START-UP ACCELERATOR
Making a Difference
We partner with the world’s best founders and corporate businesses to build, fund and scale ambitious start-ups. We invest early in world-class founders tackling global markets who are trying to solve important issues to us all – using frontier technologies. It is not just about making money – it is about making a real difference and leaving a legacy
Our Program Offers
- Early-Stage Capital
- Hands-On Mentoring
- Sector & Functional Experts
- Competitive Market Analysis
- Access Global Investor Base
- Trusted Partner Networks
- Warm CxO Introductions
- Founders Community Support
- Investor Pitch Opportunities
Our Vision
Our world is changing fast, never has humanity embraced so many new pervasive technologies all at once, each one transformative and significant. In combination there has never been a better time for teams to take on society and business’ tougher problems and create propositions that deliver outstanding competitive advantage, while still doing good.
Be Bold. Be Ambitious
We prefer to engage as early as possible and are drawn to founding teams that have big bold ideas, who want to destabilize a market, dominate an industry, and deliver a 10x experience to customers at a significantly lower cost than the competition.
Program Deliverables
- Validates your idea
- Builds your first MVP
- Trials your Proposition
- Creates your Sales Playbook
- Acquires first Customers
- Practice Pitch Perfect
- Founder Support Systems
Experienced Hands
Our team have the battle scars, have made most of the mistakes and know what it takes to take an idea and turn it into a business that can be scaled and exited. We prefer to work with founders from early stage to exit or IPO, supporting proposition development, sales and market entry via partners and help teams supercharge their vision.
1-on-1 Mentoring
We work alongside founders to incubate and mature ideas, curate business models and polish propositions to be able to match with the right capital. This can involve introductions to accretive technologies, productizing the concept for market entry and make introductions to our global network of regional operators and investors.
Your Program Benefits
- Accelerates your Business Idea
- Provides funds to hire Team
- Scaling Resources & Methods
- Saves Time to Market
- Improves Product-Market Fit
- De-risks your Strategy
- Provides Market Validation
- Improves chances of Success
- Warm Investor Introductions
Frontier Technologies
We have developed methodologies that help enterprises drive real digital transformation, migrating to decentralized business models, protecting business assets and IP from cyber-attack, and deploying the latest technologies such as AI, Quantum Computing and Augmented Reality / Metaverse environments that bring new dimensions and opportunities.
Hybrid Platform
Unlike traditional VCs and Private Equity firms we are a cross functional boutique that is market active, delivering transformative outcomes for end clients, incubating fresh ideas alongside academia through our network of university partners and accelerating scale-ups to launch products, win their first customers and enter overseas markets.
ACCELERATOR CLIENTS
ACCELERATOR CASE STUDIES
UK Sustainability
UK Sustainability
UK Sustainability
After a sales and market validation campaign, discovered a valued niche in energy savings coupled with recycling. Invested early-stage round adding smart angels to scale up the product market fit - within 2 years the start-up was acquired by a leading player for $45 million.
EU FinTech
UK Sustainability
UK Sustainability
Started from ideation using a blue ocean canvas, developed proposition, positioning, go-to-market and integrated product roadmap. Led initial sales outreach to key customers and later transitioned to channel sales focus - current valuation c. $110 million
US Satellite
UK Sustainability
US Satellite
Worked intensively with founder to shape up his vision, identify the product requirements, create an MVP and get market validation and later recruit component suppliers. Argento led the Pre-Seed round and later brokered sales deals with several early adopters.
EU Mobile
EMEA Edge Computing
US Satellite
Identified and validated a new high-value sales segment and client pivoted product and sales to suit. Led an international sales and marketing campaign and gained several leading brands across Europe and the Gulf which expanded the product offering – valued $90 million,
UK MedTech
EMEA Edge Computing
EMEA Edge Computing
Reworked their original product / market approach, then developed and tested an global business plan and lead their go-to-market – which validated their product-market fit. We led the first external investment, securing $2 million Seed funding within 3 months.
EMEA Edge Computing
EMEA Edge Computing
EMEA Edge Computing
Invested in first external Seed round and then accelerated product and sales development by targeting high value international clients. Hired new talent overseas and helped founder build out business base, later expanding across several markets and widen product offering.