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NEXT recognizes the need by every startup to add key business support services in a variety of areas at critical growth milestones. Our Partners work with startup and emerging growth companies and are like-minded in their approach and passion for the startup community.

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There is no legal partnership between NEXT/Shulman Rogers and any of the companies listed as “Partners” in this website. The listing of such companies is provided for information purposes only and is not an endorsement of any products or services provided by such companies. NEXT/Shulman Rogers is not responsible for any products or services offered or provided by any of such companies.

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12PointFive

Business development for certified diverse companies. Opportunities are limitless; your time isn’t.

Who We Are?

12PointFive builds business development strategies that drive growth for certified diverse companies. Accepted by Fortune 1000 companies, diverse business certifications are powerful business development tools for businesses owned by the new majority.  To harness that power, business owners need to understand how to leverage the opportunities that diversity certification provides. 12PointFive offers options for busy business owners to strategically leverage these networks: Disability:IN, NGLCC, WBENC, and NMSDC and now B Corp.

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3Advance

The Product Development Team for Startups

Who We Are?

With hubs in Washington DC and Austin, 3Advance is a product development firm that teams up with entrepreneurs across the United States. Since 2010, 3Advance has provided non-technical founders the expertise needed to build a successful digital business. With depths of experience in cloud, web and mobile development, 3Advance also offers strategic guidance and growth support that lasts long after the launch of your tech startup.

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82i

82i helps founders scale with unique, cross-functional support of finance, fundraising, & growth

Who We Are?

82i is a strategic growth advisory and execution firm that provides value-creation services to startups and growth-stage companies.  A company of experienced investors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders helping founders save time, money, and risk. All companies have capability gaps, but early stage founders are particularly strapped.  82i is the only no-commitment, rock star resource that seamlessly fills each of those gaps across any number of work streams at the same time.  We specialize in fundraising, M&A, GTM, growth (sales & marketing), operations, and fractional exec advisory services.

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afinch design

GRAPHIC AND BRAND DESIGNER. MY BUSINESS IS MAKING YOUR BUSINESS LOOK GOOD.

Who We Are?

Graphic design not only makes something look good, but it also organizes information to help deliver a message in the most impactful way possible. When you combine the right image, a well-written headline, professionally executed in a well-established package, then BOOM! The message hits its target. Afinchdesign services include unique and memorable logos, business cards, sales presentations, pitch decks, social media graphics, packaging, flyers, product catalogs, letterhead, company swag, billboards, and more. Let’s push your brand to the next level!

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Alliant

Insurance consulting - deep specialized knowledge with a personalized approach

Who We Are?

Alliant’s approach to benefits strategy is simple: we’re here to help you manage the complexities and challenges of the healthcare and benefits landscapes, providing you a road map that aligns your diverse workforce’s needs to your business and financial objectives. Ultimately, you’ll get a strategy to produce the results you need, manage costs, and get the best value for your investment.

With specialized expertise and an entrepreneurial mindset, we help you effectively navigate today’s complex and rapidly shifting markets – turning change into opportunity. We are driven by data, filtered through deep industry experience. We empower organizations to see around corners and distinguish relevant trends, unleashing the power of your own data to secure your future.

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AmixTech

Copywriting, Business Development, PR & Social Media Management & Startup Acceleration

Who We Are?

AmixTech is a consulting platform with 22 years of experience thanks to the expertise of his founder, Max Morales, CEO of Andes Wines, offering services of Business Development, PR & Media Communications to execute Sales Strategies for startups with focus in FinTech, AgTech, PropTech, Climate Change, EdTech, E-Commerce, Real Estate, among others. We help you find your market fit.

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Arena

Arena provides fractional CFO services to businesses

Who We Are?

America is full of a nation of Entrepreneurs. Based on extensive research we have done, we have found that small and medium sized businesses often struggle to grow because they don’t have access to a modern CFO team. That’s why we built Arena! We offer fractional CFO services that provide modern financial planning capabilities, KPI tracking and regular support with expertise that can cater to specific industries and needs. We work on a project based or retainer model to support the needs of your business and you can cancel at any time. Based off Teddy Roosevelt’s Man in the Arena speech from 1910, we believe small businesses are “in the Arena” working day in and day out to serve their customers and fueling the economy.

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Articulate Persuasion

Coach, Consultant, and Ally helping entrepreneurs scale to CEOs

Who We Are?

Articulate Persuasion is a leadership development firm for entrepreneurial leaders. Our goal is to ensure they scale with their organizations through the obstacles and turbulence of rapid growth. We work across verticals with both leaders and their teams because we believe that engaged, articulate, and persuasive leaders and teams can scale faster, build dynamic cultures and impact those around them for the better.

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Aspire Health Innovations

Healthcare technology startup consulting accelerating time to funding and revenue growth

Who We Are?

Aspire is a healthcare consultancy that leverages decades of experience transforming ideas into innovative strategies that empower growth. We renovate the positioning, pitch decks, product strategies, go-to-market, sales channels, sales mgt, among many other areas. We specialize in engaging with innovative technology startup clients which can be introduced to our extensive connections of C-Suite/EVP leaders in health systems, hospitals, payers, providers and partners.  Clients include healthcare technology startups ranging from medical devices to digital health technologies.

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Atigro

SEO-Driven Marketing Agency

Who We Are?

Atigro is an SEO-driven digital marketing agency. We get your business moving with websites, messaging, and digital marketing that drive your business forward. We create brand messaging that moves people. We build modern, engaging websites. We deliver high-performing SEO and digital campaigns that build revenue, brand value, and competitive advantage.

  • Messaging that moves people
  • Websites that engage and convert
  • Ecommerce that drive sales
  • SEO and SEM programs that perform
  • Custom development to suit your needs
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Atlas

Solutions built to simplify global employment & compliance

Who We Are?

Atlas enables innovative companies to compete in a global economy, believing that businesses should employ whomever they want, wherever the talent exists. As the largest and most experience Direct Employer of Record (EOR) with entities in over 160 countries, Atlas brings localized experience and expertise into an enterprise-grade technology platform that supports thousands of companies and remote teams to expand across borders, onboard talent, manage compliance, and pay their global work force without the need for a local entity or multiple third-party providers.

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AWS Activate

Amazon Web Services for Startups

Who We Are?

AWS Activate is a free program that provides eligible startups with a host of benefits, including AWS credits, and AWS Support credits to help startups quickly get started on AWS and grow their business.

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Best Marketing LLC

The Virtual Marketing Department for Early-Stage Tech Companies

Who We Are?

We provide project-based marketing strategy expertise to technology firms seeking to grow to the next stage. We create and execute on the following core services: 1) New messaging and positioning; 2) Product launches; 3) Go-to-Market strategies; 4) Product price adjustments; 5) Lead generation campaigns; 6) Digital ad programs; 7) Collateral, case studies and white papers; and 8) Websites, PR and social media outreach.

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BrandMirror

The Brand Strategy Firm That Breaks Through the Noise

Who We Are?

BrandMirror leverages a defined process to design, develop, and differentiate brands and their messaging. We know telepathy is not a strategy. We meet your audience where they are and move them forward. We utilize clear, concise storytelling that connects with investors, clients, partners, and employees. Our structured approach cuts through the clutter and gets to the heart of a company. We clarify the promises it makes, and how to build credibility and value, from pitch decks to marketing campaigns and beyond. Branding is not bragging. A great brand builds bottom-line value from idea to exit.

