Andy has a vision, but isn’t sure how to realise it. Red knows how to make things happen. Together they do something remarkable.
That's what we do for early-stage companies. We have the connections and capabilities to accelerate your growth.
RedmetAndy
Growth accelerators for disruptive businesses
Some clues about how Red met Andy
We are growth accelerators - A collective of senior operators providing capital, connections, customer growth, creativity, and capability at the moments that matter most.
We move fast, we create momentum.
We don’t do bloated retainers, or offer lofty advice.
We bring a century of collective experience, pointed directly at your biggest problems.
Make your brand a business muliplier
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Use creativity as a differentiator
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Five disciplines. One team.
Capital
Getting funded isn't just about having a great deck.
It's about being in the right rooms, with the right story, at the right time. We have deep VC and investor relationships, and we know how to position your business to make the most of them. From seed to Series B, we've been on both sides of the table.
Connections
The right introduction at the right moment can change everything.
A board member who's done it before. A customer who becomes a champion. A partner who unlocks a new market. A gun hire who supercharges your growth. We've spent decades building the networks that matter. And we use them.
Customer Growth
Strategy is only as good as the revenue it creates.
We build go to market engines that work - brand positioning, sales pitch refinement, demand generation, acquisition & retention customer strategies. For B2B and B2C, from first customer to scalable growth. We don't hand you a deck and disappear. We help you build enduring capability, then stay until it's working.
Capability
Sometimes you need to move before you can afford to hire. Sometimes you need to know what great looks like before you recruit for it.
We can embed fractionally across any of our disciplines - acting as your part time CMO, creative lead, growth operator or chief of staff until you're ready to bring it in house. And when you are, we help you find the right person and hand over cleanly.
Creativity
In a crowded market, the best defensible moat is a brand story nobody else can tell.
We create brand worlds, narratives, visual identities and communications that cut through for businesses that need to punch above their weight from day one.
Meet the Team
Simon Gawn
Simon is a master connector and thrives on the feeling of building momentum behind an idea. He is fascinated by the power of getting the right people into the room at the right time.
He cut his teeth building brands and ideas inside some of the world’s best agencies in New York, London, Amsterdam, Australia, and New Zealand.
As technology evolved he moved closer to early-stage businesses.
Founder / Customers and Capital
Ben Coulson
Founder / Creativity
Ben’s creativity is a business multiplier. His expertise in brand creation and development makes him a weapon for early growth.
Ben has worked on brands big and small, all over the world. With 25 years of understanding how brands and customers connect.
Ben has a rare talent for telling a brand’s story, in a compelling and original way.
Sam Garvin
Partner / MD
Sam has deep networks in the startup ecosystem and knows how to get you into the right rooms with the right people.
An expert in people and cuture with 10 years experience hiring, firing, and helping both early stage startups and global tech companies scale.
Sam’s past founder experience and can help you see around corners and be ready for the next stage in your journey.
Danielle Hamilton
Partner / CMO
Danielle is a globally-experienced marketeer with deep demand generation, brand, product, customer marketing, advertising agency experience.
She is passionate about brand led growth; balancing commercial acumen, creative savvy, and brand-building smarts.
Fluent in solving complex business challenges with out-of-the-box, consumer-first solutions. A brand, marketing & comms leader who believes winning in the marketplace starts with winning internally with the team culture.
A cross functional collaborator who knows how to bring the best out of individuals, with an eternally positive ‘can-do’ attitude and proven track record in dynamic, pressure-cooker, results driven environments.
Danielle’s experiance ranges from financial services, consumer, retail, technology, FMCG and lifestyle experience across a number of Fortune 500 brands.
Kim Chaberlian
Partner / COO and US lead
Kim loves the opportunity to help fast-growing companies grow faster and run better.
Over the last 18+ years, she has worked across all parts of the organisation in high-growth tech companies, helping scale from early traction to $1B+ ARR.
Kim is hands-on, people-first, and data-driven.
She focus on simplifying complex problems and helping teams move faster with confidence. I'm an operator at heart.
Her background includes global GTM strategy, revenue and business operations, systems and data, and leadership development.
Kim tends to be most useful when things are moving quickly and the business needs more structure, not more noise.
She cares about doing meaningful work, delivering real results, and working with people that are genuinely awesome.
Robyn Spencer
Partner / Design
Robyn is RMA’s Design Director. Her extensive experience working in branding studio’s and advertising agencies all over the world, has honed her visual identity skills.
Robyn understands how brands live in both the digital and physical worlds. What sets a good brand apart in it’s category. And how a well designed & implemented brand system can be the difference between fame and obscurity in todays world.
Who we’ve helped
Ideally
RMA has helped bring a disruptive fin tech to life through customers, capital, creativity and the right connections.
Manifest
RMA has provided creativity, customer, capital and connection to scale Ideally
Trampoline
Admiral commands next generation screens. RMA has helped build invaluable momentum customers, capital, creativity and connection
Admiral
RMA has provided creativity, customer and capital and connection at scale for Ideally
New & Improved
Nevam creates live journey maps for marketers. RMA provided capital and customers
Nevam
RMA has created momentum, community, connection and key hires alongside planning and hosting events
Momentous
Momentus creates a Marketing Memory Layer. RMA provided capital, customers and creativity