Over the past five years, we have delivered a number of exciting projects, bringing to life a range of entrepreneurship support programmes: from full accelerator programmes to intensive one-day bootcamps, and everything in-between.
Here’s a look at how we’ve helped organisations build better startup support.
Startup Accelerator Playbook
Leading STEM University
We co-designed a full accelerator programme and provided a comprehensive playbook covering programme structure, selection process, outreach strategy, session design, and timeline. Built from a scoping workshop with their team, tailored to their ecosystem. The programme launched successfully and is still running today (third cohort).
Startup Associate Programme
Raw Ventures
In partnership with Raw Ventures, we've designed and are delivering an ambitious programme to select and train early-career professionals for commercial roles in startups across EMEA. The programme addresses two gaps we observed: low visibility between employers and employees and a workplace-readiness challenge recent graduates experience.
Mini-Accelerator within Curriculum
Imperial College London
We created a mini-accelerator programme combining expert speakers, coaching, and founder talks in a for-credit module for MSc Bioscience Futures. Our team is responsible for the design, expert sourcing. The delivery is done in a harmonious partnership with the internal staff, led by Lisa, our founder. The module has now been renewed for the third year.
Startup Bootcamps
in5 Dubai
We designed and delivered two hands-on in-person bootcamp programmes for in5, Dubai's leading innovation platform. Each bootcamp supported founders of established businesses in advancing their business's commercial traction. The first one focussed on sales and marketing and the second one covered topics from customer validation to startup finance to pitching.
Cross-University Hackathon
Dubai Knowledge Park
We designed and ran a science-focused hackathon bringing together students from nine universities. Cross-institutional coordination, structured team formation, and a compressed timeline that moved participants from problem to pitch in days. The hackathon addressed four real-time challenges provided by two corporate partners who served as the judges for the final.
Lisa's Prior Work
LSE Generate Accelerator
In her independent work, Lisa designed and delivered LSE's flagship three-month accelerator for students and alumni turning ideas into operating businesses. She built the programme from scratch: from application design and founder recruitment through to a Demo Day that investors actually stayed for. Lisa ran the programme for four years graduating 39 businesses.
Ben Mumby-Croft
Director of Entrepreneurship at Imperial
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Lisa for several years and she is my absolute go-to when I need someone who can design and deliver high-class, impactful entrepreneurship programmes. Not only a subject matter expert but also a brilliant human who cares deeply about the people she supports - be it first time founders or over-stretched entrepreneurship teams and directors!
Silvana Leon
Co-Founder and CEO of SomosFin
When I joined the programme, Somosfin was just an idea. Three months later, we had incorporated the company, signed our first paying clients, and I had the confidence and a clear plan to leave my full-time corporate role in London and build the business.
More than the practical support, Lisa and the team gave us momentum, accountability, and the belief that this was actually possible. They challenged us in all the right ways while always being incredibly supportive.
Felix de Grey
Founder of Cogs AI
Lisa is the best pitch coach I’ve ever worked with. She has that rare ability to see, critique and tweak both the broad narrative and the fine details. Before Lisa, I was failing to pull our slides together into a compelling story. Within one session she had coached me in a simple narrative structure which instantly improved the pitch tenfold. In our subsequent sessions, she focused on improving my word choice and delivery in forensic detail. The result was that after just three sessions, she had gotten the pitch to a level which imbued me with the utmost confidence to deliver a great pitch in front of a large live audience.
Timothée Issenmann
Founder of Newgrain
Ruben’s coaching was a real accelerant to our business. Not only did he provide us with unique knowledge on growth marketing and user acquisition that was rooted in his own startup experience, but he also held us accountable for our progress and goals.
We loved working with him because, with his amazing simplicity, he always brought us back to the basics of talking to customers and iterating on the product. He transmitted his highly analytical approach to growth to us, by always pushing us to back up our claims with data. To any founder looking to grow their business and realise the true potential of their startup, I would highly recommend getting Ruben as a coach.
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