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Bridge Bank

Bridge Bank – Startup Banking

Who We Are?

With roots in Silicon Valley, we serve the landscape of ideas nationwide. This means we help businesses grow – from startup to IPO and beyond – not only with sophisticated and flexible financing solutions, but also with our own enterprising approach. We believe in the risk-takers, the game-changers and the disrupters, with banking that moves your technology business forward.

 

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BrightSearch

EdTech Executive Search Firm

Who We Are?

We are modernized recruiting professionals that have access to the top talent in the EdTech industry. We ensure confidentiality for both our candidates and clients. We reduce the risk of making the wrong hire by guaranteeing all candidates hired through us. We stand behind our people & process.

Our network expands beyond the typical database. We have a pulse on the EdTech market by attending the industry’s top conferences. By partnering with the leading Growth Equity and Venture Capital firms in the EdTech space, our network continues to flourish with innovation.

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Byond

End frustration and overcome SaaS company growth issues. Reach and exceed your company growth goals.

Who We Are?

Byond is a boutique growth consulting agency that works with mid-market SaaS executives to achieve smarter, faster, and sustainable growth. We work with you and your team to achieve your growth, scaling, or growth through acquisition goals. Overcome problems such as those associated with customer churn, product adoption, and marketing and sales. We can help you devise a growth strategy and work with your team to implement it. We are flexible in how we work with CEOs and their teams.

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Capital Immigration Law Group

Capitol Immigration Law Group represents clients across an array of industries in a wide range of immigration matters.

Who We Are?

The Capitol Immigration Law Group is a boutique law firm specializing in permanent and temporary employment and family immigration law which helps both individuals and companies navigate United States immigration and naturalization law. We are uniquely qualified to understand and relate to the unique concerns, questions, and needs of U.S. immigrants. At the same time, we have decades of corporate immigration experience and we understand the business needs of our corporate clients. We are committed to your success!

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Carta

Equity. Simplified.

Who We Are?

Carta helps companies and investors manage their cap tables, valuations, investments, and equity plans.

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Cerebro Capital

Your Technology enhanced Partner for sourcing middle market debt capital

Who We Are?

Cerebro Capital was founded in 2017 to accelerate and democratize access to debt capital for middle market companies.  Cerebro has grown rapidly since its inception and works with Borrowers to connect them to Lenders from over 2,000 institutions providing credit from $1.0 million to $100 million.  Working with finance and technology experts, Cerebro has created a holistic commercial loan sourcing and placement solution designed to revolutionize the way borrowers and lenders connect and structure commercial loans.  Our goal is to find the Borrower the best terms available in the marketplace.

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CohnReznick

Solutions for every stage of the business life cycle

Who We Are?

CohnReznick’s specialized Technology and Life Sciences teams have a proven track record helping closely-held, publicly-traded, venture capital, and private equity-backed companies succeed at each stage of their life cycle. Clients benefit from our deep, industry-focused resources, our hands-on, entrepreneurial culture, and our integrated capabilities across a range of critical issues that companies in these sectors face. Services we provide include: Financial statement audits and reviews, Income tax return preparation, Tax planning and structuring, Research and development (R&D) credit studies, International tax, State and local tax planning and compliance, and M&A due diligence and transaction advisory

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Compellications

Get What you Want from Your Business - Become Your Best Certified EOS® Implementer, Peer Group Facilitator & Coach

Who We Are?

As a Certified Speaker, Coach and Facilitator, I make my impact by optimizing leaders and teams. Tiny, but powerful, I take owners and leaders to sustainable growth. A Certified EOS® (the Entrepreneurial Operating System) Implementer, I help entrepreneurs gain traction and achieve growth and scale. With EOS, I help leaders get clear on where you are going, execute with discipline and accountability, and build healthy, cohesive, teams. And make business fun again. As a Partner in Clark Leadership Group, I bring leaders who are learners together for learning, coaching and community.  

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Connexa Partners

Consultants to service providers and growth stage companies

Who We Are?

Outsourced business development, training & coaching for professional services organizations, capital raise and exit support for growth-stage companies.

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Cresa

We take your business further

Who We Are?

Cresa is the world’s largest occupier-only commercial real estate firm. We have over 1,000 real estate advisors in 80 global locations. Last year we represented 1,800 clients, covering 60+ industries in over 1,300 cities. Cresa uses a fully integrated approach, first determining what your business needs are, then creating a strategic plan to best meet them and implementing a solution. We think of real estate as a business tool-one that goes beyond operational need to help drive profitability, enhance your image and attract top talent.

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Cypher

Cypher: Accounting, CFO and process advisory for startups and high growth businesses.

Who We Are?

Cypher offers tech-forward accounting and financial solutions tailored to start-ups and growing businesses. Our mission is to give clarity on the business performance and help CEOs make data-driven decisions. The Cypher team will also have the numbers and strategies CEOs will need to raise capital and survive due diligence when facing investors, VCs and buyers. We act as an extension of the company and strive to take founders to exit or IPO.

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DealMaker

DealMaker is the leading digital private investments platform globally

Who We Are?

DealMaker is turning raising rounds into simple eCommerce for founders all over the globe.

We are the leading platform for all capital raise types – Reg A, Reg CF, Reg D, Reg S, and warrant exercises as well. Our technology allows founders, VC firms, and incubators to raise funds from the crowd faster and more efficiently. Our licensed broker-dealer and digital transfer agent allows for an end-to-end seamless experience – while giving more control of their equity and cap table.

 

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Deev

Your partner for Software Development and Design

Who We Are?

Deev is a developer-led company that focuses on building the right product the right way for our clients. From complex web platforms to mobile applications, we offer our clients the right choice for their products. With a focus on clear communication lines and a partner approach, we work as your team or as a part of an existing team to deliver your expectations.

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Deloitte Emerging Growth Practice

Deloitte Emerging Growth Company Practice – Audit, Tax, Risk & Financial Advisory for startups

Who We Are?

From startup to IPO and beyond. Deloitte’s Emerging Growth Company Practice works with innovative, high-growth companies on their way to becoming the next generation of market leaders. We deliver audit and assurance, tax, and risk and financial advisory services tailored for emerging growth companies (EGCs). We understand that one size doesn’t fit all. Each EGC has its unique needs and issues at different stages of growth. As your startup grows, we make the necessary changes to adapt to that growth.

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Digital Marketing Strategies

Fractional CMO; Go to market strategist

Who We Are?

We work with clients primarily in four core areas:

  • Harnessing digital marketing for e-commerce business effectiveness. We help clients drive higher sales through digital marketing. Solutions sometimes involve building e-commerce sites optimized for Google search and linked to customer relationship management (CRM) systems and email and social platforms.
  • Optimizing the customer experience through inbound marketing. We work with clients to create effective personas, content, and social and email marketing strategies that drive results.
  • Developing and helping implement new growth models. We design and map development pathways for new opportunities by combining insights from digital with an integrated customer experience and the best product pricing approach.
  • Guiding digital transformation initiatives. We work with clients to build their most effective marketing stack that’s agile enough to adjust as business needs change.
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Dupont Circle

We love Salesforce, and we help scaling startups love it too.

