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Build and land your design partners and first customers

A 12-week residency for exceptional founders shaping the future of learning & work

Applications now open for Cohort 1 (27 April - 17 July)

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Backed by:

$220M AuM focused on the HumanOS

What’s the goal of the Studio?

We’ll support you to build your pitches to design partners and progress towards enterprise pilots. The goal is for you to leave the residency with these partners and pilots sorted, equipped with fundraising guidance to help you take your company to the next level when the time is right.

Along the way, you’ll be mentored by our internal team, our ops mentors in sales, marketing, customer success and product and external enterprise mentors.

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What’s in the programme?

• Mentor pairing You’ll be paired with an ops mentor and industry mentor

• Design partner intros Curated introductions to potential customers through our portfolio and networks

• Founder community Build alongside other ambitious founders building the future of learning and work

• Pitch development Includes practice sessions with the Brighteye team and our executive sales, marketing & product mentors

• Introductions to investors

• 2 x demo days through the programme, connecting you with top enterprises

• Conference attendance support London Tech Week, London Edtech Week, CIPD’s Festival of Learning and Learning Technologies London on 29/30 April

• Notting Hill office space

  Our casa is your casa

Please note, we are not taking equity, nor are we providing funding. This is an opportunity for us to roll up our sleeves and work alongside you at the earliest stages of your journey, offering hands-on support as you build. At the end of the programme, we hope to take several companies to our investment committee and more formally join your journey.

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12 weeks of focused building

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Call for startups

We are keen on all opportunities you see across the learning & work landscape, but we are particularly keen to see founders apply that are focused on:

• Early career pathways
• New operating systems for legacy industries/ business functions
• Labour marketplaces, particularly those focused on hard-to-fill roles
• Solutions focused on enabling entrepreneurship across industries (could be tutors, engineers and everything in between)
• Companies addressing the climate crisis through talent and workforce enablement
• Companies focused on improving the efficacy of our healthcare systems, including consumer health solutions

Who should apply?

• Very early stage founders- MVP built and tested
• Building in future of learning and work
• Small team - 1-3 people
• Based in or able to be in London 2+ days per week

Selection criteria

Hungry, ambitious founders ready to build or already building something category-defining in learning and work

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