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Trusted by game-changing companies and VCs
Trusted by game-changing companies and VCs
We collaborate with leading VCs and Growth Equity firms supporting on GTM and Pricing strategy topics. We contribute to your value-creation ecosystem by becoming part of the advisor network serving as a force multiplier for in-house portfolio/platform teams.
We specialise in working with B2B tech companies to create sustainable growth, covering a range of investments from Seed to Series D.
Our experience is derived from over 100 partnerships covering SaaS, Open Source, Fintech, Generative AI and many more.
About Us
About Us
As founders and leaders, we all aim to build something enduring. But along the way come countless complex choices. When ambitious companies find themselves at those crucial crossroads of growth, we partner with them to distill a clear direction for the future, and leverage the power of pricing for sustainable success.
Our Story
Founded by Johan van der Poel and Saagar Mehta, Northlane stirs together a unique combination—years worth of experience in commercial strategy, a tight-knit global network of partners and in-depth expertise in pricing and go-to-market. A blend that gives us the power to untangle the complexities of growth, and implement strategic solutions that deliver.
Discover how we can help:
Growth Strategy
Define a clear direction.
We partner with startups and scale-ups to (re-)calibrate their commercial goals and target segments to realise untapped potential. By defining your playing field, we establish the ground rules for growth.
Go-to-market Strategy
Create the ideal go-to-market strategy.
We partner to define the best sales/product-led configuration to reach our target segments and generate growth. Aligning to B2B buying preferences, top-down vs. bottom-up buyer/champion personas, and prioritizing value first.
Pricing
Strategy
Access the hidden power of pricing.
We partner to optimize pricing, aligning it with commercial goals, target segments, and GTM motions. Using Packaging structure, Price model, and Price levels as key levers to optimize both Sales Velocity (Land) and Net Revenue Retention (Expand).
Strise: Revolutionizing Anti-Money Laundering Intelligence
Strise: Revolutionizing Anti-Money Laundering Intelligence
ChannelEngine: Igniting E-commerce Expansion
Katana: Empowering SMBs in Manufacturing
Wagestream: Improving Financial Wellbeing for Frontline Workers
Cerbos: Pioneering Identity and Access Management
Katana: Empowering SMBs in Manufacturing
Next Matter: Next generation Workflow automation
ChannelEngine: Igniting E-commerce Expansion
Strise: Revolutionizing Anti-Money Laundering Intelligence
Wagestream: Improving Financial Wellbeing for Frontline Workers
Cerbos: Pioneering Identity and Access Management
We’re problem solvers by heart and designers by profession. See what we can do for you.
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Hands-On Collaboration
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Partnering closely for success. Our hands-on, collaborative approach identifies opportunities and roadblocks for implementation early, ensuring project successand building strong team ownership.
Experts in Complexity
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Navigating complexity with analyses and creativity. With extensive experience in complex cases, we quickly adapt and deliver elegant solutions, providing strategies and solutions that drive sustainable growth.
Strategic Alignment
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We align leadership and the organisation on the most strategic bets, ensuring enthusiasm and buy-in. This alignment is crucial for achieving revenue growth and reaching major milestones.
Pricing Optimisation
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Optimising packaging and pricing. By focusing on early and continuous pricing improvements, we make pricing a powerful growth tool, tailored to evolving business needs.
Build Capabilities
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Developing strong pricing skills. We build robust pricing capabilities within your organisation, enabling you to navigate different growth phases effectively and ensuring long-term success.
Insights into Impact
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Turning insights into impact. We provide clear, actionable steps to ensure our strategies have a lasting impact, driving growth and achieving your business objectives.
We’re problem solvers by heart and designers by profession. See what we can do for you.
Extensive experience. A powerful network. And the ability to see clearly when business gets complex. All this informs our recommendations and sets the direction for sustainable growth.
In business, pricing is a necessity. But few see its power as a purposeful tool for growth. Our comprehensive approach to go-to-market puts pricing front and center, letting you finally tap its full potential.
When growth picks up, the way forward needs to be actionable. We don't just deliver comprehensive strategies, but clear steps. Making sure our recommendations can have a long-term impact.
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Others we've helped
Johan was hired by Wagestream to manage a comprehensive strategic consultation across our entire product portfolio. Incredibly experienced, Johan ran a thorough process, inc. engaging all stakeholders at our company and spending valuable time with our main clients.Johan gives excellent feedback, and gained some unique insights throughout the process, culminating in us taking his recommendations and building a new pricing model and GTM strategy. Highly recommend him as an individual and the value he brings...
