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

UntanglingLabs

Empowering founders & businesses create clarity through visual storytelling to be understood to matter to their stakeholders who matter (Investors, Team, Community & Customers).

"We create clarity to help you & your business be understood & remembered".

Values :
-Solving problems (for clients as well as internally) through Communication & Strategy & Design.
-Ethical leadership
-Making work fun!

Roles & Responsibilities:

Business Storytelling & Project Management:

- Interviews with founders, contextual inquiries & research to build deep understanding of each client.
- Crafting story flow & narratives to drive comprehension and recall value. 
- Strategising information & content.
- Managing visualisation and design team.
- Managing client expectations & timely delivery of project.

Business development:

- Managing pre-sales & sales.
- Creating business strategies.

Co-Founder & Chief Storytelling Director

Honest Create

Leading startups and companies I created pitch deck stories for : AUS Drones l Earth Rhythm | Mystifly | Exponent Energy | Health Assure | Wheelocity | Mooving Energy | Corover | Good Game Nation | Dharma Production | Pepsi Co.

Leading + Executing the Creation of
Winning Investor Pitch Decks
For 100+ Founders for Seed, Series A, B & C Fundraising Rounds.

I undertook multi-faced responsibilities for designing crisp visual storytelling:

-Talking to founders, understanding how should the best pitch deck be crafted to enhance their storytelling about themselves, their journey & their business & vision.

-Designing narratives & data stories for showing value to investors of why they should invest.

-Creating content strategy.

-Designing information through visualisation of complex content into simplified visuals.

-Giving directional feedback to visual design team for optimising graphic design for a better presentation experience (A skill picked up from my previous learnings in experience & product design).

Business Storytelling & Visualisation for Sales and Investor Pitch Decks

Cosmic Monks mountain homestay & cafe

Running & managing a mountain Airbnb homestay & cafe in a dreamy Himalayan apple farming village.

It was initially planned to be a remote venture owned & co-managed by 3 partners, where I would be largely responsible for managing off-site, online operations.

But as fate would have it with the coming of the covid, I ended up moving to the mountains starting my life as a digital nomad & being hands-on to head on every aspect of running a mountain stay homestay & a cafe (4.7 stars on Airbnb)!

What followed is an adventurous roller-coaster of hands-on experience, deep entrepreneurial learnings & new skills & perspectives for both work & life.

Some of key responsibilities I lead with my skills:

- Designing, making & facilitating creative spaces & art for promoting community, culture & adventure. (The art & architecture side of me found an expression through it)
- Hosting & meeting & organising meet-ups & jams with inspiring travellers, musicians, creatives & digital nomads. (My love for people & stories & travel)
- Managing the online side of the business.
- Managing, motivating & learning collaboratively with on-site hospitality team & a remote creative team.

Running a small business up above of 2000mts in a post Covid world bought with it with unique challenges & learnings. Upgraded my ability to be adaptive & innovative for problem solving for the unexpected.

I also gained new & valuable perspectives of an alternative lifestyle :  
-Experienced how people (locals & the ex-city-dwellers) in mountain live & function in harmony with nature through vernacular practices & culture. 
- Experienced the joys & challenges of a minimalist life.
- Being a foster mama to 8 puppies of a free, mountain mama dog, a friend not a pet. 

Learning to make a life living semi-off-the-grid, undertaking challenging, long treks & mastering building fires at sub-zero temperatures taught me unforgettable lessons in resilience.

It's safe to say that it grew me as a person :)

Business Owner

Deck Rooster

This was a significant point in my career where I entered into the world of business storytelling as a profession for the first time. Being good at designing presentation & presenting engagingly had always just been only a useful soft skill before.

My role was to use visual design as means of telling business stories for pitching & sales.

While storytelling & visuals I was familiar with, their application in the world of VC funding was a new introduction to me!

It was a the beginning of a wonderful journey as I learnt from an experienced team who mentored as well provided challenges where I found was way to express, take feedback from and get appreciated for being able to co-create delight for clients!

It was when I found my Ikigai!

Presentation Strategist & Designer

Infosys

Experience Design Lead

Rhode Island School of Design
Strategic Design Program

- An eye opening discovery & exploration into deciphering complex, connected systems that run the world.
- Learning to solve problems at multiple layers of systems, zoomed into a product and zoomed out to a ecosystem.

8 weeks of eye opening seminars, intense discussions, reflective invdidual & team projects on strategy design at systems level for solving wicked problems of the world.

Strategic Design

Paracoat Products Ltd

Graphic Designer

SENSEN DESIGNS

6 month professional training in Architecure.

Architecture and Interior Design

A storyteller & humancentric-designer at heart, I use the knowledge, tools & skills I posses to build understanding of different contexts, and uncover clarity through narratives & help articulate it visually for various stakeholders.

I started Untangling Labs, as an indendant studio to help entrepreneurs and business founders to tell stories of Profits, Purpose & Passion converting piles of info & data (and a painfully boring bullet point PPTs) into :

*Impactful, strategic narratives*
packed into a
*kick-ass visual story deck*

The goal is to empowers our clients with clarity so they can communicate to be understood & remembered.


With strategic skills of communication + articulation + thinking in visuals, I help founders be better storytellers of their work.

The startups I work with belong to various industries raising Seed through Series B funding rounds.

My storytelling & design skills have been honed over 10+ years of work experience & education in designing and pitching for products across a multitude of disciplines - communication design, experience design, industrial design, strategic design, interior design & architecture.

My passion for stories, people & designjng experience also helps me as an Aibnb superhost.

If you are a founder struggling with how to tell better stories of your work & idea, or you want to know more about my work,  please feel free to reach out for a chat!

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