The Innovators Program lays the foundation for talented and motivated founders to build great businesses.
We believe that nothing else matters until a startup
builds something that their customers love.
We help our founders develop the skill set and mindset to achieve this.
This is our initial focus with each founding team, once achieved we help them build their business.
Innovators Program Inc. is a partnership between HQ Raleigh and Nick O’Connor, designer and operator of previous Innovators Programs run by the Citrix Startup Accelerator. We also have a community of alumni founders and intrapreneurs.
Our mission is to transform the workplace and society by creating the right environment for the best and brightest founders to solve the most important problems.
A twelve week program that helps founders and internal innovators turn a good idea into a high growth business. Selected startups get $10K in equity free funding at the beginning of the program. At the end of the program, an additional $10k of equity free funding per team will be allocated to successful teams.
We are proud to have have both Citrix and Red Hat sponsor the 2017 Raleigh program.
A selection of startups that graduated from our programs in Silicon Valley CA, Raleigh NC, Santa Barbara CA, and Bangalore, India.
We use three custom-made applications for each program and its startups.
Custom design your startup application & selection process. Track tasks & communicate schedules internally & externally. Track startup team progress in real time.
Design and deliver interactive content and workshops for your startups. Capture and upload each team's learnings and continue interaction with mentors online.
For startup teams to easily track prospects through discovery and validation funnels. Uncover insights and interact with mentors and coaches in real time.
Responsible for program design, delivery, and marketing.
Managing Director
Program Director
Marketing Director
Startup Growth Team
Founders with first hand experience going from an idea to starting to build a successful company.
Founder & CEO at Savii Care
Co-founder and CEO at EmployUs
Founder and CEO at ActionWins
Founder and CEO at 3TEN8
Founder and CEO at Lucidcam
Founder and CEO at Ambygear
Founder and CEO at TripCloud
CEO at EHOP Health
Determines successful applicants, post program equity free funding allocation, and growth & investment program participants.
Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Services BU at Citrix
Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Red Hat
Founding Partner,
HQ Raleigh
Managing Director,
Innovators Program Inc
Investors who are big fans of our program and have made investments in alumni companies and / or are interested in future alumni.
Founder and Managing Partner
Cofounders Capital
CEO
Cherokee Investment Partners
General Partner
Bull City Venture Partners
Managing Partner
Alchemist Accelerator
Demo day summary
Partners & Sponsors of the program hosted at Citrix Online
Chief Technology Officer,
Citrix Online
Vice President,
Arrow Electronics
Sr. Vice President Philanthropic Services, Communications and Marketing,
Santa Barbara Foundation
Marketing,
Cox Business
Investors who are big fans of our program and have made investments in alumni companies and / or are interested in future alumni.
Partner,
Rincon Venture Partners
Chief Commercial Officer,
Apeel Sciences
President, Central Coast Network and Chairman Emeritus,
Tech Coast Angels
Managing Partner
Alchemist Accelerator
Program summary video
Partners & Sponsors of the program hosted at Citrix Startup Accelerator
Chief Technology Officer, Chief Innovation Officer & Chief Architect,
The Coca-Cola Company
President & CEO
Ricoh Innovations Corporation (RIC)
CTO
AMD
CIO,
SVB
Investors who are big fans of our program and have made investments in alumni companies and / or are interested in future alumni.
U.S. Venture Partners
Emergence Capital Partners
PivotNorth
Managing Partner
Alchemist Accelerator
Program Summary
Partners & Sponsors of the program hosted at Citrix
Co-Founder and CEO
,
Zinnov
Group Director, UX & Design,
Citrix
VP and GM Citrix India
Citrix
Serial Entrepreneur and Startup Advisor
Investors who are big fans of our program and have made investments in alumni companies and / or are interested in future alumni.
Managing Director
Inventus,
Capital Partners
Venture Partner, Advisor
Seed Fund,
Ojas Venture Partners
Co-Founder & Co-Chair
Harvard Business School Alumni Angels - India
Managing Partner
Alchemist Accelerator
3TEN8 demo day presentation