Who We Are?

We understand that growing businesses like yours need meaningful metrics for sales, marketing, and customer success. You need a well-structured Salesforce platform to guide positive results.

We identify the simplest, smartest system for you, so you can keep a pulse on your pipeline, outbound marketing efforts, renewals, and SaaS metrics. We meet you where you are. Whether that means cleaning up a messy system, starting from scratch, or adding to your existing platform, we’ll roll-up our sleeves and be there with you every step of the way.

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Early Growth

Our CFOs are Your Partner in Growth

Who We Are?

Strategic CFO consulting is critical to early stage technology startups in their formative years! Our tenured CFO team propel clients from seed through IPO by delivering finance strategy, transactional accounting with tax and valuation services. Our monthly financial close package tells your business story to boards and investors. Key services include: CFO Services, Transactional Accounting, Tax, Compliance & R&D Credit Analysis, Valuations, Fund Accounting, HR/People Operations and Recruiting, and Risk & Insurance.

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Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

Intellectual Property Law - particular emphasis in patent and trademark law.

Who We Are?

Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC is an intellectual property law firm that counsels its clients in all areas of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Components of our practice include patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, strategic counseling (including patentability, validity, and non-infringement opinions), licensing, technology transfer, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property management.

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Edge Commercial Real Estate

Achieving the Best Possible Results for Our Clients

Who We Are?

Edge Commercial is a locally owned and operated, fully integrated commercial real estate advisory company developed from a “Principal” perspective to maximize productivity, efficiency and most importantly… results. Our mission is to serve as a highly accessible, efficient, productive, and results oriented, local commercial real estate firm operating as an advisory arm to our partners and clients. Our senior staff have completed many of the region’s most noteworthy transactions totaling over $10 billion. Edge represents clients ranging from corporate and institutional companies to local, non-profits, startup and professional firms. In addition to the traditional sales and leasing of commercial real estate, our transactions have included Sale/Lease Backs, Structured Financings, Tax Structuring, Bondable Leases, Credit Lease Transactions, Build to Suits, TIC Structures, Syndications, 1031 Fulfilment, and Joint Ventures.

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Eton Venture Services

Eton: Gold standard in business valuations, trusted by leading companies and VCs.

Who We Are?

Founded in 2010 by Chris Walton, a Stanford Law alum and former Silicon Valley attorney, Eton specializes in independent third-party valuation services. Eton caters to founders and early-stage companies, and is endorsed by top law firms. Eton’s team, comprising ex-Big 4 professionals, focuses on 409A valuation for early-stage companies. Eton’s expertise extends to M&A, qualified small business stock, estate/gift tax valuations, and fairness opinions. With 3000+ valuations under our belt, Eton supports high-growth companies, delivering quick, audit-defensible valuations at a reasonable cost.

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ETS

What’s Holding Your Business Back? Startup & Scaleup - Turnaround to Exit

Who We Are?

If you’re an entrepreneur with a start-up seeking investor funding, ETS can help you to get funded. Ines LeBow is the CEO and an experienced start-up advisor with a deep background in securing early-stage funding, preparing business plans and investor pitch decks, providing presentation coaching and pre/post-startup advisory, conducting market and competitor analyses, creating market launch roadmaps, driving turnarounds and transformations to scale-up operations and systems for growth.

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Ever Better Coaching and Consulting

Executive Coach to Founders, Co-Founder Teams and Leadership Teams

Who We Are?

It doesn’t have to be lonely at the top. We work with visionary leaders as a confidential, trusted thought partner to create high-growth companies and make high-stakes decisions. We are professional, certified coaches experienced with all stages of company growth. Whether we’re working with a co-founder team, one-on-one with a leader, or with a leadership team, we bring our undivided attention, optimism, and business savvy to each interaction. If you’d like to elevate your strategic, operational, and personal decisions, contact us to schedule a confidential consultation.

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FasterCapital

A country, stage, and industry agnostic online incubator and accelerator!

Who We Are?

With a long experience and an enthusiastic team, FasterCapital provides businesses startups and scaleups with many services essential to their establishment and growth. FasterCapital offers technical development services and business development services and covers 50% of the costs. Our team is backed by experts and a huge network of investors and mentors from different industries and places around the world! FasterCapital invests in FinTech, HealthTech, EdTech, AI, AgriTech, Entertainment, Media, Software, B2B, B2C, FoodTech, E-commerce, Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, and startups from a very wide range of industries!

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Figure Equity Solutions

Manage, Raise and Trade on One Platform

Who We Are?

Figure Equity Solutions is a one-stop solution for private companies and startups to raise capital, manage equity, and trade shares on a single platform. Built for early to late stage companies, Figure Equity Solutions scales with your business, eliminating the need to go to multiple providers for scalable solutions like access to capital, cap table management, data rooms, and secondary liquidity. Over $4.7B in equity has been raised, managed and traded on the industry’s first real-time settlement platform and offers access to an active secondary marketplace.

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First Republic Bank

Banking for Innovators

Who We Are?

First Republic offers a comprehensive set of banking services, connections and guidance to support the growth of your business at every stage. We are committed to fast response and ease of use through our dedicated tech team, based in tech hubs across the U.S. Our Innovators’ Toolkit offers you discounts on an additional suite of mission-critical services to address many of your immediate operational needs. 

First Republic Bank is a member of the FDIC.

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Five Foot Two Marketing

We are the marketing resource for early-stage startups with solutions for founders, marketers and VCs

Who We Are?

Our team has experience in building brands and developing performance strategies (and everything in between) for B2B and B2C startups in industries including martech, experiential, entertainment, retail, fintech, adtech, CPG, cybersecurity, venture capital, fashion, women’s health and wellness and more. We’ve helped more than 30 startups across multiple industries leverage our 30+ years of experience and our extensive expert network of over 50 contractors and freelancers while completing the raise for their next round of funding.

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FlexProfessionals

Flexible Recruiting & Staffing

Who We Are?

Founded in 2010, FlexProfessionals has been an expert in recruiting and flexible staffing for over a decade, well before Covid-19 made the term “remote work” popular. It has brought top talent to thousands of businesses and non-profits in the Washington, DC Metro (including Maryland and Virginia) and Boston Metro areas, fostering deep relationships with their clients with over 96% of them returning or referring the company to others in their networks.

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Forefront Coaching

At Forefront our communications coaches help you increase the impact of your deck and pitch to increase your chances when fundraising.

Who We Are?

We are a dedicated team of communications specialists. We have all trained and worked as actors and have learnt how to succeed in public speaking through a lot of trial and failure! We have worked with 1000+ businesses and helped to raise $100 000 000 + to ensure that they can grow in revenue, value and customer impact. Our services include: Public Speaking, Pitches & Presentations, Pitch Design, Video Design, Strategic Networking, Investor Negotiations, and Mastering Difficult Conversations.

 

 

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Founder Shield

Founder Shield is a tech-enabled, digital insurance platform built for high-growth startups

Who We Are?

Founder Shield is a tech-enabled, digital insurance platform dedicated to creating the most seamless, intuitive, and responsive experience to protect clients’ growth at every stage. In minutes, founders & finance teams can apply for 20+ lines of coverage, from Directors & Officers, Cyber to EPL policies. We’ve re-engineered the insurance experience end-to-end with smart applications, bespoke industry packages, and proprietary policy management tools. Whether you’re hiring rapidly, fundraising, pivoting your product entirely (or all of the above), we work at your pace to ensure your growth is protected now and as you scale.

