Ricky Ollivierre
Partner
Ricky Ollivierre is a self-made entrepreneur, commercial operator and private-markets ecosystem builder. He has spent his career building teams, opening new markets and connecting companies with capital, talent and strategic opportunities globally.
Ricky is the founder of the IAM ecosystem and a key strategic partner to Universe Ventures. Through IAM Advisory, IAM Capital, IAM Academy and DealFlo, he works across an international network of entrepreneurs, family offices, institutional partners and senior financial professionals. His network provides access to structured debt-financing capabilities ranging from $1 million to $2 billion.
Ricky is currently building DealFlo, a social infrastructure platform designed to connect founders, investors and advisers across global private markets. He is also an active business commentator with an audience of more than 13,000 professionals and previously co-hosted 46 episodes of the entrepreneurship podcast Brutal Facts.
My Story
I built my career from the ground up through sales, recruitment and an ability to connect people with opportunities. That experience taught me something that has guided every chapter of my career: businesses do not scale through ideas alone. They scale when the right people, capital and commercial relationships come together at the right moment.
I began by building teams and developing new commercial divisions. My work took me across specialist recruitment, energy, emerging technology and blockchain, where I helped companies enter new markets, strengthen their brands and establish relationships with major corporate clients, including GE.
Working across the United Kingdom, Asia and the United States gave me a practical understanding of how relationships become revenue, and how strong networks can accelerate opportunities that would otherwise take years to reach.
Over time, my focus expanded from building individual companies to improving the systems surrounding them. I began working more closely with entrepreneurs, family offices, institutional partners and financial professionals, connecting businesses with capital and strategic opportunities.
This has included supporting biotechnology deployment with global agricultural groups generating as much as $5.3 billion in annual revenue and establishing access.
My role at Universe Ventures brings this commercial and financial network to founders building in space and other frontier industries. I work to create the relationships that move companies forward, whether that means opening a corporate door, connecting a founder with capital or bringing the right strategic partner into the room.
I believe that exceptional companies are often constrained not by a lack of innovation, but by a failure of access. The right founder may never meet the right investor. The right technology may never reach the industry that needs it. My mission is to close that distance by building the networks, institutions and infrastructure through which people, capital and innovation can move more effectively.
If you want change, build it.
