Roei Samuel

Connectd

Launched Connectd.com in January 2022
Raised $16m funding ($14m equity, $2m debt)
Generating $11m ARR (July 2025)

CEO & Founder

PEF Community

PEF is the biggest community of Post Exit Founders with a global network of world class builders with exits

Member

Various

Angel Investor

ETA Technologies

Board Advisor

Forbes Business Council

NEC Trust

I sit on the board of trustees for the NEC Trust, investing in CleanTech, poverty alleviation; and AgriTech projects in the third world.

Trustee

Barclays

On the Independent Advisory Board for the UK Government's Digital Growth Grant, being overseen by Barclays

Independent Advisory Board

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Mentor at the London School of Economics' socially conscious spin-out accelerator.

LSE Generate supports students and alumni to build a socially responsible start-up, in the UK and beyond. Our year-round programme is packed with funding competitions, events and networking opportunities.

LSE Accelerator Mentor

London & Partners

Business Mentor

Virgin StartUp

Mentor

Exited Founder | Angel Investor | Host of Big Risk Energy Podcast | BBC Million by 30

I'm on a mission to lower the barriers to entry for those who want to build and scale a business. 

After exiting my last business RealSport 101, I began investing and noticed a distinct lack of diversity and accessibility in growth opportunities for startups.

In 2019, I launched Connectd to fix this broken system, making opportunities more accessible and diverse  for startups by giving founders access to expert talent and investors.

Since then, we've made incredible progress:

🗣 Conversations between startups and fractional talent: 117% increase from Q1-Q4 2024

💰 Biggest raise through Connectd: $3m

💼 Fractional talent recruited by startups per month: 90+

⬆️ Connectd ARR: 4x YoY, 3 years in a row

🚀 Connectd Seed Funding: $14m+

We're also partnered with Google Cloud, Capchase, Pearson, Vestd, Barclays Eagle Labs and more—helping thousands of startups unlock growth.

Alongside this, I have been a Virgin Startup Mentor, sit on the Independent Advisory Board for Barclays Eagle Labs as well as being an expert on Intro.

Here’s how you can connect:

📧 Join 15,500+ amazing folks from the startup community and subscribe to my 'Founder' newsletter for insights on launching, scaling and leading a winning startup from day zero including lessons from my 12-year founder career.

🌐 Come and join our Connectd community alongside 6,000+ members at www.connectd.com

And if you’re not ready yet? Stick around—I talk about startup development, scaling, and the future of work.

Feel free to jump into my inbox if you want to chat 📩

#startups #fractionaltalent #angelinvesting #startupfunding

Launched Connectd.com in November 2020
Raised $9m seed funding
Generating $6.8m ARR (May 2024)

I’m in The Telegraph today….

The headline is about how other founders and I work really long hours - 12 hour days, 6 days a week.

Lots of comments praising us and many more thinking we’re from another planet hahah.

The thing is, in my mind this whole debate is still centred on old-fashioned sentiments relating to ‘hard work’ or ‘laziness’.

Like those who want a four-day week are lazy (ridiculous), or that us founders who work on the weekends are the pinnacle of productivity.

It’s a completely false dichotomy! 

The real thing we should be discussing:

> Does your work fulfil you in a way that means you WANT to work?

> Are you rewarded such that long nights and weekends don’t feel like an awful chore but a worthwhile opportunity?

Because I absolutely KNOW that so many of the founders in the article are like me:

They’re not working nights because they’re really hardcore or resilient. 

They simply love what they do and care. 

And more jobs - not just founder roles - should be like this.

Insanely motivating. 
Incredibly exciting. 
And properly rewarding - financially, spiritually and mentally.

CEO @ Connectd | $14M ARR | #5 LinkedIn Top Startup UK | Ex-RealSport Founder (acquired)

We just ranked #27 in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50.

Insane. 

Started Connectd 4 years ago with the idea that people shouldn't be trapped in corporate.

Now we're one of the 50 fastest-growing tech companies in the country.

What makes this mean something isn't just the ranking - though it’s a real honour. It's WHY we're growing.

