We help create opportunity for Enlightened SMEs
Somewhere between management consultants, low-key venture capitalists, outsourced support and the A-Team…
You know, if you have a problem, if nobody else can help, and if you can find us, maybe you can hire….
A collaboration combining the best of Alpaca, NXD and Stuart Brown Ventures, we turn good businesses into great ones.
We love misfits, by which we mean the businesses too small, too ‘traditional’ or too ‘unsexy’ for your average PE/VC house.
The ones with succession issues but great products, strong growth in a declining sector, massive potential but lacking capital.
We want to help your brilliance shine through, putting you back on the right road:
The Road to Startup
The Road to Series A
The Road to Scale-Up
The Road to Exit
But only ever for “Enlightened” SMEs, because we’re not about 10x growth at any cost.
People, Planet, Profit. In that order.
The things you don’t think are possible – we do
We work with owner-managed businesses to provide the kind of strategic thinking with an operational twist usually reserved for Blue Chips.
We’ll help you think differently and grow – sustainably. Not for the faint-hearted we prefer to disrupt or rewrite industry rulebooks whilst having fun along the way.
And we always start with an Ambition Workshop.
The “It’s Just That” Podcast
Once upon a time…
We love speaking to business owners and entrepreneurs. Just not about the weather, the news or where they went to school.
We wanted to take about the hard parts, the ‘too-hard’ pile and the feeling of sometimes being a misfit for trying something new.
So we did, and all from the front seat of a Ferrari. Because if you’re going to jump on the bandwagon of “people doing interviews in cars”, we figure you might as well do it in some style.
