What we Offer

Strategic Consulting

For corporations, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations 
Investor meetings

What we can do for you:

  • Bring structure, knowledge, and strategy to ideas and initiatives, either for starting up or for scaling up
  • Help companies understand their customers so they can communicate a clear and relevant value proposition to each group
  • Evaluate the performance or impacts of an existing activity, and/or help you restructure or develop new strategies if goals are not being met
  • Identify and develop appropriate partnerships and networks of experts to ensure continued success

Services we typically offer:

Entrepreneur and Startup Strategies and Investment Readiness

  • Assistance with growth planning, covering all key elements: from go-to-market strategies to financing
  • Guidance on how to be investment ready with a compelling pitch deck and comprehensive deal package
  • Creation of or feedback on financial models with scenarios and sensitivity analyses, to test your assumptions and develop realistic projections for investors.

Corporate Sustainability, Impact Assessment, and Partnership Development

  • Creation and implementation of sustainability strategies within a company or product line
  • Development of partnerships with NGOs or other innovative businesses to strengthen market position
  • Assessment of environmental and social risks, and development of strategies to mitigate them
  • Development of cost-effective impact metrics for strategies, and integratation of strategies in business operations.

Philanthropy and Foundation Strategies for Growth, Evaluation, and Exits

  • Guidance in development and evaluation of an impact investment or philanthropic program
  • Strategies for using the full range of financial and nonfinancial tools and resources available to achieve objectives
  • Management of portfolio transitions from grant making to investment in revenue-generating ventures, or other exits from long-term grant making initiatives
  • Advice on creation and scaling of market-based strategies that support specific impact goals
  • Design of prize-based opportunities and competitions aimed at spurring innovation and finding impact-based solutions

Nonprofit Strategies and Revenue Generation

  • Advice for effective engagement with the private sector, through market-oriented strategies, sponsorships, services, and more
  • Development of revenue-generating business models to supplement or replace grant income
  • Experience with hybrid structures and scaling strategies in for-profit and nonprofit activities

Outreach to Government and Development Agencies

  • Development of major sector-building initiatives, based on our experience with Fish 2.0 as well as our expertise in entrepreneurship, investment, and philanthropy
  • Seafood experts who can leverage their deep ties to fisheries projects worldwide to create economic development strategies for coastal communities and to ensure effective engagement of SMEs.
  • Clean energy experts who can help you develop the right type of incentives or programs to attract private investment in nascent markets