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.

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

We have coached and provided business plan training to 1500+ startups and small businesses who have raised over $6B, including 400+ energy companies. 

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

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

To help meet specific client needs, we often tap our network of experts including industry insiders, venture specialists, technologists and university R&D managers.

 

Our services include:

Coaching

Business Strategy

Fundraising

Pilot Development

For companies seeking or who have won federal Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) awards, ICatalysts is an experienced federal Technical and Business Assistance Provider (TABA).  SBIR Awardees can get up to $50,000 of free TABA assistance from ICatalysts.  

What our clients say

"Working with iCatalysts has been a great addition to our commercialization efforts. They took the time to understand our business in depth, engaged closely with our team, and integrated smoothly into our workflow. The commercialization strategy and investor research they undertook have been especially valuable, giving us a clearer roadmap for market entry and helping us prepare effectively for fundraising. The work clarified our priorities, strengthened our go-to-market approach, and improved internal alignment on the milestones that matter most."
Gabriel Falzone
COO, Sperra
"ICatalysts was critical to help us match with teaming partners to win our first California Energy Commission grant to pilot our advanced building materials technology. ICatalysts advised us about how to match with partners including a major research institute (Electric Power Research Institute) and several smaller partners within the vast California ecosystem through Empower Innovation, a ICatalysts' managed platform.."
Frank Yang
President & CEO, Liatris Inc.
"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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