Matthew Ward

Matthew joined Raise at its inception, advising and supporting the fundraising process of multiple high growth businesses from a wide range of sectors, focusing on the development of their investor documents, equity story and value proposition, demonstrating a strong technical knowledge and understanding of the scale up / start up ecosystem and entrepreneurial journey.

Matthew has also recently taken on the role of Programme Manager leading Raise Programme 8.0.

Matthew has spent four years to date at PwC, initially in Transaction Services focusing on Financial Due Diligence on entrepreneurial private businesses with a focused interest of the entrepreneurial journey and growth strategies of SME's.

Matthew has experience mentoring tech start-ups and supporting early stage businesses and was involved in the successful acquisition of one of those businesses.

Matthew is also an experienced volunteer in St John Ambulance and a keen musician in his spare time.