Case Studies

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Pre-raise retainers, growth sprints, accelerator cohorts and community programmes. Real engagements, one story at a time.

Featured Case Study

C U Health: Pre-Raise Retainer to a £3M Seed Round

A pre-raise retainer built the multi-persona buyer journey and sales playbooks that carried C U Health to a £3 million seed round.

£3M

seed round closed from institutional investors

11 months

from retainer start to signed term sheet

buyer personas mapped into repeatable sales playbooks

Growth

Growth Retainer: 6x Organic Traffic in Three Months

A growth retainer took organic traffic to 6x its starting baseline within three months.

RetainerTechnology

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Growth

Appleyard and Trew: Growth Sprint

A growth sprint moved Appleyard and Trew’s client acquisition from referral and network alone to a repeatable digital growth engine.

SprintProfessional Services

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Growth

TIMON: Ongoing Growth Retainer

An ongoing retainer keeps Timon’s team focused on the highest-leverage growth and operations priorities each quarter.

RetainerTech

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Growth

Anglia Ruskin University: Growth Enterprise Acceleration Programme

Sprints delivered through Anglia Ruskin’s Growth Enterprise Acceleration Programme give each cohort a condensed, structured growth process.

SprintEducation

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Pre-Raise

Cambridge Female Founders Network: Pre-Raise Fundraising Sprint

A structured fundraising sprint course gives Cambridge Female Founders Network members a repeatable process for raising their first round.

SprintFounder Community

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Pre-Raise

Anglia Ruskin University: Branding 101

A branding and positioning workshop series gives Anglia Ruskin’s pre-raise founders a clearer story before they pitch.

Workshops & CommunityEducation

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Investors

Femfinity and Women, Wealth and Capital: Investor Event Series

The Women, Wealth and Capital event series, run with Sie Ventures and #EmpowerHer, is building a pipeline of emerging female angel investors.

Workshops & CommunityFounder Community

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Communities & Events

Cambridge Female Founders Network: Expert Advisor Office Hours

Ongoing Expert Advisor office hours give Cambridge Female Founders Network members direct, one-to-one access to pre-raise and growth guidance.

Workshops & CommunityFounder Community

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Communities & Events

The Lonely Female Founders Club: Community Session

Regular community sessions give solo female founders at The Lonely Female Founders Club a working peer group and a place to pressure-test decisions.

Workshops & CommunityFounder Community

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Communities & Events

The Marketing Meetup: Practitioner Community AMA

An Ask-Me-Anything session inside The Marketing Meetup community opened up direct Q&A on fundraising and growth for working marketers.

Workshops & CommunityFounder Community

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Communities & Events

Anglia Ruskin University: Christmas Markets Pop-Up

A live pricing, positioning and conversion session helped student founders trading at the Christmas Markets sharpen their offer on the spot.

Workshops & CommunityEducation

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