Frog Capital

At Frog we help purpose-driven, European software companies scale. Now we have created How to Scale ai to help more business leaders, faster. Over the past 6 years Frog's team of Operating Partners have produced over 100 toolkits, podcasts, articles and videos in our 'How to Scale' library, as part of our Scale-Up Methodology to help software companies scale.   Now we have put them all together in a ring-fenced, customised generative AI tool to make it as simple as possible to get the information you want. https://lnkd.in/eHgWMQVt Huge thanks to Andrew Betteley, James Bagan, Susannah Nicklin, CFA, John Sutherland, Steven Dunne, Sonia Powar, Mike Reid, Jens Düing, Amanda Stainton, David Williams, Dawn Marriott, Martin Leuw, Adam Hale, Dale Murray, John Lord, Michael Kent, Linsay Duncan, Sebastien Blanc, Matthew Elson, Kimberly Baker, Nick Eades, Shirin Dehghan FREng, Richard Grundy, Chris Rhodes

Do you need answers to your software scaling questions? Why not check out out our new How to Scale ai? Using Frog's How to Scale library of over 100 toolkits, podcasts, articles and videos, our customised generative AI tool makes it as simple as possible to get the information you want, faster. Why not try it today and ask a question... https://lnkd.in/eHgWMQVt

Caspar Health is a great example of Positive Growth. The more they progress the better the outcomes for patients. Purpose-driven software helps positive solutions scale!

Frog's Scale-Up Methodology and Operating Partner team are core to our approach. Here are Senior Partners Steven Dunne, Mike Reid and Jens Düing sharing their thoughts on how we support help rapidly growing purpose-led software businesses. Thanks to James Bagan, Andrew Betteley and John Sutherland for their video cameos too. You can find out more about the Scale-Up Methodology and lots of useful resources by checking out the Frog website. https://lnkd.in/gpS5Kd2

According to the excellent Richard Rumelt book; Good strategy/Bad Strategy, A “good strategy” is not about vision, goals or objectives, all useful in their own right. Instead, it is a carefully researched and well-thought-out action plan designed to meet a challenge. It requires research and analysis, hard choices, decisive planning, and action. In this new toolkit by Steven Dunne and John Sutherland, we outline the importance of using the budget process to effectively execute your strategy, and set out the key steps to follow, including a draft template you can download and take action. In our experience a good strategy needs to consider the salient internal and external issues over the short, medium and long-term time frames and, for purpose-led enterprises, consider competitive as well as collaborative advantage. Download the full toolkit from the Frog website. https://lnkd.in/eqxBFMAd

Great to see Frog Senior Partner Mike Reid in action last week at ScaleUp Group's "Live at Evelyn Partners" event. A great and supportive event which provided many practical ideas to takeaway.

Great to see our work with Evotix featured on the Invest Europe website as one of their success stories. It was a real privilege to work with Matthew Elson and the team as they scaled-up to be a truly global business.

Here's a quick clip from the latest episode of Frog’s How to Scale podcast, where Senior Partner Steven Dunne speaks with Frog Operating Partner, Andrew Betteley and Frog’s Head of Marketing, Dominic Rodgers, about our recent experience of building an AI search engine. Make sure to check out the full episode wherever you get your podcasts or on the Frog website, as Andrew and Dominic discuss the challenges of building an AI solution, why they have done it, and how businesses should approach using AI both operationally and within their product(s). https://lnkd.in/eKtS6UJQ

A surprisingly large number of organisations engage in performance management because they think they should or because they always have without any clear value add. A Deloitte survey on the subject showed that 58% of executives believed that the performance management approach was driving neither high performance nor employee engagement. This group were also reported to confuse an appraisal system with performance management. Whilst a quality appraisal that reviews past performance, identifies development needs and actions, and sets expectations for the next period is a core part of performance management, it should be just one part of a more frequent, ongoing interaction that comprises proper performance management. Indeed, its best use is to provide structure and documentation to the process but the beneficial impact is really derived from much more regular contact – part of the Deloitte reaction to the survey above was to put a much greater focus on weekly meetings. For some, the main benefit is that it forces managers to spend time talking to their staff but if this is the standard then there is a much bigger organisational culture issue. The How to Scale toolkit by Amanda Stainton and Steven Dunne explores the core aspects of what a typical effective performance management system looks like. Download the full toolkit from the Frog website. https://lnkd.in/epmYqJzz

Great to hear from clients of Clue Software, about how the Clue platform has transformed the way they manage intelligence and investigations. Clare Elford, CEO, has built a robust and ambitious combination of credibility and innovation in a demanding and traditionally conservative industry resulting in clear differentiation to typically legacy systems providers. Frog invested in Clue in 2021 as the team was particularly impressed by Clue’s culture of customer engagement, integrity and partnership, as well as the attractions of a product receiving exceptional customer feedback in a very large growing market.