From idea to in‑market. Proven at every step.
We take your growth idea to market the way founders do: test with real customers early, spend in stages, and build only what the evidence supports. You end up with an offering that’s selling — not a deck that’s promising.
Six services. Pick what you need.
Each one stands alone and ends in something you keep. Take a single service, combine a few, or run them together — in whatever order your situation calls for.
You know you need to grow beyond the core. You just don't know where yet. We map the value spaces around your brand, size them against real demand, and tell you which one to go after first.
What you take away- Ranked value-space mapEvery space sized and scored from desk and trend research.
- Where-to-play recommendationOne clear call, built on expert and consumer interviews.
- Trend and need analysisThe signals that matter, aligned with your team in a ranking workshop.
A space is not a proposition. We take the opportunity into the field, shape it with the people who would actually buy it, and turn it into a concept sharp enough to put to the test.
What you take away- Validated problem definitionStraight from discovery interviews with real customers.
- Concept and value propositionShaped through jobs-to-be-done mapping and concept sprints.
- Testable prototypeReady to put in front of the market.
Opinions are cheap and surveys are worse. We put the concept in front of the market at small scale and let real buying behaviour decide whether it moves forward.
What you take away- Experiment plan and live testsSmoke tests, landing pages and pilots with real baskets.
- Willingness-to-pay evidencePeople spending money, not answering surveys.
- Go / no-go recommendationReviewed at the gate, defensible in any boardroom.
Validated is not launched. We build the first working version and take it live under our own entity, so you learn from paying customers long before you restructure anything internally.
What you take away- Working MVP, live in marketProduct, operations and channels up and running.
- Launchpad launchSelling under our entity from day one, before you restructure.
- Launch and learning planWeekly sprints, iterating on live customer data.
A venture needs a brand the day it meets its first customer. We build a minimum viable one, test the positioning in market, and hand it over ready to scale.
What you take away- Name, identity and voiceA minimum viable brand, ready to go live.
- Tested positioningProven with real customers before you commit.
- Launch-ready brand kitBuilt to scale with the venture.
Your investment committee funds numbers, not enthusiasm. We build the venture P&L from validated market data and frame the case in the language your finance team already trusts.
What you take away- Venture P&L and unit economicsBuilt on validated market numbers, not assumptions.
- Funding case for your committeeFramed in language your finance team trusts.
- Scale scenarios and milestonesThe road from first sale to what comes next, scoped.
One blended team with yours.
One team, shaped to fit your project and customised as the work changes — side by side with your people, on one monthly budget. Here’s a real one.
Nestlé New Offerings Team
Core team
Venture lead · Product lead
Flexible studio
Design & MVP · Data · Legal
Active leadership
Innovation director · Bundl partner
Rather run the whole journey? It comes with gates.
Combined, the services form one staged path from idea to in-market — and each stage ends in a decision you can defend. If the proof isn’t there, you stop before the big money is spent.
Find the opening
Typically 4 weeksA ranked map of where you can win, and a clear call on where to play first.
Shape the offer
Typically 4 weeksA proposition shaped with real customers, with the brand to carry it.
Prove the demand
Typically 6 weeksLive market signal from smoke tests and pilots. A go or no‑go you can stand behind.
Go sell it
Typically 12 weeksAn MVP live and selling, with the business case to fund what comes next.
Sell before you restructure.
Your offering trades under our legal entity from day one — real customers, real revenue, real learning — while your organisation decides what it should become.
It doesn’t stop at launch.
New Offerings gets it live and selling. Three more services take it from there.
Live is not the finish line. Selling is.
You have something real in market. Now it needs channels, customers and a way to sell that repeats. We run growth the way a founder-led brand does: own the funnel, spend where it returns, and hand you a machine your own team can keep running.
Six services. Pick what you need.
Each one stands alone and ends in something you keep. Take a single service, combine a few, or run them together, in whatever order your situation calls for.
Live is not the same as selling. Before you spend a euro on acquisition we decide where this thing wins: which channel, at what price, against which competitor, and what first sale actually has to look like.
What you take away- Channel and pricing modelWhere you sell, at what price, and why that wins.
- Launch plan with targetsSequenced by market, with the numbers you are aiming at.
- Commercial forecastFirst-year volume, revenue and spend, built bottom-up.
A product nobody can describe does not sell. We sharpen the positioning against the real alternative, write the story in the customer's words, and produce the assets your channels actually need.
What you take away- Positioning and messaging houseOne story, tested with the people you want to buy.
