Roei Samuel

Connectd

Launched Connectd.com in January 2022
Raised $16m funding ($14m equity, $2m debt)
Generating $11m ARR (July 2025)

CEO & Founder

PEF Community

PEF is the biggest community of Post Exit Founders with a global network of world class builders with exits

Member

Various

Angel Investor

ETA Technologies

Board Advisor

Forbes Business Council

NEC Trust

I sit on the board of trustees for the NEC Trust, investing in CleanTech, poverty alleviation; and AgriTech projects in the third world.

Trustee

Barclays

On the Independent Advisory Board for the UK Government's Digital Growth Grant, being overseen by Barclays

Independent Advisory Board

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Mentor at the London School of Economics' socially conscious spin-out accelerator.

LSE Generate supports students and alumni to build a socially responsible start-up, in the UK and beyond. Our year-round programme is packed with funding competitions, events and networking opportunities.

LSE Accelerator Mentor

London & Partners

Business Mentor

Virgin StartUp

Mentor

Exited Founder | Angel Investor | Host of Big Risk Energy Podcast | BBC Million by 30

I'm on a mission to lower the barriers to entry for those who want to build and scale a business. 

After exiting my last business RealSport 101, I began investing and noticed a distinct lack of diversity and accessibility in growth opportunities for startups.

In 2019, I launched Connectd to fix this broken system, making opportunities more accessible and diverse  for startups by giving founders access to expert talent and investors.

Since then, we've made incredible progress:

🗣 Conversations between startups and fractional talent: 117% increase from Q1-Q4 2024

💰 Biggest raise through Connectd: $3m

💼 Fractional talent recruited by startups per month: 90+

⬆️ Connectd ARR: 4x YoY, 3 years in a row

🚀 Connectd Seed Funding: $14m+

We're also partnered with Google Cloud, Capchase, Pearson, Vestd, Barclays Eagle Labs and more—helping thousands of startups unlock growth.

Alongside this, I have been a Virgin Startup Mentor, sit on the Independent Advisory Board for Barclays Eagle Labs as well as being an expert on Intro.

Here’s how you can connect:

📧 Join 15,500+ amazing folks from the startup community and subscribe to my 'Founder' newsletter for insights on launching, scaling and leading a winning startup from day zero including lessons from my 12-year founder career.

🌐 Come and join our Connectd community alongside 6,000+ members at www.connectd.com

And if you’re not ready yet? Stick around—I talk about startup development, scaling, and the future of work.

Feel free to jump into my inbox if you want to chat 📩

#startups #fractionaltalent #angelinvesting #startupfunding

Launched Connectd.com in November 2020
Raised $9m seed funding
Generating $6.8m ARR (May 2024)

I’m in The Telegraph today….

The headline is about how other founders and I work really long hours - 12 hour days, 6 days a week.

Lots of comments praising us and many more thinking we’re from another planet hahah.

The thing is, in my mind this whole debate is still centred on old-fashioned sentiments relating to ‘hard work’ or ‘laziness’.

Like those who want a four-day week are lazy (ridiculous), or that us founders who work on the weekends are the pinnacle of productivity.

It’s a completely false dichotomy! 

The real thing we should be discussing:

> Does your work fulfil you in a way that means you WANT to work?

> Are you rewarded such that long nights and weekends don’t feel like an awful chore but a worthwhile opportunity?

Because I absolutely KNOW that so many of the founders in the article are like me:

They’re not working nights because they’re really hardcore or resilient. 

They simply love what they do and care. 

And more jobs - not just founder roles - should be like this.

Insanely motivating. 
Incredibly exciting. 
And properly rewarding - financially, spiritually and mentally.

CEO @ Connectd | $14M ARR | #5 LinkedIn Top Startup UK | Ex-RealSport Founder (acquired)

We just ranked #27 in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50.

Insane. 

Started Connectd 4 years ago with the idea that people shouldn't be trapped in corporate.

Now we're one of the 50 fastest-growing tech companies in the country.

What makes this mean something isn't just the ranking - though it’s a real honour. It's WHY we're growing.

Every week someone tells us they quit their corporate job and now work 3 days instead of 5. Or they're making more fractionally than they ever did full-time.

That's the metric that matters.

The growth is just proof that people want options and freedom. They want to work on their terms.

Massive credit to the team who've made this happen. None of this exists without them.

Here's to everyone choosing a different game.

We've been talking about how the future is fractional and flexible for a while now. Exciting to see even more people catching on.

I spent two weeks in the US and I'm seeing so many people taking fractional work seriously. 

Startups want great talent. Smart people want ownership over how they work. 

Fractional is the best of both worlds.

Blessed to be invited onto CBS Austin to talk to Sierra Waggoner about the journey. 

Proud of the team who make all this happen and the people supporting us along the way 🙏

Full interview clip in the comments!

CEO @ Connectd | $13M ARR | #5 LinkedIn Top Startup UK | Ex-RealSport Founder (acquired)

TUBR

What if you could do more with less data? 

