Office Hours

We offer Office Hours to companies with management teams are based in the UK, US, and France. Office hours are conducted in English

Absolutely! To make sure we can help you in the quick-fire 30-minute session we will read your application and familiarise ourselves with your business beforehand. We only accept applications for startups where we feel we can add the most value.

Apart from the application, you don’t need to prepared anything. You should however be prepared to talk about your business in a succinct high-level way and answer our questions – check this link here which describes what we like to know

We find the following format to be the most effective:

• We introduce ourselves – 5 mins
• You introduce yourself and your business – 5 mins
• Main discussion – 5 mins:
  • What’s your biggest challenge?
  • Why is this important to your business?
  • Where do you need help?
• Ideas / outcome discussion – 10 mins
• Wrap-up – 5 minutes

Your call or meeting will be with a member of our Partners team who has the most relevant experience in your industry and business model

This is generally long enough to have a good conversation to cover one topic as the application will have allowed us to familiarise ourselves beforehand. As this is a free service we can only allocate a fixed amount of resources and it also allows us to help four companies per Office Hours session. 

Less is more. Don’t talk too quickly, be concise and keep it high level, as if you were talking to a friend or family member. Don’t get bogged down in the details, otherwise, the session will be finished before you know it and you won’t have got what you came here for.

The sessions are meant to be short and punchy so preparation is key. As they say, you can never be too prepared, and be sure to leave enough time for discussion. Enjoy and engage in the discussion.

If you need further advice and it’s something simple send us an email and we’ll be happy to reply. If it’s something more than that there are a couple of other options:

You may wish to join our startup founders community and be matched with a group of founders who share common goals and who will provide you with a sounding board and advice, and vice versa.

Alternatively, you could book a single meeting or a block of mentoring sessions with us via the link here.

We use Zoom and you will receive a video meeting link 1 day before your session.