TechTown can help you validate your tech idea, conduct customer discovery interviews, gain sales traction, optimize operations and access capital. We now support mobility innovators with ideas, innovative technologies or tech startups that involve the movement of people, products, information and services in cost-efficient, energy efficient and accessible ways. View our portfolio of tech-based clients.
TechTown’s Tech Programs are primarily cohort-based. Founders from various tech industries are invited to apply for our entry-point program, Start Studio Discovery, which is held twice a year. Upon completion of Start Studio Discovery, founders can be referred to participate in more advanced programs, including Start Studio MVP and Traction, as well as work with the Growth Capital team to explore funding options. The final program offering for our Tech Programs is the Catalyst Angel Program for accredited investors. This program accepts applicants on a rolling basis.
One of the most inclusive and supportive tech-based startup programs in the region, Start Studio is designed for aspiring startup founders with a tech-based business idea they want to test in the real world. Start Studio Discovery is focused on validating early tech ideas through customer discovery interviews while Start Studio MVP helps founders to create revenue-generating MVPs.
Scale Studio is a multiweek program is for established, revenue-generating service and consulting-based companies. The program focuses on helping participants document and convert their intellectual property into tech-enabled content through weekly online sessions and coaching. Scale Studio simplifies the tech process while giving founders tools to reach their revenue goals and elevate their business.
A highly focused program to help tech startups with a revenue-generating minimum viable product establish their path to recurring, predictable revenue. Traction aids founders in optimizing sales processes through biweekly meetings, weekly tracking and a sales leaderboard.
Capital supports entrepreneurs who have completed a TechTown program, or who are part of the TechTown community, with access to capital to grow or scale their business. Recognizing that funding is often a barrier to growth, we are committed to providing content, resources and tangible tools to access funding.
TechTown is in the beginning stages of forming tech clusters to connect founders to industry leaders, resources and other partners in the ecosystem leading industry-specific work. One example is MedHealth, an initiative that supports founders in Michigan and Ontario, Canada, who are dedicated to solving challenges in the medical field through medical device and digital health innovation. The Mobility Accelerator Innovation Network (MAIN) offers direct support, resources and opportunities for mobility-based founders in Michigan to create more fundable, accessible and successful mobility companies.
MedHealth is a regional collaboration connecting, convening, and educating the medical innovation ecosystem in Southeast Michigan and Southwest Ontario to accelerate the adoption of technologies that improve quality of care and contribute to economic growth.
The Mobility Accelerator Innovation Network (MAIN) is one of six initiatives of the Global Epicenter of Mobility (GEM) that works to create partner alignment and opportunities to support more fundable, accessible and successful mobility companies. TechTown Detroit serves as the lead for MAIN in collaboration with seven partner organizations.