TUBR is on a mission to make machine learning more accessible to SMEs. We are doing this by removing the most common barriers to entry. 1) Not enough data; the TUBR product 80% less data to make more accurate results 2) Expensive Data Science teams & skill gaps; TUBR offers a MLaaS product so the company requires no in-house resources. 3) It can take a lot of time; TUBR can have a company up and running in less than 2 weeks. We've done this by taking a physic-based approach to machine learning and A.I

TUBR has been covered widely including by The Times, The Independent, The Daily Mirror, The Sunday Mirror, Sunday People and others

Founder/CEO 

eXcentius

eXcentius assesses technology ecosystems (from code to operations to people) to reduce risk in mid-cap and large-cap Private Equity investments. Including the evaluation of design and support product transformations, including SaaS carve-outs, hardware virtualisation, Enterprise to SaaS conversions and portfolio rationalisation and enhancements.

As the Product Advisor, I assist during the due diligent process to advise on product management processes and strategy.

Advisor (Product Management) 

Ascential

Head of Product

Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and Data

Sr Product Manager - Sales Transaction Service 

REaD Group Ltd

Manage Product Management and Data Quality teams
Responsible for defining and delivering the product strategy for the entire suite of data services, including presenting FY planning, quarter objectives and deliverables, and building support for vision and direction at board level
Develop data solutions including data access and delivery, services and unique data propositions to solve our client's marketing data needs
Project manage go to market and product launches 
Manage relationships with data contributors 

Within the first six months, I'd validated a market gap for the delivery of our cleansing products, gained board approval for the funding of the business case, led an outsourced development team in the delivery of the product, managed the go-to-market activities, launched the MVP, delivered training to the commercial and support teams and supported in sales activities to drive the success of the product.

Senior Product Manager & Team Lead (Data Services)

Streetbees

Managed entire B2B product portfolio suite for the business. Understood the market, client needs and delivered new data solutions offering clients answers to key questions which helped drive growth in the “out of home” food and refreshment purchasing space. Implemented solution roll out from business conception, product development, product-market fit and sales enablement through training and pitch support.

Product Manager (B2B)

Tripcents

Advised start up CEO and founders from idea consumption, product delivery and product launch. Assisted in hiring, goal and KPI setting, setting up and maintaining Agile frameworks and principles. Tripcents team was accepted into Denver TechStars class of 2019.

Product Management Consultant (B2C)

Experian Data Quality UK

Through supplier relationship building and management saved the company approximately £50,000 in data royalty costs in one quarter, while delivering a data strategy which identified another approximately £400,000 data royalty savings and £200,000 in data revenue growth. Continuously worked with account management and key clients to identify gaps in data offering and brought on new suppliers to ensure data supply met customers’ needs and expectations. 

Certifications 
CSM
CSPO

Data Product Manager

Continuously measured and analyzed product KPIs and developments to ensure strategic goals were met while working closely with the commercial side of the business, including Sales, Marketing, Commercial and Legal teams to ensure successful product launches and customer messaging. 

Data Production Product Owner

Lead team in automating 90% of manual tasks in the project cycle. Reduced manual quality assurance testing by 55% through automation. I was passionate about improving the skills and abilities of reports including encouraging and facilitating training which ultimately ensure promotions for entry-level positions into skills development roles. 
Employment Involvement
o	Employee Engagement Office Leader
o	Corporate Social Responsibility Team Leader for local office
o	Social & Charity Committee Team Member

Data Production Team Manager

Project managed approximately 180 data delivery cycles annually with a 98% on time delivery rate.

Senior Data Production Project Analyst

Coordinated the success of the Customer Support team ensuring tickets were resolved quickly and efficiently. Maintained a customer satisfaction score of 96%.

Customer Support Team Coordinator

EOS REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT GROUP - Rosemont at Clemson

Solely responsible for the success of a new apartment community. Accomplishments included increasing occupancy from 40 per cent to 100 per cent with a waitlist, raising rent revenues 37 per cent in less than a year. Additionally wrote and maintained the budget and legal requirements to operate

Community Sales Director and Engagement Manager

Avista Solutions

Generate new leads for account management teams through cold calling and market outreach, identifying and qualifying the most leads three months in a row.

Sales and Marketing Specialist

We make data processing of time-series faster, better and more frequent with fewer data points so you can learn, gain value and optimize your data solutions faster with clever predictions for the future.  

I make sure our product serves our clients needs and play a key role in helping people understand the value in processing their small data time-series inputs sooner. Data is complex at the simplest of times, but if you don't maintain the flow of data arriving in real time you're likely to get stuck during your big data processing. TUBR ML helps you process and predict with small inputs to realise your value sooner. 



Fun Facts :

My legal name is Evan-Alison, but my "everyday name"​ is my nickname, Dash. This is because the hyphen in my name makes a "dash".

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