Our team

Adrian Calder
Founder and MD

Adrian is perfectly placed to be VenturePro’s Founder and Managing Director. Over the past two decades, he has gained direct experience that enables him to understand the differing perspectives of entrepreneurs, investors and advisors across the UK’s startup ecosystem.

As the Founder of VenturePro, he knows all too well the hassle involved in maintaining the data needed to enable a startup to meet its compliance requirements in the UK, whilst also sharing relevant information in a timely manner with investors and advisors. On the flip side, having built and then maintained the portfolio reporting framework for one of the most well-known early stage investment groups in the UK, Adrian understands the effort required by investors to collect and analyse data on their portfolio. And having spent years working for one of the world’s largest accounting firms, again he is easily able to relate to the law firms and accountancy practices that advise startups and investors at different times during a typical startup’s journey from incorporation to Exit.

Using this rare blend of insight, Adrian continues to work with a flexible team of software developers based both in the UK and Eastern Europe to make startups’ lives easier, by enabling them to deal with more and more of their company administration and reporting through VenturePro’s integrated platform designed specifically for UK startups, investors and advisors.

Andreas Philippi
Co-Founder and CTO

Andreas has over two decades of experience working specifically with Ruby-based software-as-a-service web applications, so was the perfect candidate to take over as VenturePro’s lead developer when Mike decided to settle down and start a family.

Based in Romania, he has a degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, and has driven the development of the entire company-side of the VenturePro platform.

In Memoriam – In Honour of Mike Dunford

Mike tragically died in January 2025, just weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. Although he moved into a purely advisory role back in 2015, Mike played a crucial part in the company’s early startup journey as technical Co-Founder (and CTO from 2012-2015). Working solely for sweat equity, Mike partnered with VenturePro’s Founder to develop the platform from an alpha product into a stable web application – enabling us to sign up our first paying clients, and acting as a bridge until we raised the seed funding required to recruit a permanent CTO.

Putting business to one side, Mike was also one of our Founder’s closest personal friends. Having originally met as undergraduates at the same Cambridge college back in the mid-1990s, Mike and Adrian stayed friends for thirty years. The comical memories are as numerous as they are precious – from water pistol fights in the college gardens to beer nights with friends in London.

Our thoughts remain with his wife and love of his life Emma, and their two young girls.

Rest in peace our friend.