Overview: Online Program Driven from Boston

Go through 14+ Sessions together with 5 Companies

and get support from 10+ Experts

Innouvo’s three-month program focuses on cohorts from five companies, hands-on mentoring and coaching from executive advisors, C-level executives, entrepreneurs, peers and investors. We fill in the gaps to help each cohort accelerate the commercialization of their product(s), and achieve commercial and operational excellence, while simultaneously reducing the go-to-market risk. Ultimately, our goal is to help companies become investor-ready while reducing their go-to-market risk. We also help complete their team while mitigating gaps for their investors, leveraging our group structured, hands-on approach.

Starts at 15,000 Euros per company / teams, no equity

Limited seats cohort – Selection in progress – Apply now

Program objectives:

Transform into a leading technology and digital bankable reality

Evolve your team from product founders to high growth start-up executives

Achieve more results, more growth and be attractive to investors

Innouvo guides early-stage companies through its innovation ecosystem and programs to enhance their ability to compete in today’s competitive global market. We shepherd start-ups through an intensive program to develop concrete and actionable strategies for increasing sales and market penetration. We validate with stakeholders their prime business models and develop market-based commercialization strategies, while building relationships with sophisticated and professional talents to help them achieve operational and commercial execution.

14+ Sessions building value into your business

Expertise from Boston

One of the world’s leading Innovation and venture capital ecosystem

A unique and high impact online program that allows teams to get access and work with talents from one of the best ecosystem in the world while continuing to focus and align to business priorities. 

Boston is a leading innovation engine driving many of the new technologies and companies that most of us interact with everyday. Think: Facebook, Hubspot, Tripadvisor but also deep technologies and microchips that go into your computer, smartphone etc. It has one of the largest venture capital communities on the planet. Over 2,500 startups and hundreds of exits happen each year. Boston produces more deep tech talents than anywhere else in the United States. It’s in this very mature ecosystem that Innouvo has developed a premium network with a unique program designed based on lessons learned and working for decades with the best of the startup and corporate world: Entrepreneurs from around the world can expose themselves and utilize some of the most advanced science there is for avoiding deadly mistakes and successfully building long term value and companies.

PROGRAM TEASER

Who should attend: Advanced Teams Looking to Win

We work with the best and most promising, hard-working teams who can demonstrate the following

Metrics:

• Revenues ranging from $150k – $1,000,000
• Funding raised ranging from $150k – $1,000,000

Products / Markets:

• Product Types: Digital, Hardware / Digital
• Business Types: B2B, B2C
• Industries: Enterprise software, Healthcare, Security, Consumer products or services, Green Technologies, FinTech, LuxuryTech, Community focused Social Networks,  e-commerce, AutoTech (Software), Mobility, AR/VR, Flying Objects and Cars.

Teams / Strategies:

• Founders and talented teams demonstrating extraordinary grit
• Teams working on their next round of funding (Additional Seed and Round A)
• Teams looking to sharpen, evaluate, plan or prepare for a global play

Innouvo lead investors

Core Marketing Faculty

 

Azade Hosseini, PhD

Business Development & Strategic Partnerships

#ScientificVentures #StrategicAlliances #VentureCapital #ScientificDueDiligence

Azade Hosseini is a global business developer focused on helping companies transform their unique challenges into successful strategic initiatives and delivering quantifiable outcomes. She helps entrepreneurs stress-test their business models, gain market feedback, build networks, and manage relationships. Azade is responsible for generating quality deal flow and leading the technology due diligence activities on behalf of the corporate investors and VCs in our network. As an ecosystem builder, Azade is a key driver in establishing partnerships between various stakeholders across the biopharma innovation landscape and is always pursuing new opportunities for growth.

Prior to joining Innouvo, Azade was a research scientist at Neon Therapeutics (acquired by BioNTech SE in 2020), a Boston-based biotech company specializing in the development of personalized cancer vaccines. Azade earned her doctorate in chemistry from Boston College and completed her postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 

 

Fredrik Velander

Growth & Product Strategist

Fredrik Velander is a senior sales and business development leader with over 20 years of experience in the software and medical industries. He provides astute strategic planning and implementation of initiatives for direct and indirect distribution channels on a global scale. Fredrik has a track record of securing and managing key market and industry accounts and establishing internal and external long-term strategic partnerships. Fredrik is creative, versatile, empathic and has deep experiences working with startups companies as well as large established companies. He is originally from Sweden and has been living in Boston for the last 20 years.

 

 

 

Darko Spoljaric

Strategic Marketing ROI

Darko Spoljaric is currently an Executive Advisor to Innouvo Programs with a focus on strategic marketing and turnaround operations. Mr. Spoljaric has over twenty years of leadership and management expertise in various capacities of technology and quality system organizations.

