Managing Director, Cooper Parry Digital | Head of Early Stage, Tech & High Growth |

I lead the CP Digital business, supporting clients with their Digital needs. Responsibilities include all M&A and growth, alongside our Private Equity partners. 

I also lead market activity for CP in the Venture Capital ecosystem (funds & founders).

Our specialist team works with Founders, CFOs and Boards of early stage, scale-up and high growth businesses, navigating challenges spanning accounting, finance, tax, audit, technology, and deal support. 

We are highly active in the scale-up ecosystem and have worked as the accounting partner for leading organisations and communities whilst also building our own community platforms, TechCFO and VentureCEO.

Having started my career at PwC, I went to on to establish and build a successful early stage focussed firm, Acclivity Advisors (which was acquired by Cooper Parry in Jan’23).

Along the way, I wrote the best selling book 'The Finance Playbook for Entrepreneurs', so that entrepreneurs of ALL backgrounds could benefit from the very best teachings.  

My unique experiences and skills have afforded me a number of Board positions across industries within public & private sectors. 

At present, these include:

1. Middlesex County Cricket Club (Board Observer, Chair of Growth Committee)
2. Queen Elizabeth's Global Schools (Chair, International Schools)
3. Labrys (Advisor to the Board)
4. HM Revenue & Customs - ABAB (Board Member)

As well as the above, 

I advise Government on how to innovate for SMEs & entrepreneurs through consultative committees and forums.

All of these roles have shown me the value of sharing what I know beyond my own sector;

And so, I enjoy speaking at universities, schools, accelerators and incubators on a wide variety of relevant entrepreneurship related topics.

Asif Ahmed

The BAE HQ Co-Founder | 300+ podcast interviews | 5x Angel Investor | Sharing entrepreneur insights | thebaehq.com/contact

I run the community for high-growth Asian-heritage founders & investors.

Bae HQ empowers Asians to dream and scale big. 10,000+ event & talk attendees, 300+ impact programme pupils & 250+ podcasts. I'm the author of Startups for Outsiders too.

In January 2020, I was an expert tech consultant who had worked with big brands across the world. Yet it was rare for a project to make my eyes light up.

My life changed when I started writing online as part of a New Year's resolution.

I became the second fastest writer to gain 50,000 followers on Medium.com behind only Barack (freaking) Obama! I became the co-editor of the Entrepreneur's Handbook publication with over a million views per month. It became too much to handle as a side hustle so I took it full-time in June 2021.

I wrote hundreds of pieces for startups and founders around the world and coached founders to become 10/10 writers rather than merely 7/10. 

I interviewed over 100 people across the Mindful & Driven and Entrepreneur's Handbook podcasts. This includes Ev Williams (Co-Founder of Twitter) and Marc Randolph (Co-Founder of Netflix!).

Then my dad passed away in August 2022.

Everything I had been doing felt hollow. Yet he had helped so many small businesses to not only survive but grow through his work. I want to make the kind of impact he made on people throughout my life.

And so Bae HQ was born.

Join us to learn more: www.thebaehq.com/join.

Amardeep Parmar

🎉 Opening doors for 150+ young people into startups at Oaks Park High School.

They were a fantastic audience who were highly engaged and many of them came up to ask questions at the end.

Network and freedom to dream are privileges some people are born into.

We want to even the odds and we have the community!

16 of these students will go our Startup Bootcamp in the summer.

What impact could this have on the future? (Hint: 📈)

I was joined by founders who grew up locally:
🚀 Danika Hossain (Bhangra Blends)
🚀 Samer Ullah (OdjoAI)
🚀 Talvin Ramnah (Bleep64)

The slots for our summer programme are now all full! 

If you work at a state school with Year 12s, get in touch through the comments to be a part of next year's programme.

We are able to come in and deliver talks at no cost to the school and have now spoken to 3000+ sixth form students!

These school talks are the most rewarding part of everything I get to do from founding Bae HQ.

Thank you to the school for partnering with us and the students for their attention.

P.S. If you want to financially back our work as a patron to keep it free for students and schools, the link is also in the comments.

Bae HQ Cofounder | Startups for Outsiders Author | 6x Angel & 2x LP (Paused) | 400+ podcasts | Keynote Speaker (TEDx)

🏆 Who has been shouted out most in 289 Startups Inside Out episodes?

At the end of every podcast, I ask the guests to shout out 3 Asian-heritage people in the UK they think are doing incredible work.

Guests are totally free to say whoever they want. Whether it's an investor, a mentor, a famous figure or someone on the way up they want to help. 

I don't bias their decision and I might not always endorse their choices. 👀

330 individual people have been shouted out at least once yet few have come up again and again.

3 shoutouts:
Ahana Banerjee (ep 41), Asma Khan, Benjamin Fernandes (ep 108), Dhruvin Patel, Farzana Rahman (ep 170), Imran Amed, Lopa Patel MBE, Pahini P., Nina Mohanty (ep 67), Radha Vyas (ep 96), Rajeeb Dey MBE (ep 240), Raj Kaur Khaira (ep 106), Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Sakshi Chhabra Mittal (ep 172), Dr Vanita Rattan (ep 30), Vishal Amin (ep 126) and Zahid Mahmood.