Every week someone tells us they quit their corporate job and now work 3 days instead of 5. Or they're making more fractionally than they ever did full-time.

That's the metric that matters.

The growth is just proof that people want options and freedom. They want to work on their terms.

Massive credit to the team who've made this happen. None of this exists without them.

Here's to everyone choosing a different game.

We've been talking about how the future is fractional and flexible for a while now. Exciting to see even more people catching on.

I spent two weeks in the US and I'm seeing so many people taking fractional work seriously. 

Startups want great talent. Smart people want ownership over how they work. 

Fractional is the best of both worlds.

Blessed to be invited onto CBS Austin to talk to Sierra Waggoner about the journey. 

Proud of the team who make all this happen and the people supporting us along the way 🙏

Full interview clip in the comments!

CEO @ Connectd | $13M ARR | #5 LinkedIn Top Startup UK | Ex-RealSport Founder (acquired)

BizCrunch

BizCrunch is a Discovery, Due-Diligence and Deal-Execution Platform for Off-Market Private Equity Acquirers.   BizCrunch powers Acquisition Entrepreneurship and SMB Succession M&A.

SMB M&A is frustrated by inefficient, opaque and time-consuming processes.  BizCrunch is on a mission to make selling and acquiring companies faster, cheaper and easier through digital transformation.

Co-Founder and CEO

Enterprise Insights Ltd

We help scale businesses, and to future-proof leaders, through impactful Executive Coaching programmes. As a dynamic consultancy and coaching company, Enterprise Insights offer a portfolio of transformational services, designed to facilitate British scale-up businesses in achieving sustainable growth, securing capital investment, and embracing perpetual change.

Principal Consultant

ElectrAssure Ltd

ElectrAssure designs, installs and operates electric vehicle charging solutions, chargepoint management systems and site support services, delivering critical infrastructure to support the future of transport.

Non Executive Director

Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation

My role as Chair requires leadership of the Board and ensuring it operates effectively; ensuring the smooth running of Board meetings; promoting good governance; providing supervision and support to the Foundation's CEO where required; and representing the Foundation publicly.   Acting in accordance with the Nolan Principles, I seek to lead in an open-minded, fair and objective manner, to enable the Foundation to operate optimally in delivering on its charitable and commercial mandates for the benefit of the stakeholders of the Garden City.

Chairman Of The Board Of Trustees

I support the Leadership Team in setting, pursuing and achieving the necessary strategic objectives for the Foundation, such as energy-efficient housing, skills and youth employment, regional economic success, ecology and improvement of the public realm.

Trustee and Board Member

Contributing to oversight and strategy at this innovative nonprofit, responsible for maintaining and enhancing the world’s first Garden City.

Governor

Boardroom Advisors: Part-Time CEOs MDs NEDs for Scale-Ups and SME's.

Boardroom Advisors provides experienced, real-world CEOs, MDs, Non-Executive Directors, Chairmen and paid Mentors for Scale-Ups and SMEs on a part-time, PAYG basis.  Their talent pool consists of some of the most successful proven business leaders in the UK.   Available from one day per quarter and at short-notice, with no recruitment fees, no long-term commitments and including interchangeable personnel as your needs change.  You can scale up or down your advisory as needed.  Your Boardroom Advisors function as part of your team, providing you with consulting, direction, and strategy at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire, which makes them perfect for start-ups, scale-ups, small family businesses and SMEs.

Fractional CxO / Advisor

As an early investor in Connectd, I have made several Angel Investments via the platform and served in a coaching capacity as this exciting business has achieved impressive growth exceeding £1m ARR.   Supporting Connectd's Transition To Portfolio program, I serve as Mentor to participants seeking to begin working with startups and scale-ups in Advisory and Non-Executive Director roles.

Mentor - Transition to Portfolio

Stratiphy

stratiphy.io is a FinTech robo-advisor, investment-strategy and portfolio-management platform for values-driven investors.  It provides strategies based on financial performance and ESG scoring, and delivers valuable insights for a low monthly subscription.

