Sam Simpson

You're seeking that all-important funding to catapult you to the next level.

YET despite how motivated you are and how good your business idea is, you may still struggle to…

▫️ Get funding because of the advance assurance needed
▫️ Afford the production of expensive legal paperwork
▫️ Know-how to find those elusive investors.

Simplifying and accelerating the early-stage investment legal journey, FounderCatalyst is the ONLY affordable fixed price method of funding round legals for start-ups.

WHO WE HELP
Pre-incorporation to start-ups in England & Wales that want expert AND affordable help with SEIS & EIS and the legal process and documentation required to complete their funding journey. 

3 WAYS WE HELP
1. Apply for SEIS & EIS advance assurance
2. Produce all legal funding round paperwork and manage investor engagement
3. Introduce start-ups to possible sources of funding.

Enjoy the relief all of the legal paperwork you need in as little as 30 minutes and your investor engagement managed through the process.  

PROOF WE HELP
✅  Complete fixed price service per funding round just £1,495 +vat
✅  99% success rate for advance assurance
✅  Legal paperwork produced in just 30 minutes.

YOUR NEXT STEP
Haven’t yet got your funding legals sorted and you’re determined to give your start-up the best and most affordable chance of success?

Book a chat at https://calendly.com/sam-fc/meet

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Sam

"Founders seeking to raise equity finance - use this service! It’s simple to use, reliable & secure, & provides unrivalled value for money. You're in complete control of your fundraising process & timescales." Jules & Charlie, Founders, The Nue Co

FREE RESOURCES
Because we’re here to help start-ups, we offer the following for free:

✅  SEIS/EIS advance assurance submission
✅  Customised Term Sheet
✅  Template Forecast Models
✅  Founder Collaboration Agreements

Visit: foundercatalyst.com to find out more and access the freebies.

SPECIALITIES: Start-up, Startup, Start Up Funding, Funding Round, Funding, Investment, Investor, Investor Engagement, Angel Investor, SEIS, EIS

Co-Founder and CCO

Forge Technologies is a digital IT services business focusing on three technology pillars; Future workplace, Cloud optimisation and Network transformation. Forge has no legacy infrastructure that it needs to deliver returns against; no costly office space, external investors or banking covenants and unencumbered from legacy working practices that have to be turned on their head to adapt to new working practices.

Within Forge Technologies, I am responsible for all aspects of commercial and back office services.

Yogesh Gupta PhD

Interim Manager | Business Transformation | Asset Management | Enterprise Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Advisory Council

Gaston AI

Founder | CEO |  Start-up  | AI | Precision Nutrition | Health | Wellbeing 

Mitomarin

Advisor | Health | Nutrition

Imperial Launch

Mentor | Startups | Business Strategy | Financial Modelling | Product Commercialisation

University of Southampton

Advising on curriculum development of degree programs in Chemical Engineering and facilitating two-way exchange between academic and industrial collaborators. Promoting the value of student industrial placements through the teaching of appropriate skills and provision of opportunities.

Board Member | Industrial Advisory Board | Chemical Engineering 

Siimac Consultancy Ltd

Director | Oil & Gas | Energy | Business Transformation | Operational Excellence | Asset Management

Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)

✔️ Subject Matter and Advisor at European Commissions’ SME Instrument (Horizon 2020 – an EU Framework Program for market-creating Research and Innovations) with evaluations for investment opportunities (investment size of € 0.5M to 2.5M) for commercialising innovations in Energy, Renewables and Oil & Gas sectors. 

The Framework SME Instrument Program addresses SMEs with radically new ideas underpinned by a business case and commercialising marketable innovation solutions (including scale-up strategies).

Program Advisor | Innovation Management | Renewables | Energy | Oil & Gas | Horizon-2020

Spirit Energy

✔️ Subject Matter for Asset Management (ISO 55000x) supporting design and implementation of critical components of enterprise risk management (Barrier Management) framework which focused on reducing operational, quality, health & safety and environmental risks of oil production assets for an upstream operator in North Sea.

