Startups and Small Businesses

Founders and executives of startups and other young companies face well-known challenges.

For seed and other early stage companies, winning R&D grants and securing pilot customers are big challenges.

For companies beginning to sell into markets, finding channel partners and scaling up sales are often obstacles that need to be overcome. 

For most companies, raising funds must happen alongside these other priorities.

ICatalysts has 20+ years of startup and small business acceleration and commercialization experience in energy, climate tech, life science and software.

We have coached and provided business plan training to 1000+ startups and small businesses who have raised over $4B, including 400+ energy companies. 

Our coaches help accelerate and smooth an executive’s journey providing strategic support, guidance and advice.

We can jump in to support customer discovery, commercialization plans, fundraising roadmaps, and to engage potential customers.

To support our work, we leverage our database of 35,000+ contacts nationwide working in technology and innovation in all sectors and industries.  Contacts are at startups and small businesses, large and medium-sized companies, universities, angel, VC and corporate investors, accelerators and incubators, and the public sector (e.g., cities, states, federal government). 

To help meet specific client needs, we often tap our network of experts including industry experts, technologists and university professors.  

 

Our services include:

Coaching

Business Strategy

Fundraising

Pilot Development

What our clients say

"ICatalysts help and advice was absolutely invaluable to me during NVBOT’s fundraising efforts."
AJ Perez
Founder of NVBOTS, Acquired by Cincinnati Incorporated
"Thank you for allowing us to participate in the ICatalysts accelerator. It was a great experience and our coaches were incredible."
Ramses Alcaide
CEO, Neurable, Cambridge - Forbes 30 under 30 Founder  
"SPLT received the ultimate mentorship and acceleration experience from ICatalysts  and its fantastic coaches. We are forever grateful."
Anya Babbitt
Founder, SPLT, Detroit (Acquired by Bosch)
"ICatalysts provided advisors that helped us close over $1.2M in our seed financing."
Dalton Shaull
Founder, OmniLife Health, Iowa City (Acquired XVIVO AB NASDAQ STO) - Forbes 30 under 30 Founder 

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