- Campaign and content kitCreative built for the channels you are about to run.
- Product and packaging designWhat the customer holds, unboxes and photographs.
Someone has to build the thing that takes the money. We stand up the store, the subscription logic, the payments and the data, then keep shipping against what customers do once it is live.
What you take away- Live storefrontBuilt to convert, instrumented from day one.
- Commerce stackPayments, subscriptions, CRM and analytics, connected.
- Product roadmapPrioritised by revenue impact, not by opinion.
We run acquisition like the money is ours, because on most of our ventures part of it is. Weekly creative, weekly reallocation, and one number that decides whether a channel keeps its budget.
What you take away- Channel mix that pays backBudget moved weekly to whatever is returning.
- Creative engineA steady flow of assets, tested and killed fast.
- CAC and payback reportingOne dashboard your finance team will accept.
First orders are expensive. Second orders are where the business is. We design the lifecycle, the reasons to return and the community around the brand, then prove it in the repeat rate.
What you take away- Lifecycle and CRM programmeEvery touchpoint after the first order, mapped and live.
- Referral and communityThe people who sell it for you, activated.
- Retention reportingRepeat rate, LTV and churn, tracked weekly.
Growth breaks on operations long before it breaks on demand. We set up supply, fulfilment, returns and customer support so a good month does not turn into a bad one.
What you take away- Supply and fulfilment setupSuppliers, 3PL and returns, running.
- Customer support modelTooling, tone and SLAs your brand can stand behind.
- Operational dashboardStock, margin and service levels in one place.
One blended team with yours.
One team, shaped to fit your project and customised as the work changes, side by side with your people, on one monthly budget. Here’s a real one.
Nestlé Go-to-Market Team
Core team
Venture lead · Product lead
Flexible studio
Design & MVP · Data · Legal
Active leadership
Innovation director · Bundl partner
Four stages. One number each.
We do not report on impressions. Every stage of the funnel has a single number that decides what happens next, and every week the budget moves toward whatever is working.
Acquire
CACWhat a new customer costs across every channel, blended and by source.
Convert
Conversion × AOVHow many buy, and how much they spend when they do.
Retain
Repeat rateWhether they come back without being paid for a second time.
Scale
Payback periodHow fast the venture returns its own acquisition spend.
We spend it like it is ours.
On most go-to-market work part of our fee sits in the outcome. We co-invest, we take equity, and we carry the same downside you do if the numbers do not move.
There is more than one way to grow.
Go-to-Market gets it selling. Three more services sit either side of it.
You do not have to build all of it yourself.
The capability you are missing usually already exists, in a startup or in a company that is not your competitor. We find it, structure something both sides will sign, and stay in the room until the collaboration produces something real.
Six services. Pick what you need.
Some are one-off engagements, some run continuously. Take a single service, combine a few, or let us run the whole programme.
Not every gap is worth filling yourself. We map your assets against the market, work out which capabilities are faster to borrow than to build, and name the parts of the ecosystem worth your time.
What you take away- Asset and capability mapWhat you already own that a partner would want.
- Partnering thesisWhere collaboration beats building, with the reasoning.
- Prioritised target areasThe spaces to go hunting in, ranked.
Anyone can produce 200 logos on a slide. We define the selection criteria first, work the ecosystem properly, and hand you a short list of companies that actually match what you can offer them.
What you take away- Selection criteriaAgreed up front, so the shortlist is defensible.
- Curated shortlistSourced, screened and scored against your assets.
- Engagement frameworkWhat you say to them, and what you offer.
The quickest way to learn whether a startup is real is to buy from it. We structure a small paid engagement, run it inside your business, and give you a decision on whether it scales.
What you take away- Structured first purchaseA real contract, scoped small enough to move.
- Internal sponsor and pilotA business owner, a budget and a success metric.
- Scale or stop callBacked by what happened, not by enthusiasm.
Pilots die in the middle. We run them with a gate at the end: a defined question, a defined budget, a defined date, and a decision your organisation has already agreed to respect.
What you take away- Pilot design and gateThe question, the metric and the deadline, agreed.
- Run and coachingWe sit between your teams and the startup, weekly.
- Decision packWhat happened, what it costs to scale, what we recommend.
Some of the best growth sits with a company that is not your competitor but shares your customer. We find them, structure something both sides will actually sign, and manage the execution.
What you take away- Identified corporate partnersMatched on customer, asset and ambition.
- Structured partnership modelGovernance, economics and IP, written down.
- Aligned shared goalsOne set of numbers both boards recognise.
