Build faster.
Raise smarter.
Scale with confidence.

Impact Builder is a venture builder providing the resource, capital and know-how to take you to Series A within three years.

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Too many founders are stuck between building or raising

As a founder you can’t clone yourself.

You either spend too much time fundraising or building.

Leaving you with either too little bandwidth or runway to execute.

Too many startups can’t make it out of this catch-22 spiral.

Really you need to do both, together.

We help you

Build and raise.
At the same time.

Make your capital go further

24 month membership

Curated, warm investor intros targeting

£250k in funding

Proven digital product, strategic and growth support

£150k in services

Unlocking £400k in venture
execution & funding intros

Impact Builder is a smarter way to put £100k to work, building and raising in parallel.

We help you

Build.

with confidence and proven expertise.

24 months

strategy, Digital product, commercialisation and growth.

Product

Discovery, UX/UI, PMF analysis, prototyping, enterprise grade architecture, development, launch & iteration.

Growth

Commercialisation, GTM experiments, sales and conversion optimisation.

Strategy

Monthly advisory, investor readiness and M&A support.

We help you

Raise.

via Warm investor introductions.

2-8 months

investor readiness and Targeted investor introductions.

Investor intros

Curated, warm introductions to value-aligned investors.

Investor preparation

Support on positioning, valuation, materials and narrative.

Ongoing Support

Strategically timed introductions in line with your product & traction growth.
£4k to get started.
Then £4k/month, flexed around your runway.*
Plus £50k in sweat equity, aligning our success with yours.
* Runway-friendly payments: Should a payment cause your runway to fall below our criteria, we can pause payments until the runway recovers. All payments exclude VAT.
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Reverse Engineering from Series A

With your specific Series A goals in mind, the Impact Builder works backwards to understand what is necessary from a growth and investor perspective. Then we provide the resources, access to capital and know-how to help you achieve it.
Over 90% of Impact Builder startups successfully raise via our warm introductions.

3 exits.
1 unicorn. 🦄

... and counting.

Eight years building startups has taught us a few things.

Since 2017 our product studio has partnered with ambitious startups across multiple sectors.

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Introducing

Impact Builder

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Meet some of our brilliant impact founders and hear about the purposeful work they're doing

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Is your startup eligible?

If you're building something that matters, here's what makes your startup even more appealing for us and our investors.

None of these are deal breakers, apart from your impact and your contribution to kick-start the programme.

"The IB team brings not only deep experience but also a powerful network and a genuine commitment to seeing founders succeed. We’re working closely together and are proud to have ASquared as a partner on our journey. We’re confident he’ll deliver on the second phase of funding too and are excited about what’s ahead."
Mike & Neil
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Our Philosophy

Build to raise, raise to build.

Together.Spend more time building, growing and working with your customers. Less time courting investors and hallucinating traction.

✓ Improve your product
✓ Extend your runway
✓ Grow your revenue
✓ Create lasting Impact

100% Impact Focused

We only work with startups with impact and financial performance in lockstep.

solutions for Pre-revenue to Series A

We support impact-focused founders from pre-revenue all the way to Series A.

your strategic advisors

Building something great is no longer enough. Every month, work directly with founders, operators and investors who have raised hundreds of millions, built and exited £100m+ companies, and scaled global products.

Good Actor Pledge

We're in this together. Our 'Good Actor Pledge' secures long term interest, and ensures that our services are aligned with your startup's success.

One partner.
One journey.
One goal.

We believe that Brighton could be known for something epic - the epicentre for successful purpose-led startups. Our mission is to help evolve the local ecosystem and work with great people on great projects to achieve this.

Roll up your sleeves, and apply to join us.

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