Matt Jonns

Investing in, and building, tech companies with non-technical founders | Founder and CEO @ Founder + Lightning

I build and back ambitious ventures - with product, capital, and talent.

It started with helping to digitise my family’s business 15 years ago. Since then, I’ve worked with 40+ startups to turn ideas into companies - raising millions and launching dozens of products along the way.

That journey led to Founder + Lightning and now The Lightning Group - a group of connected services that help startups, scale-ups, and corporates move faster and smarter.

What we do: 

• Strategy and product development that gets you to launch and beyond 
• Access to capital and investor networks
• High-performing, flexible talent (onshore + offshore)
• Designing and building venture studios 

If you’re looking to raise, launch, or scale - or you’re just figuring out where to start - feel free to reach out.

https://www.founderandlightning.com


Founder & CEO

(Formerly ucreate.it)

We partner with ambitious, Non-tech Founders and equip them with the team, tools, expertise and scale to build highly successful technology companies

100+ team - 25 portfolio companies - £100 million + valuation - £30 million + raised 

Our offices are in London, Cardiff, Chandigarh and Kraków

We don’t talk enough about founder risk.

Both financial and personal risk. 

The kind that creeps in when there’s no safety net.
No guaranteed salary. No fallback option. No HR to call when things go sideways. The fear of being “unemployable” if it all goes wrong. 

In the UK, we’ve built up decent support for employees - and that’s great. 
But we’re still awkward about supporting founders.
The people who create the jobs, that then pay the taxes, and drive most of the innovation.

Over the last 10 years I’ve worked with 100+ early-stage founders.
And I’ve seen the same things, over and over again:

• Founders paying their team before they pay themselves
• Signing personal guarantees just to unlock a small credit line
• Funding payroll from personal savings - or worse, debt
• Making redundancies and taking all that personal pressure on 
• Spending their weekends trying to fix things quietly so their team doesn’t panic
• Going months without knowing if they’ll be able to raise, ship, or even survive

It’s a lonely spot to operate from.
And most people don’t see it - especially once the PR narrative kicks in.

But the truth is: the first 12–24 months of any startup (and often years and years of any business) usually look like this.
Low pay, high stress, total exposure.

We should be doing more to support those people - not just when they raise or exit, but when they’re in the middle of the mess.

If you’re a founder - 
what’s something you’ve done to keep the lights on that no one saw ?

Venture Studio Founder & Startup Investor.

My late mentor, Drazen Premate, was-is the unsung successor to Nikola Tesla—the world missed during his lifetime and was-is the next true forgotten heir of Nikola Tesla. Before his passing in 2019 at the age of 63, Drazen mentored me—'Resofactor' (also known as 'Reso')—in a new CTP scientific lineage Nikola Tesla himself predicted would eventually be discovered: 'the science of the non-physical'.


🔹CTP Energy Science (CTPSci)—a divergent postquantum framework rooted in the post-quantum or non-physical C-energy, C-domain, and an energetic model known as the CTP Energy Cycle™.

*CTPSci is not metaphysics.* It is not speculative futurism. It is an emerging ontological-scientific field that offers an integrated system for mapping energy, meaning, and consciousness beyond the current models.



🧠 CTP Energy completes what other theories remain left unfinished.

I spent nearly a decade under Drazen’s guidance before his passing. In that time, he revealed to me the groundwork of a model that will re-frame our understanding of energy, systems, biology, gravity, and even the deeper nature of fundamental reality, itself. 

Since then, I’ve quietly continued the science in private—with zero funding, no institutional support, and no public recognition—until now. ⚡️ After 20+ years of obscurity, the public emergence of CTPSci—a new science whose time has come.


CTP Foundations:

* The 'science of the next century'
* The 'venture of the next century' (built around the sciences)
* New ontological frameworks inclusive of CTP Reality & the Conscious Domain (C-Domain)
* The first road-map toward the “CTP Energy Science Decade”

This is a call to pioneers, engineers of paradigm, venture architects, and systems thinkers. Not just for funding—but for 'conscious capital deployment and mythic future forward- venture design. We are laying the brand and infrastructure groundwork before deeptech R\&D begins.

Our tools must scale human 'terrestrial consciousness', first—before certain other CTP Technology follows.




NIKOLA TESLA's PROPHECY

Nikola Tesla forwarded 'science of the non-physical' when discovered (CTP fulfills), will make more progress in ten years than in all of the prior centuries spanning all of fields of the physical sciences combined.


UNPRECEDENTED PROGRESS WITHIN THE NEXT 10-15 YEARS

🛸 The 'Decade of Wonder' is approaching. Are you among those bold enough to build the future beyond the visible and into the unknown and uncharted? Unprecedented discoveries, innovations, and advances await us! 🔗 Media/Links: https://linktr.ee/resofactor Let's go!

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