Natwest Accelerator: Grant funding, innovation and market support

Challenge: Founders within the NatWest Accelerator community needed informational support to navigate grant funding, explore new markets and understand how innovation tools could help them gather better evidence and make stronger commercial decisions.

Approach: Supported the NatWest Accelerator community through a long-term relationship spanning founder participation, mentoring and specialist contributions. Joined the community as a founder in 2018 and have since contributed to grant funding panels, delivered talks on entering new markets, volunteered as a mentor, and delivered a Tech Tuesday Lunch & Learn demonstrating how Juno can support structured customer discovery and market validation.

Outcomes

• Long-term involvement with the NatWest Accelerator community since 2018

• Contributed specialist expertise to multiple grant funding panels

• Delivered founder sessions on entering and evaluating new markets

• Demonstrated Juno through a Tech Tuesday Lunch & Learn, showing how AI can support customer discovery and market validation

• Volunteered as a mentor to provide additional one-to-one support to founders

• Supported founders across funding, innovation and commercial decision-making rather than through a single standalone intervention