StartupScience Reviews & Product Details

StartupScience is the infrastructure for the organizations that support startups. Accelerators, incubators, venture studios, universities, governments and chambers of commerce run their programs on one platform, alongside the advisors, investors and providers who serve their founders. It replaces the stack of spreadsheets, forms, email threads and separate tools most programs piece together today. StartupScience serves 125,000 founders and 50 Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs). Programs. Launch programs, build landing pages and application links, and manage every applicant on a simple board from submitted to in review to shortlisted. Run cohorts and events, and see programs, cohorts, applicants and events across your whole organization in one view. Nova, the built-in AI. Nova summarizes each applicant so reviewers can score faster and more consistently. It answers founder questions with the context of their startup, their activities and their program. Academy. Build and deliver founder courses and lessons inside your own branded academy, with collections, read and watch lessons, and progress tracking. Tools. A library of business simulators, including a cap table simulator, unit economics studio, runway and burn planner, fundraising round planner, exit waterfall simulator, exit readiness score, and total addressable market builder. Capital. Founders search investors by country, type and focus, and find non-dilutive grants alongside dilutive capital. Advisory. Build an advisor pool, match advisors to founders using your own match rules, run sessions, keep notes, and measure impact across the program. Marketplace. Providers list offers for founders, and ESOs can run the marketplace under their own white label. Resources. A knowledge base and templates founders can use on their own time. StartupScience is built on the Startup Lifecycle and Startup Architecture frameworks created by Gregory Shepard from a five-year global research initiative into why startups succeed and fail. Gregory Shepard is the author of The Startup Lifecycle, a Fulbright Scholar and co-founder of the Fulbright Entrepreneurship Initiative. The platform puts that research to work, so every program, advisor and founder works from the same playbook. Who it's for: accelerators, incubators, venture studios, universities, government innovation programs, chambers, advisors, investors and service providers.