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Franklin Advisory

Helping people build entrepreneurial ecosystems

Who We Are?

Franklin Advisory helps organizations build programming and ecosystems around startups, entrepreneurship, and venture capital.

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Fuel Finance

Finance at Your Fingertips

Who We Are?

We are your cloud-based financial department. We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automations. You get Accounting, P&L, CF, Financial Projections, Plan/Actual, Unit Economics, and finally, peace of mind. All in familiar to you Google Spreadsheets. Forget about months of integrations and insane setup costs.

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Fundraise Concierge

Fundraising experts on your side

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Gain access to industry leading advisors to drive quality, efficiency, and peace of mind in your fundraising process. With Fundraise Concierge by your side, you will minimize the frustration while maximizing the results of your fundraising process so that you can get the terms you want from the investors you want to reach.

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Gingernut Thinking

A woman-owned, DC-based, globally minded brand strategist

Who We Are?

Gingernut Thinking draws on over 25 years’ global experience working with brands, agencies, rights holders and iconic events including Wimbledon and the Olympics, crafting purpose-driven brand engagement and communication strategies that drive meaningful business transformation. We’re laser focused on helping you crystallize those great thoughts swirling around your head, leaving you with exactly what you need to move forward: clarity of vision aligned to data-informed insights. We’re flexible, collaborative, considered, honest and fun. Need a little fresh thinking for your strategic marketing and brand strategy challenges? Feel free to get in touch for a chat, a (virtual) biscuit and a nice cup of tea.

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Good2BSocial

Leaders in Digital Marketing
We help lawyers, law firms, and companies that sell to law firms generate more leads and acquire new business.

Who We Are?

At Good2bSocial, we work with law firms and companies in the legal industry who are serious about growth but are often frustrated that they’ve spent time, money, and effort on their website and digital marketing, yet they still don’t produce the results they had hoped for.

We offer a full suite of inbound marketing services including Digital Strategy, Social Media Management & Monitoring, SEO, Digital Advertising, Content Marketing & Content Creation, Email Marketing, Video and Podcast Production, and Marketing Technology Consulting.

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Graphite Financial

Fully custom accounting, FP&A and tax services for tech, e-commerce & web3 startups

Who We Are?

Graphite gives startups the finance support they need to scale. We work with tech, e-commerce, web3, agencies & more, and our clients range from pre-seed to Series B+. By getting deeply embedded in your business, we act like an in-house team for a fraction of the cost of hiring one; each engagement is fully customized to your specific needs. We build around and scale with you; we’ve seen several clients through their successful exits! From bookkeeping to technical accounting to financial modeling, tax and more, Graphite is the long-term partner to startups of all kinds.

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GreenBar

Greenbar helps start new software projects or gets existing ones back on track

Who We Are?

A former CTO/VP Engineering at five software startups, Larry Cynkin was part of two successful exits and learned from a few not-so-successful ones. He now works as a fractional CTO to help you: Hire or assess in-house or contract software engineers; Define the first version of your software or the twentieth; Fix broken software or a broken software development process; Learn and establish agile software development best practices. Greenbar works with you to make the best choices among vendors and technologies and manage those resources for the success of your software-centric project.

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hatch

Hatch I.T. is a specialty recruiting partner that scales technical teams for startups.

Who We Are?

Traditional staffing hasn’t evolved to meet the hiring needs of startups. Hatch I.T. was formed to provide predictable and affordable hiring models for technical teams of product startups in emerging tech hubs. We’ve developed a roadmap of solutions to guide startups from MVP through all stages of growth. Whether you have no recruiting infrastructure, or just a small recruiting team, our flexible hiring programs will leave you equipped with a dedicated recruiting team, boosting your brand while filling your tech positions with ease.

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HeadStart

Public Relations, Messaging & Thought Leadership

Who We Are?

We Are HeadStart, Inc. is a Washington, D.C. based public relations agency for startups, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations. HeadStart specializes in earned media and thought leadership campaigns to help businesses get and stay in the news. HeadStart is industry agnostic, and helps founders and companies at all stages of their business lifecycle.

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Hone Ventures

Hone Ventures is a startup studio accelerating growth for early-stage startups

Who We Are?

Hone Ventures is a startup studio, rich in expertise and innovation, that fuels early-stage startups, catapulting them to unprecedented growth. We’re not just strategists but implementers – our comprehensive approach encompasses strategic planning, marketing and sales strategy implementation, and human capital management. With decades of experience, we’ve transformed startups into industry leaders. Discover the Hone Ventures advantage, where every partnership is a step towards unrivaled success. Trust in our authority, benefit from our innovation, and together, let’s redefine the future.

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Hunt Club

A Better Way to Hire

Who We Are?

Hunt Club is a new category of search firm helping companies leverage the power of relationships and referrals to achieve a better hiring experience. Through our network of over 11,000 experts and 5,000,000 candidates, Hunt Club has helped over 500 companies find, engage, and hire the very best talent. Hunt Club’s expert network and proprietary technology drive engagement with the most qualified passive candidates.

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Ideaship

Ideaship is equity-based patent development capital

Who We Are?

Ideaship, a venture services affiliate of GTT Group, is equity-based patent development capital for early-stage ventures. Ideaship’s patent capital fund provides patent asset development services including virtual patent department and patent business banking along with subject matter expertise, external patent counsel funding, and fundraising support.

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Imagine Moore

Brand & Marketing agency for startups and early stage companies

Who We Are?

From brand positioning to unique growth hacking techniques we can accelerate your business across both B2C and B2B markets. Our difference is in our approach. You get access to the principals who work personally with each account giving you a depth of experience and insight typically only available at larger agencies. The Founders have been accelerating startups and have personally been involved with exits that brought over $1 billion in shareholder value. 

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Incendium

Tailored outbound sales and marketing advisory for B2B startups.

Who We Are?

Incendium Strategies is a boutique sales advisory firm serving early stage B2B startups. We specialize in outbound sales campaigns, growth planning, and strategic advisory across industries. Our clients range from solopreneurs to growth stage firms backed by Bessemer, Accel, Y Combinator, and more.

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Incued

Reduce Risk & Streamline Portfolio Management with Incued

Who We Are?

Incued is an all-in-one investor relations and portfolio management CRM with integrated live financial insights & analytics on portfolio companies that not only empowers funds to be more efficient but their portfolio companies as well.

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Insperity

Business challenges have HR solutions. Delivering exceptional HR solutions is our calling.

Who We Are?

Insperity is an HR-first company.  Founded in 1986 as a human resource provider- our roots are in taking care of people.  For 35 years, Insperity has been showing companies how to harness the power of HR to improve business success.  With our track record of excellence, today, we’re one of the country’s most comprehensive HR services providers – and we’re still innovating.

Whether you need full-service HR, employee benefits, HR technology or anything in between, Insperity’s powerful range of scalable HR solutions will help you overcome your business challenges at every stage.

 

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Inspiralia

Helping raise federal non-dilutive funding for early-stage deep-tech startups

Who We Are?

