Arun leads and develops a specialist team dedicated to transforming how entrepreneurs navigate complex funding landscapes. He builds deep expertise in investment readiness and guides high-growth businesses through critical funding decisions—offering sharp insights into investor expectations and helping founders align their vision with the right capital and funding partners.
He works directly with founders to turn raw innovation into compelling investment propositions, crafting narratives that resonate with investors and funders across all stages. Arun has developed cutting-edge knowledge across the full spectrum of funding mechanisms—from grants and venture capital to emerging alternative finance solutions. He also cultivates strategic relationships across the investment ecosystem, engaging with angel networks, VCs, corporates, and other investors.
Arun regularly delivers keynote presentations and interactive workshops on access to finance, with a focus on the unique challenges founders face when scaling breakthrough innovations.
With over two decades of experience across public and private investment markets, Arun has supported more than 50 visionary entrepreneurs on successful funding journeys. His track record includes securing a £3.1 million Series A for an expertise access platform, orchestrating a £55 million Series B for a synthetic biology scale-up, and mobilising £2.7 million in grants for a life sciences company that went on to achieve a successful AIM listing.
Arun’s expertise spans transforming complex innovations into investor-ready propositions, providing strategic funding guidance, preparing businesses for institutional due diligence, coaching leadership teams on investor engagement, and developing post-investment scaling frameworks. His venture portfolio spans biotech, healthcare, life sciences, medical devices, media, IT, computing, telecommunications, semiconductors, renewables, and energy—offering unique insights into how diverse innovation paradigms interact with distinct investor ecosystems and funding mechanisms across the modern economy.