How a digital startup studio helps you launch your business

What can a startup studio do for you?

A startup studio can help accelerate your business by providing access to funds, expertise and resources, such as people, processes, tools and networks.

Usually, a startup studio will work with a limited number of companies, if compared to accelerators or incubators. Each company will require a dedicated team and optimised process, which means that getting accepted in a studio is much harder.

Getting access to a startup studio will help you raise capital and get your product launched to the market. A startup studio will not only provide a certain amount of seed capital, but it will also help by leveraging its network of investors and by lowering the perceived risk of investing in your company, acting as a lead investor, for example.

The Activate Startup Studio

Activate has been involved in the industry for 30 years, working with prestigious clients including, Diageo Plc, Shell, Epson and Seven Dials, to name a few. However in 2016, we decided to launch a Startup Studio because we realised that helping create new businesses was, by far, the most interesting part of our job.

Depending on which statistics you choose to trust, 90% or more of startups don't make it to their third year. If you are crazy enough to embark on your startup adventure, you are exactly the kind of people we like at Activate!

So what are the main reasons startups fail? In all honesty, we would love to know the answer to this, unfortunately, this is not that kind of blog post. Nowadays, it is hard to navigate the complexity of running a business in today's world, and whilst we don't have the recipe for guaranteed success, we do have enough scars and experience, as well as some secret ingredients, to help you avoid some of the most common mistakes.

At Activate Studio, we are passionate about building products and growing companies. We focus on business ideas centred on a digital product and we help founders to:

• Create a clear picture of their idea

• Raise funds

• Build a digital product

• Elaborate a product to market strategy

Is Activate the right startup studio for you?

As a Startup Studio, we work with early-stage companies with a business model based on a successful digital platform.

We believe that in the future, every company will be a tech company. 

Our management team collectively has more than a hundred years of experience in designing and building digital products. This is where we shine as it's a domain we understand very well and one in which we can be more impactful.

More specifically, we focus on companies based on a platform business model, where users can create value for other users and network in order to help growth.

If you find that these sentences resonate with your project and you think you need help turning a good idea into a business, you can apply to our programme.

Are you the right founder for Activate Studio?

Whilst we don't really have a specific "type", we do like founders who have developed a domain expertise, who understand their target market well, who are passionate about solving problems and have an intuitive way of thinking to create positive change in the world.

Whilst we don't turn down sole founders, we have witnessed many times how hard it is to start a new company, raise capital, build a team and launch a product idea all at the same time. In order to start successfully, you will need all the help you can find.

We invest in early-stage digital startups that want to have a positive impact on the world and look out for certain core business values. Such as, startups that want to deliver value to all stakeholders, whilst taking care of shareholders, employees, vendors, and customers alike. If you think that’s you and your idea, why not swipe right and check if we are a match?