Insights & Perspectives
2024 Wrapped – This Year at Strategy Tools
As 2024 comes to a close, we’re thrilled to look back on a year filled with innovation, collaboration, and transformative work.This year we have greatly expanded our collaboration across the Middle East and North Africa, we have worked with a record number of emerging...
From pre-idea to post-IPO with DNB’s startup & growth experts
What role does a bank play in the entrepreneurial ecosystem? Well, as it turns out, a pretty significant one. Since 2014 DNB has supported more than 20.000 startups on their startup journey. With programs like Founders, DNB NXT, 100 Pitches, digital health...
VC: Education vs Acceleration – A Shortlist of 40+ Top Learning Programs in Venture Capital
VC Lab or Allocator One? Sanabil x 500 or Newton Venture Program? Coolwater Capital or Thema? Pitch Me First or Baby.VC? 2X Ignite or IMD’s Venture Asset Management? Classroom learning, fellowship or acceleration? For new and experienced people in the global venture...
The Four Types of Emerging Managers
Imagine you are planning to summit Mount Everest, or participate in the Paris-Dakar rally, or run your first Ironman competition. Naturally, you would want to spend years preparing, training, researching and building your own mastery. The alternative would likely be...
VC: Upgrade Your Value Creation Toolbox
This summer,I had the pleasure of teaching a module on venture capital value creation strategies at the Newton Venture Program at London Business school. Together with Tiffany Bain, Director, Value Creation at DFDF (Dubai Future District Fund) we explored how venture...
Winning Across the Capital Stack
by Christian Rangen & Henrik Amstutz A New Capital Landscape Over the past 24 months, Strategy Tools has assisted accelerators, innovation agencies, and global founder teams in pivoting to a new funding strategy. Gone are the days of relying solely on equity...
Empowering Startups with the Rocketship Canvas: A Guide for Accelerator Teams
Startups are the engines of innovation, driving economic growth by offering advanced technologies and solutions to emerging challenges. However, in their relentless pursuit of delivering superior products and meeting customer needs, startup teams can sometimes lose...
Introducing the Business Angel Masterclass
Imagine if there was a way you could educate, teach, train, engage and network your local angel network all at once. Well, there is. After 15 months of active pilots worldwide, we are thrilled to introduce the Strategy Tools Business Angel Masterclass. The goal?...
What’s Your Angel Strategy Part 2: Digging Deeper
Recently we published the What’s Your Angel Strategy article, a brief article on how to build out the first steps of your angel investment strategy. What followed was a deluge of questions, comments and feedback, with active angel investors and angel networks engaging...