Corporate venture building and distribution partnerships
New ventures, built
with distribution
as the moat.
For corporates and operators creating new businesses that need distribution leverage from day one. Dipesh co-creates the venture, designs channel economics and builds the partner ecosystem before the product needs to win on its own.
The best new ventures of the next decade will not win because they had the best product first. They will win because they had distribution first. Dipesh has seen this play out inside banks, telcos and real-estate groups—and seen great products fail while waiting for a channel. The gold standard is to design distribution into the venture on day one, not bolt it on at Series B.
Expertise in
practice
Concrete engagements drawn from two decades of building, scaling and exiting ventures - and from operating playbooks refined across McKinsey, exited founders and the Digit Two network.
Discuss an engagementDipesh works between your strategy team and the market - identifying venture opportunities your distribution unfairly advantages, then building them.
Channel economics, partner mapping and go-to-market sequencing for ventures where distribution is the wedge, not the product.
Architect the partner stack - referral, embed, white-label, marketplace - and the commercial model that makes each layer self-reinforcing.
Identify, develop and back your highest-potential internal innovators. Structured programmes that turn corporate talent into venture builders without them leaving.
Long-term studio-in-residence model. Digit Two is your external venture building arm - co-creating and spinning out new businesses in adjacent markets with shared upside.
Rearchitect a legacy business unit as a digital-first venture - new revenue model, new team, new stack, built alongside your existing operations.
Approach
Identify
Map the white-space your distribution unfairly serves. Three to five venture concepts ranked by economics and timing.
Anchor
Lock the first commercial relationship before the build. Anchor customer, partner contract or internal sponsor signed up front.
Build
90-day embedded build alongside the corporate sponsor. Product, brand, ops and the first distribution motion live together.
Scale or spin
Scale inside the parent, spin out with retained equity, or partner externally - decided on evidence, not politics.
Gold standard,
not guesswork.
Distribution-first ventures live or die on three decisions made very early. Dipesh has seen all three done well—and badly— across telecoms, banking, real-estate and public services.
A B2B SaaS layer built on a telco's existing infrastructure - distribution-first from day one.
Embedded finance platform launched inside a Tier-1 bank, now processing £2M+ monthly.
Cross-border venture builds and partnerships across UK, Gulf, Africa and Europe.
The right moment
Strong customer base, channels or balance sheet - and a new growth engine that has not yet been built.
Operator with a product and a thesis - and a channel partner conversation that needs structure.
Long-term partnership to co-create multiple ventures from inside the organisation.
Founder & Senior Advisor
Dipesh Savani
Dipesh Savani founded Digit Two after more than two decades building, scaling and advising ventures across SaaS, fintech, healthtech and B2B services. An exited founder and ex-McKinsey advisor, he works with founders on the decisions that compound: distribution, capital strategy and the operating discipline behind enduring companies.
His work spans venture creation, corporate innovation and guidance for founders preparing to scale or exit. Through Digit Two, he leads thesis development, founding-team formation and a network of senior advisors.
Distribution
looking for its
next venture?
Dipesh co-creates a small number of corporate ventures each year. For distribution seeking a venture—or a venture seeking distribution—start a conversation.