Leap by McKinsey works with established organizations to imagine, build, and scale new businesses—and develop the capabilities needed to accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth.
Case studies
From farm to tablet: Building a new business to solve an old challenge
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McKinsey partnered with one of Southeast Asia’s largest B2B and B2C retailers, CP AXTRA Public Company Limited, the operator of Makro, to create a new B2B online platform—and provide crucial supply chain resilience for small businesses amid the pandemic.
How Telkomsel transformed to reach digital-first consumers
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A 26-year-old telecom incumbent seized an opportunity to reinvent itself—and attract its next generation of customers.
Featured Insights
Article
The hidden traps of business building: A guide for life science CEOs
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CEOs in pharma, biotech, and medtech are increasingly building patient-centric businesses but are struggling to do so. Avoiding five common roadblocks can help leaders build successful businesses.
Podcast
Connecting patients to healthcare: A conversation with Halodoc’s Jonathan Sudharta
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The co-founder and CEO of an Indonesian healthtech is simplifying and enabling healthcare access in the world’s fourth...
Interview - Learn to Leap
Scaling a niche start-up into a necessary one: Insights from Arbol
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The CEO and co-founder of Arbol discusses how the insurtech fills gaps in insurance coverage with parametric solutions powered...
Article
European deep tech: What investors and corporations need to know
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Europe can lead in deep tech—with an ecosystem approach and a well-managed investment strategy.
Interview - Learn to Leap
How a European growth company kept on trucking through market setbacks
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David Nothacker, co-founder and CEO of sennder, shares how the company weathered the ups and downs of the growth journey—and...
Featured series
The Venture Podcast
Empowering corporate entrepreneurs with the playbook to design, build, and scale new businesses.
Learn to Leap
Lessons from leaders on launching and scaling new ventures.
The Lighthouse
An ongoing fireside-chat series lifting up and celebrating diverse entrepreneurs, founders, business builders, and funders.
Featured experts
Daniel Aminetzah
Senior PartnerNew York
Global coleader of Leap by McKinsey, driving venture creation and business building for corporates and private capital, with deep expertise in digital transformations and industry-shaping innovations
Yran Bartolumeu Dias
Senior PartnerSão Paulo
Advises retail and digital banks, financial services, and credit card companies on developing and executing digital strategies and on effecting mergers and acquisitions to achieve above-market growth in Latin America
Raphael Bick
PartnerShanghai
Leads technology transformations and builds tech-enabled businesses across China and Asia
Ralf Dreischmeier
Senior PartnerLondon
Helps companies build businesses that use digital strategies to achieve transformation and establish more nimble and agile ways of working
Paul Jenkins
Senior PartnerOslo
Expert in digital transformation and helping clients develop new digital ventures, grow existing revenues, and improve efficiency of core operations
Mark Patel
Senior PartnerBay Area - San Francisco
Advises clients across sectors on sustainability with a focus on climate technologies; leads client work across industrial, high-tech, and semiconductor sectors
Tawanda Sibanda
PartnerBay Area
Serves global financial services firms including financial infrastructure providers, FinTechs, and payments companies in building and scaling new digital businesses
Suman Thareja
PartnerNew Jersey
Helps established organizations build and scale new businesses through talent-management strategy and capability building to accelerate innovation, and leads digital and agile transformations with a focus on building digital solutions through agile ways of working
Horace Tiggs IV
PartnerDetroit
Helps define and execute tech strategy and transformation, technology delivery, and business builds across industries including utilities, chemicals, and automotive