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Dipesh Savani — venture builder and founder advisor in London, Dubai and Riyadh
Dipesh Savani.
Advice grounded
in building.
Strategic advice for founders, leadership teams and organisations navigating venture creation, customer experience, growth, innovation and exit.
Who is Dipesh Savani?
Dipesh Savani is a London-based venture builder and founder advisor, and founder of Digit Two, a venture studio working with founders and corporates across the UK, UAE and Saudi Arabia. An exited founder and former McKinsey advisor, he helps teams turn ideas into ventures, scale what works and prepare for exit.
Building, scaling and advising ventures across SaaS, fintech, healthtech and B2B services.
Corporate finance and M&A rigour, sized for a venture — not an FTSE 100.
Personal exit experience, and the scars to back the advice founders actually need.
Most great ideas die between the whiteboard and the world. Not because they're wrong - but because building is hard, and doing it alone is harder. Digit Two was founded on a conviction: the best ventures aren't found. They're made - with precision, with conviction, and with the right people beside you.
Founder perspective.
Advisor discipline.
Dipesh Savani
Dipesh Savani founded Digit Two after more than two decades building, scaling and advising ventures across SaaS, fintech, healthtech and B2B services. He advises founders on the decisions that compound: distribution, capital strategy, customer experience and the discipline behind enduring companies.
His work spans venture creation, corporate innovation and guidance for founders preparing to scale or exit. The approach combines clear thinking, practical frameworks and hands-on experience—not advice from the sidelines.
From sharp thinking
to practical action
White-space research identifies markets where timing, technology and behaviour converge.
Founding teams are formed with domain experts and a co-building partner, not just a backer.
A product, design and engineering team works inside the venture for the first 90 days, at founder speed.
After product-market fit, specialist operators and external capital support the transition to independence.
Strategic distribution, channel partnerships and value networks turn traction into lasting advantage.
Exit preparation institutionalises distribution, sharpens the value narrative and prepares ventures for acquisition, secondary or IPO. Companies are built to be sold, not bought.
Sector expertise
Sector-specific advisory turns institutional knowledge into new ventures through innovation programmes, venture studios and digital labs tailored to each market.
Finance & Banking
Build regulatory-compliant fintech products, embedded finance platforms, and AI-driven risk engines that turn compliance into competitive advantage.
Launch new revenue lines - from digital lending and wealth-tech to B2B payment infrastructure - with full studio support from thesis to market.
Run innovation sprints inside your bank or insurer. Embedded product, design and engineering teams prototype, validate and ship in 90 days.
Reduced compliance overhead by 60% for a Tier-1 bank and launched an embedded-finance platform now processing £2M+ monthly.
Healthcare
Create patient-centric digital platforms, clinical decision support tools, and connected health ecosystems that improve outcomes and reduce cost.
Spin out health-tech ventures - from diagnostics and remote monitoring to mental-health delivery - with the clinical credibility to scale.
Establish an in-house digital health lab to rapidly prototype care pathways, provider tools, and patient-facing experiences without disrupting operations.
Launched a remote-monitoring spin-out that improved patient adherence by 40% and reduced readmission rates within 6 months.
Telecom & Media
Develop next-gen customer engagement platforms, AI-powered content engines, and 5G-enabled service layers that monetise your network investment.
Build and scale new digital ventures - streaming, ad-tech, marketplace and enterprise SaaS - leveraging your distribution and data assets.
Rapidly prototype consumer and enterprise products on top of your infrastructure. Test, learn and spin out winners before competitors catch up.
Built a B2B SaaS layer on existing infrastructure that opened a new £4M ARR revenue line in 12 months.
Government, Public Services & Non-Profit
Digitise citizen services, modernise legacy systems, and design human-centred public platforms that restore trust and improve accessibility.
Create social-impact ventures and public-private partnerships that generate sustainable revenue while delivering measurable community outcomes.
Deploy an agile innovation lab inside your department or agency - delivering working prototypes, not lengthy procurement cycles, in weeks not years.
Digitised a citizen-service portal cutting average processing time from 14 days to under 48 hours with zero legacy downtime.
