First Degree Capital

We started First Degree with one belief:
AI isn’t tomorrow. It’s now.

If you’re building something ambitious in productivity, collaboration, or workflow automation — let’s talk. DM us or send your deck to kaan@firstdegree.capital

Founder & General Partner

Graphio.ai

Revenue failures don’t happen overnight. Silent stalls, missed renewals, and broken handoffs start weeks earlier — but most leaders only see them when it’s already too late.

Graphio solves this.
It’s the AI-powered operating layer for modern GTM and ops leaders — what strategy consultants recommend once a year, running continuously.

Backed by 100+ senior exec angels from Mastercard, PwC, Snowflake, Experian, HelloFresh, BambooHR and more, we’re proud to support Dmitry, Andrey, and the Graphio team via firstdegree.capital

Investor (+ Partner)

Limelight

B2B go-to-market has changed. Buyers trust people more than brands, and the creator-led model is exploding — growing 30% year over year. Yet most brands still lack the analytics, attribution, and automation needed to make creator marketing work at scale.

Limelight solves this by giving GTM teams one place to:
Discover the right creators with the right audience
Automate outreach, contracting, and activation
Run creator and employee-led campaigns across LinkedIn, newsletters, podcasts, YouTube, X, and more
Connect the dots between social signals, CRM data, and revenue
It’s SaaS, marketplace, and AI outbound all in one — built for modern GTM leaders who want results without the manual hustle.

Backed by great co-investors and super-angels, we're happy supporting David, and Youngjae and the team via firstdegree.capital

Trampoline AI

Trampoline is building the AI-native workspace for proposals — starting with RFPs. It automates everything from brief ingestion to draft generation and collaboration. The result: service teams close more deals, faster.

We’re proud to partner with Edouard, Gabriel, and their team alongside investors like Salesforce Ventures, betaworks, and True Ventures.

🔗 Learn more https://trampoline.ai
🔗 Or check https://firstdegree.capital/portfolio/trampoline

WINN.AI

Winn.ai is your AI-powered meeting assistant built for revenue teams.

It joins your calls, tracks action items, and automatically syncs notes to your CRM — all without manual input.

No more “Oh, I forgot to ask!”
Set up your playbook — or adapt one of Winn’s with a click.
Winn tracks conversations in real-time, showing you which talking points you’ve covered and what’s still left to say.

It goes beyond transcription. It understands context, tracks pipeline impact, and ensures nothing slips through the cracks.

Backed by top-tier investors (Insight Partners, Sarona Ventures, S Capital VC + multiple prominent operators and angels) and loved by sales teams, we’re proud to support Eldad and Bar + the entire team at Winn.ai via firstdegree.capital.

Topo (YC W24)

Topo.io provides AI SDR agents to execute custom B2B outbound playbooks tailored to each company and industry. 

It identifies, qualifies, and engages high-value leads using real-time data signals. Beyond basic personalization, it delivers strategic, context-driven outreach.

Topo.io (YCW24) is backed by leading VCs and industry experts, happy to supporting Dan, Leonard, Robin and the team at Topo.io via firstdegree.capital

FullEnrich

Enrich anybody on LinkedIn with 1 click. You’re visiting a LinkedIn profile and want the contact info? Boom, you click on "Enrich", and your contact is enriched and saved in a list.

Backed by leading VCs and super-angels, we're happy supporting Benjamin, Grégoire, Jean-Luc and team at FullEnrich via firstdegree.capital

AlphaLens

Who is building something similar? Get razor-sharp intelligence on your market in seconds.

Whether you are a bootstrapped founder looking to map your market, an M&A professional  looking for a deal, or the head of data at a multi-stage firm, have a look at Alphalens and what it can do for you.

Supporting the Leo, Walid and team via First Degree.

Deckmatch uses the power of AI and advanced analytics to revolutionize investment deal flow. Our platform seamlessly integrates your deal flow with external data, offering investors intelligent parsing, precise startup-investor matching, and actionable insights through tailored memos.

