Raising growth capital
for private UK companies

— For Companies

Grow your business with the right
funding from the right investors

Expertise

20 years of public and private company fundraising, combined with that of our partnerships.

Get investor ready

Save time with expert analysis of investor pitch and data room documents freeing up your time to get on with what you do best, growing your business.

Investment

We will carefully select and facilitate appropriate introductions for your stage and requirements of funding.

— For Investors

Discover Great Investment Opportunities

Carefully curated access to select companies

We are very selective about who we raise money for so we always ensure a company is of high quality before working with them and introducing them to you.

Time efficient

We won’t bombard you with irrelevant deal flow that doesn’t fit your investment criteria and we will ensure the company’s data room contains what you need access to from the offset to avoid delays to the investment process.

Independent and boutique

We have no targets to meet, no pressure to bring in revenues so will never push a bad deal your way in order to meet targets. We just love passionate founders and smaller companies who want to grow their businesses, and in turn the UK economy.

About the company

Woodley Consulting Ltd raises money for seed, venture and growth stage companies. We use a public markets approach to getting private companies’ investor ready for a fundraise … and then raise the money.  

We work with select partners, to combine market experience and contacts to offer insights on the market, valuation, provide comment and analysis of pitch materials, ask probing questions and prep you for different meeting styles with our different types of investors. We summarise your investment case and are very targeted in our approach to investors, giving you feedback every step of the way. 

Orana Corporate LLP is a boutique corporate advisory and services practice which partners with high growth businesses providing corporate finance advise.

Leander Capital Partners is an ECM and corporate advisory boutique with over 100 years of experience helping clients achieve their goals.

Ragnar Capital Partners is a corporate finance company specialising in raising capital for high growth public and private companies.

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Asset Match Limited is a marketplace for trading UK private company shares.

About Hannah Woodley

I started my career with a brief stint in financial PR before being recruited to start the Investor Relations function at Collins Stewart (now Canaccord) in 2004. I then joined the Small and Mid Cap No 1 ranked Equity Sales desk working on various Equity Capital Markets transactions (IPOs and secondaries). 

I have since worked at a number of leading growth company Investment Banks including Panmure Gordon, Zeus Capital, and Singer Capital Markets where I co-headed their ESG advisory function. 

My long-standing passion for property renovation led me to start Victoria Woodley Ltd in 2014 where I renovated and extended a number of houses and flats in South West London.  I have now renovated 12 of my own properties and project managed the renovation and new builds of another 10. 

Combining my entrepreneurial spirit with my love of smaller companies, I started Woodley Consulting Ltd in February 2022 to help UK private companies raise growth capital. A particularly tough market necessitated a lot of business development to grow from a handful of potential investors to great relationships with an investor pool of over 200 HNWs, Family Offices, VCs, VCTs, PE and Institutions. In two years, I have successfully raised money for 10 businesses.

Hannah Woodley

I believe in the power of teamwork, so on all of the fundraises I work on, I work in partnership with those I have trusted professional relationships with.  This means that as a client you get the benefit of combined experience and access to my partners’ contacts. I work with Orana Corporate, Leander Capital and Ragnar Capital.  

Aside from helping private companies raise money, I am now Commercial Director of Asset Match Ltd.  Asset Match is an online marketplace to buy and sell shares in UK private companies via periodic online auctions. The liquidity opportunities it creates for companies and investors allows the syphoning off of cash as much as it allows sophisticated investors the opportunity to buy shares in private companies, they otherwise wouldn’t have access to.

“Hannah was instrumental in respect to our last fund round from establishing the profile of investors to engage, supporting the DD process and then getting the deal closed. Having a proper investment partner and not just an introducer makes all the difference.”

Sam Jarvis

CEO, HubBox

“Hannah was very proactive in finding us the right sort of investor in our last funding round, and handheld through the process to completion.  Her investor also increased the original cheque size fourfold during the process making a significant contribution to the overall very successful outcome.”

Sam Tucker

CFO, Stubbern Edge Group

“Hannah introduced us to an angel syndicate and a HNW who invested when we had very low monthly reoccurring revenues – a difficult stage to find investors!  Using Hannah and Alex enabled us to spend more time on running the business and less time tracking down potential investors. We will definitely be using them again in the future.”

Sahil Sethi

CEO Maji

“Hannah has introduced us to some great companies, they are always relevant and in our sweet spot in terms of investment criteria.  She has consistently listened to what we are interested in and doesn’t bombard us with irrelevant deal flow. We always look forward to seeing what is coming up next.”

Gabbie Swycher

Redrice Ventures

“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Hannah, and her ability to consistently introduce us to high-quality founders and promising opportunities has been highly valuable. She not only has a keen eye for spotting great deals, but also goes above and beyond in facilitating introductions and arranging calls, and I look forward to continuing our partnership.”

Anna Sweetman

Active Partners