Build Collaborative Strategies
to Unlock Innovation
We support companies to launch, grow and change through innovation.
Stop waiting and jump.
At Colab-8, we unlock the power of innovation. We bring a creative, early-stage mindset to our work with startups and more established organisations; supporting businesses with strategy, proposition, funding and transformation.
We are not investors, nor an accelerator. We are not bankers, nor management consultants. We are not venture capitalists.
We have been all of them and now we bring a combined collaborative experience to help widen the scope of opportunity for the growth of new ideas.
So what are we?
We empower all players across the innovation landscape to align better and quicker to scale faster.
We unlock organisations with a people-first agenda of business change, championing a drive to develop internal capability.
Impactful Ideas
Brought to Life
Colab-8 Consulting helps its clients unlock innovation and the potential of their businesses by creating strategies that drive sustainable growth.
By helping companies focus on their purpose, what customers they are targeting, how they communicate their value and how they succeed, we help companies decide their next move whatever their stage of development and whichever their industry.
£10m+
Funding Unlocked
Not all of our clients are immediately seeking funding, but for those that are we support the building of robust growth plans, innovative strategies and comprehensive value propositions that enable the presentation of the business at its best.
Our successes demonstrate the strength of our approach in aligning our clients to target markets and to potential sources of finance.
Our 8 Drivers
of Growth
Our business growth model focuses on the tools used to perform and on the skills of the people using them.
We believe that businesses need to understand how they interact with the economy, society and environment in which they operate. A strong grasp on the impact already being made helps to innovate towards ways to target and optimise future impact.
PITCH PERFECT AI
So many of our clients are looking to demonstrate the strength of their idea and of their team. Pitch decks and other materials, including how they are being presented verbally, all have strengths and weaknesses but there is a difficulty in finding an objective opinion. Even we can't remove our own preferences from our assessment.
To help us start from an objective analysis we have developed Pitch Perfect AI; our own AI tool that acts as our in-house investment analyst.
We offer a free high level assessment of all investment materials, with a free 30 minute follow-up consultation to review the findings and discuss plans for development.
Our team
Our clients have complex needs. The Colab-8 Leadership Team has developed an invaluable network of professional advisers, mentors and consultants that can be called to contribute to projects and add to a collaborative effort.
We assess the needs of every client and access our extensive network of associate partners in order to bring the required skills, knowledge and expertise to every project.
