Operator Capital
I back businesses that already work — and take them further.
Live in-market, real users, real cash flow, and ready to scale. You get capital plus the operating playbook, AI implementation and distribution behind a portfolio of businesses I actually run.
I invest in businesses that are already trading.
Not an idea fund. If your business is live, has customers and makes money, I can help you go bigger, faster.
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Currently trading
A live product or service, in the market, with real usage.
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A real user base
Customers who already chose you. Retention worth scaling.
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Cash flow
Revenue coming in; at, near, or on a credible path to profit.
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Ready for the next level
A clear reason capital + operating leverage creates a step-change.
Sectors I know best: fintech · trading & brokerage · digital education · subscription & recurring · performance marketing · AI-enabled businesses. Adjacent sectors considered when the fundamentals are strong.
Money is the easy part. I bring the operating leverage.
Capital that scales with you
Deployed from my own balance sheet. Decisions made by the operator you'll actually work with, not a committee.
An operating playbook
The same growth, monetisation and retention systems running across my own portfolio, applied to yours.
AI implementation as standard
The AI processes that lifted margins across my businesses get installed in yours. Built in, not an upsell.
Distribution & network
Partner, platform and affiliate relationships built over 15 years in fintech and trading, opened up to accelerate acquisition.
The growth engine
The cheapest growth engine is the one most businesses never build.
Paid acquisition gets more expensive every year and stops the moment you stop paying for it. A community does the opposite: it compounds. Members bring other members, they answer each other's questions before support ever sees them, and when they buy it's because someone like them already did.
That last part is the whole conversion argument. A recommendation from a peer clears an objection that no ad ever will.
25–95%
Profit increase from a 5% lift in customer retention (Reichheld & Sasser, Harvard Business Review)
Source ↗24%
Of community teams can confidently quantify their community's value (CMX, 589 professionals surveyed, 2025)
Source ↗Why it makes everything else convert
- Warm traffic converts on a peer's word rather than your ad copy. The objection is handled before they ever reach your page.
- Support cost falls as you grow. Members answer each other.
- Retention stops being a feature problem. People stay for the room.
- The next product is whatever they keep asking for, so you stop guessing and start building against a queue of requests from people who have already paid you once.
- Referrals happen without a referral programme. Introducing someone is just what members do.
I run this play in my own businesses
Not theory. LetsGrowMore is 4,000+ operators across 50+ countries. The 8 Week Transformation Challenge puts thousands of people into a private group for the same eight weeks at the same time. 20,000 have now been through it, and the group is the single biggest reason they finish. FunderPro and TradeLocker grew on traders telling other traders.
If you already have an audience and you're treating it as a mailing list, that's usually the first thing we fix, and it's the cheapest growth available to you.
See it runningA note on the numbers: the community statistics circulating online are mostly untraceable. Every figure above links to its primary source, and the ones I couldn't trace to a study aren't on this page.
From application to build.
Apply
A five-minute form. Tell me what you've built and where you want to take it.
Screen
I review the fundamentals: traction, users, cash flow, fit. Fast, honest yes or no.
Deep dive
A working call and light diligence, founder to founder.
Deal & build
Terms agreed, capital in, and the operating and AI support switched on.
I've built what I ask you to build.
Millions
Of users across the ecosystem
4.6★
Trustpilot · 2,200 reviews — TradeLocker
$21M+
Paid to traders · FunderPro
80+
Prop firms run on TradeLocker
Figures and milestones relate to independent portfolio and partner companies and were accurate when published; they can change over time. Each company's own site carries its current numbers.
Straight answers.
What stage of business do you back?
Businesses that are already trading: live in-market, with real users and revenue. I'm not an idea fund; if you're pre-revenue, this isn't the right door yet.
What structures do you invest through?
It depends on the business. Equity is the usual shape, but structure follows the situation. Terms are discussed after screening, not on a pricing page.
Which sectors?
Where I add the most: fintech, trading and brokerage, digital education, subscription and recurring-revenue models, performance marketing, and AI-enabled businesses. Adjacent sectors when the fundamentals are strong.
How hands-on are you?
Hands-on is the point. You get the playbooks, the network and the AI implementation. An operator in the trenches, not a passive line on your cap table.
We're pre-revenue — is there any fit?
Honestly: not for capital. Build to real users and revenue first. The AI consultancy door may still be relevant if you have an operating business elsewhere.
Nothing on this page is an offer of securities, investment advice, or a guarantee of investment or outcome. Any investment is subject to diligence, agreed terms and applicable regulation. Investment disclaimer.
Already trading, with users and cash flow?
Two minutes to start. I read every qualified application. If it's a fit, you get an operator, not a committee.