The strongest position is the one where good startups come to you. We build the platform, the offer and the cadence that turns your company into somewhere founders want to work with.
What you take away- Programme and platformBrand, website, application flow and materials.
- Cohort deliverySourcing, pitching, selection and graduation, run for you.
- Partnership pipelineA steady flow, not a one-off campaign.
One blended team with yours.
One team, shaped to fit your project and customised as the work changes, side by side with your people, on one monthly budget. Here’s a real one.
Boortmalt Ecosystem Team
Core team
Venture lead · Product lead
Flexible studio
Design & MVP · Data · Legal
Active leadership
Innovation director · Bundl partner
800 conversations to find 4 partners.
One real cohort, run for BoortmaltX in the food-tech ecosystem. This is the shape of the work behind every partnership that gets signed.
Direct contact by call, email and LinkedIn across the ecosystem.
Fifteen minutes each, explaining the offer and the assets.
Fully applied through the platform, scored against criteria.
Forty-five minute sessions with the corporate team.
The highest scoring, in front of the executive committee.
Signed, funded and moved into delivery.
We already know most of them.
Ten years of scouting leaves a network behind. Thousands of startups on file, a community of venturing leaders, and five European offices that keep it current.
Sometimes the faster answer is to build it, or to build the machine that builds it.
Ecosystems is one route to growth. Here are the others.
One win is luck. A machine is strategy.
Most companies can launch one venture. Very few can do it again next year, and the year after that. We design the strategy, the vehicle and the operating model that turn growth beyond the core into something your organisation does by default.
Six services. Pick what you need.
Start with the strategy, fix the vehicle you already have, or hand us the whole programme. Each service ends in something your organisation keeps.
Most venturing dies because nobody agreed what it was for. We set the direction, define what counts as success, and get it signed off by the people who control the budget.
What you take away- Strategic venturing directionWhere you play beyond the core, and why.
- Identified opportunity portfolioThe bets worth carrying, sized and sequenced.
- Venturing roadmap and buy-inSigned off in stakeholder alignment sessions.
A studio, an incubator, an accelerator, a CVC or something in between. We pick the vehicle that fits your objectives, then build the governance, funding and legal frame that lets it move.
What you take away- Objectives aligned to strategyWhat this unit exists to deliver, in writing.
- Vehicle positioned in the orgWhere it sits, who it reports to, how it is funded.
- A venture unit pitchThe case, ready for your executive committee.
Portfolios drift. We look at every venture, vehicle and initiative you are running, score them on the same scale, and tell you where the money should actually be going next year.
What you take away- Assessment of existing effortsEvery initiative scored on the same criteria.
- Clear opportunities to tap intoWhat is underfunded and worth more.
- Exploration roadmap and budgetWhere next year’s money goes, and why.
Your organisation already knows where the opportunities are. We build the programme that gets those ideas out of people’s heads, coaches them properly, and ends in concepts worth funding.
What you take away- Tailored and validated conceptsCoached from idea to a fundable case.
- A boosted culture of entrepreneurshipMeasured, not assumed.
- Upskilled teamsPeople who can run the next one without us.
If the growth you need sits outside the building, you need a vehicle pointed outwards. We design the accelerator or corporate venture arm, then run the cohorts and the deal flow.
What you take away- Programme or fund designThesis, structure, economics and governance.
- Deal flow and selectionSourcing, screening and investment committee support.
- Cohort or portfolio deliveryRun end to end, with your team learning alongside.
The point is not to need us forever. We train your people on the methods while the work is live, hand over the playbooks, and step back as they take it on.
What you take away- Venture playbooksYour methods, written down and usable.
- Hands-on trainingTaught on live ventures, not in a workshop.
- A team that runs itRoles, rituals and reporting that survive our exit.
One blended team with yours.
One team, shaped to fit your project and customised as the work changes, side by side with your people, on one monthly budget. Here’s a real one.
JLR Venture Studio Team
Core team
Venture lead · Product lead
Flexible studio
Design & MVP · Data · Legal
Active leadership
Innovation director · Bundl partner
Five ways to build the machine.
There is no default answer. The right vehicle depends on how much control you want, how fast you need results, and whether the growth sits inside or outside the building.
Nobody does this alone.
The people running venturing inside large consumer companies mostly face the same problems. We built the room where they compare notes, and everything we learn goes back into it.
Strategy without ventures is a deck. These three are where the ventures come from.
The engine is one layer. Here is the rest.
Have an idea worth proving?
Tell us where you are, and we will build the team to get you the proof.
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