Innovation Catalyst
Helping organizations build thriving innovation ecosystems.
Most ecosystems don't lack ambition — they lack sequencing. This is the work of putting capital, talent, programs, and relationships in the right order.
Services
Ten places this work usually starts.
Engagements are scoped to your reality — a single workshop, a semester-long build, or a multi-year strategy.
Innovation strategy
A clear-eyed plan for what your organization should build, buy, and stop.
Startup ecosystem development
Density, capital, talent, and the relationships that connect them.
Women's entrepreneurship
Programs that move women from participants to founders and funders.
University innovation
Offices, studios, labs, competitions, and curriculum that compound.
Economic development
Regional strategy that measures ventures created, not events hosted.
Corporate innovation
Venture clienting, scouting, and internal studios with real governance.
Angel investor activation
Cohorts that turn local wealth into local early-stage capital.
Founder ecosystem design
The support stack founders actually use at each stage.
Innovation labs
Physical and programmatic design for prototyping and testing.
Innovation districts
Place-based strategy linking campuses, capital, and industry.
Programs
Three ways to work together.
Workshops
Half-day or multi-day intensives for boards, faculty, city teams, or corporate innovation groups.
Best for alignment and momentum.
Consulting
Embedded advisory across program design, capital formation, partnerships, and measurement.
Best for building something new.
Strategic planning
A written, sequenced multi-year plan with owners, budgets, and metrics your leadership can hold.
Best for institutional commitments.
How it works
Diagnose honestly. Sequence carefully. Measure publicly.
Every engagement begins with a map of what already exists — the programs, the capital, the talent, and the relationships that quietly carry the region or campus. Then we name the actual gap, which is almost never the one in the press release.
From there: a sequenced plan, a small number of visible wins, and metrics an ecosystem can be held to — ventures formed, capital deployed locally, founders retained, students placed.
“An ecosystem is not a set of programs. It is a pattern of relationships that keeps making new things possible.”