U.S. Growth for Israeli High-Tech

Your product already works.
We build the U.S. growth engine around it.

GrowthMatters are experts at helping Israeli high-tech companies win in the United States — turning a proven product with a stalled U.S. go-to-market into a live, measured revenue motion through one 13-week acceleration system, run with you, end to end.

Start with a fixed-fee U.S. GTM Diagnosis, then the full 13-week system: strategy → operating plan → tracker → deliverables → CRM & selling → AI-ready website → execution.

13
weeks, entry to live motion
3
phases, with go/no-go gates
5
parallel workstreams
~20
ready-to-use deliverables
Weekly
metrics, reviewed every Friday
Why good Israeli companies stall in the U.S.

The asset is real. The go-to-market is the gap.

A product enterprises already pay for — and renew — in your home market.

U.S. revenue that traces back to a handful of personal relationships, not a repeatable motion.

A pitch aimed at the wrong buyer — the one who evaluates, not the one who feels the pain.

No system connecting strategy, deliverables, CRM, and weekly numbers — so effort doesn't compound.

We don't fix your product. We build the machine that gets it in front of the U.S. buyer who needs it — and we run it with you until it compounds.

Why not just hire a U.S. VP?

The real choice isn’t GrowthMatters vs. another advisor.

It’s GrowthMatters vs. your default — hiring a U.S. sales leader, doing it yourselves, or paying a consultancy. Here’s how that compares.

The usual options

  • Hire a U.S. VP Sales: ~12-month ramp, ~$300K loaded, high mis-hire risk before you know the motion works.
  • Do it yourselves: slow, and no one on the team has run the U.S. play.
  • A consultancy: expensive, slide-heavy, junior teams, no skin in the game.
  • VC or accelerator help: generic, not hands-on, not accountable for the outcome.

With GrowthMatters

  • An operator who has run cross-border B2B into the U.S. — not a consultant.
  • A full system and ~20 deliverables, plus a motion your team keeps — not a deck.
  • Aligned fees: a position in your outcome, not billed hours.
  • A fixed-fee diagnosis that de-risks the first step — prove it before you commit.
The GrowthMatters Acceleration Model

One system. Thirteen weeks. Nothing left to faith.

Most advisory ends at a strategy deck. Ours starts there and doesn't stop until a measured revenue motion is live. Three phases, five parallel workstreams, ~20 net-new deliverables, weekly metrics, and three go/no-go gates that force honest decisions along the way.

Phase 1 · Diagnose & Position

See the market clearly

Competitive analysis, go-to-market strategy, ICP and messaging. We find the wedge only you can own and decide exactly who to sell to and what to say.

Weeks 1–4 · Gate: is the position sharp and buyable?
Phase 2 · Build the Machine

Turn strategy into a system

Operating plan, execution tracker, the full deliverable library, measurement tools, CRM instrumentation, the selling process, and an AI-ready website.

Weeks 5–9 · Gate: can any rep run this motion?
Phase 3 · Execute & Compound

Run it, weekly

We run the motion with you — live pipeline, weekly funnel reviews, and iteration on what the numbers show — until growth no longer depends on heroics.

Weeks 10–13 · Gate: is the pipeline real and repeatable?
The model, in depth

Nine stages, each with a deliverable and an outcome.

01

Competitive Analysis

We map the U.S. competitive set the way a buyer sees it — category, alternatives, positioning gaps, pricing norms, and the language the market already rewards. The point isn't a landscape slide; it's the wedge: the position only you can credibly own.

Produces: Competitive intelligence teardown + the wedge
02

Go-to-Market Strategy

We define the segments where you already win, the economic buyer who feels the pain, and the message that lands. One tight ICP per vertical, a messaging house, and the trigger events that signal a buyer is ready to move.

Produces: ICP one-pagers, messaging house, segment priority
03

Operating Plan

Strategy becomes a dated plan: three phases, five parallel workstreams, owners, and sequencing — what happens in week 1 versus week 9, and who is accountable for each. Everyone knows what to do Monday morning.

Produces: 13-week operating plan with workstreams & owners
04

Execution Tracker

A single tracker becomes the source of truth: a deliverables register, the 13-week plan, a weekly funnel & metrics tab, the go/no-go gates, and a pipeline. Updated every Friday, so progress is visible and decisions are made on numbers.

Produces: The live execution tracker
05

Deliverables

From the tracker we produce ~20 net-new, ready-to-use artifacts — ICP qualifier scorecards, target account lists, account-research templates, outbound sequences, a master sales deck, a leave-behind, a productized sprint offer, and the Touchpoint Map. Built to be used, not admired.

Produces: The full deliverable library (see below)
06

Measurement Tools

We instrument the funnel end to end — the weekly numbers, conversion rates between stages, and the three go/no-go gates that decide whether to double down or change course. You can see what's working in weeks, not quarters.

Produces: Funnel & metrics dashboard + decision gates
07

CRM & Selling Process

We stand up the pipeline in your CRM, define the stages and exit criteria, and equip the motion — outbound sequences, the sales deck, and the qualification scorecards — so selling is repeatable, not heroic, and the pipeline is something you can actually forecast.

Produces: CRM pipeline & stages, sales playbook, cadences
08

Website & AI / SEO Update

We update the site to carry the new positioning and rebuild it to be found by the answer engines buyers now use — structured data, entity clarity, and content engineered to be cited by AI assistants (GEO/AEO), not just ranked by Google. When a buyer, or their AI, asks who solves this, your name comes up.

