Startups don’t fail because they build bad products. They fail because they build unwanted products. This seems obvious but the routes to failure have subtle causes:

  • Corporate accelerators teach theory but the evidence of training over three hundred startups is that mentor-led training is far more effective in creating the right mindset and effective decision-making.
  •  Startup mentoring is a directive process that identifies the failure paths that entrepreneurs are on and gives them actionable steps to bypass them.
  • Business model innovation is a process of reimagining how markets work; then using pain spaces to crack them open, rather than expecting everything to change just because you’ve built a slightly better product.

We don’t help you make better products. We help you create internal startups that disrupt, define, and dominate the markets that they are in.

We have a wanderlust, a curiosity to discover what is over the next pass. Your teams catch this.

Our culture

We meet your engineers where they are. Our mentors are engineers and entrepreneurs.

Building is what engineers do
We know that. We’ve done it. We’ve failed when we’ve done it. We can speak the language that your engineers understand

Theory is worthless
Well, not quite. But if a mentor hasn’t grown startups it doesn’t matter how much theory they know. They can’t share the real deal

Learning is doing
We’ve worked with thousands of engineering teams in large corporates steering them past internal and external threats

Fail Fast, Succeed Faster
Just as we expect our teams to fail a lot as they try to understand the rules, we constantly push boundaries finding better ways to help them learn faster.

Meet our amazing team.

We’re a talented group of creative individuals interested in art, cinematography, design, music, and all niches in between. Get to know us and what we can do for you!

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Denis Oakley

Founder / Lead Mentor

Direct of Innovation
Denis Oakley & Co
Fellow
The RSA
Lead Startup Mentor
Wisdom Works Group
Startup Mentor
500 Startups, Deep Tech Innovation Centre Warwick Innovation District

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    Ozan Sonmez

    Programme Director / Lead Mentor

    Global Startup Program Mentor & Global Ambassador
    UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
    Startup Ecosystem Advisor to Corporates, Accelerators, Universities, NGO’s
    YellowX OU

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      Prof. Andy Pardoe

      Mentor

      Founder & Group CTO
      Wisdom Works Group
      Founder & Managing Partner Wisdom Works Ventures
      Chair
      Deep Tech Innovation Centre
      Warwick Innovation District

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        Mark Searle

        Mentor & Keynote Speaker

        Lecturer & Industry Fellow
        UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
        Co-Founder & Managing Director
        Innovation Acceleration Group

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          Prof. Ali Junaid Ahmad

          Mentor

          Associate Professor & Course Leader MSc Innovation & Entrepreneurship
          WMG University of Warwick

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            Richard A. MacDonald Jr.

            Mentor & Keynote Speaker

            Entrepreneur in Residence, Consultant & Startup Mentor
            University of Miami
            Startup Mentor & Instructor
            500 Global

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              Gregory Cronie

              Mentor

              Founder
              Finabling
              Founder
              2knowlab
              Researcher Financial Supply Chain & Fintech
              Windesheim
              Top 25 Mentor
              Startup Bootcamp

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                Katrina Too

                Mentor

                Resident Coach & Mentor
                500 Startups
                Managing Director
                Open Door Policy

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                  Mevan Peiris

                  Mentor

                  Chief Program Officer
                  Hatch Works
                  Business Mentor
                  NatWest Business
                  Advisor
                  The Sparklers Foundation

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                    Beliz Bediz Sinan

                    Programme Manager

                    Co-founder & Partner
                    YellowX OU
                    Partner & Course Director
                    SAGE HQ
                    Partner
                    Zillion Pitches
                    Chapter Director
                    Founder Institute

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                      Danica Virginia Meredith

                      Mentor

                      Emergent Strategy and Practice Lead
                      Constellations Consulting Company
                      Member of The Board Of Advisors
                      Trinity Centres Foundation
                      Business Mentor
                      NextAI
                      Member Of The Board Of Advisors
                      Association Quantum

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                        Marieke Jansen

                        Automation Manager

                        Founder & Owner
                        KEJA Automation

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                          Ozlem Hoscan

                          Programme Manager

                          Marketing Communications & Project Management Consultant
                          YellowX OU

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                            Johan Donough

                            Programme Manager

                            Programme Manager
                            Denis Oakley & Co
                            Strategy & Sales Director
                            Offseid Group

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