7Mountains, about us
Our Mission: Entrepreneurs helping entrepreneurs scale
Every growing company eventually reaches a moment where progress slows.
The market may still be active, customers are still there, and teams are busy, yet growth no longer feels as fluid as it once did.
This phase, often described as a plateau, is a natural part of scaling. It doesn’t signal failure. It signals that the company has outgrown the methods, structures, and decision-making habits that supported its earlier success.
At 7Mountains, our mission is to help founders and leadership teams navigate this moment, move past the plateau, and enter their next phase of growth with clarity, confidence, and control.
What we do
We help founders and leadership teams when growth becomes harder than expected.
As companies scale, the methods that once worked start to break down. Strategy becomes difficult to maintain. Product direction fragments. Teams lose alignment. Decision-making slows. Execution feels heavier, even though effort remains high.
These are not isolated issues. They are signals that the organisation has outgrown its operating model.
At 7Mountains, we work with leadership teams to identify what is holding the company back and redesign the organisation around its current stage of growth. Our work combines strategy, organisational design, product direction, go-to-market, marketing, HR, legal, and financial expertise in a single, coherent approach.
We help you:
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clarify strategic priorities
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realign leadership and teams
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simplify decision-making
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redesign structures and ownership
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restore execution speed
Our engagements result in clear decisions, a shared direction, and an actionable roadmap that teams can execute immediately. We don’t deliver recommendations in isolation. We stay involved to ensure execution works in practice and adapts as the company evolves.
Our vision: Scaling made easy
We believe scaling should not feel chaotic or confusing.
Plateaus are a normal part of a company’s lifecycle, but they don’t have to result in loss of direction, misalignment, or organisational friction. With the right structure, clarity, and leadership alignment, companies can move through these phases and continue to grow in a controlled and sustainable way.
Our vision is to help companies scale without losing direction by aligning strategy, structure, and execution around the same goals.
From our experience, companies grow faster and more consistently when:
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strategy is focused and shared
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leadership teams are aligned
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product direction is clear
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priorities are explicit
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decision-making is simple rather than heavy
Everything we do at 7Mountains is designed to restore that clarity and help leadership teams move confidently into their next phase of growth.
Why 7Mountains?
7Mountains takes its name from Nkongsamba, a town in Cameroon where our founder, Olivier Njamfa, was born. The name means “Seven Mountains.”
Growing up, Olivier learned early on that climbing one mountain doesn’t prepare you to climb them all. Each mountain has its own terrain, its own risks, and its own rules. Even experienced climbers rely on guides who know the mountain intimately before attempting the summit.
This idea extends far beyond mountaineering.
Across the world, elite climbers aim to summit the seven highest peaks on each continent. Yet none of them assume that success on Everest automatically prepares them for Kilimanjaro or Denali. They adapt. They seek local knowledge. They rely on sherpas who understand the conditions and help them adjust their approach.
Companies scaling their business face the same reality.
Just because a company succeeded at one stage of growth does not mean the same strategy, organisation, or operating habits will work at the next. What worked at €1M rarely works at €10M. What worked at €10M often breaks at €50M. Each growth stage is a different mountain.
7Mountains was built to guide leadership teams through these transitions.
Led by entrepreneurs
Expanding entrepreneurs, we know what is the fair price and how to execute with velocity.
Olivier Njamfa
Founder & Business Mentor
25 years building SaaS companies through a strategy and execution
Dominique Valentiny
Investor Mentor
25 years in Tech companies’ operations, board and investor
Camille Bretagne
Legal Mentor
4 years advising companies including startups in M&A operation, restructuring, incorporation, fundraising
Baptiste Laffond
Finance Mentor
15 years External CFO providing administrative and finance services
Laetitia Boetto
HR Mentor
18 years' experience in assisting companies, including start-ups, with HR issues, both technical (employment law) and human (leadership, management...)
Manon Maisonhaute
Marketing Mentor
4 years’ experience creating & implementing marketing strategies for international companies
François Le Pichon
Product Mentor
20 years across product leadership. CPO/CCO