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.
“We are extremely fortunate to have a resource like the Digital Foundry in our home town. Pittsburgh is becoming a startup hot spot, and it’s really cool to see smaller towns like New Kensington still be able to facilitate entrepreneurs, providing us with mentoring and technical assistance.”
Jonathan Powers
Founder, Super Powers Mobility
“The Digital Foundry program has been a support that was critical in our entrepreneurial journey. The workshops were fundamental in validating our product, as well as getting feedback on improvements.”
Angela Foglia
Founder, secure-transmit
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