Scale Without the Pain

Hello! I’m Nick, a deep tech founder and chief product officer based in London. My journey began in 2007 when I co-founded CloudMade, an automotive AI platform that grew from a mere idea to a scale-up, culminating in a successful acquisition by global car maker Stellantis.

Today, I use my experience to help visionary deep-tech founders, guiding them through the complexities of scaling their startups.

My Impact

  • Assisted Rain, an earned wage access startup, in assembling a robust product and engineering team, leading to a $116M Series A funding.
  • Guided AgencyAnalytics through a significant expansion, surpassing 100 employees and 5,000 customers.
  • Provided strategic advice to some of Nordic Capital’s fastest-growing portfolio companies.

Scaling is Hard

The initial scrappiness and innovation that launch a product need to evolve. Strategy, leadership, and communication become paramount for founders as their startup grows. The common pitfalls include:

  1. Disappointment in high-stake hires not fully aligning with their vision.
  2. Frustration over communicating their vision to expanding teams.
  3. Overwhelm from a flood of priorities, meetings, and messages.

How I Help Founders

I join as an advisor or interim/fractional chief product officer. I catalyse the founders’ efforts around:

  1. Product-Market Fit from securing the first repeatable customers through customer interviews, product experiments, and positioning.
  2. Team Building practical advice and implementation help structuring teams and making key hires that set the foundation for growth.
  3. Product Strategy helping founders build an ambitious plan that achieves their vision, delights customers and makes it hard for competitors to follow.

Partnering Together

I collaborate exclusively with a select group of ambitious, product-first B2B founders, from Seed to Series B stages.

If you’re on this journey and seeking guidance to elevate your startup, let’s connect. Together, we can achieve remarkable growth.