Nine Bar

Built it. Lost it.
Built it again.

Sixteen years building businesses. Venture-backed founder, £130M raised alongside founders, and a partner in one of Mallorca’s largest restaurant groups.

Jamie Mussett Harford
  1. Age 10Started work in the family restaurant.
  2. 2012Founded Ninety Nine Healthy Fast Food on £20,000 in total. More than 600,000 meals in the first year, several sites, and a small PLC exit.
  3. NextBuilt an automotive styling business that worked with leading automotive brands, elite athletes and celebrities.
  4. 2018The business failed after taking outside funding: £250,000 of investment became £0. The same year, a first consulting job, for £250 as a subcontractor.
  5. 2019Moved the family to Mallorca. Six months out of work, then a social media job and the start of the rebuild.
  6. 202068 successful equity crowdfunding campaigns in a single year: 13% of Europe's and 20% of the UK's.
  7. 2024£4.75M raised with clients from outreach. A free community for founders, with free pitch deck reviews. Fiverr ambassador and content creator for its global LinkedIn campaign.
  8. 2025Stepped back from running raises after 150+ rounds and £130M raised alongside founders. €38M in hospitality term sheets. In August, a rare bone marrow cancer.
“Pressure is a privilege. Embrace it. It means you have something you care about and something worth fighting for.”

I started in my family's restaurant when I was ten. Since then I've built businesses in food, cars and hospitality, raised venture capital for my own companies and £130M alongside founders across more than 150 funding rounds. I've worked for A-list celebrities and advised billionaires.

In Mallorca I'm a partner in one of the island's largest restaurant groups, and I work alongside its most powerful operators. Across the businesses I've built and advised, I've generated millions in revenue.

As a consultant, I've generated over £1 million in fees. Nine Bar is that work: high-impact consulting for hospitality, leisure, retail and technology businesses, where the decision is expensive and the pressure is real.

I've also lost everything. I took outside funding I wasn't ready for, and in 2018 the business failed. I couldn't pay my phone bill. In 2019 we moved to Spain. I was out of work for six months, then took a social media job and started to rebuild.

In 2025 I thought I was burnt out. It was a rare bone marrow cancer. I didn't work for months. I'm still in treatment, and I'm building again.

Along the way I've built brands and products, raised capital, written the financial models, run the marketing, built the reporting, written the operations guides and moved my family to Spain, where I've lived and worked since 2019. That is what I bring to every mandate.

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 from my LinkedIn. Some names left out: discretion is part of the work.

“Working with Jamie changed our whole trajectory and growth.”

Juan Ferrer, Enjoy Group

“I worked with Jamie on our funding round. Excellent results.”

John Lewis, Yavrio

“This has been a brilliant service, we fixed some fundamental problems with the narrative and the output was fantastic. Highly recommend working with Jamie.”

Founder of a climate-tech start-up, after a pitch deck rebuilt in a day, 2023

“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.”

Founder of a national index of investment demand, two decades in SME investment, 2021

“Jamie, you don't talk about your services ever, they are really great, and can help lots of people.”

A founder in Jamie's community of 250+ founders, 2024

“The best pitch deck I've ever seen.”

Said of Jamie's decks, more than once

In public, every day.

Everything I teach, I have written down where anyone can check it.

1,000+posts, every one written by hand, since August 2020

19K+followers on LinkedIn: founders, owners and investors

3M+impressions in twelve months

Fiverrambassador and content creator for its global LinkedIn campaign, 2024

A rustic stone house with blue shutters in Deià, Mallorca

Pressure is
what makes it.

An espresso machine pushes water through the coffee at nine bars of pressure.
Below that, you get wet coffee. I grew up in restaurants, so that's how I think about it.