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ZebraFarm

Empower your founders with hands-on startup skills

We provide real entrepreneurship training for your accelerator, incubator or entrepreneurship course.
Practical & applied knowledge only.

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About us

Workshops

Interactive group sessions to empower your cohorts with topics like getting your first customers or making sure your business numbers work

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Coaching

Personalised one-to-one coaching on topics such as storytelling and growth marketing to support founders with their individual needs.

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Program Design & Audit

End-to-end program design or a light-touch audit to ensure your startup support program is perfect, whether a daylong bootcamp or a full accelerator.

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Who we are

Dr Lisa Portz

Lisa is an experienced startup coach and entrepreneurship program designer who’s worked with over 1000 people testing and refining their business ideas.

She brings her own startup experience to support founders through numerous programs, including LSE Generate where she’s the Head of Acceleration and Program Design, Imperial College where she’s a Coach & Speaker at the Enterprise Lab and a Visiting Lecturer at the Business School.

Lisa holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship from Imperial College London with a focus on the effective design of startup support programs.

Ruben Portz

Ruben has worked as the Head of Growth at Seneca Learning helping the company grow from pre-revenue to several millions in registered users and revenue, which led to an 8-figure exit. After that, he worked as the Growth Lead within the leading VC firm Forward Partners.

He frequently hosts marketing and traction workshops for startup accelerators such as LSE Generate, Colorintech, and ValiBerlin.

Ruben also runs the TractionPad website where he shares actionable startup marketing templates. He also hosts startup marketing courses on Udemy with over 26,000 students.

We worked with

Past Project Examples

Validation Workshop

A workshop around identifying the most critical startup assumptions.

Full Accelerator program design & delivery

We designed the accelerator program at the London School of Economics – from recruiting founders all the way to the big Demo Day.

Pitch coaching

We've helped hundreds of founders shape their stories and improve stage preparing them for their big demo days in front of hundreds of people.

Business Bootcamp

A full-day entrepreneurship bootcamp to develop a roadmap to test one's business idea and get initial customers.

Check out our resources for startups

The Pitch Board

Design an effective pitch flow & deck.

The ability to clearly communicate is the key success factor for any entrepreneur. Early-stage businesses are risky by nature, there is no way to guarantee that it will work out. Your job - as a founder - is to convince others that it stands a chance of becoming a success. And the Pitch Board is here to help you do just that.

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TractionPad

Build your growth system

We're also the creators of TractionPad where we've made actionable growth templates available for founders who're ready to scale. Grab a preview of these resources for free here:
• Landing Page Checklist
• SaaS Onboarding Checklist
• Outbound Sales Checklist

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Get the full growth system

Get the growth system

ZebraFarm

ZebraFarm

ZebraFarm

Workshops

Coaching

Program Design & Audit

Who we are

Dr Lisa Portz

Dr Lisa Portz

Lisa is an experienced startup coach and entrepreneurship program designer who’s worked with over 1000 people testing and refining their business ideas.

She brings her own startup experience to support founders through numerous programs, including LSE Generate where she’s the Head of Acceleration and Program Design, Imperial College where she’s a Coach & Speaker at the Enterprise Lab and a Visiting Lecturer at the Business School.

Lisa holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship from Imperial College London with a focus on the effective design of startup support programs.

Ruben Portz

Ruben Portz

Ruben has worked as the Head of Growth at Seneca Learning helping the company grow from pre-revenue to several millions in registered users and revenue, which led to an 8-figure exit. After that, he worked as the Growth Lead within the leading VC firm Forward Partners.

He frequently hosts marketing and traction workshops for startup accelerators such as LSE Generate, Colorintech, and ValiBerlin.

Ruben also runs the TractionPad website where he shares actionable startup marketing templates. He also hosts startup marketing courses on Udemy with over 26,000 students.

We worked with

Past Project Examples

Past Project Examples

Validation Workshop

A workshop around identifying the most critical startup assumptions.

Full Accelerator program design & delivery

We designed the accelerator program at the London School of Economics – from recruiting founders all the way to the big Demo Day.

Pitch coaching

We've helped hundreds of founders shape their stories and improve stage preparing them for their big demo days in front of hundreds of people.

Business Bootcamp

A full-day entrepreneurship bootcamp to develop a roadmap to test one's business idea and get initial customers.

Check out our resources for startups

Check out our resources for startups

Check out our resources for startups

The Pitch Board

The Pitch Board

Design an effective pitch flow & deck.

TractionPad

TractionPad

Build your growth system

We're also the creators of TractionPad where we've made actionable growth templates available for founders who're ready to scale. Grab a preview of these resources for free here:• Landing Page Checklist• SaaS Onboarding Checklist• Outbound Sales Checklist

Let's have a chat

Let's have a chat

Let's have a chat

Fill in the form or drop us a line at Lisa@zebrafarm.co.

Fill in the form or drop us a line at Lisa@zebrafarm.co.

We're also the creators of TractionPad where we've made actionable growth templates available for founders who're ready to scale. Grab a preview of these resources for free here:
• Landing Page Checklist
• SaaS Onboarding Checklist
• Outbound Sales Checklist