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ABOUT SFC

EXPERIENCE BEHIND IDEAS.
INVOLVEMENT BEYOND CAPITAL.

2013
WHO WE ARE

Straight Forward Consultancy was founded in 2013 by financial-services professionals who wanted to bring institutional experience into the way businesses are built, backed and grown.

What began as an advisory business has evolved into something more entrepreneurial — investing our own capital, partnering with other investors and working alongside businesses from structure and strategy through to business building and growth.

45+YEARS OF COMBINED EXPERIENCE

Our experience was built within regulated financial institutions, spanning private banking, investment banking, risk and governance across multiple jurisdictions.

It shaped how we look at businesses today — how we assess opportunity and risk, structure with a long-term view, and understand what businesses need as they evolve and grow across markets.

Because ultimately, the numbers and the vision have to work together.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE INCLUDES
REVOLUT · CLARIDEN LEU · ANZ · STANDARD CHARTERED
OUR EVOLUTION

BEYOND ADVISORY.

Over time, our role changed. We found ourselves increasingly drawn to opportunities where we could do more than advise — where we could invest, shape the structure, stay involved and share in what was being created.

That evolution was natural. The same experience we had used to advise businesses became the foundation for deciding where to put our own capital, who to partner with and where our involvement could genuinely add value.

OUR APPROACH

STRAIGHT FORWARD BY DESIGN.

We believe good business doesn't need unnecessary complexity. It needs clarity around the opportunity, alignment between the people involved and discipline in how it is built.

01SEE CLEARLY
02ALIGN INTERESTS
03BUILD WITH DISCIPLINE
04THINK LONG TERM