With our API, Deckmatch fits effortlessly into your existing workflow and CRM, enhancing your investment strategy with sharp, data-driven insights.

Supporting the team at DeckMatch via First Degree.

WhiteBridge.ai

Whitebridge.ai is an AI-powered digital identity research tool that finds, verifies, and analyzes publicly collected data about someone and structures it into an insightful report. 

Supporting the team at Whitebridge via First Degree.

lablab.ai

Supporting Pawel, Simon and the team at LabLab via First Degree.

Investor

Cooking up something new. Stay tuned!🧑🏼‍🍳🪄

10x Founder → Early Stage Investor. 
General Partner @ First Degree Capital.

We’re backers of brave beginnings:

Dmitry & Andrew — graphio.ai (Sep ‘25)
David & Youngjae — limelighthq.com (Aug ’25)
Gabriel & Edouard — trampoline.ai (Jul ’25)
Eldad & Bar — winn.ai (Jun ’25)
Dan, Robin & Leonard — topo.io (May ’25)
Benjamin, Jean-Luc & Grégoire — fullenrich.com (Jan ’25)
Leopold & Walid — alphalens.com (Sep ’24)
Paulius, Tomas, Irmantas & Justin — whitebridge.ai (Sep ’24)
Simon & Pawel — lablab.ai (May ’24)

We co-invest alongside great angels and co-investors such as Y Combinator, Insight Partners, Kima Ventures, Flex Capital, Alliance VC, AltaIR, Luminar, Skyfall, and more.

We 💜 AI-driven companies “changing the way we work” and take out the 🫏 work. 

If you’re building something ambitious in productivity, collaboration, or workflow automation — let’s talk.

DM us or send your deck to kaan@firstdegree.capital

Kaan Anit

Nothing beats building. 

Before starting First Degree Capital, we’ve started and scaled RocketX. 

Back then, we were building every day.

Helping founders solve problems.
Finding product–market fit.
Scaling what worked.

We worked with over 300 founding teams.
And no matter the stage or industry,
the challenges were always the same:

⏱ Time.
🧠 Expertise.
🤝 Access.

Access to revenue.
Access to people.
Access to capital.

We turned those lessons into playbooks — real stories, distilled into practical steps. 99problems 😉

But even with playbooks, founders still wanted to talk.

Not theory. Not advice from afar.
Just a real conversation.

That’s why we’re proud to join Hubble Cohort 22 🚀

A platform built for exactly that —
where founders, operators, and investors
share what they’ve learned the hard way.

No panels.
No pitches.
Just honesty.

Because giving back is part of the journey.
And if what we’ve learned can save someone else a few steps, that’s time well spent.

💡 Early-stage fundraising
🎯 GTM & product–market fit
🤝 Founder-to-founder guidance
⚙️ Building with (and around) AI
🧭 Recruiting & hiring

Playbooks → https://lnkd.in/eCCdVPty
1:1 Talk → app.hubble.social/kaananit

Kaan Anit 🫧

Guillermo’s post on Harry Stebbings hit me harder than most content does.

Not because of Harry’s success (we love people to succeed), but because it exposed the one thing we haven’t built yet.

Harry has mastered something we haven’t:

A disciplined, systematic approach to closing capital.

✅ Weekly LP conversations.
✅ Quarterly updates.
❌ Hundreds of relationships nurtured long before he ever raises a fund.
❌ Relentless follow-through.
❌ Velocity that compounds.

It’s the opposite of how most funds raise.

And it’s the exact opposite of what we’ve been focused on.

We’re very good at building the engine — sourcing, evaluating, connecting people, and creating systems that actually work.

We’re good at moving fast, building trust, giving founders access, and turning zero into something.

But we’re not good at one thing: closing capital. 

And without that, nothing scales. 

We haven’t build a network of investors way before we started…

So we’re making a shift.

We’re looking for someone exceptional to join us — someone who lives and breathes capital raising.