Produces: Conversion-ready site, optimized for search & AI
09

Execution

We run the motion with you: a weekly cadence, a live pipeline, metrics reviewed every Friday, and gates that force honest go/no-go calls — iterating on what the numbers show until the motion compounds and no longer depends on a few relationships.

Produces: A live, measured, improving revenue motion
The deliverable library

~20 net-new artifacts, across five workstreams.

Every engagement leaves the team with a complete, ready-to-use toolkit — not a strategy to go build alone. Here is what comes in the box.

Intelligence & StrategySee the market, pick the fight
Competitive Intelligence teardown Go-to-Market Strategy ICP one-pagers (per vertical) Messaging House (per vertical)
TargetingWho to chase, and who to skip
ICP Qualifier Scorecards Target Account Lists (per vertical) Account-Research Templates
Sales EnablementEverything a rep needs to sell
Master Sales Deck Leave-Behind Outbound Sequences Productized Sprint Offer
Operating SystemRun it on numbers, not faith
13-Week Operating Plan Execution Tracker Funnel & Metrics dashboard Go / No-Go Gates CRM Pipeline & Stages
Demand & DiscoveryGet found, guide the journey
Website Update AI / SEO (GEO & AEO) Optimization Touchpoint Map · Awareness → Loyalty
Newest deliverableNEW

The Touchpoint Map: Awareness → Loyalty

Strategy usually stops at the first sale. The Touchpoint Map runs the full journey — every stage a buyer moves through, the question in their head, your move, and the one number that proves it's working. It connects marketing, sales, and success into a single owned path.

Awareness

“Is this even a problem worth solving?”

AI-discoverable content & targeted outbound.

Reach · reply rate

Consideration

“Could this actually work for us?”

Messaging house, sales deck, proof patterns.

Meetings booked

Decision

“Is it worth the risk?”

Productized sprint offer, leave-behind, ROI framing.

Pilot conversion

Onboarding

“Did we make the right call?”

Fast, guided first value.

Time-to-first-value

Adoption

“Is this how we work now?”

Usage, enablement, expansion paths.

Active usage

Retention

“Do we keep paying?”

Outcome reviews, value proof, QBRs.

Renewal · NRR

Loyalty

“Would we recommend it?”

References, referrals, advocacy.

Referrals · NPS
Start here

Two ways in — start with a diagnosis.

You don’t have to bet the company to find out if we can move your U.S. growth. Start small, with a fixed-fee diagnosis that stands on its own.

Step 1 — U.S. GTM Diagnosis

A fixed-fee, 2–3 week diagnosis: your competitive position, the U.S. buyer, the one constraint holding growth back, and a prioritized entry plan. Low-risk, fast, and useful on its own.

Step 2 — The 13-week engagement

If it’s a fit, the diagnosis converts into the full acceleration system — ~20 deliverables and a live, measured U.S. revenue motion, on terms aligned to your outcome.

Prefer email? Write to us at hello@growthmatters.co.il
How we work

Aligned to your outcome — not billed by the hour.

We don't sell time. We take a position in your growth and structure the engagement so we win when you do.

If you don't grow,
we don't win.

Phased to your stage

Light cash while you're pre-scale, stepping up to a market retainer once you've raised or grown into it. The structure follows your cash reality.

Skin in the game

An equity component on standard advisory vesting, so our interests and yours point the same direction over the long run.

Paid on revenue we move

Success fees tied to commercial revenue we help you originate and close — earned only when real dollars land in your account.

Who we work with

Built for Israeli high-tech companies where the product is proven and the U.S. is the prize.

We take on a small number of companies at a time. If most of this is true, we should talk.

Israeli high-tech, post–product-market-fit — especially fintech & payments, cyber & security, and B2B SaaS.

Real traction in Israel, and ready to make the U.S. the next market.

A product enterprises already pay for and keep renewing.

The constraint is U.S. distribution, not the technology.

Founder- or CEO-led, lean, and ready to commit to a 13-week motion.

Open to aligned, outcome-based terms — not just buying hours.

Representative engagements

Operator-led. The system we run ourselves.

GrowthMatters isn't a consultancy that's read about growth — it's run by an operator who has taken Israeli technology into the U.S. firsthand. A few patterns from the work, anonymized.

Agentic process automation

From demo to a real U.S. motion

Full acceleration: competitive teardown, per-vertical ICPs and messaging, a 13-week operating plan and tracker, ~20 deliverables, CRM pipeline, and an AI-ready site rebuild — the whole system, live.

Process-intelligence SaaS

Relationship-led to repeatable

A high-converting pilot motion that hinged on a few personal champions. We reframed the buyer, productized a fixed-price entry pilot, and systematized referrals into a channel the team could run.

Enterprise & cyber software

U.S. GTM in two weeks

Structured discovery to a full U.S. go-to-market diagnosis and a prioritized entry plan — buyer, message, motion, and sequencing — inside a fortnight of first contact.

Engagement examples are anonymized and illustrative of approach. Specific client names, metrics, and outcomes are shared only under NDA and with client permission.

About

Lawrence Tepperman

Founder, GrowthMatters

An operator, not a consultant. Lawrence is the CEO of a cross-border payments company and leads the accelerator group at a growth-stage investment firm backing Israeli technology companies into new markets.

He's opened U.S. doors for Israeli companies from the inside — sharpening positioning, building the motion, and turning early traction into repeatable revenue. The Acceleration Model is the system he runs himself, made available to a small number of Israeli companies at a time.

Contact us

Tell us where you're stuck. We'll tell you if we can move it.

A focused first conversation — no deck, no pitch. We'll pressure-test your U.S. growth constraint and say plainly whether the Acceleration Model is the right lever.

Email us
hello@growthmatters.co.il