Co-Founder & CEO Wagestream
We had the pleasure of working with Johan on developing our monetization strategy. His expertise and hands-on approach were invaluable in helping us arrive at a solid plan that generates positive results for our business. Johan is professional, knowledgeable, and a true pleasure to work with. We highly recommend his services to anyone looking to improve their monetization and top-line.
Founder & CEO Sessions
Johan greatly helped us define the ideal future-proof monetization strategy for Cerbos. He expertly crafted a new packaging and pricing model that perfectly aligned with our commercial strategy and enabled us to adopt a product-led go-to-market approach. What’s more, the model scales with value-delivered, is easy to understand, and aligns with our customer segments, benefiting both our customers and Cerbos. If you’re looking for an expert in monetization strategy who can help you create a future-proof business model, Johan is the right person for the job.
Co-founder & CEO Cerbos
Had the pleasure of working with Johan on assessing and redesigning a pricing model. His set up of the project was the basis of the strong outcome. However in addition he worked autonomously in capturing data and insights across the business that contributed to the recommendations. He engaged positively with all internal and external stakeholders. Johan manages the macro/strategic as well as the micro equally well that results in a balanced outcome. I'd strongly recommend working with Johan and Northlane.
CRO ChannelEngine
I first met Johan when he consulted for me on a pricing strategy project. I was impressed with his approach, so I offered him a fulltime position to run our Strategic Program Office. During this tenure, Johan built a stellar team and had measurable impact on several key initiatives. I would gladly work with him again.
Founder & CEO Mendix
The correct pricing and packaging of software is a powerful growth lever. 4x more powerful than customer acquisition (according to some SaaS sources). I see a few startups working on this early in their journey (however, it makes sense). We worked with Johan/ Nothlane on this topic and are absolutely happy with the approach/expertise and outcome. I would recommend Johan.
Founder & CEO Timeseer.AI
We recently had Johan van der Poel give a talk at Crane Venture Partners on all things pricing and pricing strategy. We discussed packaging, positioning, aligning offerings within key segments, implementing value-based pricing metrics and implementing the optimal product-led and sales-led GTM and it was simply brilliant! If you're looking for someone to help you with any of your strategic pricing challenges, check out his consulting firm Northlane which only works with start-ups and scale-ups.
Co-founder Crane Venture Partners
I had the pleasure of working with Johan on a project to transition Sanoma Learning to a subscription model. As CEO at the time, I was impressed with Johan's creativity, analytical skills, and strategic thinking. He was instrumental in helping us develop a future-proof monetization model that ultimately resulted in great success for the company, our customers, and our users. Johan is a valuable asset to any team, and I highly recommend him for his expertise and professionalism.
CEO Sanoma Learning
Others we've helped
Northlane did great work supporting us in defining the right commercial proposition for DeepL for Enterprise, aligning it with how large businesses assess and purchase solutions for cross-enterprise deployments. They excelled in getting buy-in from the exec team and assisted in getting alignment across the product, sales, and tech teams to prepare for a successful roll-out. Their expertise and collaborative approach made a significant impact on our success.
Chief Revenue Officer at DeepL
Pricing is one of the most strategic growth levers we have, and Northlane brought the clarity and structure we needed to align across the business, from SDR to CEO. The engagement was outcome-driven from day one, helping us avoid analysis paralysis and focus only on important decisions. It gave us real confidence that we're set up for the next stage of growth. I certainly recommend them to other growing companies like n8n!
Founder & CEO n8n
Northlane played a pivotal role in shaping our Ecosystem pricing strategy, helping us establish a strong land-and-expand framework that bridges us from Payments solutions into new propositions. Their expertise enabled us to transition to a Value Play approach, incorporating subscriptions and add-ons alongside usage-based pricing. For Table by Yoco, our new Restaurant Management System, this shift significantly accelerated sales velocity.
Co-Founder at Yoco
Working with Northlane was a game-changer for us at Source.ag. Their team helped us refine our product packaging and pricing strategy based on real customer insights. Through interviews, they identified a gap between price perception and value, as well as unnecessary complexity in our offerings. By optimizing our packages and fine-tuning our pricing framework, we saw a measurable increase in sales funnel conversion and accelerated upsell and cross-sell opportunities. Their expertise in aligning strategy with execution made a real impact, and we couldn’t be happier with the results.
