Startup Growth Clinic, Edinburgh
Topic & Speakers:
Keynote: Mastering Partnerships as a catalyst for growth
By Allan Brown - Founder and CEO, Evoke Partners Ltd
With more than 30 years helping technology businesses grow—from startups to global software companies—Allan now works with founder-led and scale-up businesses to unlock commercial growth through smarter partnerships and go-to-market strategy.
Second Talk: What Matters Most When Taking a Product to Market?
By Sid Karthivel - Founder and CMO, Unlock Growth
Sid's got 25 years of experience helping global brands, SMEs, and tech founders build growth systems that work. He mentors founders through CodeBase Techscaler, Barclays Eagle Labs, Opportunity North East, TecTonic Night Summit, and Edinburgh Innovations. He's supported companies from pre-revenue through to £4M+ in funding.
Open Clinic Mentors
Megan Vasko - Founder, SaltStrategic
Megan helps companies and founders turn momentum into sustainable growth. Over the past 20 years, she's led complex programmes across corporate, consultancy and startup environments. She's delivered multi-million pound transformation projects for RBS and Lloyds, built and scaled her own award-winning food business - including a successful retail and wholesale brand, and now works as a shareholder and Programme Manager at AbacusBio, partnering with organisations to solve complex delivery challenges in genetics.
At the Growth Clinic, Megan will help founders think through the challenges that come with growth moments—whether that's prioritising what needs attention, navigating operational complexity, or turning good ideas into focused action.
Vanessa Wegstein - Marketing Manager, SSDAlliance
Vanessa is currently the Marketing Manager at SSDAlliance - a role where she shapes what profitable, sustainable and impactful tourism looks like for their region.
What makes Vanessa’s story remarkable is how deeply she is embedded in the growth space of Scotland’s tourism. Before her current role, she spent three years building a heritage trust's entire digital marketing function from scratch at the historic home of Sir Walter Scott. In that short time, she more than tripled audience engagement, grew followers by over 125%, and ran an influencer campaign that reached 120,000 people across eleven historic sites.
Vanessa will be available to answer questions surrounding one of the biggest challenges founders in the tourism sector face: Go-To-Market.
Agenda:
5:00 - 5:20pm - Arrival, Networking and Pizza 🍕
5:20 - 5:50pm - Keynote: Mastering Partnerships as a catalyst for growth🎺
5:50 - 6:15pm - Talk: What Matters Most When Taking a Product to Market? 📢
6:15 - 7:00 Open Clinic Sessions, Networking, and Drinks 🥤
About Growth Clinic
Organized by the Founders' Growth Club, Growth Clinic is a hands-on meetup where founders and people who care about Growth get direct access to marketers and operators to solve real growth challenges.
No specific qualifications are required to attend. While we encourage you to share an objective you'd like to make progress on so growth experts or potential partners might chime in, you can also stroll in for the free pizza, drinks, and good intentions 😀.
Hosted By Cent
Hi, I'm Cent Amadi. I have ~15 years of Software Engineering and SaaS experience, and for the last 5 years, been involved in the growth stages of over 60 startups through my marketing agency.
I've partnered with founders, marketers, and growth executives to make Growth Clinic happen. I'm personally excited about learning as much as I'm giving, and looking forward to the success stories Growth Clinic will make happen.
Special Thanks
Growth Clinic is sponsored by CodeBase - the Growth Platform for Tech Ecosystems.