What is your business worth?
Not a rule of thumb: a valuation built from your real margin, the cash the business throws off, what a buyer or investor can finance, and the reasons they will accept the number. For owners selling, raising, buying out a partner or simply wanting to know.
Free, and in any language.
A number
with reasons.
A low, fair and stretch value, and what would raise it, built from your accounts.
“Jamie, you don't talk about your services ever, they are really great, and can help lots of people.”
£130Mraised alongside founders
350+business owners advised
19K+LinkedIn followers
Why most valuations are wrong.
The wrong profit
Owner's salary, one-off costs and family on the payroll never adjusted · the number a buyer will actually use
The wrong multiple
A multiple from a different sector, size or country · no account of the lease, the licence or the season
Dependence on you
A business that stops when you stop is worth a fraction of one that runs without you
No buyer in mind
A trade buyer, an investor and a bank each value the same business differently
What you get.
- The adjusted numbers
- Your accounts restated the way a buyer, an investor or a bank would read them.
- A range, with reasons
- A low, a fair and a stretch value, each with the argument that supports it and the facts that would move it.
- What adds value
- The handful of changes in the next six to twelve months that would raise the number, and by how much.
- Who it is for
- Owners preparing to sell, founders setting a price for a raise, partners buying each other out, and anyone deciding whether to keep going.
- How it starts
- A free WhatsApp chat with Jamie, in any language, about the business and what the valuation is for. Mutual NDA from the first message.
Built it. Lost it.
Built it again.
I've raised venture capital for my own companies and £130M alongside founders across more than 150 funding rounds, and advised over 350 business owners. I started in my family's restaurant at ten.
In 2018 I lost a business. I moved my family to Spain and rebuilt from nothing. The people I work with get someone who has made the expensive mistakes already.
The record.
150+funding rounds, 2018 to 2025
£130Mraised alongside founders
350+business owners advised
10,000+hours on fundraising
13%of Europe's equity crowdfunding campaigns in 2020, and 20% of the UK's: 68 rounds
£4.75Mraised with clients from outreach in 2024
€38Min hospitality term sheets
100+pitch decks written and designed
What people said.
Word for word. Some names left out: discretion is part of the work.
“Working with Jamie changed our whole trajectory and growth.”
“I worked with Jamie on our funding round. Excellent results.”
“This has been a brilliant service, we fixed some fundamental problems with the narrative and the output was fantastic. Highly recommend working with Jamie.”
“I chose to partner with [Jamie's team] as they have a proven track record in ensuring that those who commence or complete fundraising actually achieve it.”
“Jamie, you don't talk about your services ever, they are really great, and can help lots of people.”
“The best pitch deck I've ever seen.”
Questions owners ask.
How do you value a small business?
Usually as a multiple of its sustainable, adjusted profit, cross-checked against the cash it generates and against what similar businesses have sold for. The multiple moves with the sector, the size, how dependent the business is on the owner, the lease or licence and the quality of the numbers.
How do you value a startup with no profit?
By what it has proved: customers, revenue growth, the team and the size of the opportunity, compared with what investors have paid for similar companies at the same stage. The valuation is a negotiating position; the model behind it has to hold.
Is this a formal valuation for court or tax?
No. This is a commercial valuation for a decision: selling, raising, buying out a partner or planning. Where a sworn or regulated valuation is required, Jamie works alongside the professional who provides it.
How long does it take?
Two to three weeks from receiving the accounts for most small and medium businesses.
Nine Bar does not give regulated financial, legal or tax advice.
One chat. Every part of the business.
Money, marketing, websites, buying and selling. One person accountable for all of it.
Bring the
hard problem.
No call to book. Message Jamie on WhatsApp, in any language: the business and the decision in front of you.