Built on operating experience.

Become is led by Matt Cater. He spent 15 years at Vodafone, became COO and co-founder of V by Vodafone, led global customer and commercial operations at Abcam/Danaher and now builds AI ventures.

Matt Cater.

Matt has spent his career turning commercial ambition into operating reality: building products, leading global teams, integrating businesses and redesigning the work behind performance.

  1. Vodafone

    Fifteen years at Vodafone. As COO and co-founder of V by Vodafone, Matt built the operating capability behind ten connected consumer products across eight markets.

  2. Abcam / Danaher

    As VP, Global Customer & Commercial Operations, he led 250 people across four continents in an environment supporting approximately £450 million in delivered revenue. His experience includes four major M&A integrations.

  3. Founder building

    Today he is founder and CEO of Rightvet, an agentic commercial-intelligence platform in live paying use. He is also helping build an AI SaaS platform for sports-marketing decisions.

He is trained in the Danaher Business System and Lean Startup: define value, understand the work, test assumptions in reality and build the organisational capability to sustain what succeeds.

Matt Cater on LinkedIn

Why Become exists.

AI creates more possible investments than any leadership team can pursue. The hard part is deciding what deserves attention, proving it in the work and changing the business around what succeeds.

Become stays with those three decisions:

  1. Find and Focus

    Choose the few opportunities with a credible path to material value.

  2. Build and Prove

    Build the Minimum Viable Capability and test it in real conditions.

  3. Embed and Scale

    Change the workflow, ownership and measures around what earns investment.

The principles.

  1. Value before activity

    Start with the outcome and make the economic logic explicit. Ideas, pilots and adoption are not the result.

  2. Evidence before scale

    Build enough reality to test the decisive assumptions. Invest further only when the evidence earns it.

  3. Capability that lasts

    Change the work, ownership and measures so the business can run and improve what succeeds.

Start with the outcome.