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Growth support like you never had before

Emerging vendors only

We're pirates. Trained at top-tier global tech firms and loving real innovators. We specialise in working with emerging vendors - only.  All our thinking is focused on Startup success.

Fast forward

Choose the support that makes a difference now. Fix your AR strategy, get on the right radars or get a startup AR co-pilot. Flex the intensity from minimal viable, to selective, to strategic – aligned to your priorities.

Strategic & OKR-driven

You have neither time nor capacity to waste. Our no-nonsense, no-overhead approach ties in directly with your product development, marketing, sales and investor work.

Specialist tools

We invest in industry-leading specialist systems so you don’t have to. And since Startups have their own needs, we have tailored startup-specific frameworks, tools and pricing(!) that clients & analysts call just fantastic.

Data-driven expertise

Practitioner experience meets hard data. We initiated the "State of Startups with Industry Analysts" (SSIA) research. Today, our insights are guiding Startups, VCs and even Industry Analysts around the world.

Pre-connected

15+ years with B2B Tech Startups and Industry Analysts have built a track record of meaningful interactions. Our outstanding reputation gives analysts the confidence they need to prioritise you when calendars are tight.

​​Meet the  heavily biased  family

​Our investment in AR paid-off 10x

Chris's AR guidance and getting the analyst value deep into all parts of Pace has been  a booster for us  in so many ways.
Chris makes good things brilliant.

Tim Bretman, Founder and CEO of Pace
Pace now ranks 24th on the FT1000 list of Europe's fastest-growing businesses over 3 years

​Outstanding and a joy to support

The quality of briefings you provide is refreshing  and the engagement you're creating among the leadership team and subject matter experts is outstanding – and a joy to support.


VP Analyst, Top Tier Analyst Firm

Chris' revolutionary impact measurement framework

 The best AR programmes  now operate as internal consulting functions, with clear value propositions for each business unit, business function and with systematic outcome tracking. This isn't just measurement improvement — 
 it's organizational transformation. 

Duncan Chapple, Analyst Relations Lead, Elisa Industriq
#2 on Thinkers360 Global Thought Leaders

​Focused and effective

Chris focused Analyst Relations  exactly on what Cybus needed.  Getting highlighted alongside only 4 other startups in an important innovator report for investors helped Cybus close our Series-A under good terms.


Pierre Maniere, Founder and CEO, Cybus.io

Cybus was a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018, and was mentioned in various top analyst publications since

​We have been blown away by Chris’ expertise

His approach created excitement in our Leadership and Board of Directors.
The results in  category creation  speak for themselves.

David Hopp, Head of Analyst Relations, Synd.io
Syndio coined workplace equity and appeared as a leader in numerous analyst reports

The hottest topic in startup research

Your „State of Startups with Industry Analysts“ shines a light on the  last, largely overlooked success factor  for b2b tech innovators. This was long overdue.

Partner, VC Firm

A real force for good

Chris has been a real force for good for our business. 
Remember  5x Gartner MQ. 


Neil Lock, VP,  BT Compute
BT Compute was an internal venture of telco giant BT Global Services and scored numerous leader placements vs. IT-centric players

On your team

20+ Years in B2B Tech

Roots in innovation management, strategy, product marketing and business development with tech giants, scaleups and startups

FT1000 Growth

Pioneering AR impact management has led to outstanding growth and repeated analyst report leader placements

First Principles Thinker

​Initiator of the SSIA research programme with the University of Edinburgh Business School, nearing 1,000 participants to date.

IIAR Global Top 10

Voted by hundreds of analysts via the Institute for Industry Analyst Relations (2023)


Let's meet

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Ballindamm 39

20095 Hamburg

Germany 

Throughout the Nordics

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