Someone who treats LP relationships the way we treat founders.

Someone who can take our system, our network, our engine, and turn it into momentum on the capital side.

We’re a small team — Anouk and myself, supported by great people around us — and we’ve built everything from scratch over the last 18 months.

Now we’re ready for the person who completes the circle.

If you want to read the whole thing subscribe to Guillermo Flor his newsletter (link in comments) 🔗

But more importantly for us 😉
you know someone who should be doing this with us, we’d love an introduction.

Please share and repost this so we’ll get hold of this person we really need. 

And if this sounds like you, reach out.
DM me. 💜

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We first met David. 💜
Clear. Fast. Obsessive about the problem.
A founder who sees exactly where GTM is heading — and is already building for that world.

Then we met Youngjae.💜
Technical, calm, incredibly sharp.
The kind of builder who gives you immediate confidence the product will keep improving every single week.

And together with Demir, Blas, and Janine, they form a small, fantastic team… focused, product-first, and relentless.

That’s when we said:
“We’re in.”

The problem they’re solving?

Everyone sees the shift:

• creators = distribution
• employees = media
• buyers follow people, not slide decks

But until now, nobody could measure it.
Everyone knew influence drives revenue nobody could prove it.

Limelight fixes this.

Their platform shows exactly how content turns into pipeline, with real attribution and real buyer intent.
And their new AI agent:

→ learns your company
→ defines your ICP
→ maps competitors
→ listens to social
→ surfaces intent
→ turns it into pipeline

Exactly the kind of AI-native product we back.

The proof?

A world-class group of investors joined + respected operators from across the ecosystem.

And of course they won the Global Pitch Competition at SaaStock, taking home €1,000,000.
Hard proof. Real momentum. 🙌🏼

That’s why we invested.

Great people.
A real problem.
A product that already delivers.

Proud to be in the round with this team.

#Limelight
#FirstDegreeCapital
#BackersOfBraveBeginnings

Founder & CEO @ Limelight | B2B Creator Marketplace | 3x Founder | MBA Mentor

Today I’m announcing our $2,100,000 funding round 🎉💰
And a HUGE NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH!! ...

Our brand new AI agent for Social Listening is live.

It can:

→ Research your company
→ Precisely define your ICP
→ Identify all of your competitors

Then automatically surface buyer intent from social content and turn it into sales pipeline. 

Early users are raving about it already!!

And just a few weeks ago,
We won the Global Pitch Competition!
On stage at SaaStock (€1M prize money)

THIS. IS. WHAT. MOMENTUM. LOOKS. LIKE.

Here’s why investors are loving Limelight

👇🏼👇🏼

Everyone is talking about personality-led marketing.

- Niche B2B creators are stealing trust.
- Employees are becoming mini media brands.
- Buyers follow PEOPLE, not 40-page whitepapers.

But the problem - up until now?

Everyone KNOWS influence drives revenue.

Yet nobody can measure it.

So budgets have stayed trapped in paid ads & cold outbound.

Limelight SOLVES this problem.

We’re showing brands - how CONTENT drives REVENUE.

We are making influence marketing performance-based.

So brands can track:

🔎 Which post led to $142,000 in pipeline
🔎 Which creator drove 237 product signups
🔎 Which campaign closed $1.9M new business.

(All REAL Limelight case studies! 📈)

We’re turning B2B influence from a “nice-to-have branding play” into a scalable revenue engine.

Big SHOUT out to our new investors for believing in us

Amit at SNR (led the round!) 
Eran at Savyon Ventures 
Kenneth at BackFuture
Kaan at First Degree 
Josh at OpenSky 
Kirby at Ascend

And many others like Ran Makavy, Gert Lanckriet, Suhit Gupta, Amir Ashkenazi, Mike Head, Eli Schwartz, Tom Waddington, Dan Murray🧠, Garrett Scott, Michel Lieben 🧠 & Alex Vacca 🧠🛠️.

A group of incredible operators/investors who know personality-led growth will define the next decade of GTM.

