#49 Inside the mind of an angel investor doing good and delivering profit, Marcus Exall founder of Up And To The Right

Welcome to episode 49 with Marcus Exall

A really nice guy, angel investor, business founder and charity trustee.

We talk about how starting and eventually selling a digital agency in London (Blue Barracuda sold to Draftfcb in 2013) changed his life. The conversation starts with his current business helping start-up founders Up and to the right and then he shares hisfounder story, the successful exit, the freedom that brings and some of the investments he has made.

This is a good episode for people wanting to understand how an Angel Investor thinks or wants to understand how a quality funding relationship should work.

His colleagues describe him as a ‘master networker and if he can’t solve your problems he knows someone who can’

He has played a leading role at stellar start-ups such as Monese and Mendi. He is on a mission to make life easier for founders.

‘I am focused on backing the person first and foremost? Mainly businesses ideas change through the process of building them. Most certainly a large part of it for me when I consider an investment is asking myself the questions, do I want to go on a journey with this person. What are their values? that's always a very important bit to me.

‘I'm constantly surprised about the capabilities, the amazing capabilities of the people that I'm fortunate enough to get involved with and most of what interests me about the business is the people themselves. I'm excited in those first interactions, there's a spark to the conversation and maybe they’re challenging challenging me and my ideas.’

Marcus talks about investing in Clim8 Invest and Fairwill, two exciting companies disrupting their respective industry’s (investment and will writing).

Up and 2 the Right - https://u2r.co/

Fairwill - https://farewill.com/

Clim8 Invest - https://clim8invest.com/