London · funding, technology and marketing

CHOOSE TO Studio.

We help founders with operations, G2M and fundraising.

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Case study ROPES · build with our team

How we helped ROPES raise, build and grow.

  • Built the platform
  • Became the funding partner
  • Brought in operators
  • Opened our investor network
  • Sorted SEIS and EIS
  • Built the financial model

“Austen and the team are dream-makers. They have a truly unique skill of bringing a diverse group of people together to help businesses grow and find money and product market fit.”

Miquita Oliver · Founder, ROPES

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Startups

Founder package

£5,000

We get inside your business and work through funding, technology and marketing with you. You always leave with a toolkit to scale.

Start the founder package
Established businesses

Bespoke package

Built for you

We activate our network of skilled builders, operators, marketers and funding partners, and put them to work in your business.

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Who builds it

We know scale.
And success.

Our studio founders. Behind them is a network we have shipped with for years, across engineering, sales, marketing, brand and positioning. We bring in whoever a build actually needs, and we have worked with every one of them personally.

Chris Byatte
Engineering Chris Byatte

Co-founder of Chillingo, the publisher behind Angry Birds and Cut the Rope. Today he ships entire production platforms.

Austen Smart
Partnerships Austen Smart

Took an education subscription platform from zero to a ~£30M valuation, and built Spotify's first in-app education programme.

Rita Costa Neves
Operations Rita Costa Neves

Co-founder of Swogo, built and exited. She rewrote the core commerce engine and built the product & ops team behind it.