Sam Simpson

FounderCatalyst

FounderCatalyst is an exciting and disruptive play into the UK legal tech sector, underpinned by our superb technology platform. 

Our mission is to create all of your funding legal paperwork quickly and professionally, with no compromise on quality, at a fixed low price.  

Our aim is to make your fundraising legal journey as simple as possible, whilst managing investor engagement, putting you back in control.

My role in FounderCatalyst is to ensure that our platform and customer service is exemplary, to build industry partnerships and to own and execute our service roadmap.

Founder

Forge Technologies Ltd

Forge Technologies is a digital IT services business focusing on three technology pillars; Future workplace, Cloud optimisation and Network transformation. Forge has no legacy infrastructure that it needs to deliver returns against; no costly office space, external investors or banking covenants and unencumbered from legacy working practices that have to be turned on their head to adapt to new working practices.

Within Forge Technologies, I am responsible for all aspects of commercial and back office services.

Co-Founder and CCO

University of Bristol

Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre (QTEC) is a world-leading incubator for quantum-based technology innovators, its vision is to educate and create the quantum entrepreneurs of the future. I'm mentoring two fantastic entrepreneurs as they develop their businesses.

Visiting Fellow and Mentor

Various Companies

Providing ongoing advice and support to the founders of incredible investees

Angel Investor and Board Advisor

Roc Technologies

I co-founded the business and successfully established the project and professional services delivery functions along with all back-office functions. This included finance, HR, IT, legal and corporate governance & compliance and vendor partnerships & accreditations.

Roc was recognised by the Financial Times as the 17th fastest growing company in Europe in 2017, and was the fastest growing IT Services business in the UK in 2016 according to the Sunday Times Tech Track.

Following a strategic review, I led a corporate finance process which resulted in a leveraged MBO and the acquisition of an IT Services business. At the time Roc had more than 200 people and run rate revenues of £25m. I subsequently exited my shareholding and Directorship as a part of this process.  The exit process was recognised by Business Magazine Thames Valley as Mid-Range Deal of the Year at the Annual Thames Valley Deals Awards 2018, held at the Madejski Stadium in Reading on the 19th April 2018 and subsequently as Tech Deal of the Year 2018 at the Thames Valley Tech Awards.

Founding Director

Daisy Group PLC

During my short period of employment at Daisy I was responsible for stabilising the Professional Services elements of the business following the acquisition of 2e2's managed services business. I also developed a repeatable process for integrating acquisitions.

Director of Project Services

Consolidated five disparate Project Services team into a single consistent directorate. Responsible for more than 150 staff across multiple disciplines and a portfolio of 500+ projects with a value in excess of £200m.
I also supported the sale of the company’s business units and assets to Daisy and O2.

Accountable for all delivery operations including management of a team of 90 technical engineers, consultants, project managers and PMO staff. My team delivered in excess of £110 million of customer solutions per annum.

Operations Director, Unified Communications Business Unit

Delivery of the company’s largest and most complex programme for a high security UK government client. Recruited and led a team of more than 60 technical and project management professionals. Successfully delivered the programme to time and budget.

Technical & Delivery Director

Prime Business Solutions

Management of pre-sales technical support and post sales delivery for IT infrastructure solutions based on Microsoft and Citrix.

Server and Client Line of Business Director

Evotree Limited

Evotree was an early cloud computing and Microsoft/Citrix Integrator startup. I established and managed all technical and operational delivery capability. The company achieved revenues of £1m in the first 6 months and was subsequently integrated into Prime Business Solutions.

Co-Founder and COO

Technical development, management and support in the Education and Insurance sectors.

Various Network and IT Operations Management Roles

You're seeking that all-important funding to catapult you to the next level.

YET despite how motivated you are and how good your business idea is, you may still struggle to…

▫️ Get funding because of the advance assurance needed
▫️ Afford the production of expensive legal paperwork
▫️ Know-how to find those elusive investors.

Simplifying and accelerating the early-stage investment legal journey, FounderCatalyst is the ONLY affordable fixed price method of funding round legals for start-ups.

WHO WE HELP
Pre-incorporation to start-ups in England & Wales that want expert AND affordable help with SEIS & EIS and the legal process and documentation required to complete their funding journey. 

3 WAYS WE HELP
1. Apply for SEIS & EIS advance assurance
2. Produce all legal funding round paperwork and manage investor engagement
3. Introduce start-ups to possible sources of funding.

