Hey, I'm Nikita. By day I'm a strategy consultant at Founders Intelligence, part of Accenture & the Founders Forum family: I talk to startups and VCs, then turn that into strategy for corporate C-suites. I've helped run corporate accelerators and partnership labs (from Diageo Fusion to the Amazon Sustainability Accelerator), coaching founders, aligning corporate x start-ups interests, and making sure pilots with big corporates actually happen instead of dying in procurement. I ran 5 real-world startup x corporate pilots myself as part of corporate innovation strategy projects, and build well-rounded expertise in several areas, from energy & mobility to finance & sales.

By night I build. My three main projects are:
1) Sorta: a GUI for AI, exploring new interfaces for interacting with AI for research and knowledge workflows. Just coming out of stealth.
2) Klava: a BlackBerry-inspired iOS keyboard with my own on-device prediction engine, 27 languages and ~3k downloads, made solo with AI tools
3) BlokBlok.io: a niche marketplace, catalogue and community for fans of Mega - LEGO's biggest competitor. I saw a gap in the market, and always wanted to build something community-first.

I'm also a founding member of the 181 Angels syndicate, have backed about a dozen UK startups through that or crowdfunding, and worked with founders directly on a range of topics.