About Us

The Team

• The Growth Stage was founded by Simon Stewart, Simon Acton and Jennie Holloway - each with complementary skills for the 3 categories of firms we partner with. Our team has expanded since our launch in October 2018 to include the incredibly experienced Sam Bygott-Webb, Kenny Flaherty, Joerg Pruessmeier, Andrew Tapper, Del Huse, Mark Robinson, Peter Herne, Ben Hill, Duncan Crawford, Jeremy Wernert, Fredrik Warneryd and Alex Kiam - adding further fund management, investment banking and venture know-how. Meru Capital invested in 2019, with New York based CEO Guru Ramakrishnan joining our board
• Based in Europe, APAC & the USA, our team have extensive global experience in accountancy, investment banking, fund management, corporate advisory and as entrepreneurs
• Please watch our 2 minute introductory video 

 

Our Partners

• This platform is exclusively for regulated Institutional Investors, providing access and funding to Private Companies, supported by leading Professional Advisers
• Institutional Investors with growth funds provide the largest pool of capital, prefer to take minority stakes and typically have a longer term investment strategy, compared to some PE firms just offering replacement capital. These are a mixture of pension, mutual, retail, hedge, sovereign and venture funds, plus family offices and private equity firms with growth funds. 
• All our Advisers are leaders in their professional fields

 

Our Mission

• To introduce some of the world’s smartest Entrepreneurs to the world’s best Advisers, with the opportunity to receive funding from the largest pool of permanent capital
• We charge the lowest fees, using the smartest digital platform technology
• We want all Companies, Advisers and Investors who have partnered with us, to benefit significantly from using The Growth Stage