Enjoy the relief all of the legal paperwork you need in as little as 30 minutes and your investor engagement managed through the process.  

PROOF WE HELP
✅  Complete fixed price service per funding round just £1,495 +vat
✅  99% success rate for advance assurance
✅  Legal paperwork produced in just 30 minutes.

YOUR NEXT STEP
Haven’t yet got your funding legals sorted and you’re determined to give your start-up the best and most affordable chance of success?

Book a chat at https://calendly.com/sam-fc/meet

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Sam

"Founders seeking to raise equity finance - use this service! It’s simple to use, reliable & secure, & provides unrivalled value for money. You're in complete control of your fundraising process & timescales." Jules & Charlie, Founders, The Nue Co

FREE RESOURCES
Because we’re here to help start-ups, we offer the following for free:

✅  SEIS/EIS advance assurance submission
✅  Customised Term Sheet
✅  Template Forecast Models
✅  Founder Collaboration Agreements

Visit: foundercatalyst.com to find out more and access the freebies.

SPECIALITIES: Start-up, Startup, Start Up Funding, Funding Round, Funding, Investment, Investor, Investor Engagement, Angel Investor, SEIS, EIS

This afternoon has been a great reminder of why I love doing what I do at FounderCatalyst.  3x back to back founder calls:

🚚 A founder with an amazing app in the foodie space.  As a passionate home cook, this chat really made me want to get out in the outdoor kitchen this weekend to cook up a feast.

💰 Telling a founder with an amazing luxury brand who thought that she was out of time for SEIS that she's still eligible - her reaction was a treat 👏

🎣 Hooking a customer from a competitor out of the blue always a treat too 🫢

Being a founder is a rollercoaster, but this has been a great end to the week 🎉

Serial Entrepreneur, Board Advisor ▫️ Founder at FounderCatalyst, the ONLY affordable fixed price method of funding round legals for start-ups ▫️ CCO at Forge Technologies

⏳ 48 hours to go - I’m looking forward to joining forces with Ivan Hoo for a live, practical breakdown of one of the biggest early-stage challenges: setting and defending your pre-seed valuation.

Whether you're raising your first round or preparing for investor conversations, this session will give you the frameworks and confidence you need.

Here’s what FounderCatalyst and Hubble will be covering:

✔️ The core principles behind pre-seed valuations — and how equity, control and fundraising strategy really fit together
✔️ The key valuation methodologies founders should understand (and when each actually applies)
✔️ An investor’s perspective on how valuations are assessed in the real world
And from Ivan Hoo (Fractional CFO & Startup Advisor at Hubble):
✔️ A deep dive into the Venture Capital Method (VCM) & comparables
✔️ Practical tactics for negotiating with investors
✔️ A live Q&A to tackle your specific valuation questions

🗓️ 3 December 2025

🕛 12:00 PM (UK Time)

💻 Free to join

👉 Save your spot: https://lnkd.in/eyESfp6x
Hope to see you there!

#StartupValuations #FundraisingTips #FounderCatalyst  #StartupWebinar #InvestorReady  #StartupJourney

👥 Building a Winning Startup Team

Equity, Legal Structures & Advisory Boards
A strong startup team goes far beyond just great people—it’s about setting the right structure, incentives, and agreements from day one.

In this practical session, Sam FounderCatalyst will be covering how to allocate equity and use share schemes effectively, while Patricia Wing (SuLe) will break down the legal and governance must-haves for co-founders, advisors, and NEDs.

What you’ll learn:
✅ How to structure equity for co-founders and advisors
✅ SEIS, share options & funding round considerations
✅ Vesting agreements, legal protections & more
🎤 Plus live Q&A—bring your questions!

📅 09/12/25 @ 12PM (Zoom)

Register here for free:

Open article: Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How to Attract, Keep, and Reward your Co-Founders, Advisors, NEDs and Employees. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. by us06web.zoom.us

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How to Attract, Keep, and Reward your Co-Founders, Advisors, NEDs and Employees. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

⏰ 6 days to go!

Next week I’ll be hosting a free live session taking you behind the scenes of what really happens after you’ve defined your funding round — from inviting investors to signing, closing, and completing your raise on the FounderCatalyst platform. 🚀

I’ll also cover the key post-close steps that keep your company and investors aligned, compliant, and ready for growth.

Here’s what we’ll go through:
✅ Inviting & managing investors
✅ Signing and completing your round
✅ Closing actions on FounderCatalyst
✅ Post-close compliance essentials
✅ Live Q&A

🗓️ 17/11/25 | 12:00PM (BST)

💻 Free to attend — final spots available!