Inspiralia is a product development company providing a full package of services for small businesses in the pursuit of non-dilutive funding. We help startups navigate and apply for SBIR/STTR (Small Business Innovation Research) grants, which is the largest source of non-dilutive funding for small businesses in the United States. Inspiralia takes care of the entire process, from finding appropriate solicitations according to the company’s technology and goals, proposal writing, government registrations, submission, and administrative award management.

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IRL Agency

IRL Agency - A social media and content studio that brings your brand's vibe to life

Who We Are?

IRL (In Real Life) is a creative marketing studio that specializes in building product, hospitality, and lifestyle brands. Founded in Washington DC and driven by passion, innovation, and experiences, our mission is to bring your #vibe to life. We offer video + photo production, social media strategy + management, influencer marketing, and social media paid advertising services. Our clear purpose is to challenge the limits of the conventional to bring to life extraordinary brands and experiences that ignite the senses and emotions, for people around the world.

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J. Galt Finance Suite

We provide a funding blueprint to obtain business credit with no personal guarantee or credit checks

Who We Are?

Our mission is to help entrepreneurs obtain the necessary capital and credit they need to fuel their dreams.  Whether you are just starting your business or not, we have solutions that can help fund your endeavors. Our business credit solutions help your business EIN that’s not linked to your personal social security number, regardless of personal credit. We will also help with obtaining business loans. You can get approved and funded within 72 hours for low-rate loans and credit lines. If you’re interested in obtaining capital for your company at the best terms, we have solutions for you.

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JConnelly

A leading integrated communications and digital media agency where your brand is understood, enhanced & fiercely protected.

Who We Are?

At JConnelly, we don’t just build brands – we architect legacies. We are an award-winning integrated communications and digital media agency committed to nurturing, expanding, and safeguarding your brand with trusted, reliable counsel grounded in years of experience, critical thinking and a deep understanding of your business ecosystem. Our focus on results, elegance in communication, sophistication in strategy, and humility in our interactions forms the core of our collaborations, always keeping your best interest at heart.

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Kapowza

Baltimore-Based Creative Agency

Who We Are?

Founded in 2015, Kapowza seeks to serve as a creative marketing and advertising partner by providing graphic design, website, video, social media, and branding support to emerging brands, startups, and entrepreneurial support organizations. We hope to be viewed as a true collaborator, coming to the table for key strategy decisions, marketing pushes, and setting agendas and plans that will impact your bottom-line for years to come.

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KBF

Trusted Partner. Unmatched Service.

Who We Are?

KBF is a fast-growing CPA firm that offers a comprehensive range of tax, assurance and advisory services. As a leader in the emerging growth company market, KBF pairs industry-leading technical skills with exceptional customer service to provide the support our clients require at every stage of their businesses’ life cycle. KBF serves hundreds of public, private equity-owned and venture-backed companies, as well as, select dynamic privately-held businesses.

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KiwiTech

We help entrepreneurs build technology, raise capital and scale faster

Who We Are?

KiwiTech is a leading ecosystem of 400+ portfolio startups, 2000+ transatlantic investors and 150+ mentors committed to supporting innovators and sparking innovation globally. We team up with early to late-stage startups to help them navigate through challenges and reach their next growth stage. With our 450+ strong engineering team and deep technology expertise, we have enabled our entrepreneurs to build over 1500 viable products till date.

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La Cire

Business operations, finance and budgeting

Who We Are?

Our business model is built on helping innovators change the world and building the appropriate foundation for them to succeed. Ee do the work to put systems in place for proper business operations and growth. We help you define goals and milestones and create a path, understanding the boundaries and needs of the individual firm. We then work to move the team along this path, working through the challenging problems and creating simple and elegant solutions that are customized to you and your team. In the process, we enable your people to make the greatest contribution and all succeed.

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Lateral Solutions

We launch and manage internal operations so that you can focus on your core business

Who We Are?

We are your outsourced solution for your internal operation’s needs. We are experts in launching and managing systems and platforms for accounting, human resources, and operations that reduce administration. Our company was built on servicing startups and small businesses. We are your one-stop solution for your internal operational needs. Our services range from COO-level consulting/advising to bookkeeping and HR administration to full internal operations management. Let Lateral Solutions lightly the load on internal operations so that you can focus on doing what you do best!

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Lemon Tree

Profound Impact

Who We Are?

Lemon Tree is an award-winning film production company and creative house helping companies accelerate business growth for social and environmental solutions through video storytelling, strategic marketing, and communications. We’ve worked with leading fast-growth brands and have been featured on NETFLIX, PBS, and Frontline among others. Our bench of storytellers with expertise in film, marketing, journalism, and sustainability is obsessed with making the most innovative, inspiring stories that drive real-world impact.

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Marsh McLennan Agency

World’s leading professional service firm in risk, strategy, and people

Who We Are?

Marsh McLennan Agency provides business insurance, employee health & benefits, retirement, and private client insurance solutions to organizations and individuals seeking limitless possibilities. With our hands-on support, we provide strategies and solutions that protect your accomplishments and support your growth goals. Leveraging data, technology, and proprietary analytics, we deliver solutions for organizations across all industries, markets, and size. With new risk and opportunities constantly emerging, we help our clients navigate an increasingly dynamic, complex environment while creating organizational resiliency.

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Marstudio

MARKETING & ADVERTISING RESULTS THROUGH STRATEGIC CONSULTATION AND EXPERT BUSINESS VISUALIZATION

Who We Are?

At Marstudio, we believe in starting with strategy. Taking time to understand your business, competition, and target demographic in order to consult you on how to achieve your goals with the best strategy and design. As an extension of your team, we shift as you shift. As your Off-Site Marketing Department, we possess professional and technical expertise in marketing strategy, consultation, graphic design, branding, print design, web design and development, multimedia, ­film, photography, content development, and other creative/technical disciplines. Remember: at the end of the day, we are your team.

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Masonboro Partners

Bringing Great Talent to Great Teams

Who We Are?

At Masonboro Partners, we bring great talent to great teams. Our focus is on placing driven and highly-skilled individuals in engaging, upward-moving positions at the leading sales, marketing, IT, and finance organizations of tomorrow. As a specialized human resources provider, we work primarily with private equity, venture capital-backed, and self-financed software enterprises.

Our massive network includes innovative start-ups and high growth software companies.

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MassLight

MassLight supplies capital and a dedicated tech team. They take equity in return.

Who We Are?

MassLight is a hybrid investor and service provider.  They work with non-technical founders providing both the capital and teams of engineers and other professionals to build, launch and scale a startup.  MassLight takes an equity stake in the startup.  They operate as a no-fee accelerator, and call this service build-for-equity.

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MGA

A New Approach to Commercial Real Estate

Who We Are?

MGA was created to operate with a unique approach and mindset in an industry where the typical real estate process has gone unchanged for decades. Representing each client with an energy and passion that ensures our full attention on every project. At MGA we see representing our clients as an opportunity to help elevate organizations through hard work and creative strategizing.

MGA’s partnership with one of the Nation’s co-working providers, Industrious, brings much needed flexibility and ease to office leasing. Whether you need shared space for 2 employees or your team of 20+ is looking for a customized, dedicated office solution, the MGA team is able to find a tailored solution best for your company.

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Modus Create

Full Lifecycle Product Development Partner

Who We Are?

Modus Create builds customer-centric products, processes, and platforms to help businesses succeed in the digital economy.