PropTech & Real Estate
Reinvent the built environment with data-driven asset platforms, smart-building software, and tenant experience products that unlock new value from physical space.
Spin out PropTech ventures - from leasing and transactions to construction-tech and ESG reporting - leveraging your portfolio, capital and operational footprint.
Stand up a digital lab inside your real-estate business to prototype tenant apps, operations tools, and AI-powered asset intelligence in weeks, not quarters.
Delivered a smart-building pilot that reduced operational costs by 22% and increased tenant satisfaction scores by 35%.
Social Impact & Sustainability
Design platforms that turn climate, equity and community goals into measurable products - from carbon tracking to inclusive finance and circular commerce.
Build mission-driven ventures with credible commercial models - climate-tech, regen agriculture, social enterprise and impact marketplaces - engineered to scale.
Run an impact innovation lab that pairs your mission with operator-grade execution - shipping pilots, measuring outcomes, and scaling what genuinely works.
Co-created a circular-commerce venture that diverted 800 tonnes from landfill in year one while achieving profitability.
Collaborated with clients
on global footprints.
Passion, commitment and high energy have played a pivotal role in delivering across continents - serving a diverse range of clients, from sovereign institutions to ambitious founders.
Studio HQ. Venture building, capital strategy and senior advisory across UK fintech, healthtech and B2B SaaS.
Cross-border venture builds, sovereign and family-office partnerships, and digital transformation for regional champions.
Innovation programmes and venture studios aligned to Vision 2030 - building digital businesses with national strategic partners.
Emerging-market venture acceleration, fintech inclusion and impact-led businesses serving the African continent.
Advisory, venture
building & innovation
For established organisations building ventures from within: startup speed and conviction combined with corporate distribution and resources.
Discuss your organisationIdentify, develop, and back your highest-potential internal innovators. Structured programmes turn corporate talent into venture builders without them leaving.
90-day embedded sprints that take a corporate hypothesis to a validated, built product. My team works inside your organisation - aligned to your strategy, moving at startup speed.
A long-term studio-in-residence model - Digit Two acts as your external venture building arm, co-creating and spinning out new businesses in adjacent markets with shared upside.
Rearchitect legacy business units as digital-first ventures - new revenue models, new teams, and new technology stacks built alongside your existing operations.
Leverage your existing market position to accelerate new ventures - channel strategy, partner ecosystem design, and commercial model architecture for ventures at scale.
Equip senior leaders and innovation teams with the frameworks, language, and operating cadence to build and sustain a genuine innovation culture - not just a lab with a ping-pong table.
Selected ventures
Modernising debt management with structured data, intelligent automation and real-time compliance.
Turning environmental data into auditable, investor-grade sustainability reporting at scale.
Connecting caterers with real-time demand through a purpose-built on-demand platform.
Where founders are made - a structured programme turning ambitious professionals into first-time founders.
An operating system for venture building - powering universities, enterprises and micro-SME founders.
The power
of two
Every great venture has a duality - an idea that becomes a product, a vision that becomes reality. The right partner turns one into something that compounds.
"The best advice is earned in the arena. Turn uncertainty into decisions, and decisions into ventures that compound."
Where AI meets
experience.
Two decades of venture building, distilled into a proprietary operating system - now amplified by AI at every stage. Institutional memory meets machine intelligence, helping founders move faster without flying blind.
A rapid validation sprint that pressure-tests your idea, market and economics before a single line of product code is written.
From validated thesis to a working product in the market. Embedded team, no committees, founder pace.
Founders with a proper studio partner raise faster, hire better, and build more durably than those going it alone.
No passive cheques and disappearing acts. Every company backed receives hands-on support from the Digit Two core team.
Built to be bought.
Distribution scale is the foundation. A clear value narrative, institutionalised operating model and strategic optionality help founders choose acquisition, secondary or IPO on their terms.
What are you
trying to move
forward?
Dipesh works with a select number of founders and leadership teams at a time. For an experienced partner to challenge the thinking and help deliver the work, book a conversation.