THE POWER OF CONNECTION
We'll help you prepare for and match your funding requirements by introducing you to our extensive network of investors, from Private Equity & Venture Capital to Family offices & HNWI.
From Seed to Series C
HOW WE HELP
FUNDING REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS
Navigating the funding landscape can be complex, especially as your business grows and evolves. We work closely with you to analyse your business model, growth trajectory, and operational needs, ensuring you have a clear understanding of the capital required for your next phase of growth.
Investor Pitch Deck
Creation​
We help you craft compelling, data-driven pitch decks that clearly communicate your value proposition, business model, and growth potential. We ensure your materials are investor-ready and tailored to the expectations of angels, venture capitalists, and institutional investors at every stage.
FINANCIAL MODELLING & VALUATION SUPPORT
We build robust financial models and provide valuation guidance, giving you and your investors confidence in your projections and funding requirements. This service is crucial for demonstrating credibility and securing investment from Seed through Series C rounds.
INVESTOR OUTREACH
& MATCHING
Leverage our network and expertise to connect with the right investors for your stage and sector. We support you throughout the outreach process, help refine your pitch, and match you with the right investor for growth. ​​
Endings are new Beginnings
As one cycle closes another is often taking off. We help VC's and Founders exit their businesses to Private Equity investors and corporates. There is often a time to move on, we can facilitate, with our investor net work, exits, partial exits and corporate takeovers.
Nick has over 40 years in financial services, working for investment banks like Goldman Sachs, James Capel, E*Trade Corporate Finance, and as a non non-executive director in charge of risk for Zurich Bank and Dunbar Bank.
He has founded and sold businesses and understands what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. He is passionate about new businesses and getting them properly funded.
Nick Bullman
Founder Managing Director
Megan Boylan
Head of investor Relations
Megan is a seasoned venture builder and entrepreneur.Having built, launched, and sold her own companies she understands the power of the right partner. Megan now focusses her time on finding the right investors to be part of the DFC network and matching our clients to the perfect growth partners.
Jamie has an extensive career in digital consulting, product design and venture consulting, with companies like Oliver Wyman.
He's founded startups, led multimillion-dollar ROI projects for Fortune 100 firms and loves challenging senior leadership teams to push their business models and create new revenue possibilities.
Jamie Bullman
Founder Managing Director
Hamish MacDonald
Board Adviser
Hamish is a serial entrepreneur and has over 35 years of experience in building innovative companies across diverse industries. Including publishing, tech, energy, finance, software, medical tech, hospitality, and luxury goods. His deep insight helps companies navigate the challenges of growing from successful startups to the next phase of development.
Lucy Buckley
Board Adviser
Dr Lucy Buckley is a digital health entrepreneur and registered pharmacist with over 20 years’ experience spanning drug discovery, clinical roles in the NHS and private sector, the pharmaceutical industry, and digital health.
Lucy founded The Digital Health Assurance Company to improve care quality while helping businesses grow and scale safely.
We concentrate our focus on a select number of deals and invest directly with our own capital in many of our clients' businesses. It means we're selective, focused and in it for the long haul.
OUR UNIQUE APPROACH
INVESTING IN YOU
WHAT WE LOOK FOR
A STRONG TEAM
A management team that has experience and can demonstrate their ability to problem solve.
A GREAT IDEA
Great ideas create a moat or a competitive edge by being disruptive, innovative, or improving on competitors.
SCALABILITY
We love business that can scale profitably, whether it be land and expand, plug and play or just a large a sizeable target audience.
CASHFLOW
We seek companies where there are strong free cash flows or a concrete plan of how to achieve them soon.
REINVENTING THE HELMENT
Meet Newlane—the award-winning foldable bike helmet that fits seamlessly into your city life and your bag.
As the cycling market continues to grow, Newlane delivers the perfect blend of safety and convenience. Built for reliability and durability, this helmet is designed for the modern urban rider. With its ingenious Flip-Clip mechanism, it folds effortlessly into the perfect size for easy packing.
DATA-DRIVEN INFECTION CONTROL
HAI Clean
HAI Clean transforms hospital hygiene by combining rapid UVC disinfection with AI-powered detection and forecasting — built for speed, accuracy, and scalability.​​
​
Their patented system integrates effortlessly into existing workflows, validating every disinfection cycle and closing the blind spot in current infection control practices. HAI Clean empowers infection control teams to act before outbreaks occur.
SMARTPHONE SECURITY SIMPLIFIED
Phone theft in London skyrocketed in 2024 by 150%. Over 15,000 phones are stolen in Brazil daily.
The average cost of a stolen phone isn't just the device cost, it's loss of banking details, access to social accounts, emails and so much more.
Nuke blocks your credentials at source so in the unfortunate event that your phone is stolen, you can block your cards, SIMs, social accounts and more with just one click.
AI DRIVEN CHRONIC
CARE
Maxine is a conversational AI agent designed to actively and continuously monitor patient conditions by utilising patient responses and data from wearable devices. In a world where the average Parkinson's patient sees their doctor for less than 30 minutes a year. Maxine enables care teams to be proactive, suffers to give regular automatic updates on their condition and in NHS trials, reduced the cost of care by 25%.
SECURE PAYMENTS IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE
FacePOS believe getting paid should be instant, secure and effortless. They're building a next-gen payment platform powered by Open Banking rails.
On a mission to eliminate outdated, expensive and fraud-prone payment methods and give real businesses and everyday people a better way to move money.
PEOPLE POWERED WATCHMAKING
From design to production, the Code 41 community helps make critical choices. In doing s,o they’ve captured a loyal following of over 23,000 clients and 260,000 enthusiasts.
Their model reduces unsold stock, is built for the modern consumer and maintains the sophistication of Swiss watch-making traditions.
THE FUTURE OF ADVERTISING
Start up of the year 2024. Shimmr AI is an AI driven advertiser for book publishing. The business can easily scale horizontally into other verticals.
Bringing AI to publishing catalogues, no matter how popular the book, and revitalising targeted sales while getting the book into the right readers' hands. This is a practical and innovative use of AI in a huge advertising market that has the ability to disrupt and deliver a better publisher, author and customer experience.
NEXT GENERATION LAST MILE E-CARGO BIKES
With increased capacity, range and manoeuvrability Komodo are cutting costs, boosting capacity, and unlocking smarter, cleaner ways to move goods in the city. Join us as we shape the future of urban logistics.
​
The team at Komodo have managed to drastically reduce build costs and are aiming to rapidly expand their sales across the UK and Europe in-line with increasing urbanisation and last mile demand.
BIOMARKER-BASED DIAGNOSTICS LEADER
Backed by demand from existing clients, AFffinity need to scale their operations and capabilities. They’ve secured a site, ordered new technologies and are ready to launch this new expansion initiative.
This is an exciting rollout strategy led by one of the world's most prestigious biomarker-based diagnostics teams.
