Our Programs
VentureOut Explore One-Week Market Exploration Programs
Meet decision makers in NYC
Meet 20 thought leaders, decision makers and investors in NYC in 3 days. Whether innovation officers at top corporates, the most active venture investors or CEOs of the most innovative startups, this program will super charge your network in NYC.
Meet influential investors
Meet over a dozen tier-1 venture capitalists and angel investors.Through VC office visits, one-to-one meetings and our pitch events, you will have the opportunity to learn from and pitch some of the world's leading tech investors.
Develop your advisor and mentor network
Through one-to-one mentoring and advisory sessions with serial entrepreneurs, investors and industry thought leaders, you will have an opportunity to gain insights and feedback to enable a transformation in your strategy, pitch and message. Build an actionable network of mentors and advisors that you can leverage for years to come.
Accelerate your sales and marketing machine
For those of us that have not been a VP of Sales or Marketing, we are currently running the largest company we have ever run. The knowledge required to build scalable and replicable sales and marketing operations is something we need to learn: what are the right roles to hire for, processes that allow scalable repetition, tools to support these efforts? Come join us and learn!
Scotland Partner
Scottish Enterprise
Scottish Enterprise is a sponsored non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government which encourages economic development, enterprise, innovation and investment in business.
www.scottish-enterprise.comTestimonials
James Varga
MiiCard
"It has been fantastic to be able to get under the covers, to understand what makes it tick, to find out what sort of opportunities are here, and generate a sense of how to approach the challenge."
Chris Downie
Pasabi
"The two great takeaways we've had from this experience are the caliber of people we've met here ... and when they took us through the sales process."
Alex McAndrew
Yavi
"The people we met with blew us away in terms of their entrepreneurial character, willingness, and desire to help connect us to the local eco-system."
Scotland Alumni
The ID Co.
Increased our Monthly Recurring Revenue from zero to £40k+ per month. Signed now over 25 customers and while the first few were small we now have Marlette in addition to Prosper Marketplace (two billion dollar lenders in the US) and critically a number of UK bank customers (albeit small) who have taken DirectID to the regulators with no pushback in addition a number of exciting opps late in the pipeline. With the existing customers, many yet to launch, have the potential of generating an additional £30k to £50k in MRR taking us closer to our breakeven. Compound monthly successful transaction volume of 34% since the start peaking at 86% for the 6 months before Prosper’s setback and now recovering with 26% over the last 3 months.
http://www.theidco.comYavi
We have validated strong demand for our solution by acquiring 400+ teams with our early product release from household names including, but not limited to Pizza Hut, Vodafone, Burger King, Tesco, Starbucks, Dominos, Lidl, Carphone Warehouse and many many more. We have demonstrated our ability to grow into large multinational enterprises from the bottom-up by growing from individuals to teams to multiple teams within regional franchises.
http://www.yaviapp.comCandidate ID
MVP was created in December 2015 and January 2016 and we have been working on a private beta basis since with clients including Grant Thornton, Quintiles, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. We go live to the market on September 1st and in the meantime, have created an Advisory Board including Talent Acquisition leaders from Balderton Capital, Barclays, Intuit, Philips, and Telefonica. During September 2016, we aim to secure 10 paying clients and to increase this to 50 before the end of Q1 2017 when we will undertake a fundraising round.
http://www.candidate.idMallzee
In the past 7 months we've seen our active user number more than triple, time in-app double, volume of product interactions reach tens of millions a month, signed up over 25 paying partners, launched two new revenue streams and secured trials for our innovative new insights platform with some of the biggest names in retail.
mallzee.comSnapDragon Monitoring
Income of USD$125,000 to date, with ‘fake’ goods with a street value of over USD$10billion prevented from sale. 6/6 clients have recently renewed 12 month contracts, new clients won in Australia and Israel in last month. During proof of concept we have used a combination of algorithms and manual searches to identify infringing goods, and tenacity and languages to remove the links/sellers from sale. Such is this tenacity that we have been invited, twice, to Alibaba HQ in China to help advise on the best IP protection strategies for SMEs. With proof of concept, we are now ready to scale.
www.snapdragon-ip.comPasabi
Whilst building the pasabi MVP, we spoke to over 40 companies to help hone our product market fit. Companies included: Skyscanner, IKEA, Fanduel, Aldo, Visa, ao.com, Conde Nast, ebay, River Island, made.com, Coles, Sainsbury's and John Lewis.So far we have built and tested our beta product with a targeted group of users. The core of the pasabi engine is now built and we continue to use it to deliver and test a variety of recommendations, content and offers, honing the experience to get the greatest level of engagement amongst our initial target audience - 25-45 year old female Pinterest users who pin fashion items. Our next steps are to sign up our first trial customers so we can provide more exclusive content whilst we take the MVP out to a wider audience.
www.pasabi.comCutitronics
Through acquisition and integration, the $70B skincare market is now dominated by a few global multi-brand corporate organizations. We are now in dialogue with all of these market leaders. We are under NDA with multiple brands and are in partnership discussions progressing through the pre-market development stages. The three pre-market development stages are to first validate the technology with the preferred skincare product, secondly, commission a full development and integration program and thirdly, to scale to mass manufacture for launch.
http://www.cutitronics.comAhoi.Life
We develop software that enables our customers to have healthier and happier lives. By addressing the changeable aspects of attitudes and behaviors, Ahoi provides bespoke interventions direct to your device. Ahoi.Life empowers you to be the best you can be.
http://www.ahoi.life