Our
Mission
We design strategies, partnerships and programmes that help organisations innovate with clarity and startups scale faster
From innovation strategy to accelerator delivery, we help organisations turn bold ideas into scalable growth. We work across sectors, bridging startups with corporates to connect the right ideas and solutions to deliver results faster.
How we got here...
We started in 2016 as a growth agency. We pivoted to innovation, and over the last decade we’ve supported 2,500+ founders across 80+ programmes in 14 countries.
What that decade taught us is that the biggest obstacle to innovation isn’t the idea. It’s the gap between the organisations that need it and the start-ups that can deliver it. Both sides capable. Both sides willing. Both sides unprepared for each other.
Start-ups don’t speak corporate. Corporates don’t have the processes to find and work with external innovators at speed. Partnerships stall. Pilots fail. Budgets get pulled.
We’ve built a system to close that gap. We prepare start-ups for corporate partnership. We help corporates work with external innovation without the usual friction. We use AI to move faster and match better, but the mentorship, relationships, and outcomes remain human-driven.
It works across sectors because the problem is universal. The brief changes. The gap doesn’t.
The pressure to innovate has never been higher. Markets are moving faster, disruption is coming from every direction, and the organisations that win are the ones that stop trying to build everything internally and start leveraging what’s already being built around them.
But finding the right external innovators, preparing them for partnership, and executing collaboration that actually delivers – that’s where most organisations get stuck.
We remove that friction on both sides simultaneously. For corporates, we find, vet, and prepare start-ups around specific innovation briefs so teams can move straight to execution. No months of searching. No failed pilots. No wasted budget.
For start-ups, we work intensively across every dimension of the business – commercial model, go-to-market, partnership readiness, leadership – so founders arrive at the table ready, not just promising. The result is partnerships that move at start-up speed without the corporate risk.
We do this through our own programmes, through custom initiatives built around specific briefs, and by embedding our methodology into initiatives organisations are already running. The format changes. The outcome doesn’t.
Our approach
to growth
Build for both sides
We prepare start-ups for corporate partnership and help corporates work with external innovation. We understand both worlds, and that’s what makes partnerships actually stick.
Systematise what usually fails
Innovation stalls because execution between organisations is broken. We’ve mapped exactly what needs to work and built a repeatable process around it.
Think creatively to get big fast
In a world where speed meets opportunity, thinking outside the box isn’t just an option – it’s a necessity. Be bold and challenge convention.
Use AI to move faster
We use AI to identify opportunities, match start-ups to briefs, and scale our programmes without losing the human mentorship that drives real outcomes.
Be curious & adventurous
Always be looking out for new things, and don’t be afraid to try something different.
Just bloody try it
Put ideas into practice. Hustle. Knock on doors. Experiment and iterate. Learn by doing.
Growth Studio in Numbers
Startup Mentors in Europe
We’ve worked all around the world
We partner with organisations around the world to develop, scale and achieve innovation goals.
Rainmaking Corporate Ventures programmes
Denmark
Rainmaking Corporate Ventures programmes
Egypt
StartupBootcamp Fintech
Latvia
Commercialization Reactor
EdTech Latvia
Latvian Government Commercialisation Project
Lebanon
Bloom
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Hub 71
Wamda X
Startupbootcamp SmartCity
Startupbootcamp Fintech
United Kingdom
Project Swift
CityVerve
Amazon Sustainability Accelerator
Startupbootcamp Insurtech
Startupbootcamp Startup Italy
Rainmaking Foundation
Startupbootcamp IoT
Breathable Cities
Sustainable Impact Investment Programme
United States of America
Rainmaking Corporate Ventures programmes
Qatar
Startupbootcamp SportsTech
Our
Programmes
Our award-winning global accelerator programmes help founders intensively build and launch scalable, investible high-impact businesses built to last.
What sets us apart is our unique mentorship approach and exceptional ability to identify and nurture promising founders, impressing investors and corporations alike with our knack for cultivating these startups and preparing them to scale.
Our
Innovation
We’ve helped some of the world’s largest organisations access start-up innovation faster by understanding both sides deeply.
Whether you need a custom programme built around your brief, strategic advisory, or someone to embed innovation capability into what you’re already running – we design around your specific outcomes.
We’ve helped the world’s biggest companies innovate better.
Growth Studio has an incredibly rare combination of being able to give tailored, hugely accurate advice AND absolutely help you to deliver on it. I’ve never before been on a programme where I’ve felt simultaneously understood and challenged…this was it. And I would do it again 100 times over.
Growth Studio is not your traditional accelerator team. I mean it when I say this programme was a game changer for us. I can not recommend them enough.
Working with Growth Studio has been instrumental in helping us scale with much more clarity and purpose. Their strategic guidance challenged us to think differently in offering honest, hard truths that ultimately sharpened our approach. The team were fantastic to work with, supportive, insightful, and genuinely committed to our success.
Growth Studio helped us redevelop and articulate our business and pushed me to become a more confident entrepreneur.
Really loved working with everyone in the Growth Studio team. You’ve all truly made an impact on us not only as a business but as individuals. Truly appreciate you being part of the journey.
