Build · Operate · Co-own
Regulated, cross-border, high-consequence. Six companies, our own capital inside every one, ten years of operating. Now for yours.
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§ 01 · Who we are
Blackfountain Strategy is an operating group. We build companies, run them, and hold a stake in each one.
We build in markets where regulation decides who is allowed to operate: professional recognition, licensing, certification, mobility. We hired the teams. We wrote the software they run on. We carry the risk, because our own capital sits inside every one of them.
We now do the same three things for a small number of outside companies each year. We find what is actually holding the business back. We build the system that removes it. And when we believe in the outcome, we stay involved and take a stake.
§ 02 · Engagements
Three lines, and they run in order. Advisory finds what is actually holding the business back. Studio builds the system that removes it. Ventures is where we put our own capital in and stay. Almost every engagement begins with the first. The next two are earned, not sold.
Growth and go-to-market. Six companies launched across three languages. We hand you a pipeline, not a plan.
Portfolio and product strategy. Fund, merge or close. We have made those calls with our own money.
Operating model and process efficiency. We map the real process and remove the constraint. Once, we moved it to another country.
Paid discovery. Two weeks. Scope, data model and price, credited against the build if you continue.
Product and platform build. Custom software, SaaS, CRM, AI agents and automation, shipped to a fixed scope.
Built by operators. The same team that runs our own group on the software it wrote.
Minority stake. We take a small position and reduce our fees in exchange.
Never a condition. Always a decision we make together, and only after the first phase.
Paid in the outcome. We propose it only when we believe in the result enough to carry it.
§ 03 · Portfolio
Each one is an independent business with its own shareholders. Blackfountain holds 25 percent and works inside it: strategy, growth, software and legal. Together they form a single path, from a professional's first enquiry to their first day at work abroad. Every claim on this site traces back to one of them.
Software & AI
The technology layer we built for the group, now built for others.
Professional mobility
Four companies covering the whole path a professional takes into practice abroad.
Each company is independent, with its own shareholders. BFS holds 25 percent and operates alongside the founders.
§ 04 · Method
01
Map the business end to end. Find the constraint. Not advice, diagnosis. This is where every engagement begins and some of them end.
02
Ship the system that removes the constraint, software included. Not a deck, something that runs. Our own engineering team ships it.
03
When we believe in the outcome, we stay. Sometimes as an operating partner, sometimes as a shareholder. Our incentive sits next to yours.
“The constraint is rarely where the company thinks it is.”
§ 05 · System
Six companies, one operating picture. We built it because nothing off the shelf could model our workflow. Then we started building for others.
EIC
Executive intelligence across the whole portfolio.
Venture management
ClientFlow
One client record moving through the whole group.
Journey tracking
BucketX
Financial intelligence across entities and currencies.
Finance
Cogmira
AI learning engine behind our education brands.
Learning infrastructure
Active cases
241
Process cards
966
Synced boards
7
Illustrative interface. Client data never leaves the system.
§ 06 · Case in focus
FSP pass rate, before and after we moved the exam offshore
In Germany
54%
6 to 12 month wait · no choice of date
At Librion Bodrum
92%
On demand · camp before every sitting
Doctors trained abroad must pass the FSP to practice in Germany. Wait time for a slot: six to twelve months. No choice of date. Every attempt adds visa and travel cost.
The constraint was the exam, not the candidate. So we moved it. Librion Bodrum became an authorized FaMed examination center in Turkey, with a preparation camp before every sitting.
Wait time
6–12 MO → ON DEMAND
Pass rate
54% → 92%
Location
DE → TR
The Method in one engagement. Locate the constraint, build the system, stay to run it.
Partnerships across the portfolio
Each partnership is held by the portfolio company named alongside it, not by Blackfountain Strategy.
§ 07 · Team
A standing team across Berlin, Istanbul and remote. Product, engineering, growth and legal, proven on our own companies first.
Batı Küçükkör
Head of Marketing & Product
LinkedIn ↗Umut Karapınar
Head of Business Development
LinkedIn ↗Nilay Meltem Yıldırım
Head of Product
LinkedIn ↗Helin Korkmaz
Head of Operations
LinkedIn ↗Çağla Yılmazer
Head of Growth
LinkedIn ↗Aadil Maqbool
Head of Engineering
Supported by a legal team practicing across two jurisdictions, and an engineering team in Germany and India.
§ 08 · Contact
Tell us where the business is losing value. If we are the right team, we will say so. If we are not, we will say that too.
Sent. We reply within two working days.