4 shoutouts:
Arfah Farooq 🇵🇸 (ep 133), Dimple Patel (ep 44), Peony Li (ep 50), Rishi Khosla, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and Simmy Dhillon (ep 56).

5 shoutouts:
Akash Mehta (ep 32), Ali Abdaal, Reshma Sohoni and Siddhi Mittal (ep 44).

🥉 6 shoutouts:
Rishi Sunak.

🥈 7 shoutouts:
Dr Navjot Sawhney (eps 57, 72, 260) and Nikita Thakrar.

🥇 9 shoutouts:
Reece Chowdhry (ep 18)

Consider this like the player's player of the year!

Who would you shout out?

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🎤 I'm leading two practical workshops at London Startup Fair 2026!

🚀 March 7th: The Outsider Advantage — how to build a startup without a traditional network.

🚀 March 8th: Pitch Investors So They Actually Care — how to win attention, build trust, and get the next meeting.

LSF is a student-focused startup event with workshops, panel talks, and a startup exhibition. It's a great place to learn, meet the right people, and build momentum.

UCL Entrepreneurs are host at UCL School of Management and you can use my discount code of Partner25 for 25% off tickets.

Building a startup? Startups that register via the startup registration link in the comments can also access a limited-time 50% off exhibitor stall discount.

🔗 Links in the comments.

🚀 Meet the Founder Who Hit #1 on Finance App Charts With an AI Mortgage Assistant with Jinesh Vohra, CEO & Cofounder at Sprive.

Jinesh has had a surge in popularity after appearing on BBC's Dragons Den a few weeks ago but we knew about him over 2 years ago!

He featured on Bae Watch back then and has since raised almost $10m for his app which helps people make huge savings on their mortgages.

The truth is Sprive has been a long labour of passion for Jinesh. 

He started 7 years ago and didn't pay himself for the first 4 years, which a huge change from being a Goldman Sachs director.

In those years, he built an incredible team and nailed down the value proposition.

So now when they get huge bursts in demand with their media and marketing, the app can handle it with ease.

Jinesh is building in the notoriously difficult consumer fintech space and winning. You'll want to find out how.

You can catch the full Startups Inside Out episode (289) by Bae HQ through the link in the comments.

Jinesh shouted out Rajeev Saxena, Jessica Sue Rasmussen and Vinay Solanki at the end of the episode.

👀 People assume I've always been how I am now but that's a total lie.

I lacked confidence and tried too hard to impress others when I was growing up.

I sabotaged myself by setting own glass ceiling because I didn't believe I belonged.

A lot of people seek a simple roadmap to follow but life just doesn't work like that.

I followed my curiosities and grew self-belief over time the hard way.

There's no way I could have planned everything out and executed it.

I swapped chairs for this episode of Startups Inside Out as the lovely Shreeya Thakkar interviewed me about my story.

Through this episode you see the ugly reality of my journey including the mental side.

I hope you enjoy! Full episode in the comments:

🤯 Bae Accelerator applications close March 15th! Tag someone you think should apply.

People* keep asking me whether they should apply and whether they'd get in. 👀

I give them the same answer each time. Apply.

❌ If you don't apply, you definitely won't get in. 
✅ If you do apply, you've got a chance.

The whole point of the application process is to give everyone a chance. 

There's no way I can know whether you'll get in until we assess all the applications.

Worst case scenario, you spend 10 minutes clarifying your message and you don't get in.

Best case scenario, you get the full power of Bae HQ behind your fundraise.

May the odds be ever in your favour.

*90% who are checking before they apply are women so if you're an Asian female founder and you're doubting whether or not to apply, you know what I'd say!

For recap:

Bae Accelerator is a three-month programme to help ambitious founders scale rapidly through leveraging the power of our community.

The goal is to give you the insight and network to build the momentum to raise your first venture capital round within 6 months of the programme end.

Bae HQ is the community of high-growth Asian-Heritage founders & investors in the UK.

No fee. No equity taken. No direct capital.

What you get:
📈 Dedicated one-on-one sessions with Bae HQ team to focus on your greatest needs. 
📈 Off-record firesides with scaled founders with the raw reality of dealing with early-stage problems. 
📈 Clinics led by VCs to give direct and constructive feedback on investment readiness. 
📈 Pitch to a room full of investors at our Google Cloud demo day.
📈 Mentor sessions specific to your current challenges.
📈 Access to Joelson | B Corp as lawyers-in-residence. 
📈 Exposure through Bae HQ’s media channels.

🔗 Apply now through the link in the comments or tag someone who you think should.

Thank you to Bae Accelerator's Associate Partner Joelson | B Corp for all their support!

Bae HQ Cofounder | 6x Angel & 2x LP (Paused) | Startups for Outsiders Author | 450+ podcasts | Keynote Speaker (TEDx)

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