<p>Join me as I speak to Marcus Love, Founding Partner at Love Ventures, about diversity, founder/market fit and the importance of scenario modelling. Love Ventures invest at Seed and Late Seed, in Fintech and Proptech startups with large market opportunities. </p>
<p>Marcus Love Bio </p>
<p>Marcus has over 14 years of experience as an FCA approved financial professional in London. He worked most recently at William O’Neil+Co, the US headquartered equity research firm between 2011-2019. He has a strong track record of delivering global equity idea generation to investment managers, which enabled his clients to increase their portfolio performance.</p>
<p>Over the last six years he has invested in 20 early-stage businesses and successfully built an angel syndicate. He progressed this syndicate into Love Ventures Fund I and is now further advancing the Love Ventures venture capital franchise with the launch of Fund II.</p>
<p>https://loveventures.co.uk/</p>
<p>https://www.linkedin.com/company/love-ventures/</p>
<p>Julie Barber Bio</p>
<p>CEO of Spark! Consulting, a boutique business consultancy, Julie is also an author, Non-Exec Director, Mentor and Speaker. Julie’s background is working with large financial corporates such as KPMG and HSBC, and quasi-regulators like the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. At Spark! she now works with clients focused on growth, innovation and transformation, from early stage startups to global corporates. Julie developed The Investor Ready Roadmap, a 6-step methodology to ensure confidence and credibility when raising investment – this methodology forms the basis of her No.1 best-selling book, Investor Ready. Alongside Spark! Julie mentors business owners and founders through roles with FinTech Wales and Dent Global.</p>
<p>https://spark-consulting.co.uk/</p>
<p>https://www.linkedin.com/in/julieabarber/</p>
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