Voluntas Elevate And Afinico Partner To Accelerate Business Growth

• Partnership supports clients to grow and scale
  beyond $100m ARR 
• Links founders and maturing
  businesses with technological venture studio and
  incubator 
• Positions founders for strategic
  exit 

Auckland, 16 December
2024 – Voluntas
Elevate and Afinico
have formed a partnership combining strategic advisory
services with transformation expertise to help businesses
achieve rapid, scalable growth from $1m to $100m annual
recurring revenue (ARR) and beyond. By integrating the
pair’s professional consultation and business
transformation systems, they provide scaling capabilities
across a business’s lifecycle.  

Afinico
and Voluntas Elevate have proven success of improving
business success rates, helping companies address
product-market fit, marketing, team, finance, technology and
operational challenges, all of which are the major
contributors for why many businesses end up
failing. 

Voluntas Elevate’s strength is in
uplifting early-stage founders that are pre-revenue or with
ARRs reaching $1m and scaling them to the $10m ARR mark.
Afinico has a track record of success in helping more mature
organisations achieve profitable growth beyond $10m and even
$100m in revenue.  

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“Wayne and
I both believe that good businesses improve people and
communities. We care about uplifting people, supporting
ambitious founders, and ensuring that people don’t give
away their business to grow it. We learned valuable skills
exiting our own companies and through this partnership we
want to help other founders find the same success,” says
Jason Holdsworth, Founding Partner, Voluntas
Group.    

Together
Voluntas Elevate and Afinico facilitate the transition
between business lifecycles using improved business process,
AI and analytics, and other new and bespoke technologies.
They bring a streamlined approach to overcoming scaling
challenges and achieving sustainable growth in competitive
markets.  

The combined services aim to
address common growth pain points and position clients for
long-term success, appealing to founders across the
spectrum: those with momentum and ready to scale, those
stalled between growth phases, and those ready to compete
with businesses operating in the world’s largest
markets.  

“We’re here to
help businesses grow and increase their economic value,”
says Wayne Yarr, Founding Partner at Afinico. “Too many
local businesses don’t understand the growth opportunity
from overseas markets or how to achieve the maximum economic
value from them. With the right guidance and partnerships,
founders can significantly increase their
valuation.” 

Afinico combines
analytics, data and AI with transformation advisory services
to help founders of technology and SaaS services companies
build future-ready businesses. It has a proven model
designed to help established companies quickly accelerate
profitable growth within the first 12 to 18 months, build a
scalable business model with sustainable growth over a
3-year operating period and help founders prepare for a
successful exit. 

By collaborating with Voluntas
Elevate, Afinico connects into a broader ecosystem of
professional services, people and capital. Key among them is
Voluntas Elevate’s venture studio and technological
incubator.  

“Businesses often
struggle to find suitable technology solutions to suit their
specific needs, leaving leaders with no choice but to buy or
create their own solutions. Voluntas Elevate works with a
diverse group of founders and startups with the skills to
create the applications and platforms needed to achieve
sustainable growth,” says
Wayne. 

At the same time, Voluntas
Elevate will leverage Afinico’s technology and expertise
to help clients streamline operations, acquire new
customers, and build strong, adaptable cultures. These
capabilities align with Voluntas Elevate’s growth,
planning, governance, capital acquisition and talent
development support
services.  

“Voluntas Elevate
provides world-class tools and expertise to help clients
gain the momentum and skills to scale up. Working with
Afinico we can help businesses go much, much further. We
expect companies that leverage this partnership to see rapid
growth and be positioned for strategic exits within five to
ten years,” says
Jason.  

About Voluntas
Elevate
Voluntas Elevate is a strategic advisory
firm dedicated to elevating tech founders who have not found
the necessary support within the traditional VC model. With
a focus on growth and scaling, planning and governance,
capital acquisition, and talent development and acquisition,
Voluntas Elevate partners with founders globally to achieve
sustainable growth and long-term value. The firm is part of
the Voluntas Group, which combines philanthropy, technology,
and strategic support to create positive impact across
individuals and communities. For more information, visit www.voluntaselevate.com. 

About
Afinico 
Afinico is a transformation
analytics and advisory company, helping technology and
business services leaders with bold ambitions, build future
businesses with sustainable growth and enterprise value.
Their transformation advisory team, who have significant
experience leading business turnaround, transformation,
innovation and M&A integration, combines deep business
expertise with data analytics and behavioural science
research, to help companies accelerate change, build culture
and grow customers with positive cashflow. Visit www.afinico.com  

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