ComplyAdvantage is an AI-driven financial crime risk detection platform with a unique offering for early-stage fintechs. We can help businesses get started with the AML and KYC solutions they need to achieve authorisation, and scale with them as their business grows. Sturgeon Ventures has been an invaluable partner over the past decade, referring circa. 50 firms in their network to us. We look forward to working together closely for many more years.
The entire Sturgeon team consistently executes with precision, which enables me to deliver excellent advisory services to my clients. And, the entire team is an absolute pleasure to work with.
Nigel is a Director and Westlecot Business Consultants is an Operating Company for unregulated work attached to Sturgeon Ventures’ mandates.
“Having worked with a leading Regulatory Hosting Firm as an Appointed Representative Firm, where we also used their discretionary investment management hosting with a fund, their service was just a pure service offering, whilst Sturgeon is fully integrated in the business of the Incubated Firm”
Launching a fund is a challenge as you have to navigate across a jungle of service providers and you can provide efficiency in this process. I remember when we met last year. In one meeting you understood what I wanted to achieve and made all relevant introductions. You are an entrepreneur and understand what we are going though. This is key. We went though good and challenging times. I remember when we had the issue with a press release. Having a partner who does not “point fingers” but assumes its responsibility is important.
I have known Seonaid & the team at Sturgeon for coming up to 10 years, and when we were looking for a Regulatory Incubation partner during the early years of Haven Cove, there was only one phone call we made. Their standalone Investment Manager structure (with no AR) is extremely streamlined & efficient, providing an invaluable integrated platform in the early years of trying to grow a fund. Furthermore, Seonaid and the team have an unrivalled knowledge of their business, a strong entrepreneurial spirit & “can-do” attitude, and a genuine commitment to their partners and clients.
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My recommendation to fellow aspiring fund managers is to get a call with Ms.Seonaid Mackenzie, the Founder of Sturgeon Ventures. Through years of experience in empowering entrepreneurs, Seonaid shared some important legal and regulatory points with me and my team which will be very critical to our journey and, even though our business model was not something Sturgeon could directly help with, we were pointed to the right direction and received several valuable introductions. January 2021.
Sturgeon Ventures supported Moelis & Company by providing an ‘umbrella’ UK compliance function for our European advisory practice. This temporary solution enabled our firm to be in a position to provide financial advice to our clients rapidly while, in parallel, Sturgeon Ventures assisted CCL Compliance in applying for our own full FCA authorisation. Sturgeon Ventures worked seamlessly with our US compliance function during both the incubation and transition period. We found their advice and service to be both professional and invaluable for an advisory firm such as ours seeking to establish a UK base in a rapid and efficient manner.
We have had the good fortune to have worked with Seonaid and the team at Sturgeon for close to four years now. They have consistently provided intelligent, nimble and high quality support and advice. As a guide to help Research Tree compliantly navigate the fast-changing environment in which we operate, Sturgeon has been first-rate. Thank you to all the team and we are very much looking forward to the further growth of our ongoing relationship.
Sturgeon helped us get started really fast by providing regulatory cover as the Portfolio Manager. Assisting with implementing process and procedures as the governance team on the Investment Committee so we could launch fast, helping us to operate as a regulated entity, with our own firm as the Appointed Representative to be the advisor and promoter, until such time as we get directly authorised. It was also encouraging that the Sturgeon team took a real interest in our investee companies.
Sturgeon Ventures provided us with the Regulatory Framework to launch our fund https://www.finncap.com/slide-rule-fund as the Interim Portfolio Manager and essential compliance functions when the Slide Rule Fund, a UK small/mid-cap fund was launched on the Montlake Platform; whilst Finncap upgraded our regulatory permissions. The team were helpful, friendly and patient, and provided lots of useful advice and help well above compliance duties. Overall, a very positive experience.
FCA Logo is never to be used in branding by FCA Regulated Firms, their Appointed Representative Firms or any other associated company.
Consumer duty refers to the responsibility of consumers to make informed and ethical choices when it comes to purchasing goods and services. It encompasses the idea that consumers should consider the impact of their consumption habits on society, the environment, and other stakeholders.
Why should we care, it’s just a little education, whilst pondering about why 15th January is called Blue Monday, I thought why the rainbow is a symbol of hope… and the educational piece came about.
Sturgeon Ventures supports Crosslight Advice and Seonaid Mackenzie is a trustee, this charity is having an impact on our society during these times of hardship www.crosslightadvice.org.
Sturgeon Ventures recently read that the FCA has launched a permanent Digital Sandbox for those involved in a variety of related themes, including – banking, payments, pensions and wholesale sell and buy-sides.
Sturgeon Ventures is pleased to share the latest press release from The Women in Finance Charter Annual Review 2022 and proud to say it has been a signatory to the Charter since its inception in July 2016.
Sturgeon Ventures likes to share great articles on important topics for our industry. See below for a recent article from Osborne Clarke on the issues around sustainable ESG performance or specific ESG-linked activities.
Sturgeon Ventures are pleased to announce that they have won the recent Lawyers Worldwide Awards 2023 for Start-up Compliance Consultancy Firm of the Year – UK.
