Excubation

 

We co-fund, build and scale new ventures and brands with B2C corporate leaders

Digital services and platforms

New digital service models or tech-driven platform-based businesses.

Digital services and platforms

New digital service models or tech-driven platform-based businesses.

New brands / DNVBs

New products/services B2C brands, selling through exclusive or partial D2C distribution channels.

New brands / DNVBs

New products/services B2C brands, selling through exclusive or partial D2C distribution channels.

Sleeping beauties / Neglected assets

High potential, non core-business brands and internal projects that haven’t found the right concept, business model or are too small to cut the top priority list.

Sleeping beauties / Neglected assets

High potential, non core-business brands and internal projects that haven’t found the right concept, business model or are too small to cut the top priority list.

New routes-to-markets

Agile design and hands-on operations of new routes-to-market such as Amazon, e-marketplaces, DTC, MLM…

New routes-to-markets

Agile design and hands-on operations of new routes-to-market such as Amazon, e-marketplaces, DTC, MLM…

Fast-track international expansion

International scaleup executed with digital entrepreneurial methods.

Fast-track international expansion

International scaleup executed with digital entrepreneurial methods.

Impact ventures

New activities with sustainable business models and positive impact, integrating economical, ecological and social benefits

Impact ventures

New activities with sustainable business models and positive impact, integrating economical, ecological and social benefits

We have
a proven track record
of co-entrepreneurship with corporations

Methodology : 12 months to design and launch
new ventures and brands

Scanning & Ideation

(month 1 – 2)

• Ideation based on data and analytics.

• Strategic and operational due diligence.

Business Design

(month 2 – 3)

• Go/No Go assessment of the most promising opportunities in terms of both value proposition and business model.

• Review of all operational options, from organic development to M&A.

Operational roll-out

(month 3-12)

• Venture leadership including governance, core offering, MVP, action plan and ops delivery.

• Team building with Fast-Up staff, potentially mixed with new hires and existing corporate partner staff.

Scaleup

(bespoke)

• Fast-track expansion strategy: new geos, product range extension, sales channels.

• International launch setup including local market teams recruitment.

Smooth Transition

(bespoke)

• Transferring operations back to our partners (just as important as building them).

• Possibility of having Fast-Up people jumping ship to continue working for the venture (if they want to).

Our teams combine and implement
all the skills required
for successful excubations

Strategic Analysis
Finance Modeling
Business Planning
Project Management
Organizational Effectiveness

Value Proposition Design
Brand Design
Growth Hacking
Marketing Activation
Routes-to-Market Optimization
International Deployment

IT Architecture
Design Thinking
UX Design
Data Analytics
Tech Development & Integration
Legal Structuration

Why it works better

We are one-of-a-kind.  Unlike Consulting Firms, Startup Studios and Intrapreneurship, our business model and teams have all it takes to build new ventures and brands in a corporate context: strategic thinking, an entrepreneurial mindset, corporate understanding and aligned interests.
We complement the traditional start-up studio’s agility with our strategic rigor and insider corporate experience.

Fast-Up Partners vs Consulting Firms

Consulting firms clearly have the brain power to produce strategies on slides, but seldom execute them in the real world. Beyond analysis, we add business intuitions, risk taking, gut based decisions and operational capabilities to make strategies happen.

Fast-Up Partners vs Startup Studios

Most digital startuppers fall short in the corporate context. Corporations need partners who deeply understand the way they work so that they can move fast without losing internal support and buy in.

Fast-Up Partners vs Intrapreneurship

Intrapreneurship sounds like a great corporate / entrepreneurship combination but it doesn’t succeed at scale. Because most entrepreneurial profiles end up leaving the corporate world, like we did many years ago. The Fast-Up Partners eco-system is designed to make these dual profiles flourish and keep on bringing value to corporations…from the outside

Excubation

 

We co-fund, build and scale new ventures and brands with B2C corporate leaders

Digital services and platforms

New digital service models or tech-driven platform-based businesses.

Digital services and platforms

New digital service models or tech-driven platform-based businesses.

New brands / DNVBs

New products/services B2C brands, selling through exclusive or partial D2C distribution channels.