Co-founder & CPO at Source.ag
Working with Northlane was a real pleasure. We didn’t just find a solution to our needs on pricing, it even gave us a new perspective on how to think about our product and business overall. Johan's guidance was clear and practical, which helped us clarify our approach and focus on what truly matters. He covers a lot of ground in his projects, from strategy and vision to putting in the hours doing the hands-on simulations, making progress feel straightforward and exciting. I highly recommend working with Northlane.
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer Strise
Northlane was hired by Wagestream to manage a comprehensive strategic consultation across our entire product portfolio. Incredibly experienced, Northlane ran a thorough process, inc. engaging all stakeholders at our company and spending valuable time with our main clients. They give excellent feedback, and gained some unique insights throughout the process, culminating in us taking their recommendations and building a new pricing model and GTM strategy. Highly recommend Northlane and the value they bring...
Co-Founder & CEO Wagestream
Northlane was an excellent partner, seamlessly integrating with our team and co-creating solutions that significantly advanced our pricing and packaging strategy. They effectively communicated with sales, product, and execs, translating our strategic vision into a practical, actionable framework. Their support has positioned us well to achieve our ARR goals. We highly recommend Northlane to other VC-backed scale-ups
VP of Product @ Aiven
Northlane is the perfect fit for post-Series A B2B SaaS companies. Their process is refreshingly straightforward— no 'bullsh*t'.They brought unparalleled pricing knowledge, addressing our complex needs. With the new model now in execution, we've seen a 25%+ ARR increase!
CEO and Co-Founder Meisterwerk
Great working with Northlane. Their hands-on approach delivered tangible results in weeks. We achieved a 3-5x increase in landing contract size and unlocked natural expansion opportunities. They significantly boosted our team's conviction and confidence when discussing pricing, resulting in the ability to create compelling client offers in complex settings from several days to within a day.
Founder & CEO, Next Matter
We had the pleasure of working with Northlane on developing our monetization strategy. Their expertise and hands-on approach were invaluable in helping us arrive at a solid plan that generates positive results for our business. Northlane is professional, knowledgeable, and a true pleasure to work with. We highly recommend their services to anyone looking to improve their monetization and top-line.
Founder & CEO Sessions
Northlane greatly helped us define the ideal future-proof monetization strategy for Cerbos. Their expertly crafted a new packaging and pricing model that perfectly aligned with our commercial strategy and enabled us to adopt a product-led go-to-market approach. What’s more, the model scales with value-delivered, is easy to understand, and aligns with our customer segments, benefiting both our customers and Cerbos. If you’re looking for an expert in monetization strategy who can help you create a future-proof business model, Northlane is the right firm for the job.
Co-founder & CEO Cerbos
Had the pleasure of working with Northlane on assessing and redesigning a pricing model. Their set up of the project was the basis of the strong outcome. However in addition they worked autonomously in capturing data and insights across the business that contributed to the recommendations. They engaged positively with all internal and external stakeholders. Northlane manages the macro/strategic as well as the micro equally well that results in a balanced outcome. I'd strongly recommend working with Northlane.
CRO ChannelEngine
I first met Johan when he consulted for me on a pricing strategy project. I was impressed with his approach, so I offered him a fulltime position to run our Strategic Program Office. During this tenure, Johan built a stellar team and had measurable impact on several key initiatives. I would gladly work with him again.
Founder & CEO Mendix
The correct pricing and packaging of software is a powerful growth lever. 4x more powerful than customer acquisition (according to some SaaS sources). I see a few startups working on this early in their journey (however, it makes sense). We worked with Northlane on this topic and are absolutely happy with the approach/expertise and outcome. I would recommend Northlane.
Founder & CEO Timeseer.AI
We recently had Northlane give a talk at Crane Venture Partners on all things pricing and pricing strategy. We discussed packaging, positioning, aligning offerings within key segments, implementing value-based pricing metrics and implementing the optimal product-led and sales-led GTM and it was simply brilliant! If you're looking for someone to help you with any of your strategic pricing challenges, check out Northlane which only works with start-ups and scale-ups.
Co-founder Crane Venture Partners
Northlane helped us create new pricing packages for TextMagic. His advice and support made the process easy, clear and we ended up with pricing that works far better for both our customers and our business. We’re really happy with the outcome!
CEO TextMagic
Working with Northlane was fantastic. Their deep expertise in SaaS pricing helped us create a monetisation model that balanced both our SaaS and Payments business needs. They brought clarity to our leadership discussions, always keeping us focused on what really mattered. Northlane has a real knack for simplifying complex issues and his ability to communicate strategy effectively at both board and BDR levels was invaluable. I highly recommend them to SaaS founders and VCs looking to maximise impact via pricing and GTM
CEO Payhawk
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