Build commercially capable founders.
We help universities, accelerators and innovation programmes equip technical founders with the evidence, tools and commercial skills to turn promising technology into viable businesses.
Experience across the innovation ecosystem
B2B AI software
FinTech · RegTech · Mobility · Productivity · PropTech · Retail · CreaTech
Amazon Innovation Accelerator · Growth Studio · Cranfield · TechUp · CoSTAR · Durham University · Help To Grow
From clinical to consumer
Clinical Diagnostics · Wearables · Fitness & Wellness · Consumer Health
NHS Leadership Academy · NHS Blood and Transplant · Versus Arthritis · De Montfort University · Cambridge NHS Trust · Islington Council · Health Foundation
Deep science & hard tech
Engineering Biology · Biomaterials · Net-Zero · Recycled Materials · AgriTech
Undaunted · Carbon13 · Amazon Sustainability Accelerator · APC Mobilise · Silicon Roundabout · Cranfield University · Science Creates
Strengthen the commercialisation in your programme
Give the cohort a structured journey
Run our Commercialisation Sprint or Grant Funding Sprint with your cohort, combining practical learning with application to each founder’s business.
Commercialisation Sprint · Grant Funding Sprint
Add focused commercialisation expertise and tools to support application between sessions
Plug practical sessions into your existing programme on markets, customer evidence, commercialisation, product decisions and innovation funding.
Masterclasses · Workshops · Modules · Juno and Theia AI tools · Bespoke
Give founders individual support
Add 1:1 clinics, readiness reviews and Decision Sprints for founders who need deeper help applying the learning.
Clinics · Readiness Reviews · 1:1 Decision Sprints
Build capability that stays with you
Use our frameworks, courses, tools and facilitator materials internally, with training and support for your programme team.
Curriculum · Facilitator training · Courses · Tools
Commercialisation programme design
Building or refreshing an innovation programme?
We can help design the commercialisation journey itself: learning outcomes, curriculum, founder activities, tools, clinics and evidence milestones.
Keep founders working between sessions
Our frameworks, courses and AI tools help founders apply what they learn and keep building evidence between engagements.
Commercialisation Framework
An evidence-led route from technical progress to market and traction.
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Make Products That Matter
Practical customer and product thinking throughout the product lifecycle.
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Online courses
Design Thinking for Deep Tech to apply customer-centred development to complex technology. Grant Funding Fundamentals for a strategic approach to innovation funding.
Juno
AI-supported customer discovery for planning research and turning conversations into useful evidence.
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Who you’ll work with
Dr Chloe Sharp & Simon Sharp
We combine customer insight, product thinking and commercial expertise to help programmes and their founders make better decisions about what to build next.
Chloe’s background spans behavioural science, customer research, product management, commercialisation and innovation funding. She is an exited founder, Innovate UK assessor, ILM Level 7 coach and author of Make Products That Matter.
Simon brings product, process and implementation experience, including 11 years at Mercedes-Benz UK managing national products and services and European stakeholders.
Together, we help you connect what your founders need, what your programme can deliver and where the two overlap.
Meet Chloe & Simon →What programme partners say
“Everyone who has worked with Chloe has been singing her praises. We really appreciate the effort, value and expertise she has brought to our teams.”
Selected work
Workshop and 1:1 coaching on qualitative research methods
20 entrepreneurs trained across two cohorts, equipped with a repeatable validation methodology.
Workshop on product research and problem-solution fit
30 founders trained across three cohorts, with 4 evidence-based pivots made.
Grant funding, new markets and evidence tools for an accelerator community
Panels, talks, mentoring and a Juno Lunch & Learn, in a relationship running since 2018.
Let’s talk.
Let’s talk about your cohort