Duncan Knight 

I am your direct, compassionate, accountability partner!

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Based on my 30+ years of experience, including 16 years as a 2 x founder myself. I coach & mentor leadership, strategy, and growth skills while you transition from startup founder to CEO.

 

I co-founded 2 tech businesses in Enterprise IT Software & Consulting and Digital Health.

 

I now focus on 2 things:​

• Coach & mentor startup & scaleup tech founders (and their C-suites) to develop their leadership, growth and strategic skills

• Help B2B tech founders prepare their businesses for and successfully raise their series A investment rounds of £2-10m from UK VCs

 

My extensive international experience includes working in the UK & Europe, USA, Asia Pacific, and Australia.

 

I have a very broad sector experience including Defense, Education, Energy,

Finance, Health, Insurance, IoT, Resources, Telecoms.

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My work includes 1:1 clients, but also via the following programmes, where I have mentored hundreds of startup & scaleup founders:

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- Rise, created by Barclays - the Home of FinTech - ScaleUp Coach
- UK Space Agency Accelerator - Mentor
- BetaDen, Malvern - Founder mentor focused on route to market & investment
- Royal Academy of Engineering - LIF program, lead mentor & judge (Global)
- Tech London Advocates - created the health tech group mentoring programme
- Startupbootcamp Dubai, Melbourne
- Bayes Business School, Entrepreneur Trainer
- Escape the City
- Central Research Laboratory
- Exeter Velocity

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You can reach me below and via LinkedIn HERE.