Startup Space prioritizes innovation focused on how resource providers and consumers connect with one another. They also emphasize the user experience, utilizing cutting-edge technologies developed by industry leaders like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Reddit.

This is a platform for supporting entrepreneurs and resources in emerging tech ecosystems, connects, monitors, and measures local startup activity while tapping into a global network of mentors and coaches.

Entrepreneurial Challenges

Businesses have been using outdated strategies. Examples include how programs are currently run, especially diversity and inclusion programs, as well as push back from innovation without evolving in a way that truly engages and assists new entrants within the startup arena. Rustbelt cities, underserved communities, minorities and marginalized people have been faced with the hardest impacts regarding this resistance.

Innovation and Efficiency

Startup Space addresses this major pain-point for entrepreneurial ecosystems by focusing on two critical ingredients — innovation and efficiency — both of which formulated the foundation of their earliest designs and now guides their vision for ecosystem solutions of the future.

The efficiency of the platform has been designed around outcomes and how ecosystems measure impact. Startup Space addresses questions regarding the effectiveness of events, entrepreneur engagement, the impact of mentors, the usefulness of educational programs and the utilization of physical community space.

Solution to Connectivity and Measurement

For ecosystem-building partners, Startup Space co-brands their tools to present communities with a joint offering. These tools include:

·       Secure, private communities within the Startup Space platform

·       Content library where all proprietary content is securely loaded and accessed

·       Curated resource directory that highlights outstanding businesses and service providers within a given community

·       Coworking space management

·       Live town halls that help synchronize the experience of virtual and physical meetups

·       Dashboards and other data analysis tools for quantitative measurement of effectiveness

·       Customized surveys representing qualitative data on a given ecosystem

·       Mobile app and an adaptive website