Mr. Spoljaric has held positions such as Vice President of Global Marketing and Customer Service with National Display Systems, and as a Senior Marketing Manager of New Product Introductions at Philips Healthcare. Mr. Spoljaric holds an Executive MBA degree and a BA degree of Interdisciplinary Studies. He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.

 

Chris Kalaboukis

“10X” Business Innovation

Chris Kalaboukis is a visionary disruptive innovator, philosopher, engineer, prolific inventor, speaker, and futurist. He is an expert in delivering global foresight, innovation, and programs delivering innovative new products, services, patents and strategies for mid-size and large companies. Chris is named on 85 patents on the internet, social networks, and financial services space. An experienced technologist, he has architected and launched a multitude of apps, both web, and mobile. Over the course of a 25 years career Chris has accumulated a wealth of intellectual capital that he applies daily working with clients. A serial entrepreneur, he has helmed several start-ups from inception to launch. He has authored several books on innovation and the future. Chris lives with his family in the Silicon Valley.

Focus: Commercial Results and Venture Capital Strategies

• Achieve Business Model Precision, Repeatability and Scalability and Validation
• Implement High Growth Yielding Marketing and Revenue Generation Strategies
• Develop your people and customer relations to accelerate your path to results
• Achieve Investor readiness and have a clear venture capital strategy that fits your business

Testimonials

A Unique Approach: Why it works

1. Next Gen’ Accelerator and Venture Capital: More sweat, less fluff 

Innouvo’s precise and targeted surgical approach differs from traditional accelerators’ industrial approaches. Traditional accelerators work with us to provide promising ventures from their portfolio a “last mile” solution including our programs and access to our investor group.

2. Focus on Customer and Business Development as well as Strategic Marketing

Our clients are able to access high value competencies, partners, networks difficult to access otherwise and more effectively identify, diagnose challenges and define customized strategies for success, thanks to our group programs and shared risk ecosystem business model.

3. High Ratio of Hands-on Executive Partners with extensive experience and networks

Innouvo is composed of entrepreneurs and investors. We don’t merely advise. We do. As founders, and accomplished executives, we know it’s not about ideas but about doing the work with you. As one.

4. Collaborative Venture Capitalists engaged in the process from the start

Innouvo’s proactive due diligence during the screening process is designed with your success in mind. Investors take part in our programs to help you transform your business idea into a bankable reality from day one.

5. Customer Obsession and a focus on company building

Our customer obsession and roots in lean methodologies leads us to continuously perfect our approaches and provide our customers the latest and greatest gold standards of entrepreneurship and commercial development. We do not take any equity for the program, the fee paid to us guarantees our full and highest level of commitment to each participating teams.

Problems we address:

Overwhelming Failure Statistics that are program helps avoid

• 90%+ Companies fail to be successful due to the lack of a team, execution and funding
• 95% patents never get commercialized, leading to huge innovation waste
• 98% Venture Capital deals get rejected or are never looked at due to lack of quality. Investors want to see solid businesses, not just pretty pitch decks.
• 70% – 80% of entrepreneurs thinking of going to the US are not sufficiently prepared or lack data as they define their go to market and investor strategies
• Expertise gained over decades in sophisticated and mature ecosystems such as Boston can be very difficult to access for entrepreneurs in less mature or emerging ecosystems. We help with this online program ensure that entrepreneurs are fully prepared before making a trip in such environment to maximize their chances of ROI.
• 80% of Venture Capitalist report an interest in investing in foreign companies that fit their investment needs as these can deliver lower initial valuations and higher returns

Online for teams to participate their locations

• Founders and CEOs need to be head down focused on their business priorities and maximize their time. The online program allows for just that. No commute. Meetings are held during convenient hours for the startup teams.
• Collective learning and intra-group networking with peers of international entrepreneurs facilitated by technology, webconferences, private groups, messengers and other tools.
• Entrepreneurs in Boston have an immense advantage (access to expertise, venture capital, exposure to latest trends) but not everyone can dedicate the time or budget to come to Boston especially for a long enough time to get all the benefits from such experience. The online program allows entrepreneurs to get the most value while significantly reducing the risks and financial burden.
• Many entrepreneurs from around the world come to Boston. Often unprepared, these entrepreneurs end up learning the hard way seeing avoidable rejection and feeling humiliated. This program will ensure total preparation for such trips and maximize extensively the chances of seeing a ROI and meeting business objectives.

Innouvo Capital: A network of the best investors groups and venture capitalists

• Our group of 10+ investors together have a $5M investment capacity
• Innouvo’s committed investments ticket sizes range from $25k to $200k
• We have demonstrable investment track record in 15 early-stage companies

Innouvo Alumni