Charles Delingpole, ComplyAdvantage
ComplyAdvantage is an AI-driven financial crime risk detection platform with a unique offering for early-stage fintechs. We can help businesses get started with the AML and KYC solutions they need to achieve authorisation, and scale with them as their business grows. Sturgeon Ventures has been an invaluable partner over the past decade, referring circa. 50 […]
Nigel Grierson, Director, Westlecot Business Consultants
The entire Sturgeon team consistently executes with precision, which enables me to deliver excellent advisory services to my clients. And, the entire team is an absolute pleasure to work with. Nigel is a Director and Westlecot Business Consultants is an Operating Company for unregulated work attached to Sturgeon Ventures’ mandates.
Nick Martin, Robocap
“Having worked with a leading Regulatory Hosting Firm as an Appointed Representative Firm, where we also used their discretionary investment management hosting with a fund, their service was just a pure service offering, whilst Sturgeon is fully integrated in the business of the Incubated Firm” https://www.robocapfund.com/
Jonathan Cohen, RoboCap
Launching a fund is a challenge as you have to navigate across a jungle of service providers and you can provide efficiency in this process. I remember when we met last year. In one meeting you understood what I wanted to achieve and made all relevant introductions. You are an entrepreneur and understand what we […]
Nick Greenwood, Haven Cove Capital Management
I have known Seonaid & the team at Sturgeon for coming up to 10 years, and when we were looking for a Regulatory Incubation partner during the early years of Haven Cove, there was only one phone call we made. Their standalone Investment Manager structure (with no AR) is extremely streamlined & efficient, providing an […]
Shah Farsi, Managing Director CAT Factory
My recommendation to fellow aspiring fund managers is to get a call with Ms.Seonaid Mackenzie, the Founder of Sturgeon Ventures. Through years of experience in empowering entrepreneurs, Seonaid shared some important legal and regulatory points with me and my team which will be very critical to our journey and, even though our business model was […]
Kristian Bagger, Managing Director Moelis & Company UK LLP
Sturgeon Ventures supported Moelis & Company by providing an ‘umbrella’ UK compliance function for our European advisory practice. This temporary solution enabled our firm to be in a position to provide financial advice to our clients rapidly while, in parallel, Sturgeon Ventures assisted CCL Compliance in applying for our own full FCA authorisation. Sturgeon Ventures […]
Robert Mundy, Research Tree
We have had the good fortune to have worked with Seonaid and the team at Sturgeon for close to four years now. They have consistently provided intelligent, nimble and high quality support and advice. As a guide to help Research Tree compliantly navigate the fast-changing environment in which we operate, Sturgeon has been first-rate. Thank […]
Nic Brisbane, Managing Partner Forward Partners
Sturgeon helped us get started really fast by providing regulatory cover as the Portfolio Manager. Assisting with implementing process and procedures as the governance team on the Investment Committee so we could launch fast, helping us to operate as a regulated entity, with our own firm as the Appointed Representative to be the advisor and […]
Raymond Greaves, finnCap
Sturgeon Ventures provided us with the Regulatory Framework to launch our fund https://www.finncap.com/slide-rule-fund as the Interim Portfolio Manager and essential compliance functions when the Slide Rule Fund, a UK small/mid-cap fund was launched on the Montlake Platform; whilst Finncap upgraded our regulatory permissions. The team were helpful, friendly and patient, and provided lots of useful […]