Stepping through the program
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With our team and yours nothing's too ambitious
We're your ready-made team of experts so that you have the rights skills to take your business forward. In each of our functions, we're perfecting our craft so that you can build on top of our collective knowledge.
Here's how we work together
Fundraising
Helping shape your strategy and fundraising story. Then getting you to tell it to the right people so you can get funded.
Talent
Making sure you can recruit and retain a brilliant team that can deliver on your mission.
Growth
No matter what type of customers you have we help acquire them, keep them engaged and ultimately get them to refer others.
Publicity & communications
We support you in effectively communicating your startup externally.
Product & Design
We help you and your team to build the right product the right way.
Engineering
Support on high-level R&D strategy, tech stacks all the way to low-level data schemas and hiring.
Data Science
We help you design and implement systems that extract knowledge out of data.
Corporate Development
We’re a team of ex-lawyers who give legal and commercial support on a wide variety of subjects. Tax, equity incentives, contracts, terms and lot’s more.
Strategic Development
We are here to help startups get traction with our partners and other businesses in our network. We can help across the sales pipeline, helping you run pilots and ultimately close contracts and partnerships.
Working with our investors
Our corporates are all household names with huge scale, now imagine them being put to work for your start-up. We call that unfair advantage. With their market insights, relationships, purchasing power, data, distribution channels and further capital up for grabs your startup could find itself with a completely unique edge. We make sure you're in the right place to make it happen.
You may be wondering…
What do you mean by support?
We make the decisions on how to support your startup with you. Often we will roll up our sleeves and do the work alongside you. Other times you can think about us more like a coach. This means you’ll be learning from specialists whilst doing the work that will move your startup forward.
Will you write code for me?
We don’t because we don’t think short term development resource is not a sustainable way to build your product. What’s more helpful is working with you on your architecture and helping review code. As well as coaching your team deliver a better product. All of which will give you learnings you can take with you after the program.
What happens when the program is finished?
We say to our founders, ‘the only thing that will change once you’ve finished the program, is we’ll stop having the formal meetings.’ We will however need to prioritise the companies that are currently on the program though, so sometimes you may need to be a bit patient. You’ll also be invited our events and get all of the benefits of being in our network.
Can you guarantee me corporate partnerships?
No, there is no guarantee of this. Our partners agree which startups join our program, and will consult the relevant people to line up a partnership. We work with you and our partners to make these partnerships happen quicker. We’re proud of our record so far, but on both sides, people, strategy and objectives can change so it’s not something we can guarentee.
Do the corporates have any rights to my business?
Nope, they invest in Founders Factory to meet and work with startups like yours. Ultimately, any partnership with our corporate investors will be governed by the usual pilot or contract agreements between you and them all of which our team can help with.
What’s your ideal stage of startup?
We find it best working with teams who have have some early signs they’re on to something and a small team that have the capacity to work with ours. But ultimately, if you’re a great team, doing something interesting with technology, in a big or growing market, that our partners and ourselves think we can make a material difference too. Then we are interested in working together. Any which way make sure to reach out, we could help you with a missing piece of that puzzle.
Scale your business with us
Use our team and partners to go further faster.
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Let's discuss how our programme works and how we can help