Consultant & Mentor

from well-founded concept to WELl-funded Startup

As a strategic advisor, consultant, and mentor, I’ve helped many early-stage founders refine their value propositions through my work with top-tier accelerators.

Early in my entrepreneurial career, I co-founded 12p Society – a nonprofit delivering 15+ live workshops on software, sales, and entrepreneurship to over 700 attendees. I am actively mentoring startups at Village Capital collaboration with IBM, VISA and SAGE, and was invited to mentor subsequent cohorts at BlockStart after finishing the program as one of their top startups.

Whether one-on-one or to large audiences, my customized approach focuses founders on articulating clear customer benefits and developing winning go-to-market strategies. Startups and corporations benefit mostly from my sales expertise, and I’ve delivered strategic guidance and training to many.

Recently, I’ve joined climate and sustainability initiatives such as Greentech Europe 2024, Greentech Asia, New European Bauhaus, and 4ward VC. From my first mentoring experience in 2015 for the Sote Hub in Kenya, being committed to guiding founders in delivering positive social and environmental impact.

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Consulting

  • Go2market strategies and growth models personalised for the clients’ industries
  • Teaching the “125” model of B2B sales and building business relations
  • Sales strategies based on the personalised outreach enhanced by AI
  • Business strategy and business plans for sustainable business development
  • Consulting about Agile organisation transformation and the culture of innovation
  • Combining the consultancy with the provision of B2B sales and marketing services by my employees
  • Personal help and free support for young entrepreneurs building promising startups

Mentoring

  • Sage Impact Entrepreneurship for underrepresented startups based in the UK, France, and Southern Europe.
  • Greentech Asia, supporting  sustainable development in South East Asia
  • New European Bauhaus (NEB), European Green Deal by EU Commission
  • Greentech Europe, an accelerator for women-led startups in Europe.
  • 4ward VC’s “Partner in Clime Accelerator” for the climate Tech Startups 
  • IBM Hyper Data Protect Accelerator for data startups
  • BlockStart Accelerator by Bright Pixel VC, Civvita, and F6, funded by the EU Commission

Lecturing

  • 12p started as the Alumni of 12 members of the Science and Technology Park program
  • Provision of different digital services for free to struggling Startups
  • Free HR services connecting software developers and companies
  • Organized 15+ live lectures on the topics of software development, freelance, marketing, and Startups
  • Gathered a large group of IT professionals that I connected and/or engaged in future projects
  • Started by winning a public grant for the support of the freelance community

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