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Selected Engagements

Explore how we partner with ambitious founders and growing ventures to validate opportunities, build defensible strategy and raise institutional capital.

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Recruitment Technology
IFV Support

Client Partner

Confidential Founder

Recruitment Technology

From Unclear Idea to Endorsed Business in the Recruitment Technology Space

A founder with no concrete idea was guided to a prompt-based job discovery platform: built, modelled, and successfully endorsed.

  • Prompt-based job platform concept
  • Functional prototype built
  • 5-year financials defended
  • Endorsement secured

Endorsed

Innovator Founder Visa secured

IFV Support Area
Fintech · SME Funding
IFV Support

Client Partner

Confidential Founder

Fintech · SME Funding

From Spreadsheet Workflow to an Endorsed AI Funding Platform

A founder operating a manual grant-matching service was guided to a defensible AI product, a clean financial model, and a successful endorsement.

  • AI qualification engine concept
  • Working prototype in private beta
  • 5-year financials tied to real data
  • Endorsement secured

Endorsed

Innovator Founder Visa secured

IFV Support Area
EdTech · Student Wellbeing
IFV Support

Client Partner

Confidential Founder

EdTech · Student Wellbeing

From Personal Frustration to an Endorsed Student Wellbeing Platform

A former international student turned a personal pain point into Synapse Campus AI, an academic health companion endorsed under the Innovator Founder Visa.

  • Academic health companion concept
  • Working prototype tested with UK universities
  • 5-year institutional B2B2C model
  • Endorsement secured

Endorsed

Innovator Founder Visa secured

IFV Support Area
AI / SaaS · Lead Retention
IFV Support

Client Partner

Confidential Founder

AI / SaaS · Lead Retention

From Agency Service to an Endorsed AI Retention Product

An agency owner converted a manual re-engagement service into RetainIQ, an AI messaging platform endorsed under the Innovator Founder Visa.

  • Revenue-tied AI retention wedge
  • Working prototype with recovered-revenue dashboard
  • Bottom-up financials from real recovery data
  • Endorsement secured

Endorsed

Innovator Founder Visa secured

IFV Support Area
Health & Wellness · Behavioural
IFV Support

Client Partner

Confidential Founder

Health & Wellness · Behavioural

From Sensitive Idea to an Endorsed Behavioural Health Product

A founder with a personal connection to problem gambling built NeuroShield, a behavioural risk monitor endorsed under the Innovator Founder Visa.

  • Behavioural risk monitor concept
  • Working mobile prototype with real flows
  • Regulator-aware B2B2C plan
  • Endorsement secured

Endorsed

Innovator Founder Visa secured

IFV Support Area
Grant Writing
Grant Writing

Client Partner

HopeBridge

Grant Writing

Securing Funding to Expand Community Impact

HopeBridge secured £50,000 in grant funding to expand its community programmes after we developed a clear, evidence-based funding proposal and impact measurement framework.

  • Grant opportunity assessment
  • Grant writing
  • Funding strategy
  • Project planning
  • Budget development
  • Impact measurement framework
  • Application review and submission support

£50,000

Grant funding secured

Grant Writing Area

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