LeSS for Founders & Investors

Business resilience is the key to sustainable growth for scale-ups navigating rapid expansion, new funding rounds, and shifting market demands.

Resilience ensures your organization can continually adapt, withstand disruptions, and pursue new opportunities. Founders and investors both benefit when a scale-up can systematically integrate new insights and quickly pivot—especially in dynamic sectors like AI, SaaS, or advanced hardware solutions.

Factum Global guides organizations through international expansion and strategic transformation. With over 100 years of combined experience, they provide expertise in market entry, change leadership, and operational optimization across The Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East. Their holistic approach ensures sustainable growth and lasting global impact.

Empowering Entrepreneurs to Expand Globally with Limitless Potential.

Hear how Wärtsilä—a global leader—transformed product development to break silos and streamline innovation. Though larger, their challenges mirror scale-ups seeking synergy across multiple teams. An insightful conversation with Mauro Sacchi:

Nokia Networks rapidly scaled from a couple of teams to more than 20, developing a cutting-edge network gateway from the ground up—much like a scale-up that grows from a garage team to a multi-site engineering force. Adopting LeSS helped them:

• Transition to cross-functional feature teams, slashing delays and handoffs
• Safely expand team count while keeping aligned on product vision
• Pivot quickly with changing market demands and customer input

The resulting organizational agility resonates strongly with the challenges founders face when ballooning from a small core to dozens of distributed teams.

Huawei implemented LeSS across multiple development groups to tackle issues familiar to fast-growing companies:

• Scaling Team Collaboration: Integrating thousands of engineers without choking on internal bureaucracy
• Systemic Adaptability: Enabling continuous pivoting as new technologies emerged and markets shifted
• Quality and Speed: Reducing defect rates while accelerating cycle times
• Cultural Transformation: Fostering an environment where experimentation and feedback loops thrive

By approaching scale with a clear organizational design, founders can avoid the pitfalls of "big-company syndrome" and maintain agility as they rapidly onboard talent and expand product lines.

Scaling fast brings unique challenges. We can help you chart the path to organizational agility and resilience. Below are a few of our Certified LeSS coaching companies that specialize in guiding scale-ups. They can address your specific questions, from structuring cross-functional teams to sustaining investor confidence.