Leadership & Communication
Effective team leadership and communication are essential. Founders often need guidance on how to align their teams towards common goals and be receptive to feedback.
For Funds, Accelerators & Incubators
Transform your founders into high-performing leaders.
Founders are the backbone of every startup, but the journey is full of challenges. As a VC fund manager, accelerator or incubator leader, you've seen firsthand the issues that impede a founder's success.
Common founders' issues
The critical challenges your founders face
Navigating Failure
Failure is part of the journey, but not all founders know how to 'fail fast' — to quickly identify and learn from what isn't working and pivot effectively.
Mindset & Wellbeing
Founders grapple with maintaining a positive, confident mindset amidst the roller-coaster of startup life. The stress and pressure take a toll on mental health, impacting decisions and wellbeing.
Productivity & Efficiency
Without the right strategies, founders struggle to stay productive and efficient, leading to missed opportunities and wasted resources.
Work-Life Integration
The intense demands of building a startup can erode one's life, leading to burnout and diminished long-term productivity.
The impact on your fund
These challenges ripple out to your whole program
Investment at Risk
Founders who can't manage stress, maintain productivity, or pivot effectively put your investments at greater risk.
Program Reputation
Your accelerator's success hinges on the success of its startups. Struggling founders diminish your reputation and make it harder to attract top capital or talent.
Resource Drain
Time spent mentoring founders through basic issues drains your resources. Misaligned teams and burned-out founders waste your fund's time, energy, capital and reputation.
Our approach focuses on
How we turn pressure into performance
By booking a call, you'll discover how our tailored coaching helps your founders grow into resilient, adaptable, high-performing leaders.
Mastering Failure
We teach founders to embrace failure as a learning opportunity, enabling them to pivot quickly and effectively.
A Resilient Mindset
We help founders build mental toughness and maintain a positive outlook and confidence, with the flexibility to adapt through many failures along the way.
Leadership & Communication
Our coaching improves team alignment and communication, fostering openness and continuous improvement — accelerating results, innovation, and your ROI.
Productivity & Efficiency
Our strategies enhance productivity, ensuring founders make the most of their time and resources.
Work-Life Integration
We guide founders in managing time and energy to prevent burnout and sustain long-term success.
Meet your coach
Angela Shurina
“Business success, innovation, growth — all depend on the non-business, character and performance skills of the people who make ideas work. It's my life's purpose to help ideas succeed, by helping people build the skills to excel.”
Angela Shurina is a multidisciplinary Executive High-Performance Coach for tech founders, executives and leaders, tech teams and companies. She uniquely blends neuroscience research and the psychology of high performance with integrative brain-body health, nutrition, stress resilience, productivity and mindset tools — helping purpose-driven leaders and teams build their vision faster, without burnout, creating more time, health, profits and freedom.
Health. Sustainability. Impact.
What founders say
Loved by the people building the future
“Working with Angela has been a game-changer for me, both professionally and personally. Through thought-provoking discussions and targeted exercises, Angela helped me clarify my vision, identify obstacles, and develop practical strategies to overcome challenges. She empowered me to break through limiting beliefs, embrace change, and step out of my comfort zone. I joined a gym after years of procrastinating, saved up money, and gained confidence in speaking about my business. I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone seeking transformation, growth, and fulfillment.”
Thobani Magqabi
Entrepreneur
“Sometimes you meet someone and it's a match made in heaven. That's how I feel about my collaboration with Angela. She was the driving force in executing my vision for the PowerUp coaching program to empower female entrepreneurs around the world. Her expertise bringing together multiple modalities allowed her to create truly unique content that I know will transform many lives. She has great energy and knowledge and is truly committed to helping others.”
Victoria Yampolsky
Founder, The Startup Station & PowerUp Globally; Strategic CFO
“Angela gave so many valuable tactics and guidance to our founders. Def work with her!”
Andrew Hutton
Founder at Day One, Venture Builder at Human Ventures
“When I first met Angela, I was feeling drained and overwhelmed — balancing building a startup, my personal life and fitness. Angela introduced me to the concept of a high-energy lifestyle and the BIG 4: sleep, movement, light, and nutrition. These fundamental pillars laid the groundwork for building my energy reserves, giving me the strength to pursue my dreams.”
Elvin Atwine
Serial Entrepreneur, Athlete
Let's build the future of innovation — together.
Ready to transform your founders into the leaders your fund's success depends on? Your success is our mission. Book a call today.