Communitech Edge
Kick your startup off at the best address for tech.
Communitech Edge is truly your startups edge – top-notch business and technical advice and true market validation – with opportunities to directly access leading industry brands.
Edge offers six months of free communal desk space at the Communitech Hub, where you’ll be surrounded by other hustling startups, mid-size companies and big brands. But it doesn’t end there; program includes:
- Weekly accountability meetings to help you hit your product-development and traction milestones
- Product, business strategy and customer validation expertise from Communitech’s Executives in Residence
- Office hours with a technical Google rep and potential connections to Google execs and mentors
- Introductions and exposure to Fairfax companies and brands where appropriate, i.e. Cara restaurants such as: Harvey’s, Montana’s, and Milestones; Insurance companies such as Northbridge, Federated, TruShield, and Pethealth; Digital media companies such as Rouge Media Group, and Boat Rocker Media.
- Access to expertise inside the FairVentures Lab at Communitech (support for product design, software development, product management, etc.)
- Access to Communitech’s Strategic Growth Team’s educational and revenue-generating programs
- Access to events and opportunities with investors, advisors and service providers
Who qualifies? Startups who …
- Have a diverse founding team
- Can demonstrate customer validation (have done customer interviews or have beta/ paying customers)
- Have a prototype or MVP
- Are somewhere between ideation and discovery stage
- Are able to relocate the team to the second floor of Communitech Hub for duration of six-month program
- