Serkan Ferah 🌈

Native

Revolutionising audience engagement and growth for brands and communities using gamification.

Founder

PitchSpace

Saving investment readiness professionals and founders up to 4 weeks in fundraising by automating their pitches. CONTACT FOR WHITELABEL

APARI

Apari is a start-up that makes tax doable for self-employed using technology.

Advisor

Fit for Work

Fit for Work app improves Health, Safety and Wellbeing of workers on site. The app is helping companies to adapt to the threat of COVID-19 and the changing landscape that it creates.

Advisor, Brand & Marketing

Serkan Ferah

I am a branding and pitching expert helping you create an attractive business.

- I've been involved in over 50 start-up investment and crowdfunding campaigns and advised over 70 companies in pitch production at accelerators.

- 98% of the businesses I have worked with have secured funding and achieved sustainable growth, and more than half of the crowdfunding campaigns I have been involved with have beaten their targets for funds raised.

- My client portfolio is dominated by technology start-ups that I've helped with their branding, pitching, design and marketing communication strategies both in the UK and the US.

- I've worked with brands like Aston Martin, Maserati and Abarth in their global brand licensing projects.

Branding & Pitching Expert

TribeFirst

TribeFirst is a marketing communications agency that specialises in startups and growth companies looking to raise money.

Creative Advisor

OokiApp

Ooki is an upcoming fintech start-up with an aim to solve the fragmentation issue of consumer fintech bringing all currency accounts and transactions together, automating financial decisions and educating people in personal finance.

As an advisor, I am helping Damon, the founder, and the team with branding and marketing strategy as well as differentiating the product through its look and feel.

Advisor - Branding & Marketing

Beyzacases for ASTON MARTIN, MASERATI and ABARTH

Beyzacases was the global licensee of established brands in luxury mobile accessory market.
-	Project management and new project development
-	Development of marketing plans, expansion strategy and communication models
-	Determining the work assignments of whole project team and follow up 
-	Design of presentations and making presentations to licensors and board members
-	Stakeholders relationship management (licensors, manufacturers and buyers)
-	Delivery of market research reports and monthly sales reports to board

Marketing & Business Development Consultant

Bamgaga

A company selling kids & moms products in A & A+ segment both in digital and physical store.
- development of business model and preparation of business plan
- development of marketing plan and strategy
- management of product and brand portfolio
- management of relationships with brands and product providers
- design of visual communication strategy
- setting content strategy for web and social media
- development of content plan and marketing calendar
- management of design team and social media team

Business Development & Marketing Management Contractor

Catodon Yachts

Catadon Yachts was a luxury yacht brand owned by a large group operating in maritime.
-	Design & Development of brand, strategy and business plan
-	Stakeholders relationship management (agency, contractors and buyers) 
-	Budgeting and development of projects
-	Team management and determining the work loads
-	Development of sales channels

Business & Brand Consultant

Founder @ Native | Gamified Audience Engagement | Join the Waitlist

Building Gamification APIs and Services with a vision to create the most powerful plug-and-play technology for consumer habit formation.

Our mission from the start has been to enable people to communicate effectively and build meaningful relationships in business.

We launched our automated pitch builder in July 2021 as a gateway product for startups and now working on our actual product that will change the future of economic relationships using gamification.

👉 Gained 1800+ organic users as of March 2023

👉 Have been generating revenue since Dec'22

👉 98% organic growth, @2.5 CAC and 10% average MoM growth rate

👉 Partnered with Virgin Startups, Swoop Funding, Digital Catapult and BlockDojo

Lunos - business validation & innovation

We validate digital ideas and products for teams, helping to de-risk investment and development by identifying quick and effective ways to test assumptions with real users.

We work with teams in startups and existing businesses to rapidly test assumptions and de-risk digital product ideas.

Talk to me about how to:
• Validate ideas and experiment without development
• Reduce your time to learning - test ideas when it's lower risk, quicker and cheaper to iterate
• Identify customer problems and needs
• Create team alignment around an idea or new innovation

Book a free discovery call via our website

SETsquared Bristol

Product Advisor in Residence

Barclays UK

Supporting a variety of startups as part of various Barclays Eagle Labs programmes such as Product Builder and Product Growth

Eagle Labs Program Partner

Focused For Business

Startup Mentor

Springer

Springer's (previously SHOUT4) goal is to help get new music industry projects funded faster and cost less. In a world where DIY artists and independent labels lack resources and access to funds to get projects started and cashflow positive. The additional impact of the Covid 19 pandemic only emphasised the problem.

Springer is creating a new way to create and get deals signed using a validated model created without tech. The platform digitises and streamlines the end-to-end experience in creating, sharing and signing the deals related to projects by sharing future and legacy income streams.

Interim Head of Product

jazzed

jazzed is the world’s first audio-visual app dedicated to Jazz, allowing users to listen, watch and read about the world of Jazz via iOS, Android, web, airplay and Sonos.

Senior Product Management Consultant

Funnel Music Ltd

I was involved with the team at the early stages of the business helping concept and brainstorm how digital could help scale the business offering allowing it to appeal to a global market.
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Funnel Music is a disruptive music startup breaking artists and sharing outcomes. Helping artists develop in a responsible and sustainable way. Supporting both artists and industry professionals, Funnel reduces costs of early stage development without reducing quality through its shared outcome agreement.

Product Management Advisor

Creative Plantation Ltd

Creative Plantation was the home for my consultancy services, focused around digital strategy and interim product management. Working with startups, SMEs and growing businesses to help advance their products or services. I created a network of digital specialists to support projects requiring additional resource or more of a deep dive in a particular area.

Interim Head of Product & Digital Strategist

Hapori: All-in-one Personal Training Software

I worked with the founding team from the inception - taking the initial idea and turning it into a fully working product with early adopter PTs using it. I managed the whole product brainstorm, strategy and creation process (with a small developer team). Also delivering UX, marketing and customer success strategies.
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Hapori is an all-in-one personal training business management tool. Helping PTs run their business day to day, managing relationships with clients and ultimately growing their business.

Solverboard

I joined the team in the early stages when the platform had started being built. Providing hands-on product, marketing and UX strategies and execution to help get the product to the point of launching. After initial launch continued managing the product backlog and working with dev teams to deliver.
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Solverboard helps organisations tap into a wider pool of knowledge and insight by engaging employees and partners in solving internal challenges or sharing ideas and knowledge all through an online SaaS product.

Product Manager & Digital Strategist

🚀 Getting startups to product-market fit • 😍 Startup advisor • 🙋🏼‍♂️ Fractional product • 🧑🏼‍🏫 Workshopper & facilitator • 🧬 Longevity pursuer • 📚 Lifelong learner • 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Dad • 🏌🏼‍♂️ Golfer

I’m a digital and product strategist, creating digital products and bringing ideas to life is my passion. I’ve worked in digital for 20 years with a mix of startups, SME’s and corporations.

I have experience in product management, digital strategy, marketing and UX. All of which is backed up with an underlying knowledge of development (where everything began). I feel this broad mix of skills (which are also interest areas) creates a unique holistic approach to any project I’m involved in enabling me to add value in a variety of areas.

I’ve created brand new products and services from idea stage through to launch and beyond with fledgeling and growth startups, playing a pivotal role in product management and delivery.

My recent focus has been about helping solve challenges and test ideas without the need for development cycles. Combining a variety of modern product management techniques helps to get a clear understanding and user feedback before development.

James Lucas

I'm off to Edinburgh tomorrow to attend the Ecosystem Exchange. Looking forward to hearing from various representatives within the space in supporting businesses from inception to their own version of success.

There are a few things we're working on at Lunos to address challenges we've seen through our work with programmes and within our own offerings so will be great to compare notes and see what others are seeing.

Questions I'm exploring:
- How can we align incentives of funders to what true success is for founders
- How can we hold better spaces for founders to truly take action and learn (they never fail) and get support to actually move forward rather than creating strategies that look good in theory
- How can we better tailor experiences to meet founders where they are
- How can we find a balance between chasing unicorns and enabling founders to build businesses that work for them and on their terms

If anyone else is going - I'd love to chat. Looking forward to reconnecting with various programme partners we've supported over the years and connect with new people.

Natalia Loza, Viren Lall, Barry McDonald, Claire Taylor, Jason Wagner, Jon Hope, Natalie Hotchkiss, Kostis Vrettos, Pawel Jancz, Kelly Gardner, PhD, Monika Radclyffe, Andrew Roughan, Cameron Readman, Emma Marshall, Russell Gundry, Robert Kearney

🚀 Accelerating early and growth ventures to PMF and scale efficiently • 😍 Startup coach • 🙋🏼‍♂️ Fractional product • 🧬 Longevity pursuer • 📚 Lifelong learner • 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Dad • 🏌🏼‍♂️ Golfer

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