Our Partners
The Kauffman Foundation is our nation’s premier not-for-profit organization in the area of entrepreneurship. The vision of the Kauffman Foundation is to foster "a society of economically independent individuals who are engaged citizens, contributing to the improvement of their communities." In service of this vision, and in keeping with our founder’s wishes, the Foundation focuses on advancing entrepreneurship. The Kauffman Foundation is the 30th largest foundation in the United States , with an endowment of approximately $2 billion.
The MIT Enterprise Forum, Inc. builds connections to technology entrepreneurs and to the communities in which they reside. The Enterprise Forum produces a series of educational programs about entrepreneurship through a network of 24 worldwide chapters. Anyone interested in or involved with technology entrepreneurship is welcome to participate and join together to form the Enterprise Forum community.
http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu
The IPVision mission is to deliver the maximum value from our client’s intellectual property. IPVision develops and markets solutions that are core to dynamic intellectual property management, enabling its clients to easily identify valuable information in their own portfolios, in the portfolios of their competitors, and thoroughly analyze their strategic opportunities more quickly than with traditional approaches. IPVision's solutions offer businesses and professionals a single system to organize, prioritize and extract value from their IP assets.
Guidewire Group is a global market intelligence firm passionate about technology entrepreneurship. Its exclusive focus on early-stage companies and emerging technology markets drives insight and opportunity to our clients and community. Guidewire Group analysts meet with hundreds of innovative companies each year – from startups in stealth mode to established technology leaders – to assess their market potential and understand the impact these companies and their innovations will have on the markets they serve. This broad and deep view of the technology landscape, combined with years of experience and a deep respect for entrepreurs and early adopters, allows the Guidewire Group to develop a rich and unique perspective on key trends in global technology innovation.
"America’s economic strength and global leadership depend in large measure on our Nation’s ability to generate and harness the latest in scientific and technological developments and to apply these developments to real world application."
American Competitiveness Initiative