I would encourage startup founders to go through the programme to dramatically improve their pitch content and delivery. It helped us more than we could imagine.
Thank you for helping me to feel more confident in myself and my brand. Thank you for taking a chance on me and for the connections I’ve made. The connections have been priceless, and every single week has been full of incredible information. Every single person from the Growth Studio team have been so supportive, friendly and have given me the feedback I need to hear in order to grow. I genuinely feel as though I could be a 6-figure brand in 2026, and if it wasn’t for the Breakout Beauty UK programme then I wouldn’t have that belief. Thank you for opening the doors!
Growth Studio were a massive part of the Amazon Sustainability Accelerator, and in just a short 10 weeks they helped transform not just my business – but me as an entrepreneur. Composty came out of the programme with a sharper strategy, a clearer pitch, and bigger ambition. But perhaps most surprisingly, I came out of it with a different mindset – more confident, more focused, and ready to lead at the next level.That’s down to their deep knowledge, sharp instincts, and brilliant people skills. Highly recommend working with them – and I really hope our paths cross again soon. I owe a lot to Growth Studio.
Growth Studio are not your traditional accelerator team. They set out from day one to become our “co-founders” for the programme and got really stuck in to our business. Definitely mission accomplished there! They helped us to better understand our business and actively worked to understand and help us to articulate our vision for the future. I mean it when I say this programme was a game changer for us. I cannot recommend them enough.
Working with Growth Studio was a game changer. They really helped us implement a clearer structure and strategy to scale with a clear pathway to growth.
Wow, blown away by the level of support and mentorship. Breakout Beauty UK has impacted us all in ways we never even imagined.
My experience with Growth Studio was extremely positive. The team were not only highly skilled but also genuinely passionate about what they do, which made a real difference. Almost every session felt useful, relevant, and energising — a really valuable experience overall.
Growth Studio didn’t just help us polish our pitch; they helped us own it. From sharpening our problem statement to nailing our value prop and crafting a killer pitch, Growth Studio really got under the skin of our business. They get founders. They get what it takes to scale. And they’re not afraid to push you hard to get the best out of you. It was intense, honest, and exactly what we needed to level up.
Growth Studios don’t run a typical accelerator. They stood out as one of the best programmes we’ve been on, because they really dug into the detail and understanding. Great guys to work with.
Meet The Team
Rayan Jawad
Rayan is an award-winning data strategist working with multinationals and idea stage startups alike. His superpower is applying the principle that whatever the question, the answer is in the data if you just know where and how to look. Rayan is passionate about tech and innovation and the fine art of clear communication.
“Jaffa cakes are biscuits. This is a hill I’m willing to die on.”
Paul Finch
Paul's expertise lies in helping startups find the best path to commercialise quickly and effectively. His superpower is bridging the gap between startups and the largest, most complex organisations to help them scale and succeed together.
"I’m a total geek at heart; give me any nature-based solution, life science project, or batsh1t crazy way of solving a tough problem, and I’m there. I’m always drawn to the challenges that others don’t like to take on. Give me a complex, ambitious problem to solve, a diamond-in-the-rough founder, or an ability to prove a bunch of naysayers wrong, and I’ll get excited.
And Jaffa cakes are not biscuits."
Camilla Lor
Camilla is responsible for turning strategy into execution and building the systems that allow the business to scale. With 20 plus years across marketing, operations and growth leadership, she sits at the centre of how ideas move from ambition to impact.She’s built high growth brands, delivered award-winning marketing strategies and led teams to success across diverse industries for more than two decades.
Her focus is on clarity, momentum and delivery. She works closely with founders, partners and teams to translate vision into programmes and platforms that perform.
“I’m here to build the team and engine that helps great ideas land, scale and make a real difference.
Oh, and what are Jaffa cakes?"
Sufian Hassan
Sufian is a Technical Director with a product mindset and an engineer’s hands. He has 15+ years of experience across product and engineering. His superpower is turning fuzzy problems into shipped products, then improving them through data, user research, and fast feedback loops.
He has been entrepreneurial from a young age, building scripts and small platforms and selling his code in his teens. He has competed in many hackathons and won a few. Since then, he has founded startups and shipped small tools, including open source projects.
At Growth Studio, he helps build scalable AI products and platforms that remove manual work, speed up decisions, and drive growth, engagement, and retention. He cares about clear problem statements, simple solutions, and delivery that teams can own and improve.
“Jaffa Cakes are cakes. Big Biscuit has been lying to you for decades.”
Gaby Jesson
Gaby is a driving force in growth marketing and strategic partnerships. Gaby specialises in connecting business partners together and business stories with media. She focuses exclusively on the planet positive and climate tech sector. She also sits on the Board of Impact Hub and writes for Startups magazine.
“I love connecting through communication. And exclusively focus on planet positive organisations. It's the best job in the world!”
Sonia Giovannini
Sonia is a marketing and operations specialist with cross-sector experience spanning corporates, start-ups and non-profits. Her experience includes everything from large-scale campaigns to grassroots initiatives, working with global teams and early-stage ventures alike. Skilled in managing multi-partner projects, coordinating teams and delivering events across Europe, she now channels her expertise into supporting mission-driven innovation.