What’s next?

Goal remains the same:
→ Hit $10M ARR with a team of 10.

This funding round lets us:

⚡ Build even faster
⚡ Hire a few elite engineers + AMs
⚡ Push deeper into creator-based attribution
⚡ Power influencer programs for every GTM org

Huge gratitude to my tiny but might team Youngjae JI, Demir Capan, Blas C. and Janine Bulao. 

And most importantly...

The creators and brands (HubSpot, Webflow, Clay + 100s more) who are building this category WITH us 💪🏼

THIS IS JUST THE START.

PS. if you sign up as a new customer in the next 48 hours you get your 2nd month free! (DM me and I will do it for you)

How we bootstrapped First Degree Capital in 2025.

We tried a lot of tools this year — many AI-native, many custom-centric.
Here’s my Top 15 that helped me run the whole operation for < $250/month.


COMMUNICATION & OUTREACH

1. Wispr – People have spoken to my people for years because I can’t type.
Now I use voice. https://wisprflow.ai

2. Superhuman – Email, speed, focus. Beats Gmail. And definitely Microsoft.
https://superhuman.com

3. TryKondo – LinkedIn is part of my stack, but for messaging I use Superhuman for LinkedIn.
https://app.trykondo.com

4. Folk CRM – My digital Rolodex. Works seamlessly with LinkedIn and Superhuman.
https://folk.app

MEETING PREP & INTEL

5. WhiteBridge.ai – For meeting prep and personal intel.
https://whitebridge.ai

6. Alphalens – Company, competitor & product intel in seconds.
https://alphalens.com

7. FullEnrich – I don’t look for numbers or email addresses anymore.
https://fullenrich.com

RESEARCH & THINKING

8. Perplexity – Research, answers, clarity.
https://perplexity.ai

9. ChatGPT – My colleague. After two years, (s)he knows me by now.
https://chat.openai.com

PLANNING & ORGANISATION

10. Google Workspace – Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Gemini for meeting notes — all in one place.
https://lnkd.in/eCFawhbV

11. Google Drive – Still undefeated for storing and sharing.
https://drive.google.com

12. Happenstance – Natural-language search on my network. Outperforms LinkedIn Recruiter Seat or Sales Navigator by far.
https://happenstance.ai

RUNNING THE DAY

13. Calendly – Keeps my calendar under control.
https://calendly.com

14. Comet – My daily command centre.
https://comet.com

15. Gamma – Turns any content into clean, sharp slides.
https://gamma.app

THE HARDWARE BEHIND IT ALL
My iPhone and MacBook Pro – The foundations everything runs on.

If one of these saves you even 30 minutes a day, use it.
And if you’re building tools that change the way we work — I want to meet you.

Another great post from Mr. Stockholm aka Oliver Molander. 

Great insights for anyone thinking enterprise and AI. 

Especially point 6, "Change the way we work." As in get work done. 👀⤵️

I don't think people truly understand how early we're in enterprise adoption of AI agents.

McKinsey just released their 2025 AI report. 

Some nuggets:

1️⃣ 90% of companies “use AI,” but 67% are still stuck in pilot mode. Corporate AI theater is alive and well.

2️⃣ 62% of orgs are experimenting with AI agents, 23% are scaling AI agents. Most are in tech and healthcare.

3️⃣ The impact gap is massive. 64% say AI helps innovation, but only 39% see real EBIT gains. 

4️⃣ The high performers (top 6%) think bigger. They rebuild workflows, set growth goals, and invest real budgets not just PoCs.

5️⃣ Leaders who own AI personally are 3x more likely to scale it. Makes sense.

6️⃣ The winners use AI to transform how work gets done, not just speed it up.

7️⃣ The average company measures efficiency. The best ones measure how fast their agents can act.

8️⃣ Risk management is catching up with 51% have already seen AI backfire, mostly from inaccuracy.

9️⃣ The workforce impact is foggy. 32% expect cuts, 13% expect growth, everyone else is guessing.

Agentic AI looks magical in demos, but scaling it across teams and systems (especially in enterprise settings) is where it still breaks. You can do basic single-step automation reliably right now (tool calling).

As Andrej Karpathy recently noted on LLM agents:

"My critique of the industry is more in overshooting the tooling w.r.t. present capability."

Bottom line: we're still super early, this transformation will go on for another decade.

I'm bullish, but this will take a bit longer than we think, having fully autonomous agents. Just like autonomous driving took a bit longer than we thought, but here we are.

E.g. one of the biggest challenges in building AI agents today is agents' long-term memory.

#artificialintelligence

AI isn’t taking jobs — it’s taking tasks.

I just read Deel’s new AI & Workforce Policy Report (a fantastic report!!) and one thing stood out:

What AI means for people, employers, and founders is no longer theoretical.

It’s happening. Right now. 
Here are my key takeaways: 

👩🏻‍💻 For people:
Entry-level roles: the classic way in — are being automated out.

But new jobs are emerging just as fast: 
AI Librarians, Trainers, Tutors. The shift isn’t from human to machine… 

It’s from execution to judgment.

🏢 For employers:
AI is no longer an experiment.

70% of companies have moved beyond pilots. Yet compliance, trust, and talent are now the real constraints.

The question isn’t “if we use AI,” but “how responsibly we do it.”

🚀 For founders:
Every industry is hiring AI talent.

And the biggest opportunity isn’t building the next model, but it’s helping people and companies use AI safely, productively, and in ways that make work better.

Read the full report here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eZ8CgSaj

#AI #FutureOfWork #Productivity #Founders #VentureCapital

If I had the skills — and lived in LA — I’d apply myself.

David, Youngjae, and the team at Limelight are building something truly special.

They’ve cracked what every creator, brand, and marketer dreams of: real, data-driven influencer partnerships that actually convert.

They’re growing fast.
They move like true founders.
They treat customers like partners.
And they’re now looking for a Customer Success Manager who can help them scale that magic.

If you’ve ever wanted to join a rocket ship at just the right time — this is it.
An opportunity you don’t want to miss.

Trust me, you’ll want to keep an eye on this team.

#BackersOfBraveBeginnings
#LimelightHQ
#FirstDegreeCapital

I’m HIRING a Customer Success Manager!! 🎉 👀 Want to join a tech startup DOMINATING the creator economy space?!

Keep reading 👇

I don’t care about your fancy degree.
Or what brands are on your CV.
Or how old you are.

If you're awesome at what you do...

WE WANT YOU!!!

Simple as that 👏👏

The ideal candidate:

🔥 Has startup experience (and can work fast)
🔥 Can build relationships with enterprise customers
🔥 Understands B2B influence/creator partnerships
🔥 Has the grit and accountability to own outcomes

You'll get:

→ Ability to work from anywhere
→ Skin in the game + bonuses
→ Responsibility from day one
→ Total creative freedom

This is a rare opportunity for someone to join our early team and go on a MAJOR growth journey with us.

A bit about Limelight:

- Just won SaaStock Europe’s global pitch
- Growing fast with $3.6M in proposals sent
- Working with brands like HubSpot, Clay, Xero
- Building the future of B2B influencer marketing
- Used by thousands of world-class content creators

We made our last hire in under 10 days.

And we’re looking for someone incredible again.

Ready for the challenge?

Apply here: https://lnkd.in/d6bnJyJP

Know someone who is?

Tag ‘em!

“Europe is fine to start.
But once you want real numbers, you need to go where people buy fast.”

A fantastic post and must read for any European founder. 👀⤵️

All credits to Jérémy

CEO @The Mobile-First Company 📱Fixing broken desktop software with AI mobile apps 🌍 Angel Investor in +40 startups

Sell only in France if you want a small company.

Patrick Collison, the cofounder of Stripe, shared a chart this week that speaks for itself.  

If you build software and you don’t sell in the US, you miss the biggest part of the opportunity.

