Empowering Entrepreneurs to Achieve Exponential Growth | Entrepreneur | CFO | TEDx Speaker | Award-Winning Author.

My name is David and I’m the Founder of Add then Multiply, a consultancy that guides entrepreneurs on a journey of exponential growth. If you want to scale way faster than you thought possible with organic growth, check out my FACE methodology: Fund, Acquire, Consolidate, Exit. It’s a proven strategy to grow your business, enter new markets and take out competitors. In addition to raising over £100 million I've bought or sold around 2 dozen companies. One business I worked with grew sales by 25x in just three years, from £1.1 million to £27.7 million. That’s tripling every year! I'm the author of “Add then Multiply – How small businesses can think like big businesses and achieve exponential growth” which won the Business Self Development category at the 2020 Business Book Awards. I am also the founder of Funding Focus, a social enterprise whose mission is to level the uneven playing field that female and underrepresented entrepreneurs face when raising capital. In 2019, I was speaking at an event about fundraising for SME businesses. After my talk a woman asked me why so little funding goes to female entrepreneurs. I’m embarrassed to say, but at the time I wasn’t aware that this was an issue. What a difference a little knowledge makes! That was the genesis of Funding Focus. We run events and are tapping into a global audience of under-represented entrepreneurs. Basically, entrepreneurs who aren’t white men. You see, there are two very different playing fields when it comes to raising funding to grow your business: one for white men and another for everyone else. Don’t get me wrong, raising funding is hard work for every entrepreneur. It’s a full-time job. I know, because I've raised more than $150 million. Nonetheless, if you aren’t a white man then you face an uphill challenge. I’m here to level the playing field. As a result of the gross injustices I have discovered, I gave a TEDx talk “The Fight for Fairer Funding” and wrote my second book “Funded Female Founders - How to traverse the uneven playing field and secure funding to grow your business”. My dream is to speak about this at the United Nations. I started my career training as a Chartered Accountant with PWC. For a few very select clients, I act as their CFO. Interested to learn more? Let’s connect!