Wooshii

Founder and CEO of the internets leading video production community.

We provide scalable video solutions for the worlds largest companies via an online network and software solutions

I've led the team through its bootstrapped beginnings and two rounds of venture funding.

Envoke-Demos

I played a small part in turning an idea into a product, winning early customers, and setting up for growth.

Co-Founder & Advisor

Flexy App

Advisory Board

Hartest Brewing Co.

Founder

MentorCamp

Business Mentor

Fergus & Permjot

Worked with Permjot Valia and over 100 entrepreneurial and start up companies in a variety of roles.

Helped companies ranging from small 2 man shops to business with turnovers exceeding £14M per year

Partner

New East Manchester Ltd

Working with start-ups and SME's both in developing growth and on-line strategies. Over 100 business aided through New East Manchester Ltd regeneration company

Created and ran the EnterPrize one of the North Wests leading entrepreneurial start-up contests

Enterprise Facilitator

Outgoing

Director at Outgoing which grew to be the largest UK student tour operator and where we also founded Snowbombing, Europe's largest winter festival.

Director

Dyer-Smith Consult

As a freelance web developer, I helped companies turn their visions into reality at a time when websites were a black art and companies would pay over the odds to get online !

Developed online marketing strategies and acted as an advisor to companies looking to expand their business online.

Web Developer

🤖 Lead a team that has built several AI products, including;

🤖 Assist - a new AI operating system for Marketing teams used by companies from Publicis to Toyota

🤖 BrandCheck - AI Video analysis tool used by companies from WPP to Google

🎬 Wooshii - Founded to help companies scale video operations and production.

🧬 Envoke - Co-founded a company that brought VR innovation into life sciences

🤪 Co-founded Snowbombing Winter Music Festival, a brewery and several apps

🏄🏽‍♂️ Surfer

If you're interested in how AI can transform marketing or AI agents can scale operations...

then I'd love to connect

Fergus Dyer-Smith

Input Output (IOHK)

IO Research is the leading academic blockchain network worldwide with a growing library of more than 200 peer-reviewed and published papers, involving 150+ academics, and which collectively have been cited more than 10,000 times.

Director of Research Partnerships

Frontier Deep Tech

Frontier Grants helps ambitious deeptech founders scout for, write and win grants for their startup.

* Grant searching / scanning
* Grant evaluation & strategic planning
* Consortium brokerage with industry / academic partners
* Application writing & proposal development
* Financial planning & project budgets 
* Project work plans (work packages, risks, outcomes, etc) 
* Project implementation, management & reporting

Frontier Grants

Zaz Ventures

Zaz Ventures is the leading innovation funding advisor specialised in Horizon Europe instruments. Fergie leads deep tech investments for the EIC Accelerator and successfully raised €12.5M in 2023.

Investment Consultant

ZINC

A 6 month venture builder to explore impactful solutions to transform people’s financial resilience.

Yepic AI 

A Generative AI seed startup offering AI avatar creation, text-to-video and real-time dubbing via its studio and API. Fergie was responsible for the commercialisation of Yepic AI’s patent pending neural network. In just over a year Fergie achieved £200k in contracted sales, developed a pipeline of £3.5M ARR from scratch and brought in £500k investment.

Commercial Lead

EIT Digital

Responsible for the management and delivery of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology’s flagship digital innovation programme in the UK & Ireland including;

*) Launch of Satellite Offices in Scotland and Ireland aligned to key national strategic priorities
*) Development of an annual €50M pipeline of Seed and Seed+ investment opportunities
*) Operational management of 20+ portfolio startups and applied research projects each year
*) Creation of 3 Doctoral Training Centres with City, University of Surrey and The University of Edinburgh
*) Strategic oversight of 40+ university, research, SME and corporate partners
*) Management of 80 pax co-working space and annual calendar of events

Senior Innovation Manager, London

The EIT Digital Accelerator evolved into the leading European deep tech venture programme with a portfolio of over 140 startups and €900M of investment across 20 countries and 5 strategic focus areas. 

Fergie worked as part of the leadership group to realise the transformation from seed to growth stage before leading the Smart Cities & Transport strategic focus area from the UK.

Business Development, Accelerator 

Conception X

The UK’s leading PhD deeptech venture programme. A 6 month contract to develop industry partnerships with Barclays, Deloitte and Schmidt Futures.

Industry Lead (Contract)

VentureScout

Sourcing startups for Startupbootcamp accelerators and delivering innovation programmes for Tesco, MasterCard & Vodafone.

Innovation Consultant

Filuet

AutoStore was an automated retail startup providing 24/7 vending solutions to multinational retail brands such as Dixons Carphone.

UK Country Manager

Bizify.co

A gamified task and project management application. $100k was raised and an MVP with early revenues was built before deciding to not pursue the business and return to Europe.

I'm a seasoned entrepreneur and investment consultant with over 20 years of experience in scaling startups, commercialising IP, innovation programming and building ecosystems.

In recent years I have increasingly focused on deep tech commercialisation and grant financing, managing more than £$€250M+ in funding campaigns.

Please drop me a line if you are exploiting ground breaking IP that is aligned to national strategic priorities through Innovate UK, UKRI or Horizon Europe. 

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