Advisor

biz4Biz

biz4Biz a not-for-profit company, run by experienced business leaders, that provides a coherent voice for businesses in Hertfordshire.  biz4Biz aims to influence and shape policymaking and encourage investment in Hertfordshire by engaging with local and central government, relevant public sector bodies and local organisations, to promote the county of Hertfordshire as a great place to live and do business.  

Its networking, suite of services, government liaison and charitable involvement operations aim to benefit the residents, commuters, workers and business-owners who all contribute to Hertfordshire life.

Associate

Block Dojo

A startup venture-builder, putting companies and their founders through their paces during an intense 12 week programme, providing seed-funding and development services to build the future of blockchain applications.

Investment Consultant

Startup 2 Standup

StartUp2StandUp is a community of founders, funders, advisors and service-providers who collaborate to provide mutual support on the journey from startup to scale.   I serve as Coach and Facilitator to the weekly founders' surgery sessions and a Pitch-Event Panelist at the community's periodic meet-ups.

StartUp Coach

"The key is not spending time, but investing it."
  -- Stephen Covey.

Having built, acquired, grown, sold and exited companies during my 20+ years in industry, I developed and honed a skillset in leadership and M&A.

Following my exit through sale to a Nordic Nasdaq listed permanent ownership group, I pursued my passion for innovation in the startup ecosystem.   As an Investment Director at a startup incubator, an Angel Investor and a Director of Henley Business Angels, I was privileged to work with many early-stage companies.     With the cycling of the macro market, from growth to value, I returned to my roots in serving buyouts of Small- and Medium-sized Businesses.

I co-founded BizCrunch to digitally transform SMB M&A, aiming to help triple the volume of deals completing in the UK annually, by reducing time, cost and complexity through digital transformation.

Enterprise Insights provides a portfolio of consulting and coaching services, designed to facilitate StartUp and ScaleUp companies in achieving and managing sustainable growth, and in preparing for exit.  

As a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Chairman of a Charitable Foundation, and a trusted Mentor/Advisor, I've served high-performing leaders, enabling them to further the success of their teams and organisations.

Gareth Hawkins

Grateful to our BizCrunch users who helped shape this huge update.    You asked for features and stats that help you better refine your proprietary outreach campaigns.    

Our team have over-delivered, with a host of helpful campaign features to further help Searchers get to positive conversations with off-market Sellers, FAST.

ETA/Search // Investor : Acquirer : Founder : NED

We rebuilt our outreach tool from the ground up.

After hundreds of conversations with acquisition entrepreneurs - both inside the BizCrunch community and beyond - today we're shipping Campaigns 2.0.

Here's what's in this mammoth update 👇

New analytics dashboard: 
→ Delivery rate, open rate, click tracking 
→ Unique reply counts and engagement trends over time
→ Full CSV exports for deeper analysis

New workflow tools: 
→ 🔁 Clone campaigns - reuse copy with one click
→ 💾 Save as template - turn winning messaging into reusable playbooks

Deliverability upgrades: 
→ More double-verified emails in our database
→ Infrastructure improvements driving week-over-week performance gains
→ Better inbox placement = more conversations with owners

The result:

Better data. Faster workflows. More emails reaching owners.

For searchers and SMB acquirers running systematic outreach, this is a major step forward.

This is live NOW in your workspace - with some more incredible upgrades coming next week. So stay tuned 👀


#BizCrunch #ETA #OffMarket #Acquisition

taplio

The Battle

Roei Samuel

Gareth Hawkins

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance ScoreRoei Samuel's LinkedIn Performance

Performance ScoreGareth Hawkins's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

taplio

The Battle

Roei Samuel

Gareth Hawkins

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance Score.css-goub6s{font-size:var(--chakra-fontSizes-md);font-weight:500;color:var(--chakra-colors-gray-600);display:block;margin-top:var(--chakra-space-1);}Roei Samuel's LinkedIn Performance

Performance ScoreGareth Hawkins's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

Performance ScoreRoei Samuel's LinkedIn Performance