Our Mission
Elevate & Accelerate Founders
Our mission is simple: Empower early‑stage startups to move faster with more confidence. We work alongside you as a sparring partner, helping you make better decisions, avoid costly detours and focus on actions that move the needle in the next 90 days.
About EA Growth
Founder-led growth & funding advisory for early-stage Founders
EA Growth helps early-stage founders grow faster and raise funding without hiring a full-time senior team. We provide strategic support on positioning, problem validation, go-to-market, funnels and investor story through flexible advisory partnerships, and focused sprints – fully remote and founder-first.
EA Growth was created by a founder with experience on both sides – building companies and working closely with startups, accelerators and innovation programs.
We combine entrepreneurial experience, a strong startup network, and a sharp, creative marketing mindset to help you understand real customer pain, build the right MVP, design a simple but effective funnel and tell a compelling story to investors.
What EA Growth does
Helping founders turn potential into real traction
EA Growth exists to give early-stage founders access to senior-level growth and funding support at the stage where it’s usually out of reach.
We work closely with you as a sparring partner on strategy and execution – so you can make better decisions, move faster and avoid wasting limited time and budget.
In practical terms, that means helping you to:
Clarify your ideal customer and positioning
Validate real customer problems and pain
Design and optimise a simple, effective funnel
Prioritise experiments and focus your limited resources
Shape a sharp investor story and prepare for funding rounds
Who EA Growth is for
For startups with more potential than their current traction
EA Growth is a good fit for early-stage founders who want clear, senior support on growth and funding – without hiring a full-time team.
We work best with founders who:
Are building a B2B or B2C tech product at pre-seed to Series A stage
Have a product in market or are close to launch (MVP, beta or first paying customers)
Feel their startup has more potential than current traction or funding shows
Want a senior sparring partner, not a generic agency or hands-off coach
Are willing to experiment, learn fast and be honest about what’s working (and what isn’t)
Our Values
Founder‑First, Lean & Honest
Founder‑first
We respect your vision and constraints.
Lean & flexible
No lengthy consulting projects – only focused sprints and fractional partnerships.
Honesty & clarity
We tell you what you need to hear, not just what you want to hear.
Action‑oriented
We prioritise tasks that deliver impact within your next 90 days.
What founders and partners say
Meet the founder
Erman Aydin – Founder & Lead Advisor
EA Growth was founded by Erman Aydin, a founder and advisor who has spent the last 7+ years building startups and working with early-stage teams, accelerators and corporate innovation units.
Before EA Growth, Erman founded and built a B2B SaaS startup that later achieved a successful exit. After stepping out of the operational role he explored new startup projects and then spent two years in the Corporate Innovation & Exploration unit of a large company, helping to shape innovation strategy and set up venture-building structures from the inside.
Along the way, Erman supported accelerators as a mentor and juror, working with founders in different industries and stages. Again and again, one pattern kept showing up: strong technical teams and promising products, but a lack of senior support on growth and funding right when it matters most.
Today, EA Growth doesn’t just draw on Erman’s personal experience, but also on a trusted network of experts – founders, operators and specialists that can be brought in when a project needs additional, targeted expertise.
How we work with founders
Senior support that fits early-stage reality
EA Growth is built to give you senior support in a way that fits early-stage reality – lean, flexible and focused on what actually moves the needle.
Strategy + execution, not just advice
We translate strategy into concrete priorities, experiments and next steps – and stay with you while you implement.
Focused formats, clear timeframes
You work with us through fractional partnerships or 6–8 week sprints, so there is structure, momentum and a clear end point.
Remote, async-friendly collaboration
We work fully remote between Europe and Asia, combining calls with async updates so support fits around your calendar, not the other way around.
Plug into a trusted expert network
When you need additional expertise, we can involve founders, operators and specialists from our network instead of trying to do everything alone.
Ready to see if we’re a fit?
If you’re an early-stage founder and want more clarity on growth and funding, let’s talk. In a free 45-minute strategy call we’ll review your current situation and identify the 2–3 moves that would make the biggest difference in the next 90 days.
Insights
Our Blog
Short, practical ideas on positioning, growth, funnels and fundraising – based on real work with early-stage founders, not theory.
Pre-Seed vs Seed vs Series A: What Investors Expect and How to Prepare
Fundraising gets harder when founders pitch the right story for the wrong stage. This guide explains how investor expectations change from pre-seed to seed to Series A, gives you a stage-by-stage checklist, and includes a simple readiness scorecard so you can decide whether to raise now or focus on traction.
Founder-Led Sales: A Simple Process to Turn Conversations Into Customers
Founder-led sales is not about being naturally “good at selling.” It is about running a lightweight process that turns conversations into decisions. This guide gives you a simple sales system, clear stage exit criteria, and a 14-day plan you can maintain in under 20 minutes per day.