👉 Save your place here https://lnkd.in/e35Pkfwk 

#FounderCatalyst #Webinar #StartupFunding #SEIS #EIS #Fundraising #StartupJourney #AngelInvesting

Open article: Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: From investor invites to closing the round: What happens next on FounderCatalyst platform. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. by us06web.zoom.us

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: From investor invites to closing the round: What happens next on FounderCatalyst platform. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Shine Strong Revolution 

Inspired by my own journey with maternal mental health, I have founded Shine Strong Revolution, to help empower women through education and digital mind and body wellbeing classes to build their resilience and thrive in motherhood🌳🧠❤️

Star Fourteen

At Star Fourteen we want to make a real difference for the clients we work with. Whether you’re a sole trader who wants us to design a brochure to help expand your business, or a large corporate who needs an event taken off your hands while you concentrate on your day job, or perhaps you’re a new start up and need to build your confidence presenting to camera. Whatever type of business you have we really care about providing the best creative support for you at an affordable price.

Director/Owner

LCW Creative

Marketing and communications consultancy - offering a friendly service to charities and businesses.

Director

Sentinel Housing Association

Corporate Communications Officer

From writing press releases to organising events my role is very varied. Writing and project managing our CSR strategy has been a highlight for me, along with managing our corporate charity partnerships. I also love doing case studies with our customers and producing films.

Communications Coordinator

Supporting our Chief Executive in leading our business my position's placed me in a perfect place to learn about governance and the role of the Exective in running a successful organisation. I've been given the opportunity to write policies and plan large events.

Executive Assistant

I'm looking after all the online activity for Sentinel Housing, including social media and internal comms. I have written a new social media policy and procedure and am undertaking a refresh of all website content.

Social Media and Communications Co-ordinator

I currently work for a housing association as part of their home ownership team. I am responsible for the marketing campaigns of their shared ownership properties, from planning and development to execution. I work closely with an external creative agency to create bespoke marketing materials for each of our different developments. I keep all websites updated and use social media messaging. I plan and attend events and open days to promote new properties.We have recently won Most Effective Marketing Campaign at the national Affordable Home Onwership Awards.

Marketing Officer

GAME

My role consisted of two parts, Local Marketing and PR.  For local marketing I supported local, new stores and concessions stores in line with the business plans.  This consisted of a wide range of activities from booking press adverts and radio campaigns to briefing artwork for POS and helping to organise and attend events. These ranged from new store openings to midnight Launches like Rock Band Beatles at the Cavern Club in Liverpool to running a stand at the Gadget Show 2010 at the Birmingham NEC. 

I worked closely with all internal departments including operations, CRM, online and social media to develop best practices and deliver objectives. I was responsible for day to day admin for the team, looking after expenditure, and working within budgets.  Plus writing and sending store communications. 

My PR responsibilities included the day to day running of the press office.  I dealt with enquiries from the media, and investors. I had to write and distribute press releases on various topics from partnership announcements and game launches to new stores.  I would run competitions and arrange photos calls.  I was the first point of contact for our PR agency helping them with information and liaising with all departments around the business for them.

I helped to co-ordinate publicity initiatives for new stores, nationwide store promotions and more specific activities linked to publisher releases and activity, midnight launches for example.

I supported corporate and media events attending them and dealing with logistics.  I helped organise the AGM for past three years.  I hepled to produce monthly PR updates for the Board of Directors.  I was also responsible for PR admin from reading and storing press cuttings to writing purchase orders and working within the PR budget and supplying budget spending reports.

I also worked closely with the Charities Manager helping to communicate the charity partnership across the business and with all fundraising events.

PR & Local Marketing Executive

Plus3Productions

I was a Researcher and Production Assistant on a documentary series called ‘Village Voices’ for ITV Meridan. 

I was responsible for identifying potential content for the programme, researching villages and finding interesting events and people to cover in the series. I toured the villages finding good shooting locations and getting to know them geographically.

I helped to organise shooting schedules, including liaising with camera and sound operators, providing everyone on the team with detailed maps/timings and thorough directions to enable smooth running on the shooting days. On shoots I would be a runner helping out with everything from legal documentation, to recording the issue of tape stocks.  In post production I was responsible for the transcribing of the interviews and time coding cutaways.

