Studio for founders & research teams
I work with founders and research teams in the earliest stages. With startups it's mostly narrative, strategy, the fundraise, go-to-market, and the question sitting underneath all of them: what's the biggest version of this, and what would have to be true?
I also spend a lot of time with researchers, postdocs and former founders who are working out how best to take their research to the world, whether that's a startup or another shape entirely.
Calum Forsyth: PhD in chemistry, then ten years working with early-stage companies as a founder, investor, and operator. Founded an angel fund and incubator, six years at a venture capital fund, hundreds of founders across every domain.
I still think like a scientist. The early stages of building a company are experimental work, and a decade of doing it means you learn which experiments matter and what good looks like.
Most of my attention right now is on how breakthrough science gets funded and built.
Every interesting company I've worked with had something in it that wasn't visible yet. Something the founder could feel but hadn't found the language for. The question is what that thing is, how big it could be, and what experiments to run to find out.