Simon Demarmels

About

Through my work, including as a founding partner at Evolute, I have had the privilege of working closely with a wide range of start-ups and scale-ups, mainly in the context of selling their business or raising growth capital.

Over time, that work has shifted toward science-based and highly technical companies. These are businesses built on R&D, complex products, and long development cycles.

There is a significant gap between the world of a founder and an investor. Founders live in experiments, prototypes, roadmaps, and hard technical trade-offs. Capital markets live in narratives, metrics, risk, and comparables. Many technically strong companies do not struggle because their technology is weak, but because they cannot translate years of R&D and product progress into something the market can underwrite.

That gap is what shaped Evolute. We work with scale-ups and mature technology companies to turn technical and real commercial progress into something investors and acquirers can actually price, fund, and commit to.

What excites me most is working with teams at the frontier of technology. I enjoy uncovering what actually drives their business and turning that into the next step, whether that is a financing round, a strategic shift, or an exit. My role is to help cut through the noise so they can build companies that are not just investable, but durable.