Scale-ups
Form1 is the leading commercialisation partner for B2B scale-up companies.
How we support you
In today’s fiercely competitive landscape, enterprise buyers find themselves inundated with pitches for products and services. For innovative businesses, breaking through this noise is a significant challenge.
That’s where we come in. Through thoughtful connections and personalised coaching, we specialise in helping scale-ups broker commercial relationships and deals with large corporates.
Drive growth and scale revenue fast
Connect with senior buyers with a need for your solution
Develop new strategic routes to market
Form effective, strategic corporate partnerships
Globalise and enter new markets
Receive hands-on support to unblock barriers
Form1 are our valued go to market partners for global enterprise business. They understand our customers extremely well and assist in connecting our technology and capabilities with the stakeholders and organisations for whom we can create outsized value.
Chibeza Agley
OBRIZUM Co-Founder and CEO
Strategic routes to market
We drive new routes to market for our partner scale-ups through:
- Corporate partners: Form1 has strong relationships with blue-chip corporates actively seeking collaborations with the world’s best innovators.
- Advisor network: We have built a network of 100+ advisers with deep industry knowledge and experience. Our advisors love to support innovative scale-ups on their growth journey. They are passionate, proactive and bring a wealth of insight and connections.
Our services
Form1 provides two primary service offerings for scale-up partners:
Growth support
We work with you to drive growth through partnerships and warm, targeted, strategic customer connections.
- Highly targeted, strategic connections with senior and relevant contacts in corporates and government.
- Support from our adviser community to enhance your network and proposition.
- Coaching through the opportunity process including key messaging.
- Support through delivery to ensure you have a great working relationship with our corporate partners.
To find out more, get in touch:
UK market entry
We support leading global scale-ups who are looking to enter the UK for the first time. Note we don’t provide legal or structuring support (there are plenty of firms to do that), but rather business development support, on the ground.
- Highly targeted, strategic connections with senior and relevant contacts in corporates and governments.
- Launch event support - we help you ‘fill the room’ with the right group of people.
- Support from our adviser community to enhance your network and proposition.
- Coaching through the opportunity process including key messaging.
- Support through delivery to ensure you have a great working relationship with our corporate partners.
To find out more, get in touch:
Our technology focus
Our scale-up partners focus on the big issues for enterprise, the ones on the board agenda of just about every organisation in the world right now
AI & automation of business processes
The skills gap and future of work
Managing cyber security and supply risks
Achieving sustainability and net zero
Creating amazing customer experiences
Delivering defence and national security
Requirements of scale-up partners
We must have conviction that the scale-ups on our platform are the best at what they do. In scale-up partners we look for:
High growth B2B or B2G business
Strong, differentiated proposition and near/achieved product-market-fit
Generate at least £1m in license fees or recurring revenue
Multiple evangelical and referenceable enterprise clients
Clear client business case
Comfortable cash runway
First-class management team with great partnering behaviours
See how our partners are solving challenges and delivering value for clients in these areas
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