businesses. He is actively involved with North Invest, which helps early stage tech businesses secure angel funding and is keen to help some of these to scale up and achieve their true potential. Darren is often involved in the prep work of each fundraise, shaping slide decks, challenging the pitch and commercially sense-checking the proposition. He also acts as a sounding board for clients, holding them accountable for hitting targets and staying focussed on the business.

Martyn is a qualified Chartered Accountant, often deployed as a non-exec finance director for invested clients and those looking to scale up with Series A funding and beyond. His support team within our sister company E2E Accountancy are often parachuted into clients as an outsourced finance team. Martyn has an innate ability to quickly gain an insight into a business to then develop effective financial forecast and MI. Commercially rounded and acutely aware of what investors are looking for, Martyn has been hugely influential in helping clients get the funding they are looking for.