HealthTech venture studio · Embedded CMO

The growth engine behind a venture studio.

For roughly three years we were BitLab's embedded CMO — building its entire go-to-market function from zero, then using that one engine to take product after product to market.

One engine — positioning, demand, pipeline, and the team to run it — reused across the whole portfolio.
The challenge

A studio that could ship product,
but not sell it.

BitLab could build almost anything. What it didn't have was a growth function — no demand, no pipeline, and no team to run either.

A great product with no repeatable way to get in front of buyers.

Every deal ran through the founder — it couldn't scale.

A portfolio, not one product — each venture needed its own GTM, from scratch.

So we built one engine, once — and pointed it at every product.

“Anatolie has done a great job taking work off my plate. I'm thankful for that.”
Shoukri Kattan Shoukri KattanFounder & CEO · BitLab · Edited for clarity
Before / after

No growth function — turned into a repeatable engine

Before
  • Founder-led outreach, one deal at a time
  • No website that converted, no clear positioning
  • No CRM, no pipeline, no content, no team
After
  • Rebuilt sites and sharp, buyer-ready positioning
  • A LinkedIn + cold-email + podcast demand engine
  • Close CRM as system of record, run by a hired team
How we did it

We built the whole function, then reused it.

Positioning to pipeline to the people who run it — one engine, pointed at product after product.

What we built and ran
  1. Rebuilt positioning and the websites. Took bitlab.co and the product sites from MVP to a clear, buyer-ready story — messaging, hero, and mobile — so the first 30 seconds land.
  2. Made LinkedIn the demand engine. Grew the founder's presence from 1K to 12K and ~6K impressions a day, then turned that reach into booked meetings with managed, hands-off outbound.
  3. Stood up cold-email infrastructure. Deliverability-first sending with per-lead personalization, so automated follow-ups land in the inbox looking like a real person wrote them.
  4. Made Close the CRM and sales-ops backbone. One system of record — every lead sequenced across LinkedIn, email, and calls, with dead deals re-enrolled automatically.
  5. Ran paid acquisition on Meta and Google. Creative tested against real cost-per-qualified-lead, not vanity clicks.
  6. Turned content into pipeline. Three podcasts and a founder-brand content engine that qualifies guests and keeps the studio top of mind — plus live EMR-marketplace listings (Athena, ModMed) most agencies can't access.
  7. Hired and led the growth team. Recruited and managed the sales and content people who run the engine day to day.
Channels & tools
LinkedIn outbound
Cold email (Instantly)
Close CRM
Meta & Google ads
Podcasts + founder brand
EMR marketplaces (Athena, ModMed)
The motion

One engine, reused: positioning → demand → pipeline → close, pointed at each new product instead of rebuilt for every launch.

The same engine produced a $6.2M Series A, a ~$640K clinic pipeline, and a product shipped in under 2 months.
What the engine produced

Three products. One engine.

Build the function once, and every venture that runs on it gets to market faster. Each of these is its own case.

In the founder's words

What Shoukri says.

“Anatolie is our CMO. He handles sales and marketing, looks after operations, and delivers for BitLab and our clients.”

Shoukri KattanShoukri KattanFounder & CEO · BitLab · Edited for clarity

“Anatolie kills it with outbound messaging on LinkedIn.”

Shoukri KattanShoukri KattanFounder & CEO · BitLab · Edited for clarity
The ventures

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