New brands / DNVBs

New products/services B2C brands, selling through exclusive or partial D2C distribution channels.

Sleeping beauties /
Neglected assets

High potential, non core-business brands and internal projects that haven’t found the right concept, business model or are too small to cut the top priority list.

Sleeping beauties /
Neglected assets

High potential, non core-business brands and internal projects that haven’t found the right concept, business model or are too small to cut the top priority list.

New routes-to-markets

Agile design and hands-on operations of new routes-to-market such as Amazon, e-marketplaces, DTC, MLM…

New routes-to-markets

Agile design and hands-on operations of new routes-to-market such as Amazon, e-marketplaces, DTC, MLM…

Fast-track international expansion

International scaleup executed with digital entrepreneurial methods.

Fast-track international expansion

International scaleup executed with digital entrepreneurial methods.

Excubation factory

Venture studio focusing on serial creation of B2C new ventures and brands, led by an hybrid team made of Fast-Up and corporate staff.

Excubation factory

Venture studio focusing on serial creation of B2C new ventures and brands, led by an hybrid team made of Fast-Up and corporate staff.

We have a proven track record of co-entrepreneurship with corporations

Excubation: 
12 months to design and launch 
new ventures and brands.

Scanning & Ideation

(month 1 – 2)

• Ideation based on data and analytics.

• Strategic and operational due diligence.

Business
Design

(month 2 – 3)

• Go/No Go assessment of the most promising opportunities in terms of both value proposition and business model.

• Review of all operational options, from organic development to M&A.

Operational
roll-out

(month 3-12)

• Venture leadership including governance, core offering, MVP, action plan and ops delivery.

• Team building with Fast-Up staff, potentially mixed with new hires and existing corporate partner staff.

Scaleup

(bespoke)

• Fast-track expansion strategy : new geos, product range extension, sales channels.

• International launch setup including local market teams recruitment.

Smooth Transition

(bespoke)

• Transferring operations back to our partners (just as important as building them).

• Possibility of having Fast-Up people jumping ship to continue working for the venture (if they want to).

Our teams combine and implement
all the skills required
for successful excubations.

Strategic Analysis
Finance Modeling
Business Planning
Project Management
Organizational Effectiveness

Value Proposition Design
Brand Design
Growth Hacking
Marketing Activation
Routes-to-Market Optimization
International Deployment

IT Architecture
Design Thinking
UX Design
Data Analytics
Tech Development & Integration
Legal Structuration

Why it works better

We are one-of-a-kind.
Unlike Consulting Firms, Startup Studios and Intrapreneurship, our business model and teams have all it takes to build new ventures and brands in a corporate context: strategic thinking, an entrepreneurial mindset, corporate understanding and aligned interests.

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Strategic Brains
Analytics – Benchmarks
Strategy – Business Design

✓  Fast-Up Partners
✓  Consulting Firms
x   Startup Studios
✓ Intrapreneurship

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Corporate Hearts
Aligned Interests – Brand Building – Go-to-Market – Corporate Processes and Constraints

✓  Fast-Up Partners
x   Consulting Firms
x   Startup Studios
✓ Intrapreneurship

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Entrepreneurial Guts
Judgement – Leadership Risk Taking – Decision Speed –
Agile Execution

✓ Fast-Up Partners
x  Consulting Firms
✓ Startup Studios
x  Intrapreneurship

We complement the traditional start-up studio’s agility with our strategic rigor and insider corporate experience.

Fast-Up Partners
vs Consulting Firms

Consulting firms clearly have the brain power to produce strategies on slides, but seldom execute them in the real world. Beyond analysis, we add business intuitions, risk taking, gut based decisions and operational capabilities to make strategies happen.

Fast-Up Partners
vs Startup Studios

Most digital startuppers fall short in the corporate context. Corporations need partners who deeply understand the way they work so that they can move fast without losing internal support and buy in.

Fast-Up Partners
vs Intrapreneurship

Intrapreneurship sounds like a great corporate / entrepreneurship combination but it doesn’t succeed at scale. Because most entrepreneurial profiles end up leaving the corporate world, like we did many years ago. The Fast-Up Partners eco-system is designed to make these dual profiles flourish and keep on bringing value to corporations…from the outside