"My true passion lies in sustainability and community engagement. Now, I'm committed to driving positive change by supporting mission-driven organisations in environmental advocacy and social impact."
Laura Floyd
With more than 10 years of experience in customer service, operations and team-leading, Laura is our admin super-fan. Her superpower is her hawk-eyed attention to detail, she can spot a missed full stop at 200m.
"I truly love working with the team at Growth Studio, it’s not just what they do, but how they do it. We get sh*t stuff done and have fun doing it.”
Our Partners
Why work with us?
We're Bilingual
We speak fluent start-up and fluent corporate. Most accelerators are one or the other. We’re genuinely both, which is why partnerships we build actually work.
We're Systematic
Innovation fails when it’s left to chance. We’ve mapped what corporate readiness actually looks like and built a repeatable process around it. Every time.
We're Entrepreneurs
We want the people who work with us to spot new opportunities and move on them. That energy is built into everything we do.
We're Unorthodox
We shake things up, ask the awkward questions, and challenge the norm. We value people who think differently and aren’t afraid to show it.
We're In It For The Long Run
We don’t make introductions and disappear. We stay involved through execution and build networks that compound long after programmes end.
We Take Our Work Seriously. Not Ourselves.
Ambitious about outcomes. Relaxed about how we get there. Humour, honesty, and genuine partnership matter here.
Frequently asked questions
What does Growth Studio do?
Growth Studio is a corporate innovation consultancy and startup accelerator. We help corporates access and work with external innovation at speed, and prepare startups for corporate partnership. We work across sectors because the challenge of bridging startups and corporates is universal.
Are you a startup accelerator or an innovation consultancy?
Both. We run accelerator programmes that prepare startups for corporate partnership, and we work directly with large organisations on innovation strategy, custom programmes, and startup collaboration. The two sides feed each other.
How does Growth Studio help organisations innovate?
We work with organisations to define their innovation brief, then deliver against it – whether that’s accessing vetted startups ready to partner, designing a custom innovation programme, or embedding our methodology into existing initiatives. We’re a catalyst for outcomes, not just a strategy advisor.
What is a corporate accelerator programme?
A corporate accelerator brings together startups and large organisations around a shared innovation brief. Startups get access to corporate partners, mentorship, and commercial validation. Corporates get access to vetted external innovators ready to work with their teams. Growth Studio designs and runs corporate accelerators across sectors.
How do startups benefit from working with corporates?
Corporate partnerships give startups commercial validation, revenue opportunities, and credibility with investors that’s hard to build any other way. Growth Studio programmes are specifically designed to prepare founders for these partnerships and make them happen faster.
Does Growth Studio comply with the Fair Work First Policy?
Fair Work First Statement
Fair Work First
Growth Studio is committed to ensuring that we have in place fair working practices and is committed to advancing the Fair Work First criteria.
Rayan Jawad
Co-founder of Growth Studio
Growth Studio's Modern Slavery Statement
Growth Studio – Financial Year 2024-2025
Introduction
Growth Studio is committed to preventing modern slavery and human trafficking in all aspects of our business and supply chain. We fully support the principles outlined in the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and take our responsibility seriously to ensure ethical practices across our operations.
Our Business
Growth Studio is a UK-based accelerator that helps startups and corporates drive innovation and sustainability. While we do not have complex supply chains, we recognise our responsibility to uphold human rights in our business partnerships, procurement processes, and investment practices.
Our Approach to Modern Slavery Prevention
We are committed to taking proactive steps to prevent any form of forced labour, human trafficking, or exploitation within our organisation and supply chain. Our approach includes:
- Due Diligence: We conduct assessments of our suppliers and partners to ensure compliance with ethical standards.
- Supplier Code of Conduct: We expect our suppliers and partners to uphold high ethical standards and will not work with businesses that fail to meet legal and moral obligations.
- Staff Awareness & Training: We provide guidance to our employees to help them recognise and report any concerns related to modern slavery.
- Whistleblowing Policy: We encourage employees, contractors, and third parties to report any suspected unethical or illegal practices in confidence.
Risk Assessment & Accountability
As an accelerator working closely with startups and corporates, we assess potential risks of modern slavery within our partnerships and procurement processes. We will not knowingly engage with any organisation that fails to comply with anti-slavery laws.
Future Steps
Growth Studio is committed to continuously improving our approach to tackling modern slavery. Over the next year, we will:
- Strengthen our supplier vetting process.
- Enhance awareness training for staff.
- Regularly review and update our policies to align with best practices.
Approval & Review
This statement is made in accordance with Section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes Growth Studio’s modern slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year 2024-2025.
This statement has been approved by Paul Finch, Co-Founder and will be reviewed annually.
Date of Approval:30th September 2024
What sectors does Growth Studio work in?
We work across consumer, beauty, wellness, life sciences, climate tech, infrastructure, finance, and government. Our methodology is sector-agnostic because the challenge of connecting startups and corporates is universal regardless of industry.
Where is Growth Studio based?
Growth Studio is based in the UK and works with organisations and startups globally. We’ve delivered programmes across 13 countries.
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