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Sam Smith

@samsmithtf

Founder and former Chief Exec @finnCap. NED and Scale Up Champion. Entrepreneur. Advisor. Author. Mother. Passionate about ambitious companies.

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A huge honour to be shortlisted in two AIM Awards 2025 categories, ‘2021 Entrepreneur of the Year Award’ and ‘Diversity Champion Award’.   We are passionate about both and delighted to be recognised for our ambition to promote entrepreneurship and diversity. aim-awards.co.uk/nominations-ov…

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A great result for our ever busy Life Sciences team working with genedrive plc. Very happy to be able to support such an exciting company at the cutting edge of molecular diagnostics innovation.

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Our Tech Research team turn their attention to IT and tech innovation in the global healthcare industry in this latest finnCap Insights report. If you have interests in these sectors and would like to find out more about what this all means for investors I’d recommend downloading

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I’m very much looking forward to this discussion tomorrow which looks set to cover all sorts of themes for global growth businesses and our thanks go to @CriticaleyeUK for hosting.

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Another great innovator hits #AIM today; we’re delighted to have advised Eneraqua Technologies on this landmark #IPO & £20m Placing. This opens new doors for the development of its products in energy and water efficiency. Excited to accompany Eneraqua on its next phase of growth

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Great to speak with City A.M. & a privilege to be involved in the 25x25 initiative, helping boost number of female CEOs in the FTSE 100. We’ve worked on many IPOs unfortunately rarely for co's with #femalefounders. There's an opportunity now to affect change cityam.com/it-starts-with…

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A privilege to judge today’s NatWest everywoman Awards #eWawards. Congratulations to the nominees that inspire the UK’s female-led companies. These are the businesses of tomorrow and this is a fantastic opportunity to recognise that. I look forward to seeing where you go next

A privilege to judge today’s NatWest <a href="/everywomanUK/">everywoman</a> Awards #eWawards. Congratulations to the nominees that inspire the UK’s female-led companies. These are the businesses of tomorrow and this is a fantastic opportunity to recognise that. I look forward to seeing where you go next
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We’ve worked with @Ideagen_Plc for many years and they’ve consistently demonstrated incredible growth ambitions, so I’m delighted that we can support them once again with this fundraise to drive their acquisitions strategy.

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An honour to be mentioned as a Top 32 ESG Pioneer. My thanks to @BLeaderNews: businessleader.co.uk/magazine/ for recognising our support of businesses of tomorrow – offering strategic advisory & capital raising services to businesses driving innovation, social and environmental impact

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The finance world is booming with exciting new tech players and property finance is no different, so I’m delighted that we’re joining LendInvest , which is disrupting the property finance sector with its tech platform, on its onward growth journey

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Yesterday we launched the new APPG ‘Education Entrepreneurship’ report by The Entrepreneurs Network & @finnCap proposing to add entrepreneurship to the curriculum Read the report: tenentrepreneurs.org/research/appg-… And please sign our petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #teachentrepreneurship

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Our Consumer Sector M&A team have found an ideal partner for Barburrito in The Restaurant Group, to take the strong hospitality brand that Barburrito has created on the next stage of its growth journey.

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Sam Smith was the first, and youngest woman to ever to run a stockbroking company in the UK. She is now stepping down and speaks to Jessica Creighton about how things have changed for women in finance.

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Great to sit down with Andrea Catherwood for BBC Radio 4 BBC Woman's Hour to discuss how we've continued to build the culture of doing things differently, with a focus on inclusion, at @finnCap, and how things have changed for women in the finance industry bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

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Looking forward to speaking at #ScaleupWeek2022 where I’ll be discussing the crucial issues facing growing businesses as they look to harness the vast opportunities for growth in a decade of change. If you’d like to join you can find out more & register at bgf.co.uk/scaleup-week/

Looking forward to speaking at #ScaleupWeek2022 where I’ll be discussing the crucial issues facing growing businesses as they look to harness the vast opportunities for growth in a decade of change. If you’d like to join you can find out more &amp; register at bgf.co.uk/scaleup-week/
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My new book! Inclusive Culture is so important and a real growth driver. Out on amazon today and for next 48hrs 99p on kindle e book. amzn.to/42G9QKV