The US revenue curve goes up fast.
Even without AI companies in the mix, the US still grows faster than Europe.

The US is one big market with buyers who move fast.
Europe is split, slow, and full of small rules that block you the moment you try to scale.

Look at Pigment, PhotoRoom, Hyperline.
French teams growing fast because they sell in the US.

Europe is fine to start.
But once you want real numbers, you need to go where people buy fast.

If you want a big company, you go to the US.
If you want a small one, stay in France.

Over 12 years, JBM has built its reputation as a long term strategic talent partner to VC backed startups and scaleups across Europe. 

I lead our fractional, interim, and advisory practice, helping businesses leverage elite operators through flexible approaches to executive hiring, without cumbersome or costly FT contracts. 

I'm also focused on introducing AI into our processes to supercharge our output, all while maintaining a human frontend to nurture relationships and provide strategic advice.

Principal - Fractional, Interim, Advisory

Paradise Property Group

Paradise Property Group (PPG) is an Australian entity raising the bar for backpacker experiences in Indonesia. 

Our first pursuit is The Penida Project, a lux capsule-bed hostel in the island paradise of Nusa Penida.

As Non-Executive Co-Founder, I provide strategic and operational support on an ad-hoc basis, such as:
- Financial modelling 
- Brand positioning
- Strategic partnerships
- Reporting and governance

 You might also find me behind the bar shaking cocktails on the odd occasion!

Check us out at instagram.com/penidaproject and book directly through https://hotels.cloudbeds.com/reservation/EVdSYd

Co-Founder (non-executive)

Outhire

Lending an ear and opinion to product, GTM, and fundraising activities. 

Outhire is the marketing platform for talent teams. Outhire distributes targeted job ads and employer branding to professional communities on platforms like Slack, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter, bringing the best talent to the talent teams.

Advisor

Xtrava Group

Xtrava Group is a global leadership and executive talent specialist, supporting companies operating in STEM sectors such as Mining, Industrial Technology, Engineered Products, Construction Materials, and Engineering.

I sit on the Advisory Board as a representative of the technology ecosystem, bringing talent insights and advice.

Advisory Panel Member

Airtree

Senior Talent Network Manager

Airtree Ventures invests in and partners with the most ambitious founders building the iconic technology companies of tomorrow. First round. Multiple rounds.

I led a redesign of Airtree’s talent function, based on the core pillars of impact and scalability, to support our portfolio companies with hiring strategy, process, and talent networks. Some common themes where I lean in and assist:
- Organisational (re)design for companies entering a new phase of size and scale
- Executive recruitment for CFO, CTO, CRO, CPO, and CHROs, including gap analysis of current executive team skillset and experience, outbound headhunting, and interview process optimisation
- Compensation benchmarking reports, using public and private comparables

Talent Network Manager

AirRobe

In June, I was given the additional responsibility of Operations and Growth Lead, which include:

- Leading and optimising the customer service function, including hiring and managing an offshore team of four agents
- Leading an innovative sales strategy to approach tier 1 multi-brand retail prospects, resulting in our first major pilot with a US listed business

Operations and Growth Lead

AirRobe powers the future of sustainable fashion. It's a world-first technology solution that connects brands and customers to the circular economy – in one click.

My role includes:
- Building from scratch all recruitment and people operations processes and systems, including interview process, HRIS and ATS implementation, HR policies, and employee relations processes
- Organisational culture and values discovery through workshops and implementation through practices
- Organisational design
- End-to-end recruitment across go to market, operations, finance, technology, and executive functions

Head of People & Culture

Woods & Co

- Led recruitment team of ~20 staff (Recruitment Coordinators, Consultants, Senior Consultants, and Managing Consultants), responsible for company P&L with overall revenue and profit growth objectives.
- Led a full organisational restructure from ideation to execution, creating specialist divisions, optimising team workflows. Unlocked significant business growth, breaking through a previous revenue and headcount ceiling.
- Built a cash flow model to forecast monthly free cash according to cost base and projected recruiter fees. Model became a key decision-making tool in weekly Senior Leadership Team meetings, driving decisions on investment, hiring, and business development strategies.
- Built and nurtured key client partnerships, securing and managing the firm’s largest customer, worth $40k MRR.
- Developed onboarding program to up-skill new employees in company culture & values, and recruitment industry knowledge.
- Delivered ongoing L&D program to recruitment team to up-skill on business development and recruitment process.

