<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-08-26T13:36:10Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/6D517458-97E2-41A9-8E54-FE45E303971A" ns1:id="6D517458-97E2-41A9-8E54-FE45E303971A"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/C53DF338-1095-49E8-9C09-A6EA81668A17" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/78188A03-380C-48ED-9A2D-877398C0E624" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/78188A03-380C-48ED-9A2D-877398C0E624" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2022-02-28T00:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/FECAD26D-5F75-41E7-B54E-2E8B7D054C17" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2021-09-30T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">10012508</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Cutting startup failure rate with a more systematic approach to customer discovery and validation</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Responsive Strategy and Planning</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>Familiarize is an advertising and marketing startup focused on helping businesses better understand their customers, so they don't waste time, money and energy building products no-one wants.

We seek funding to translate an offline coaching and toolkit business, limited in scale, to an innovative Software-as-a-Service tool that could benefit tens of thousands of small and medium sized UK businesses by becoming more customer-centric.

Not only will the tool help small and medium-sized businesses, particularly in the creative and tech sectors, to more efficiently establish a viable market, it will also seek to build more ethical, opt-in, mutually beneficial customer relationships.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>