For over 10 years, our global team of strategists, designers, and technologists have helped companies ranging from the world’s biggest brands to funded startups deliver digital experiences to their clients. We work in an iterative, outcome-driven way and provide our clients with full stack capability: product strategy, customer experience (CX), full stack Agile software development, and security.

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Morgan Stanley at Work

We offer tailored support and solutions for companies to help simplify equity plan management

Who We Are?

We provide equity management solutions designed for the unique needs of innovative private companies at all stages of growth worldwide. Our all-in-one platform for equity plan administration, financial reporting and participant experience, includes cap table management, 409A valuations, liquidity transactions, compensation data and planning, global tax and mobility resources and more. We have you covered from startup to IPO. Explore the full offering and discover equity management solutions that truly scale as you grow.

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NachoNacho

Expense management platform and FinTech powered B2B SaaS Marketplace

Who We Are?

NachoNacho is an Advanced SaaS and Expense Management Platform + B2B SaaS Marketplace. We provide a single platform to manage, discover & purchase SaaS and streamline the subscription procurement and expense management process.

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Nasdaq

Nasdaq Reimagines the Markets of Today

Who We Are?

Nasdaq Governance Solutions is Nasdaq’s award-winning Board governance software that facilitates strategic and efficient collaboration for boards, committees, and leadership teams through its intuitive interface and robust security features.

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New Economy CPA

Helping entrepreneurs gain control of their finances to build and grow their business.

Who We Are?

New Economy is on a mission to unleash the full potential of the entrepreneur.  We do that by helping entrepreneurs gain control of their finances to make smart decisions to build and grow their business. We are a unique team of  accountants, controllers, CFO’s and tax folks that are focused on adding as much real time value as possible to support the goals of the business. Further, we love delivering an awesome customer experience. Our ideal customer has a growth mindset, is looking for an accounting and finance partner and knows they need help, is willing to embrace change and has at least $2M in revenue or Equity funding in place.

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Outfront Media

One of the largest outdoor media companies in the US with over 500K canvases across the country

Who We Are?

OUTFRONT provides an integrated and targeted platform to connect brands to their target audiences, as they live their lives. We leverage the power of technology, location, and creativity to drive impact and engagement between brands and audiences. OUTFRONT delivers truth, trust, and transparency. Impact where it matters. We have coverage across the top 50 markets in the US including top tech cities with media across Billboards, top Transit Systems (Bus & Rail), Street Furniture, and Specialty Media such as airports and lifestyle centers.

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Pareto

Meet your team for data collection, lead generation, market research, and much more

Who We Are?

We started Pareto to help lean teams move faster by taking on the repeatable, manual tasks that need to get done – from high-volume research to lead generation, data collection, and much more. Our team is supported by in-house automation to ramp up in hours & scale with your needs, quality guaranteed. Maximize your output & gain an edge with Pareto today.

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Patent Hacks

Patents were incredibly expensive. We decided to change that.

Who We Are?

Patent Hacks® is a patent education company helping people protect their ideas affordably. Developed by a group of former USPTO patent examiners, we understand that the patent industry can often be too expensive for entrepreneurs and startups. That’s why we have developed the Patent Hacks® Learning Center. This DIY patent education platform teaches you how to validate, prepare, and file your own patent applications. We have simplified the patent learning process to allow anyone to protect their ideas and build the foundation of a successful business.

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Perfectly Pitched

Perfectly Pitched Pitch Decks & Branding

Who We Are?

Perfectly Pitched is dedicated to helping early stage social entrepreneurs tell their unique stories through beautiful & deeply meaningful brands & pitch decks. As experienced entrepreneurs, we understand the challenges ahead & how early branding decisions affect & shape a company’s future. Combining expertise in business strategy, art, design, and creative writing, we’re uniquely suited to understanding your company’s path thus far & your goals for the future. We’re here to help you crystalize your journey into a compelling narrative that will unlock your company’s future success.

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Pillar One Consulting

Strategic Advice Tactical Support: Build and Strengthen Your Financial Management & Human Capital Frameworks

Who We Are?

Pillar One Consulting is a boutique consulting firm that drives companies to success by leveling up their Financial Management and Human Capital disciplines. We know what start-ups need:  that perfect blend of strategic expertise to help take your company to the next level and the ability to get into the details to ensure your company is running smoothly. We will tailor a plan that works for you, whether that is augmenting your leadership team with a Fractional Executive or leading a targeted, defined consulting or recruiting engagement. With a focus on Finance and Human Capital, Pillar One can help you optimize your business operations so that you can focus on growing your business.

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Product Savvy Consulting

Markets Drive Products We Pave the Road

Who We Are?

We are Product Centric. We support technology companies, effectively define, design, build software products more quickly and more successfully than they would do otherwise. We look at everything from the Product Management lens, understanding the Business drives the Product. We are Agile, and have extensive experience in managing local and globally distributed software development teams. We like Start-ups. Our typical clients are fast-growth companies who are looking to either develop a new product or build-out a next generation product. Over the last 15 years we became experts in Cyber, Health Care, Mobility and Cloud products working with more than 100 companies to date. 

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Quadrant Advisory

Empowering Founders, Owners, Boards & Investors Managed Accounting | CFO Advisory | Business Strategy

Who We Are?

Quadrant Advisory is a dedicated team of cross functional accounting, finance, and strategy professionals committed to offering the highest level of tailored advisory services. We aim to serve businesses in public affairs, government relations, digital media, professional services, and growth stage technology companies with the increasingly overwhelming task of accounting and financial management. It is our mission to drive success by pairing the latest in cloud-based technology with decades of real-world experience to create a seamless financial management system for your business. 

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Rebel of Honor

Messaging, Go-to-Market Strategy, Fractional CMO

Who We Are?

Rebel of Honor believes in the power of the narrative. As champions of disruptors, we help tech startups that are at the forefront of innovation uncover the extraordinary within their story, giving them a voice that resonates with the market and sets them apart. Leveraging marketing expertise and industry acumen, we fuse creativity, data-driven analysis, and industry best practices to craft a company’s distinctive narrative, go-to-market, and marketing strategy to drive results.

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Rippling

Rippling frees smart people to work on hard problems

Who We Are?

Rippling is designed to help companies of all sizes automate payroll, benefits, devices, apps and more—all from a single platform with just a few clicks. Because Rippling uniquely connects all these systems through a single set of employee data, businesses can eliminate manual data entry, enable role-based workflow automation, and scale employee operations without having to hire a dedicated team.

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Sandra Richardson

M&A Advisor and Strategic Partnership Developer for the Lower Middle Market

Who We Are?

Sandra Richardson helps lower middle market companies grow, scale and exit. She is a former technology company operator who understands the unique challenges of the lower middle market. Her services include M&A, development of strategic partnerships, exit readiness and strategy consulting. M&A doesn’t just happen – it is the result of good strategy that is well executed.

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sasse agency

SMART SOLUTIONS. MAXIMIZE YOUR ROI.

Who We Are?

sasse, founded in 2011, is a boutique marketing firm specializing in brand strategy, social media marketing, website design & development and digital optimization. As your partner, we capture the spirit of your brand, integrate marketing strategies and promote growth for your business. We work with start-ups and entrepreneurs. Let’s meet, get creative and boost your brand! 

