65% of high-growth startups fail due to co-founder disagreements or interpersonal conflicts within the founding team. (Noam Wasserman, The Founder’s Dilemmas, Harvard Business Review)
75% of venture-backed startups ultimately fail, reinforcing that even funding alone can’t overcome weak team dynamics. (Harvard Business School, Shikhar Ghosh study)
Over half of startup failures are driven by co-founder conflict. (Medium)
92% of founders say hiring the wrong people is their biggest growth barrier. (First Round Capital’s State of Startups Survey)
A bad mid-level hire costs UK businesses over £132,000 in lost productivity, rehiring, and training. (Recruitment & Employment Confederation, UK)
40% of senior hires fail within 18 months, often due to cultural misfit or lack of behavioral alignment. (Leadership IQ research)
95% of venture capitalists say the founding team is the most important factor in their investment decisions. (Harvard Business Review, “How Do VCs Make Decisions?”)
Companies using data-driven people analytics are 2.5x more likely to improve recruiting and leadership pipelines. (Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report)
Startups with diverse and complementary leadership teams are 70% more likely to capture new markets. (McKinsey & Company, Diversity Wins)
70% of startups fail between years 2–5 due to issues with scaling teams and managing growth. (Startup Genome Report)
23% of founders cite “not having the right team” as a primary reason for failure—ranking just behind “no market need.” (CB Insights, Startup Failure Post-Mortems)
60% of startups fail due to problems within the management team—such as poor leadership or lack of alignment. (Forbes, citing research by Startup Genome)
Startups that use structured HR practices grow 3.5x faster and are 2x less likely to fail. (Stanford Graduate School of Business study on startup scaling)
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We make the sophisticated people analytics, once reserved only for large enterprises, accessible to the UK's most ambitious startups. We provide the objective data and expert counsel needed to build, scale, and de-risk your most important asset.
To succeed in any fast-growing business, professionals must make sound decisions, communicate effectively, lead with clarity, and maintain resilience under pressure. Our approach to assessing and developing talent is built on this essential premise.

To truly drive growth and effectiveness, organizations need to look beyond results and evaluate the core skills and behaviors that enable performance to scale. The GrowthLens Competency Model provide a complete view of how individuals think, interact, manage, and respond in demanding environments—directly shaping both team effectiveness and business success.

This framework captures the behavioral foundations of performance. By applying it, we help organizations not only identify strengths and close skill gaps, but also unlock the leadership capacity, team effectiveness, and resilience needed to drive growth and scale their business with confidence.
Predictive Hiring Suite
We help to make more informed hiring decisions relying on robust tools and valid data.
Hiring Solution: Assess
For making the right hire, fast.

• Uses a proven competency model

• Focuses on essential skills needed to succeed in position

• Shows which current skills are already strong

• Highlights areas to improve to boost effectiveness





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Hiring Solutuion: Align
For ensuring long-term success and cultural alignment.

• Uses a proven competency model

• Focuses on essential skills needed to succeed in position

• Shows which current skills are already strong

• Highlights areas to improve to boost effectiveness

• Uncovers each candidate’s intrinsic drivers - to ensure long-term engagement and alignment with your team culture.



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Beyond skills — building lasting fit
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Leadership Pipeline Toolkit
We provide a clear overview of a team’s strengths and development areas, enabling you to build a more balanced and effective workforce while identifying the right people to step into future leadership roles.
Team Solution: Accelerate
For aligning team's talent, before your next big move.

• Uses a proven competency model

• Focuses on skills needed to deal with new chellenges

• Shows current strong skills and areas to improve of current team members

• Highlitghts aspects of team performance that can be strengthened to increase effectiveness

• Identifies the motivation drivers of a team, providing insight into what fuels engagement, sustains performance, and accelerates business growth



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Discover strengths. Define roles. Deliver results
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Team Solution: Elevate
For developing future leaders, with precision and data.

• Uses a proven competency model and a customised set of asessement instruments

• Map leadership competencies against defined success profiles

• Highlights areas to improve for future leadership role

• Is accompanied by a personalized feedback session, focussing on individual and/ or team recommendations






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Founder's Strategy Suite
We help founders align on priorities, decisions, and leadership approaches, using leadership team data as a foundation for growth and effective collaboration.
Founder & Co-Founder Alignment
For powerful diagnostics to help startup founding teams align before scaling.

• Uses a proven competency model

• Gives a full picture of the founders' current strengths, growth areas, potential behaviors and personal drivers

• Transforms raw data into clear insights and highlights alignment gaps

• Provides a structured recommendations for founders to deal with the gaps and scale their business with clarity and cohesion.

• Includes indvidual and team feedback sessions



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Growthlens Consulting
For delivering actionable solutions to ensure the people side of the business support growth at every stage.

Beyond our assessment solutions, we provide tailored consulting to address the broader people challenges founders face: structuring roles, performance systems, navigating culture shifts, leadership transitions, etc.







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