Strategy · Commercialization · Investment · Innovation

Turning innovation into meaningful progress.

Just for Impact is an independent advisory firm working with ambitious ventures, investors and innovation organisations across strategy, commercialization, investment readiness and international growth, with particular experience in climate tech, deep tech and energy transition.

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From potential to progress.

Good technology is not enough. The challenge is turning potential into a clear strategy, a credible business and meaningful commercial progress.

Strategy & Commercialization

Turning technology and ambition into clear strategic and commercial priorities.

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Investment Readiness & Brokerage

Helping companies prepare for investor conversations and, where appropriate, supporting relevant investor connections.

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Founder & Venture Advisory

Experienced strategic sparring for founders and leadership teams at important moments.

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Innovation Ecosystems & International Growth

Supporting accelerators, innovation organisations and companies exploring partnerships and opportunities across markets.

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Our perspective

A different perspective.

Just for Impact combines investment experience with practical strategic advisory. The perspective is deliberately in-between: close enough to understand the realities of building a company, and experienced enough to challenge assumptions from an investor’s point of view.

Investor perspective

How opportunity, risk, commercial potential and execution are assessed.

Operator perspective

Practical work on strategic and commercial questions.

Innovation perspective

The realities of deep tech, climate tech and emerging technologies.

International perspective

Experience across Europe, Japan and the Gulf.

International

Connecting innovation across markets.

Innovation does not stop at national borders. Just for Impact supports organisations exploring opportunities across European and international innovation ecosystems, with particular experience and interest in Europe–Japan and Europe–Qatar/Gulf connections.

Selected areas of experience, not office locations or limits on where we work.

Europe

Venture and innovation ecosystems

Japan

Technology and market connections

Qatar & Gulf

Investment and innovation programmes

How we work

Practical by design.

Understand

Clarify the situation, objective and real decision that needs to be made.

Challenge

Test assumptions, commercial logic and strategic choices.

Focus

Identify the few priorities that matter most.

Move

Translate the work into concrete next steps, decisions and actions.

Ways to work together

The right format for the question.

Focused Projects

A defined strategic or commercial question with a clear scope and outcome.

Advisory Support

Ongoing strategic sparring for founders, leadership teams or organisations.

Programme & Expert Work

Workshops, mentoring, assessments and expert support for innovation programmes.

Strategic Partnerships

Longer-term collaboration where there is a strong mutual fit.

Selected experience

References

Selected experience across ventures, investment and innovation ecosystems.

Deep Tech · Climate Tech · Investment

From strategy to pre-seed fundraising.

Early-stage deep-tech / cleantech company

Challenge or assignment

Strengthen the company’s strategic and commercial direction, then prepare for a pre-seed fundraising process.

What Just for Impact contributed

Strategic advisory, investment readiness and fundraising support, including preparation for angel-investor conversations and relevant investor connections.

Accelerator · Portfolio Advisory

Advisory support across an impact portfolio.

UAE-based impact accelerator

Challenge or assignment

Support several companies within an impact accelerator portfolio in the Gulf region.

What Just for Impact contributed

Investor perspective, sustainability, energy and climate-tech knowledge, and practical strategic challenge to help founders focus on the most important questions.

Japan · Incubator · Climate Tech

Helping a portfolio company explore a new market.

Japanese climate incubator portfolio company

Challenge or assignment

Explore international expansion opportunities between Japan and Europe for a company working in the carbon-credit space.

What Just for Impact contributed

European market perspective and a structured assessment of the opportunity, informed by experience in innovation and climate-related businesses.

Public Sector · Innovation · Expert Assessment

Independent expertise for international innovation projects.

Public-sector innovation organisation

Challenge or assignment

Review and assess applications for international innovation projects as an external expert.

What Just for Impact contributed

Independent assessment of innovation, commercial potential and the broader project context.

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Founder & Team

Investment experience, strategic judgement and specialist expertise selected for each engagement.

Experience at the intersection of investment and innovation.

Just for Impact was founded by Oguzhan Erim, an investment and innovation professional with more than 15 years of experience working across climate technology, deep tech, energy transition and international innovation ecosystems.

His experience spans venture investment, investment readiness, commercialization, company development, governance and ecosystem building, working with startups, investors, corporates and innovation organisations.

He has worked across European and international markets, with a particular interest in building meaningful connections between European innovation ecosystems and Japan, Qatar and the wider Gulf region.

A wider expert pool

Just for Impact works with a wider pool of experienced experts and specialists, bringing in the right expertise for individual projects based on the needs of the client and the challenge at hand.

This allows the firm to combine its core investment and innovation perspective with specialist capabilities where needed, while keeping each engagement focused and relevant.

Perspectives on development.

Practical observations on the questions we see across ventures, investment and international innovation.

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Investment readiness

What investors are really trying to understand

Being investment-ready is not the same as having a good pitch deck.

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Commercialization

When great technology is not yet a great business

A technical breakthrough can create an opportunity, but it does not automatically create a market.

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Innovation ecosystems

Connections are only valuable when they lead somewhere

International innovation programmes often focus on bringing the right people and organisations together. But a meeting, delegation or introduction is not an outcome in itself.

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Have a challenge worth exploring?

If you are working on an ambitious venture, investment opportunity or innovation programme and think there may be a fit, let’s talk.

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