Startup Accelerator
The Innovation Forge Startup Accelerator is a transformative 6-month program designed for early-stage/pre-revenue teams to help validate, shape and prototype their product and technology-based ideas.
This program is in partnership with The Corner LaunchBox, Penn State New Kensington and SWPA New Economy Collaborative funded by a Build Back Better Regional Challenge Grant.
Is this program right for you?
This program has been created to support:
- Early-stage/pre-revenue individuals/teams that have a high-potential business idea with technology-based products that need help turning their idea into a reality
- Leveraging Industry 4.0 technologies such as sensors, IoT, manufacturing improvements, process improvements, automation and robots, vision systems, AI machine learning, data analytics and 3D printing
Start forging your ideas today.
- Entrepreneurial training on key topics you need to know as a founder: customer discovery, intellectual property management, marketing your product and profit management
- Validate and refine your value proposition and target customers
- Utilize the engineering support and building block technologies at the Digital Foundry for prototype development with a focus on design for manufacturing and avoid rework later
- Create a financial and operational plan for your startup
- One-on-one business coaching
- Access to premier coworking space at The Corner