New Approach

BETTER RESULTS.

ACT5 bridges the gap between backers and startups, facilitating more successful investments and driving growth by identifying and managing critical risks and opportunities.

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Depth and Breadth

We’ve been there – as founders, operators, investors and mentors. We have addressed the challenges startups encounter to launch, expand and achieve long-term success. The relationship between backers and operators of new ventures can be complex, as they have different but overlapping goals and priorities. We understand both sides, and deliver bridging insight and engagement to the table. With multifaceted depth of experience, we bring expertise in building and scaling startups, providing guidance and participation in all aspects of value creation and growth.

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Areas of Strength

  • Technology (Architecture, Design, Resilience)

  • Supply Chain

  • Human Capital

  • Product Management & Implementation

  • Marketing, Sales, Business Development

  • Customer Support & Retention

  • Finance, Operations & Administration

  • Governance

  • Executive Leadership

Experience + Network, Applied

Deep and broad experience brings several advantages to the venture building lifecycle:

  • An eagle eye for identifying risks and opportunities, often hiding in plain sight

  • Insight into how to best navigate the “terrain” of the journey from an idea to market proof, to a sustainable, scalable business

  • A network of genuinely brilliant, accomplished colleagues who we know, have worked with at length, and who can step in to help when and where it matters most, short or long-term

  • knowing how team, organization, and processes evolve along the trajectory of a business from “0 to 1” and “1 to 10”

Ethic

By bringing together the agility of founders with the seasoned experience of corporate operators, ACT5 works as an independent, objective collaborator, providing actionable insights and risk-aligned objectives for building resilient ventures.

Our expertise in entrepreneurship, business-building and investing empowers us to achieve superior results for new ventures and their backers. We are passionate about positioning, fortifying, and minimizing risk for our clients, thus driving their success.

Diverse Views, Better Solutions

Diversity isn’t simply one aspect of our team. The breadth of experiences, perspectives, cultures, industries, environments, and outlooks our core team and network possess is fundamental to our effectiveness. It’s what guides us to deliver exceptional value and outcomes at every stage of the venture building lifecycle.

We bring together the passion of founders, objective analysis, corporate discipline, and clear methodology. ACT5 works as an independent advisor-participant, providing actionable insights and guidance to align the objectives of both backers and founders, along with the necessary execution capability to succeed.

“88-92% of startups fail.
Many of those fail simply because they need experienced support and guidance, not just capital, in order to succeed”

— Peter Henry, Act5 Founder