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Simon Sylvest

Simon Sylvest

Co-founder, Investor, and Builder of Healthtech and Fintech ventures

Copenhagen, Denmark
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Joined January 2025
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Summary

Simon Sylvest is a highly experienced co-founder and partner at Founders, a startup studio specializing in healthtech and fintech. He focuses on incubating and scaling new ventures, leveraging his expertise in business strategy and growth. His work at Founders involves identifying market opportunities, investing in early-stage founders, and providing hands-on support to achieve traction. founders+1
He is a prolific investor and board member in the healthtech sector, with a portfolio that includes companies like Hemi Health (migraine/headache treatment), Embla (obesity treatment), and wawa fertility (fertility clinic operating system). His involvement extends from early-stage investment to active board participation, guiding these companies in their mission to advance healthcare solutions. theorg+1
Simon is deeply passionate about growth and continuous learning in startups. He advocates for a hypothesis-driven approach to marketing and has developed methodologies like the 'Founder's Growth Machine' to help early-stage companies systematically test and scale their marketing efforts, emphasizing the importance of understanding 'why' experiments succeed or fail. medium+1

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If I can’t build a product, what good am I?

October 1, 2015

A personal reflection on his journey as a co-founder at Founders, discussing his role and contributions despite not being a product builder, emphasizing his strength in building companies.

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How to build a growth-machine—an approach for ranking, prioritizing, and tracking your marketing

An article detailing a structured process for marketing experiments, including a backlog, experiment document, and pipeline, developed through his experience with GoBox to achieve marketing traction and continuous learning.

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