Inara Strategies
Assessments, Design, Consulting & Partnerships Building to Scale Sustainable Innovation and Business Growth Startup Founders & Entrepreneurship Ecosystem BuildingGuiding Investors & Corporate InnovatorsStartup Founders & Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building
Key Deliverables
Needs assessment integrating public, private, nonprofit, international and local stakeholders. Application for business development and project design in developing countries, emerging markets, and growing startup ecosystems.
Network and strategic partnership building to amplify ecosystem and client impacts across target sector. Application in systems-level design, negotiations and relationship management.
Business strategy, planning, and execution support to startup founders seeking an “adjunct co-Founder” to guide through initial business-building questions. Application for any early-stage startup founder with deep knowledge of their industry looking for business and strategic guidance.
Select Past Performance
Guided North American startup and business founders in early-stage business strategy, partnership building, and go-to-market assessment. Results include partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, systems-level assessment and partnership building for healthcare innovation with technology, and multiple client deals.
Guiding Investors & Corporate Innovators
Key Deliverables
Conduct integrated, systems-level stakeholder and needs assessment in client’s target sector/ecosystem. Define opportunities for investment to further innovation, identify partners and tools to move forward.
Application for investors seeking to understand where and what kind of financial or time investment will create the most social and business impact.
Identify and design interventions for corporations and large institutions to innovate in problem-solving, rooting in systems-level assessment and design thinking methodology.
Application for corporations and large institutions seeking to identify internal R&D opportunities to build and scale innovation in sectors including healthcare, technology, and global development.
Select Past Performance
Led a $68m project to invest US government funds in dozens of startups and SMEs across 7 industries in the Palestinian Territories, directing strategy and design to ensure competitiveness and financial sustainability across value chains.
Jennifer has worked with the following and more: