Evolvient Capital aims to build and develop leadership teams to help tackle real world needs – enabling them to evolve and grow amazing businesses.

Temple commented that following a bounce back from Covid, “now feels like the right time to take that experience and invest it into new opportunities and help other leaders to grow and develop their businesses”.

Hunter added that Evolvient will put its capital and the company leaders’ experience to work “to build teams and businesses that go further, faster”. He promised this through “a high-support, high-challenge environment underpinned by transparency, collaboration, trust and respect”.

Temple co-founded Hydrogen Group in 1997 after merging several high-growth tech business interests together, listing the combined £100m turnover business on the stock market. By 2015 he had transformed the business again, merging with Argyll Scott and building a global leadership team and culture. 

Having backed the teams at Tempting Ventures, Project Partners and Strategio, in 2022 Temple ‘successioned’ himself from running Hydrogen to help those businesses grow and develop, and to back other entrepreneurs.

Hunter joined the AIM-listed recruitment start-up Imprint in 2001. As COO, he helped to grow Imprint, both organically and through acquisition, into a £100m market capital group, before exiting via a trade sale in 2008.

In 2010, John co-founded Argyll Scott and, as CEO, grew it into a multinational group with offices in London, the Middle East and throughout Asia Pacific, before combining it with the Hydrogen Group in 2017 in order to accelerate its growth and create new opportunities for its leadership team. John now wants to use the insights he has gained to help the next generation of ambitious like-minded entrepreneurs achieve their goals.

Evolvient Capital currently comprises of four businesses, which include Hydrogen Group, Project Partners, Tempting Ventures and Strategio.

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