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ScaleRedi

Helping SaaS Startups Thrive with Strategic Accounting and Finance Solutions

Who We Are?

At ScaleRedi Accounting Group, we are dedicated to helping SaaS startups thrive by providing full-service accounting and finance solutions that are tailored to your specific needs. Our team of experienced professionals understands the unique challenges that come with running a SaaS business, and we’re here to help you navigate them.  Whether you need help with budgeting, forecasting, month-end close, monthly financial reporting, SaaS metrics reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, or any other accounting or finance function, we have the expertise and experience to help you succeed. With our expert solutions and personalized service, you can focus on what you do best – building and growing your business.

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Schneer IP Law

Full-Service Intellectual Property Law Firm for emerging technologies and startup businesses

Who We Are?

Headquartered in New York City, Schneer IP Law represents innovators, entrepreneurs, and creatives. Founded by a former Patent Examiner and ex-“Big law” attorney, Schneer IP Law provides high-quality intellectual property services at reasonable costs. The firm specializes in all areas of intellectual property, including patent drafting and filing, patent searches; opinions; enforcement; and contested proceedings, patent prosecution, design patents, plant patents, trade secrets, licensing agreements, trademarks, and copyrights.

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SDG America

Stabilize - Develop - Grow

Who We Are?

SDG America is an established business advisory group located in the Washington, DC area and serving domestic USA and global companies looking to do business in the US.  Our Partners and Associates have over 30 years of business experience working with C-Suite management to implement strategies that focus your firm on a high growth track.   We advise firms needing trusted, hands-on experienced business professionals who have done it before.

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Silicon Valley Bank

Startup Banking for the Innovation Economy

Who We Are?

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank, is the most experienced bank strictly serving the innovation economy.  With a dedicated focus on supporting the innovation economy for 40 years, we have more experience with investors, startups, fast-growing tech, life science and healthcare companies than any other financial institution.  SVB provides dedicated relationship management and tailored banking solutions, including venture lending, to offer a comprehensive platform so startups can work with us from incorporation through IPO.

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Snyder Cohn

SUPPORTING THE LIFE CYCLE OF SUCCESS

Who We Are?

We are a full-service CPA firm in North Bethesda, MD that provides audit, other assurance, tax and consulting services to a wide range of clients with a focus on small and medium-sized businesses and their owners. We have a team of professionals who specialize in working with technology entrepreneurs in the startup and emerging business stages. We serve clients in the software development, renewable energy and life science industries, among others, and we assist these clients with financial statement and tax preparation, entity choice and tax structure, QuickBooks setup and implementation, R&D and other tax credits, business and personal tax planning, and a plethora of other issues as needed.

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Star Financial

Merchant Services for Startups

Who We Are?

Star Financial works with pioneering, high-growth companies on their way to becoming the next wave of industry innovators. We provide Merchant Services tailored for emerging growth companies. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all as each firm has its unique needs and issues at different stages of growth. We provide custom solutions designed for each Startup to maximize your growth potential.

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Sterne Kessler

Full Service Intellectual Property Law Firm

Who We Are?

Based in Washington, DC, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is renowned for more than four decades of focus on the protection, transfer, and enforcement of intellectual property rights. Its team of attorneys, registered patent agents, and technical specialists help clients with every aspect of IP including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, licensing, opinions and strategy, and litigation – protecting innovations across a broad spectrum of industries. Our client base includes developing and established companies, venture capital firms, individual entrepreneurs and universities.

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Streamline

AI-Powered grant and RFP writing. Save 80% of your time on finding, writing, and managing awards.

Who We Are?

Streamline was designed with expert grant writers to automate all redundant and administrative parts of proposal writing, giving you time back for strategic parts of the role. We specialize in climate and deep tech solutions that are R&D heavy and navigating government funding opportunities across various technology readiness levels.

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TABS Score

AI & ML Due Diligence used by Angels, VCs, Family Offices, Incubators, & More

Who We Are?

The TABS Suite is the leading DaaS (Diligence-as-a-Service) platform augmenting your existing diligence process in a fraction of the time & cost. TABS provides a comprehensive, holistic, and in-depth qualitative & quantitative evaluation of a venture, regardless of stage (Pre-Seed to a Series D to Private Equity).

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Teamextn

Startup Development Simplified

Who We Are?

A remote team of designers and software engineers taking a pragmatic approach to successfully deliver real-world software for clients.

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Tech CXO

EXECUTIVES ON DEMAND

Who We Are?

TechCXO is a partnership of C-level executives that provide subject matter expertise as a service to growth & hyper-growth companies on an as needed basis. TechCXO was founded in 2013 on the premise that high potential companies can greatly benefit from proven fractional and interim executives, whom they otherwise may not be able to access due to cost, capacity or availability. Our partners average over 25 years of experience with each having significant C-suite experience in Finance, Operations, Human Capital, Sales, Marketing, Revenue Growth, Products or Technology. We integrate with your team & accelerate the time to value.

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TechnoArt

Supporting Innovation that Betters Communities

Who We Are?

A global innovation platform for Startups and Entrepreneurs, offering companies access to education and development tools, business development support and investor relations. TechnoArt BI syndication fund is a unique investment vehicle dedicated to technological innovation that helps better communities lives around the world.

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TEN Capital Network

Connecting Investors and Startups

Who We Are?

TEN Capital helps startups, growth companies, and investors, raise funding through its extensive fundraise prep and launch programs.

Our programs include fundraise preparation (pitch decks, data room, etc.), campaign strategy and coaching, investor engagement and introductions, email and digital marketing campaigns, pitch events, webinars, podcast interviews, assistance with investment closing, and more.

In short: we provide the leg-work, saving you time and money.

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The Branding Babe

Strategic Branding, Photography, & Videography for Influential and Innovative Women

Who We Are?

The Branding Babe is not your ordinary photo & video agency. We are a collective of women dedicated to helping fellow entrepreneurs on their journey to financial freedom, individualized success, and legacy. Using our years of combined experience as visual storytellers, art directors, producers, and content creators, we believe that truly influential brands start with solid, strategic foundations. Supporting you on this journey is an honor for us because we believe when you put in the soul-centric work it takes to build an authentic and intentional brand, it transforms you. Together, with careful nurturing and guidance, we will grow your personal brand into the face of a beautiful empire; an empire where inspiring women rule, and all of your people get a VIP seat at the royal table.

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The Littlefield Co

Telling under-told stories through video, photo and content strategy for purpose-driven companies

Who We Are?

Most businesses lack trust and a connection with their target audience. You have worked hard to build your brand, and you feel like you deserve more traction than you’re getting. The Littlefield Company helps you discover and efficiently tell the story that makes your brand unique, connects with your audience, and showcases your true value with strategic videography. We tell under-told stories by delivering scalable content for purpose-driven companies.

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The Outpost

Boutique advisory helping dual-use tech companies do business with the government

Who We Are?

The Outpost is mission-focused on DOING GOOD. We were founded on the urgent need to find and get tech to our nation quicker. As a boutique advisory & technology accelerator, The Outpost specializes in helping companies hop the valley of death by advancing next-generation technologies at the intersection of national security and commercial verticals. By working to redefine the next generation of public private partnerships, we believe this will be the key movement in building a future with shared values.

