The most advanced virtual 3-month program for
international and European startup teams

Transform Your Business with Innouvo in 3 months
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
Transform into a leading technology and digital bankable reality
- Increase your marketing ROI
- Implement or improve revenue automation / digital funnels
- Gain Market and industry trends insights and foresights
- Focus priority activities, drive more rapid profitable growth
- Find and keep customers and / or strategic partners
- Stress-test business model and strategies
Evolve your team from product founders to high growth start-up executives
- Implement scale up processes, dashboards, KPIs, and more controlled execution
- Drive a more rapid growth culture, accountability and bias for results
- Increase team alignment and incentives to drive more results
- Prioritize and improve existing business models, offers and solutions
- Identify and design innovative pivots and new offerings and products
- Capitalize on cognitive science concepts to make your business more human-centric
Achieve more results, more growth and be attractive to investors
- Master story-telling and high-stake meeting presentations with sophisticated investors
- Receive feedback from elite venture capitalists and experts to validate plans
- Building and improving your company presentations for critical audiences
- Access and align yourself with private venture capital and business angels
- Understand public funding and support systems available for your business
- Evaluate, prioritize and focus your internationalization and US market ambitions
- Increase your network and visibility in one of the world’s most dynamic ecosystem: Boston
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
Core Program Faculty
Program Leadership
Alistair Schneider
CEO Innouvo
Alistair Schneider is the CEO and a co-founder of Innouvo. Alistair began his career in Strasbourg, France in Finance before moving to the United States. He spent 10 years in Boston, as well as a year in the Silicon Valley. For the last 20 years he has worked to build, transform, pivot and improve business units, functions and, ultimately, entire companies. These include corporations and startups. Alistair’s passion is to build companies able to compete successfully in today’s ever-changing global environment. This is the guiding force behind Innouvo’s design and execution of custom business programs, geared toward business excellence and investment readiness.
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Innouvo lead investors

Michel Hussherr
General Partner Innouvo
Michel Hussherr is a co-founder of Innouvo. An entrepreneur, investor and humanitarian, he brings over 20 years of business development and business angel experiences in France, Africa and the United States. Michel is a visionary with an execution bias, thereby pushing teams towards tangible commercial results. An active investor in early stage companies and in real estate, Michel approaches business with an analytical methodology and a focus on human resources excellence. Michel has several successful investments and exits under his belt. This includes Voodoo, which sold part of its equity in a record deal with Goldman Sachs.
Bijoy Sagar
Business Executive
Throughout his career, Bijoy Sagar has held career executive and board member positions in leading large corporate healthcare companies, such as Serono, Millipore, Merck and Stryker. Recently he was appointed Chief Information Technology & Digital Transformation Officer for Bayer in Europe. In addition, he is advisor to the board of Greylock, a prominent, Silicon Valley-based, global venture capital firm, as well as Innouvo a Boston-based company specializing in business scale ups. He has invested as business angel in various other companies as well. Bijoy has an exceptional track record and background in science, commercial, technology, broad international experiences and venture capital. His deep love of culture, art and literature helps make Bijoy exceptional in his approach to problems, and the ways in which he helps businesses and teams grow to their next level of performances.
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

Nick Henderson
Venture Capital Strategies
Nick Henderson is President of the Boston Chapter of Keiretsu Forum, the largest angel investor group in the world and has been ranked as a #1 investor in Pitchbook. Previously, he founded or has been a C-level executive at three companies that had successful exits and has raised institutional money for those companies. He has structured deals for healthy and distressed companies, was a founder and led turnarounds. He has extensive networks in the angel and VC communities, has been a conference panelist and organized conferences for investors and entrepreneurs for the Association for Corporate Growth, investment banks and for Keiretsu Boston. He has been an angel investor for more than 10 years in Keiretsu Forum, Berkeley Angels (University of California, Berkeley) and Harvard University Angels. He is also an advisor at Skydeck, UC Berkeley’s accelerator.
Gary Jinks
Ecosystem Leadership
#EcosystemScaleUps #SiliconValley #VentureBuilder #Allsectors
Gary is an Executive Partner at Innouvo with deep expertise and extensive track record developing high yield innovation ecosystems, building high growth exit focused start-up ventures, business angel investing and venture capital. Gary has created, transformed and launched innovation in the Silicon Valley his entire career. He has led strategic direction and business development for corporate R&D, capturing over $300M in new business. Since 2010 Gary focuses on supporting start-up and venture capital communities. Gary has worked with the top incubators and investors in the Silicon Valley. Gary has also launched incubators, corporate innovation centers, co-working spaces and developed regional ecosystems around the globe. Gary lives with his family in the Silicon Valley.

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.
Ronnie Deaver
Digital Marketing, Revenue Automation
Ronnie is passionate about delivering results leveraging digital marketing and built his career through freelancing, marketing, coaching and hard work. He’s generated millions in revenue through new product launches, managed sites with up to 10 million views per year in organic traffic, created conversion rate optimization campaigns that more than doubled client revenue. After traveling throughout Thailand and Cambodia, studying Buddhism, teaching ballroom dancing and living in a jungle meditation retreat for two months, Ronnie came home to Philly to build roots in the city and be near his closest friends and family. Ronnie leads Web Development teams and SEO Operations and has a proven track record in designing systems delivering outstanding growth.
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
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A Unique Approach: Why it works

- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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