James Middleton - Founder, Decollare Capital

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Work Background

Decollare Capital LimitedFounder

Nov. 2022London, England, United KingdomDecollare Capital specialises in investment readiness for early-stage startups (Pre-seed to Series A). We help startups with business planning, financial forecast modelling, valuation, investor messaging and also with connections to VCs and angel syndicates. We also offer fractional FD and other advisory services.

Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovationMentor

Nov. 2023Advisor to very early-stage startups in the Undaunted incubator run by Imperial College and the Royal Institution.

InsightXAdvisor

Nov. 2023Advisor on capital raising, investor messaging and long term exit strategies for an independent intelligence, due diligence and reputation risk agency.

Jasmine Technologies LimitedChief Executive Officer

Jan. 2014 - Nov. 2023London, England, United KingdomFounder & CEO of the company which launched Street Stream, an asset-light same-day delivery marketplace connecting businesses with independent couriers. I grew the business from the idea stage to exit as a solo entrepreneur oversaw technological development recruited and managed staff grew the customer base successfully raised investment sold the business to an established company

MillenniumConsultant

Apr. 2014 - Sep. 2014LondonContract researcher developing quantitative long/short global macro models Built a cross-equity index futures forecasting model Built a cross-commodity futures forecasting model

BlackRockDirector

Dec. 2009 - Sep. 2013London, United KingdomResearch director for a quantitative global macro hedge fund with a focus on tactical asset allocation, cross-equity index trades and commodities. Part of a two-person team that built BGI’s highly-successful active commodity futures trading model from scratch Built successful signals for making the tactical asset allocation decision between equities and cash and managed the TAA model Built successful signals for cross-equity index futures trading and managed the ‘XEI’ model

Barclays Global InvestorsPrincipal

Oct. 2002 - Dec. 2009London, United Kingdomsee BlackRock description (BGI was sold by Barclays to BlackRock in 2009).

Tilney Capital ManagementInvestment Analyst

Apr. 2000 - Dec. 2001Equity analysis for a long/short equity hedge fund

Alliance TrustAnalyst

Apr. 1996 - Apr. 2000Dundee, United KingdomEquity analyst for the Alliance's investment trusts, specialising in bottom-up analysis of UK companies.