Ideas that can change lives deserve the chance to succeed.
Impact exists to champion those businesses.
We are particularly interested in biotechnology, medical innovation, scientific advances, health technology and other developments capable of creating meaningful real-world impact.
My role is not to run the science.
My role is to help good ideas become viable, funded and commercially sustainable businesses.
Where innovation meets opportunity
A breakthrough can begin in a laboratory, university, hospital, workshop or simply in the mind of somebody who sees a better way of doing something.
But innovation alone is rarely enough.
Promising ventures still need:
funding
commercial strategy
financial expertise
management support
introductions
partnerships
government and institutional connections
international opportunities
professional infrastructure
visibility
That is where Impact comes in.
I will bring together the wider knowledge, experience and relationships of the AD network to help promising ventures move from idea to impact.
Focus
Biotechnology & Life Sciences
We are especially interested in businesses developing new approaches to:
- diagnosis
- disease monitoring
- medical treatment
- transplantation
- personalised medicine
- genetics and genomics
- medical devices
- drug discovery
- regenerative medicine
- healthcare data
- preventative health
- technologies that improve patient outcomes
Science can be extraordinary.
My interest is in helping extraordinary science become something people can actually use.
Medical & Health Innovation
Not every healthcare breakthrough begins with a new drug.
We are interested in technologies that help clinicians make better decisions, improve existing treatments, reduce risk, detect problems earlier and make healthcare more effective.
That can include everything from sophisticated monitoring technology to new devices, diagnostics, software and clinical systems.
Technology With Purpose
Our interests extend beyond biotechnology.
My Impact team looks for innovations where commercial success and positive impact can reinforce one another.
This may include:
- clean and environmental technology
- food and agricultural innovation
- assistive technology
- artificial intelligence with practical social benefit
- education technology
- advanced manufacturing
- sustainability
- technologies that improve safety, productivity or access
The common thread is simple:
Does this business have the potential to make a meaningful difference?
From breakthrough to business
The path between inventing something valuable and building a valuable company is often surprisingly difficult.
Founders can be experts in science but unfamiliar with investment.
Researchers can understand their technology intimately but struggle to explain its commercial significance.
Early-stage companies can spend years concentrating on development while financial planning, funding strategy and commercialisation receive too little attention.
Impact helps bridge that gap.
We can help with
Funding & Investment
I help ventures understand their funding requirements, prepare for investment and connect with potentially relevant investors, funds and strategic partners.
I do not believe in indiscriminately circulating investment presentations.
Different innovations require different investors.
A biotechnology business needs people who understand biotechnology.
A medical device business needs people who understand regulatory risk, clinical evidence and healthcare economics.
The right capital is usually more valuable than simply finding capital.
Grants & Non-Dilutive Funding
Innovative businesses may be able to access grants, government programmes, research funding and collaborative opportunities.
We help identify relevant routes and connect ventures with the expertise needed to pursue them.
Commercial Strategy
A technically brilliant product still needs customers.
We help businesses think beyond the laboratory:
- Who ultimately buys this?
- Who benefits from it?
- How large is the market?
- What problem does it solve?
- What does adoption save or improve?
- Who are the strategic partners?
- What milestone materially increases the value of the company?
- What is the route to international markets?
Impact becomes sustainable when there is a viable business behind it.
Financial & Business Infrastructure
Through the wider AD network, ventures can access experienced commercial and professional support where required.
This can include:
- accounting
- financial control
- forecasting
- cash-flow management
- CFO support
- taxation
- business planning
- international development
- investor preparation
- legal and compliance support
- marketing and communications
Any commercial services are provided separately by the appropriate professional or AD group company.
Impact itself exists to identify, champion and connect worthwhile ventures.
Strategic Connections
Sometimes progress depends less on another spreadsheet and more on meeting the right person.
Our network includes connections across:
- business
- investment
- professional services
- government
- international trade
- technology
- healthcare
- academia
- specialist advisers
We use those relationships selectively where we believe they can genuinely help move a venture forward.
For Investors
Discover businesses worth knowing about
Impact is building relationships with investors interested in businesses where commercial opportunity accompanies meaningful innovation.
We are particularly interested in connecting with:
- life-science investors
- medtech investors
- venture-capital funds
- family offices
- angel investors
- strategic corporate investors
- healthcare executives
- technology investors
- impact-focused investors
- international investors
We do not expect every opportunity to suit every investor.
Our objective is to introduce relevant opportunities to people who understand them.
Interested in future opportunities?
Join the Intelgo and Impact investor network.
For Innovators & Founders
Are you developing something that matters?
We want to hear from founders, scientists, clinicians, researchers and entrepreneurs working on genuinely interesting developments.
You may have:
- developed promising technology
- completed early research
- created a prototype
- begun clinical development
- secured grant funding
- reached early commercialisation
- encountered difficulties raising further capital
- reached the point where business development matters as much as technical development
You do not need to have solved every problem.
You do need to be able to demonstrate that there is something genuinely worth building.
Tell us what you are working on.
For Strategic Partners
Large organisations can play an important role in turning innovation into impact.
Impact welcomes relationships with:
- universities
- research institutions
- hospitals
- pharmaceutical companies
- medical-device businesses
- technology companies
- government bodies
- professional advisers
- corporate innovation teams
- accelerators
- trade organisations
- international partners
Sometimes the most valuable introduction is not to an investor.
It is to a future customer, distributor, research partner, clinical collaborator or eventual acquirer.
What We Look For
I am being deliberately selective.
Impact is most interested where three things exist together:
Impact
The venture has the potential to create a meaningful positive outcome.
Innovation
There is something genuinely different, defensible or significant about the idea, product or technology.
Commercial Potential
There is a realistic route towards building a sustainable business.
We are not looking only for charitable projects.
We believe some of the greatest positive changes can be created by successful businesses solving important problems.
The Impact Philosophy
I do not believe profit and purpose are opposites.
A business that develops a better diagnostic test, improves transplant outcomes, reduces waste, makes treatment safer or solves another serious problem should be able to become commercially successful.
In fact, commercial success is often what allows an innovation to spread.
More investment.
More development.
More adoption.
More people helped.
Impact at scale requires a business capable of scaling with it.
Why Impact?
Impact sits at the intersection of three worlds that too often operate separately:
Innovation. Capital. Business.
Scientists should not have to become investment bankers.
Investors should not have to become scientists.
And promising ventures should not fail simply because nobody helped connect the two.
Impact exists to make those connections.
Interesting Advances
What is changing the future?
Impact will also feature developments we believe are worth watching.
From breakthroughs in biotechnology and medicine to advances in artificial intelligence, diagnostics, genetics, regenerative medicine and other emerging technologies.
Not every development we feature will be an Impact venture.
Some will simply be ideas that deserve attention.
Because understanding where the world is going is often the first step towards finding the businesses that will take us there.
Backing progress. Building opportunity. Creating impact.
Innovation can change the world.
But first, it has to get out of the laboratory.