The Startup Science Operating System

Run the whole program from one founder record.

Applications, cohorts, curriculum, mentor sessions, perks and reporting all write to the same profile. Founders enter their information once. Nobody reconciles anything at quarter end.

Accelerators, incubators, universities, chambers and economic development agencies in 40+ countries.

The platform, in fullSix surfaces
01Program ManagementApplications through graduation and alumni
02Academy & CurriculumReleased against lifecycle phase, not a calendar
03Mentorship EngineMatching, sessions, notes, tasks, oversight
04Capital AccessGrants, investor directory, raise pipeline
05Marketplace1,000+ curated deals and service providers
06Analytics & ReportingCohort, founder, mentor and sponsor views
All six read and write the same Unified Startup Profile.
150+
Entrepreneur support organizations
88K+
Startups with a profile
40+
Countries they operate in
1,000+
Curated deals and providers
$4M+
Saved by founders to date
Partnered withFulbright Canada  /  Angel Capital Association  /  SAVI  /  University Canada West  /  Leading Cities
The problem

The ecosystem was assembled, not designed.

No program chose the stack it is running. It accumulated. A form tool arrived for applications one year, a course platform the next, a spreadsheet for scoring because the course platform could not do it, and a deck built by hand for the sponsor at the end of every quarter.

Each of those systems holds a different version of the same founder. None of them holds all of it.

01
Twelve to twenty tools that do not talk
An LMS, a CRM, spreadsheets, a messaging app, form builders and an analytics dashboard. Most are priced per seat, so inviting a mentor costs money before it produces anything.
02
No single version of a founder
Six systems hold six partial profiles. Nobody can say where a founder actually is this week without opening all six and reconciling them by hand.
03
Admin grows in a straight line
Doubling cohorts means roughly doubling coordinator hours. That's the ceiling most programs hit, and it's why good programs stay small.
04
The founder pays for it twice
They fill in the same company details for the application, the LMS, the mentor intake form and the perks directory. When the program ends, the record ends with it.
The solution

One record underneath all of it.

Every module writes to the same Unified Startup Profile. A founder finishes a course, logs a mentor session, redeems a perk or updates their traction numbers, and it lands in one place. Reporting stops being a project and becomes a view.

We're not trying to replace the tools you like. We replace the gap between them.

Today
A founder’s progress lives in six systems
Quarterly reporting is rebuilt by hand
Mentors read a doc before every session
Perks sit in a directory nobody opens
Sponsors wait months for a narrative they cannot check
The record ends when the program ends
On one record
One profile, updated by whoever touches it
Reporting is a saved view of live data
Mentors open the session already briefed
Offers surface when a gap appears in the profile
Sponsors read cohort outcomes as they happen
The founder keeps the record and takes it with them
What you get

Six surfaces, one data model.

Turn on the surfaces you need. They share the same founder record, so adding one later is a setting rather than a migration.

SurfaceWhat it doesWhat it usually replaces
Program Management
Branded application pages, applicant pipelines, scoring, cohort timelines, events, graduation and alumni tracking.
Form builder, scoring spreadsheet, project tracker
Academy & Curriculum
Pathways, courses, collections, badges and certifications, released against a founder’s lifecycle phase rather than a course calendar.
Standalone LMS
Mentorship Engine
Matching on need, scheduling, session notes, task tracking and admin oversight. A mentor opens the call already knowing where the founder is.
Calendar links, shared docs, session spreadsheets
Capital Access
Grant finder and AI grant writer, investor directory, and a fundraising pipeline that reads real traction instead of a static deck.
Grant databases, CRM deal boards
Marketplace
1,000+ curated deals and service providers, surfaced when a matching gap shows up in the founder’s profile. $4M+ in founder savings recorded so far.
Perks page, PDF partner list
Analytics & Reporting
Cohort benchmarking, founder progress, mentor impact and sponsor ROI, drawn from the same data every other surface writes to.
The quarterly deck somebody builds by hand
Who logs in

Five roles, five views of the same profile.

A mentor and a sponsor should not be looking at the same screen. They don't need the same information, and one of them shouldn't see most of it. Each role gets a view built around the work they actually do, reading from the record everyone shares.

Getting started

Most teams are live inside a week.

There's no implementation phase to budget for and no warehouse to stand up. Setup is configuration, and your own team can do it.

Day one
Set up the portal
Brand it, configure your programs, import the mentor roster. Most teams finish this in an afternoon.
Week one
Onboard the ecosystem
Founders build their profile once. Mentors get matched on need. Everyone lands in the view for their role without being trained on it.
From then on
Run it, then read it
Run cohorts, watch founder progress change as it happens, and show a sponsor what their money produced without building anything for them.
Leading Cities uses Startup Science to host curriculum for founders, provide tools like TAM/SAM/SOM and Market Sizer, manage cohort communications, and track founder-to-org workflows.
Ava Halstead
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Leading Cities
While mentoring senior entrepreneurs, my fellow EIRs and I always notice gaps in basic entrepreneurial education, which often holds them back from achieving their goals. Hence, we recommend every entrepreneur, however experienced or qualified, to go through StartupScience.
KC Chaudhuri
Founder and EIR, Pitch Global

See it running your programs.

Half an hour, your actual cohort structure, no slides. If it isn't a fit for how you work, we'll tell you.