We amplify the impact of purpose-driven businesses.
It all starts with your story.
Our mission is to sustainably scale the reach of purpose-driven organisations across Bristol and the South West, helping to accelerate growth and embed resilience.
We advise tech-for-good businesses on commercial and communications strategy to put them in the best possible position to attract customers, partners and investors. We specialise in opening up connections between the not-for-profit and private sectors to drive transformative change.
Our support starts with your story. Venture Upstream believes every high-growth tech-for-good start-up and scale-up already has a powerful story at their heart - we’ll help you clearly define it, back it up with data and package it, filtering out all the noise. Together, we’ll bring it to life for investors, donors, partners and the people you help.
Richard Wheatley, CEO, HeadX - pre-Seed health tech start-up
“Working with Hollye is fantastic. She has outstanding clarity and a tremendous ability in making the complicated simple. An awesome skill that we value very highly.”
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For start-ups
How do you catch the eye of potential investors and partners? How do you work out the best Go-To-Market strategy or commercial model? How do you get your content marketing efforts off the ground? Venture Upstream develops the right narrative to make you stand out. We get the story right for your pitch deck, identify potential gaps in your investment readiness or commercial strategy and advise on raising your profile.
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For scale-ups
Are you ready to scale up your marketing but don’t have the time or resources to do so? How do you transform basic start-up content into an effective content strategy to cement your brand authority? What should your scale-up sales collateral look like? And how do you adapt your messaging, brand and strategy if you end up needing to pivot the company? Venture Upstream helps you use the right words to drive lead gen, engagement and trust with your target audience.
Many Minds corporate partnership programme
ImpactLoop Series A investment support
HeadX proposition development
