Chris Martin
With extensive experience in hospitality and operations, Chris Martin, the founder of My Chef Market is changing the personal chef industry through a digital marketplace, driving growth and innovation.
Founder Stories
Ellis Taylor
Ellis is the co-founder of Glyde, a platform helping SMEs automate and take control of cross-border payments. With experience in currency broking, he’s focused on removing friction and inefficiencies for growing businesses.
Xuna Li
Xuna is the founder of HZ Power, a green energy startup helping accelerate the transition to net zero through engineering support and data-driven strategy. With a background in engineering, she’s focused on reducing electricity costs and building a more sustainable future.
Dan Rosenberg
LinkyThinks empowers children by linking different ways of thinking to foster creativity, academic success, and emotional expression. Through engaging online classes and resources, LinkyThinks equips the next generation with essential skills that many adults struggle with, ensuring they have a strong foundation to carry them into adulthood.
Jonathan Brill
Eduvate is a leading provider of innovative financial literacy solutions, with a mission to upskill young adults in the practical aspects of financial literacy. Their gamified learning management system is designed to make financial education engaging and fun, helping individuals of all ages and backgrounds build the knowledge and skills they need to make informed financial decisions. The company is passionate about upskilling young adults in the practicalities of financial literacy, not just the theory. This unique approach can make a significant contribution to reducing financial exclusion and raising expectations of young adults globally.
Rami Albatal
Perfogram is an innovative platform that redefines interactive live streaming, empowering creators and businesses with real-time engagement and analytics. By blending traditional media with social and live interaction, Perfogram puts users in control, fostering deeper engagement and unlocking new revenue opportunities across B2C and B2B markets.
Louise Morgan
VuPop is a dynamic platform that redefines social media interaction by offering live content creation and aggregation across all platforms, empowering creators and delivering value to the community. With a deliberate focus on blurring the lines between social media, mainstream media, and streaming services, VuPop puts users in control, fostering engagement and offering multiple revenue-sharing opportunities.
Fidan Javadova
BeWorks Automation is a cleantech engineering company offering a wide range of energy efficiency, industrial automation, EV charging, and renewable energy solutions. With a global presence, they provide turnkey services from site selection to project management and maintenance for industrial, commercial, and residential clients, making e-mobility and green energy accessible to all.
Tash Grossman
Slip is an award winning startup looking to humanise the way we do digital receipts and customer information. The innovative technology provides a robust solution for consumers and retailers to transform transactions and receipt waste into meaningful interactions. On a mission to create the most frictionless, sustainable and omnichannel experience.
Manfredi
Beyond Blood Diagnostics is dedicated to empowering chronically ill patients through the utilization of cutting-edge technologies. Their mission is to advance health monitoring for individuals with chronic conditions, enabling convenient and effective monitoring from the comfort of their homes.
Jessica Alderson
Based on the 16 personality types theory, So Syncd is the first dating app to connect compatible personality types. By pairing couples who have just enough similarities to understand each other and just enough differences to create a spark, we help you find that exciting, meaningful relationship that you’ve been looking for. Founded by sisters Jessica and Lou Alderson, SoSyncd successfully raised through the Connectd platform in 2021.
Casey Stabile
Casey is the CEO of The Evergreen Exchange, a carbon registry helping organisations turn environmental responsibility into verified, traceable carbon offsets. With a background in tech and a sharp eye for market integrity, he’s focused on building trust in the carbon space through blockchain-powered transparency.
Valentyn Yaromenko
Valentyn Yaromenko, founder of Big Sister AI, joined Connectd while rebuilding his team and product. Through the platform, he connected with experienced advisors who helped him strengthen the company’s foundation and sharpen its strategy. Their support gave him the clarity and direction to move Big Sister AI into its next stage of growth.
Francie Jain
Terawatt is a B2B services marketplace making professional development accessible to the ‘sophisticated middle’ and helps employers reduce employee turnover and burnout. Right now, their focus is on helping hospitals and healthcare providers build psychological safety; a factor proven to improve retention. For hospitals, where turnover is costly, this translates into stronger organisations, better communication and millions saved each year.
Carolina Ramirez
Carolina Ramírez, founder of Pacific Soul, joined Connectd while transitioning from a B2B engineering background into the consumer snacks space. Through the platform, she brought on two fractional CPG advisors across sales, marketing and brand strategy. Their combined experience helped her refine Pacific Soul’s positioning, strengthen the company’s commercial foundations and shape a clear go to market plan, showing how the right fractional expertise can guide first time founders through a new industry with confidence and clarity.