General Manager

Manager

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Woods & Co is a Melbourne based recruitment agency, striving to deliver results beyond expectation to both job seekers and employers.

We pride ourselves on an ability to find the right job for the right person, affording success to all parties involved. We aim to build long-term and fulfilling relationships with all stakeholders through our tailored recruitment service.

Recruitment Consultant

Carlton Football Club

Providing support to players of Carlton's VFL affiliate the Northern Blues. My ultimate goal is to ensure that players remain engaged with the football program despite what injuries, mental health, or personal challenges they might be facing. The role is predicated on my forming meaningful relationships with each player, from which follows an open and sincere dialogue about their wellbeing.

Player Welfare Coordinator

Exquisine

Primary objective of increasing revenue for the business, whilst also working to increase internal procedural efficiencies.

Business Development

Driven by solving complex problems with great people, I'm a talent, ops, and commercial professional with experience across venture capital, startup, and recruitment environments. 

Outside of Monday to Friday:

I completed my Masters of Business Administration at Melbourne Business School in 2023, graduating with distinction from the part-time course. 

I'm a Co-Founder of Paradise Property Group, which has developed a luxury, capsule bed hostel in Nusa Penida, Indonesia. The epic five year journey from ideation to opening culminated in August 2023 when we opened our doors to the public. We proudly have a 9.4 rating across both booking.com and Hostel World, with hundreds of reviews.  www.instagram.com/penidaproject 

I manage an investment syndicate, Butterfly Capital. We've completed deals with Sea Forest, who has developed marine farming processes to grow methane-abating seaweed at scale; Lanterne, a SaaS company optimising operations for the micro-mobility and car fleet industries; and Partnerswell, a SaaS platform for tracking the influence of partners for co-sell opportunities. 

In other realms of life, I'm a basketball lover who can be found attempting to recreate the glory days of old in various local mens' leagues, a food & travel enthusiast, and lover of human interaction.

Zach Rose

A new use case for fractional hiring popped up for me recently.

We know the use cases for time-bound projects, backfilling leaders on extended leave, or bringing in specialist capability you don’t need five days a week.

This one was a bit different.

A new exec came into the business and inherited their predecessor’s budget, yet had a whole new set of new priorities to deliver. New projects to run, extra headcount needed… but no approved budget for full-time hires until the next financial year.

Bringing in a fractional person made perfect sense - senior firepower now, without the full-time commitment. 

As a bonus, both sides get to “try before they buy” before converting to a permanent role later.

Definitely more of a later-stage scaleup use case than a startup one (what budgets?).

But the common thread across all fractional scenarios is the same: maximum flexibility. The ability to flex up, down, or out as the business evolves.

If you’re curious about how flexible hiring could work in your team, I'd love to chat.

Unlocking talent through fractional, advisory, and interim engagements 🚀

2 x new interim roles: 

🏗️ Product Lead - 12-month contract, remote-first

📣 Marketing Strategist - 3-6 month contract, remote-first

Please share your CV and relevant experience!

zach@jbmc.co.uk

This is an awesome opportunity for senior commercial, strategy & ops folks looking for their next gig:

📈 VC-backed, Series B, B2B SaaS scaleup 

💥 High impact across key business functions: GTM, people, special projects

📁 5 days/week, 9 - 12 months, remote-first, immediate start

🎯 Must have: strategy consulting + CoS / senior commercial, strategy, and ops experience in a scaleup

Please send through your CV, LinkedIn, and a brief note about your most relevant experience.

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