The Sandpit

The Sandpit is a business builder with the mission of de-risking startups and reverse the early stage failure rate. We are the commercial co-founders, and our model means we are always 100% aligned with the technical founders to success at every step of the business growth. According to CB Insights, 90% of startups fail within 3 years for many different reasons. The top three are listed as the lack of market need for their product (42%) (also translated as the lack of a unique value proposition), lack of sufficient capital (29%) and failure in building the right team (23%). The research highlights the lack of understanding of the market and commercial expertise among startups technical founders, as well as low financial backing. The Sandpit's unique model was developed to allow for real revenue to be generated quickly, instead of having to raise unnecessary investment. We offer hands-on support in all aspect of the business, including sales and marketing, strategic direction and leadership, legal, finance, admin and human resource. Our team of experts will become your team in the early part of the process and will help you win your first customers, so you can focus on perfecting your product. We will then build your own team so you can finally be fully self sufficient and also help you get funded. We don't set a time for the programme, we are fully focused on results and invest passion, manpower and knowledge in the business we truly believe in. Our success is the startup's success.