🔸 My Expertise: Asset Management | ISO 55000x | Enterprise Risk Management | Barrier Management | Risk Identification and Prevention | Stakeholder Management | Asset Care Plans | Shutdown Management | Turnarounds and Outages Management | Reliability Engineering | Asset Performance Improvement Programs

Nostrum Oil & Gas

Interim Manager | Business Transformation | Operational Excellence | Asset Management | Maintenance 

Munters

Interim Manager | Strategic Transformation | Business Go-Live | Rental | Air Treatment Solutions 

Food is the most powerful, yet underutilised tool in preventing and managing chronic disease. Over 1 billion people globally suffer from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune conditions, and gastrointestinal disorders. Billions more are at risk — often unknowingly — due to genetic predisposition, lifestyle patterns, or early metabolic dysfunction.

With Gaston AI, we are building core AI to transform everyday food environments into intelligent, preventative health ecosystems.

We’ve built a precision nutrition platform that uses AI, biomarker data, medical conditions (both present and predicted), and nutritional science to personalise food decisions — in real time and at scale.

Our AI:

👉 Identifies optimal foods based on individual metabolic markers, inflammation levels, insulin sensitivity, and more

👉 Supports people with diagnosed conditions (e.g., Type 2 diabetes, celiac, hypertension)

👉 Predicts and modulates future risk using longitudinal data, lifestyle inputs, and digital twins

👉 Recommends phytonutrients and food patterns that positively influence gene expression — boosting epigenetic health and long-term resilience

Whether it’s a mother choosing gut-friendly snacks for her pre-diabetic child, a professional managing high cholesterol, or someone wanting to boost longevity through food — Gaston AI makes deeply personalised, evidence-based choices seamless.

We’re not just making food safer or easier to shop. We’re enabling a future where personalised nutrition is a core pillar of preventative healthcare — and where food systems are intelligent enough to adapt to every individual’s biology, context, and potential.

🔥 Find out more at www.gastonai.com

🔥 Validation Comes in Many Forms. Sometimes, it's Global 🌍 

2026 has already been a year of massive execution for Gaston AI. From securing a contract with Punta Medica to scaling our predictive AI models across 40+ major chronic diseases.

But the biggest milestone of all is just days away from being official.
We’ve just received institutional validation from one of the world’s most significant global organisations. This partnership validates our clinical framework on a global stage and provides the "burden of evidence" that the future of Food-as-Medicine is here.

We are opening our Seed round (EIS available) to scale this global infrastructure.

The official press release drops soon. Keep an eye on this space.


#HealthTech #AI #FoodAsMedicine #GlobalHealth #SeedRound #GastonAi #PreventiveHealth #AI #Innovation #ComingSoon

Healthcare Disruptor | TEDx Speaker | Speaker at UN | Architecting the Future of Representative Intelligence | Predictive Nutrition & Metabolic Longevity

On Day 27 of #HeartHealthMonth, we are taking time for reflection. Reflection for why we cant settle for 'normal'. As we approach the end of #HeartHealthMonth, we ask a fundamental question - why are we still treating the most predictable diseases on earth as an "accident"?

We spent this month writing about gut-heart axis, microvascular intelligence and menopause pivot because there aren't just health topics, they are front lines of data revolution. We took this initiative because 'normal' heart health in modern times is a failing grade. Because, in my humble opinion;

❌ "Normal" means waiting for a symptom before taking a scan.
❌ "Normal" means ignoring the 30-year silent metabolic lead-up to a cardiac event.
❌ "Normal" means treating women as an afterthought in cardiovascular research.

For some reason, I am wired to refuse to accept "normal". We have woven this in our culture at Gaston AI and we believe the gap between current medical outcomes and what is scientifically possible where Representative Intelligence must live. 

Our mission this month wasn't just to educate; it was to advocate for a shift in Biological Infrastructure. We’ve highlighted that heart disease doesn't start in the heart it starts in the gut, the metabolism, and the immune system. By the time it reaches the heart, it’s a late-stage event.

By devoting this month's to #hearthealth, we also wanted to show you how our teams at Gaston AI is changing the narrative. We are proving that when you monitor the right biomarkers, e.g. glycemic variability, HRV kinetics, and systemic inflammatory noise, etc., you stop being a passenger in your own aging process.

The reflection is simple: We don't need more "awareness." We need better architecture. And with Gaston AI, its already here!

Tomorrow, we close the month with a roadmap for the individual. We will move from the Systemic to the Personal offering a blueprint for how you can do things differently in 2026 and beyond.

👉 Just comment "Heart" to receive our 2026 Longevity Checklist


#GastonAI #HeartHealthMonth #Reflection #Medicine30 #LongevityArchitecture #HealthEquity #PredictiveHealth #SystemicWellness #FounderVisions #HeartHealth2026

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