Primary industry: Technology | Secondary industry: Banking
Additional expertise: Pitch Deck and Coaching
Colin Knoll is a business leader who helps early stage, technology driven founders turn their ideas and plans into credible, investable startups. As someone who has raised capital, sold businesses, and led enterprise strategy for highly successful businesses, Colin excels the most at bringing a blend of strategy and finance to technical founders who may lack business know how or financial acumen. He also helps non profits build more sustainable revenue lines and funding models.
Before advising startups, Colin led strategy, growth, and transformation in regulated financial services and high growth fintech, including guiding Firma through scale and exit for $90M in 2021, and played a key role in creating Canada’s #1 largest credit union, Servus Credit Union. Colin helps answer the hard questions early: what is the startup is trying to become? What are the goals? What key milestones are next? What do the numbers need to look like? How much capital is truly needed to get there?
As an Expert Advisor with Innovate Calgary, he has supported startups in building clear business strategies and business plans, realistic financial models, go-to market strategies, and investor ready plans to get dilutive or non dilutive funding. Key results/deliverables to expect when working with me: strategy and goal setting, business plans, investor readiness, pitch decks and coaching, funding advice (vouchers, grants, investment), capital allocation strategy, and introductions/connections.
Most of all, Colin has a DEEP CARE for your business success and wants you to achieve your ambition.