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The Resource Key

Building Community Through Inclusive Impact Branding

Who We Are?

We help build brand marketing strategies with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) embedded. Our priority is ensuring people with disabilities are included. We work with brands in four ways:  inclusive and accessible social media storytelling, community workshops and speaking engagements, creative strategy, and consulting. The Resource Key is grounded in inclusive impact branding and building community.

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ThinkNimble

Entrepreneur-friendly Software Development Agency

Who We Are?

We are your technical partners, your CTO, your business co-founders, and your fellow dreamers. Our job is to help you build modern technology to realize your organization’s vision. We do that by providing an authentic and honest perspective about how technology can impact your business goals. As socially focused entrepreneurs, these are our guiding principles as we build your dream technology.

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Toptal

On Demand freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, and product/project managers

Who We Are?

Toptal operates a curated network of highly-skilled freelance talent with business, design, and technology expertise that enables companies to scale their teams on demand through a flexible structure that fits your needs – be it hourly, part-time, or full-time help. Founded in 2010, and now the world’s largest fully remote workforce, Toptal has served more than 10,000 clients with a global network of talent numbering over 10,000 people in 100+ countries.

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UBS

Washington Wealth Management

Who We Are?

Building on its history of over 150 years, UBS Is committed to bringing its global resources to bear on the portfolios of high net worth individuals to help them pursue their wealth management goals.

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UserWay

The #1 web accessibility solution for WCAG, ADA and Section 508 compliance, trusted by over 1 million websites

Who We Are?

UserWay is a digital accessibility innovator. Our technologies make content — from websites to apps to PDFs — accessible for people with disabilities. We are trusted by the world’s leading brands. Our AI-powered accessibility widget makes over 1,000,000 websites more inclusive, and our solutions are secure, scalable, and compliant with global accessibility and data privacy standards. We believe that participation in society requires barrier-free access to online content for everyone. Our goal is to help level the playing field for people of all abilities.

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Ushare.to

Central communication hub for teams & clients with group chat, video meetings, shared files & tasks.

Who We Are?

uShare.to allow teams, partners and clients to unify scattered conversations in instant workspaces for all their communication and sharing needs. uShare.to was developed by HyperOffice, a pioneer in the cloud which has more than 15 years of experience delivering web-based communication and collaboration software for businesses. uShare.to has been designed to allow teams not only to work together internally, but bring their extended team customers, partners, and prospects into their collaborative sphere with zero friction. Features include: group chat, audio and video meetings, screen and file sharing,and  team task and schedule coordination. 

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Velocity Growth

At Velocity Growth, we give founders & entrepreneurs everything they need to grow & scale their business.

Who We Are?

Get Ready To Grow!
At Velocity Growth, we give you everything you need to grow your business. With hundreds of SOP’s, templates, videos, articles and more, it’s your one-stop shop for growth. Join 100’s of other startups that are taking their businesses to the next level, growing & scaling rapidly. Velocity Growth is led by talented operators and strategists with one goal in mind – helping the next generation of startups and small businesses to soar. Join our membership community or engage with us through our Velocity Growth Agency and invest in your future success.

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VensureHR

The Startup HR Partner

Who We Are?

VensureHR is the nation’s largest Professional Employer Organization helping startups successfully manage their human resource needs is a hallmark of VensureHR. Since 2004, we have delivered cost-effective strategies and practical solutions help startup hire top talent while reducing their burn rate. We help you support your business in the following areas: Payroll, Benefits, Workers Compensation and HR Compliance and Risk Management.

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Venture Co-Pilot

Venture Co-Pilot, Affinity Health Plan

Who We Are?

A first of its kind Health Benefits Plan that typically saves companies 20-60% on Health Insurance through collective bargaining, with no additional fees. Built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.

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Venture First

Venture First provides capital and financial services to growth-focused companies

Who We Are?

Venture First provides capital and financial services to growth-focused companies.  VF operates 3 funds and a suite of special purpose vehicles.  Services include Transactions, CFO, Valuation, Accounting, Research and Analytics. It takes more than a team of founders or a single service provider to scale a company⁠ — that’s why Venture First built an ecosystem of entrepreneurs, investors, and expertise to facilitate growth in the markets we operate in. We believe in long-term partnership. We often charge below market cash fees for our services and include long-term equity or bonus incentives for complete alignment. In our experience, this is how winning teams are formed and long-term alliances are established.

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VentureCount

Outsourced accounting, bookkeeping and CFO services specifically geared toward startups

Who We Are?

VentureCount provides outsourced accounting, bookkeeping and strategic level CFO services to startups as well as more mature growth stage equity-backed companies.  VentureCount offers a scaleable, redundant and flexible solution – either acting as your full blown finance team to include CFO and supporting team of certified accountants, or to work under the direction of a senior finance executive.  While your company is in fast growth mode, VentureCount is an excellent, cost-efficient option to help you cover needs such as: chart of accounts set-up and maintenance, AP, AR, payroll, monthly closes, financial modeling and capital raises. 

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W Ventures

Way More than just a VC

Who We Are?

W Ventures is a one-of-a-kind accelerator that combines three elements: the ability to do marketing communications work in exchange for equity, the financial backing and connections of a VC firm, and a beautiful incubator work space and living quarters for its founders. W Ventures focuses on high growth potential companies based in or willing to relocate to the Baltimore/Washington region. For information on eligibility criteria and how to apply, founders should visit www.wventuresllc.com.

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Warschawski

Full-service, national boutique marketing communications agency that provides personalized care for every client

Who We Are?

Warschawski is a national, fully integrated agency and a Google Certified Agency Partner that offers the following services under one roof: Advertising, Digital, PR, Branding, Marketing Creative Design, Web Development, Social Media and Crisis Communications. Warschawski delivers the experience and expertise of a large firm coupled with the personalized attention and care of a boutique agency. Warschawski has been named the “U.S. Small Agency of the Year” for 3 years in a row and for 10 consecutive years has been ranked one of the top 30 “Best Agencies to Work For.” The company, whose clients include Fortune 500 and Inc. 500 companies, has won more than 200 awards for its marketing communications work in 15 years. Warschawski was founded in 1996 and has offices in New York, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Miami and Dallas.

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YMS Value

Your Trusted Advisor

Who We Are?

YMS Value is a business valuations and advisory firm providing a broad range of services including business valuations, mergers and acquisitions consulting, profit enhancement and other financial advisory services. We offer the technical expertise of larger CPA and valuation firms, combined with personalized attention, and deliver timely results in every engagement. YMS Value has been working with technology and life sciences companies for many years, and our clients span a range from early-stage start-ups to larger multinational corporations.

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Zccounting

Nurturing Startup Success with Expert Bookkeeping and Accounting

Who We Are?

At Zccounting.com, we understand the pivotal role of meticulous bookkeeping in the success of early-stage startups. Our services are laser-focused on providing comprehensive bookkeeping solutions, complemented by accounting, tax, payroll, budgeting, modeling, and fundraising support. We’re not just about balancing books; we’re about laying a solid financial foundation for your burgeoning business. Tailored specifically for startups, our approach ensures that you have clear financial visibility and control from day one. We believe in growing with you, adapting our services as your startup evolves, ensuring that your financial management is as dynamic and innovative as your business ideas. Partner with Zccounting.com, where we make every number count in your entrepreneurial journey.

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