Researcher & Production Assistant

⭐️Founder | Passionate about improving maternal mental & physical health, through education, digital nature, exercise & meditation.🌳🧠🧘🏾‍♀️❤️ Mother | Speaker | Mental Health First Aider | Autism advocate 💚

You’re a progressive employer. You care about your people and invest in their career development and wellbeing. You offer decent benefits, and an enhanced maternity package. But is that enough?

Did you know during pregnancy and into motherhood a woman goes through changes to her mind & body as profound as the ones we all experience in adolescence? 

Bringing a new life into the world can be an exciting time, but it also brings huge change and can be very challenging. 

1 in 4 women experience mental health problems in pregnancy and the 24 months after giving birth, and 1 in 10 suffer post-natal depression. Sadly, suicide is a leading cause of death for women during pregnancy and in the year after giving birth.

We’re creating a maternal wellbeing programme to empower women through education and wellbeing classes, to understand the changes they are experiencing and give them a toolkit to help build their resilience and thrive during motherhood. 

Our solution has two parts:

1.	A 28-day intensive education programme, which includes:
•	an introduction to Matrescence (the profound changes that take place within the mind & body 
        during pregnancy, and into motherhood)
•	maternal mental health
•	maternal nutrition
•	mindfulness 
•	breathwork 
•	access to a midwife for a weekly Q&A

2.	Digital holistic wellbeing classes with: 
•	with digital nature backdrops, which have been shown to help reduce stress and build resilience in 
        academic studies. 
•	varied level exercises
•	positive affirmations
•	meditations 
•	an online support community including signposts for further support when needed. 

If you’re passionate about supporting the mothers in your organisation, get in touch to register for our launch hello@shinestrongrevolution.com

Lucy Wilson

Cheesy grin alert 🚨 

And yes I’ve already posted something serious today! 

But I’m off to London for something REALLY exciting 🤩

I’ve got my brand colours on and butterflies in my tummy! ☺️

Can’t wait to share more!!! 

(Yes it’s annoying, bursting to tell more but can’t yet 😂)

Watch this space!!! 👀❤️👀

#FounderLife
#StartUp
#MAIA

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WOW 😍
WHAT. A. DAY! ❤️

When I heard my bank, NatWest Business were looking for founders to be part of their Accelerator social media campaign, I jumped at the chance! 🤩

Little did I expect to be chosen to out of nearly 200 applicants!! 🤯

Last Thursday I joined some of the other lucky people taking part, at a film shoot in London. 📽️

I was grouped with Katie L. Johnson and Timothy Spinks, two awesome founders who made the session so much fun. ☺️

So too did our amazing host Amelia Sordell 🔥 and the brilliant content team from NatWest Liv Buckley and Nia O. AND all the lovely team at VaynerMedia Austin Vernon 

Huge thank you to everyone for making us so welcome and putting us at ease.❤️

Here’s a few snaps from the day! 📸

I don’t know how much of us will be used, but rest assured I will be sharing it as soon as it goes live!! 📽️❤️🎬

I LOVE talking about MAIA and my mission, so this really was the best day, I felt so lucky! 🥰🥰🥰

📸 Images: The photos are of me in the London studios, with the other founders above and on the set. I’m wearing my trademark yellow dress and pink top and jacket. 

#MAIA
#Filming
#SocialCampaign
#Founder
#Natwest
#Accelerator

What’s the best way to support people? 🤔

To understand their challenges, and big life events like Matrescence, that can have a profound impact on them. ❤️

On the journey into motherhood women will change mentally, physically, socially and societally. 

Basically all their relationships will change. 

Including the one with themselves! 

It’s a big deal! 

And one you need to be there, for if you want to retain and support your amazing female talent! 🙌

MAIA for Managers has been created to help you understand just what women may experience. 🫶

Our workshop covers; 

🟡Matrescence 

🟡Maternal Mental Health 

🟡Maternity Leave

🟡And why supporting new Dads is so important too, helping them share the load and bond with their baby. 

I’m taking bookings now! 😁

It’s a fantastic introduction to how to support women at a key moment in their lives. ❤️

If you don’t have this covered yet, then this is your chance to start! 🙌

📸Images: The images are of the MAIA for Managers brochure, which goes into more detail about the workshop and why it’s so valuable for organisations. With the pink and yellow MAIA brand and a mix of photos of me and people in offices. 

#MAIA 
#Matrescence 
#MaternalMentalHealth 
#MaternalLeave 
#Support 
#FamilyFriendly

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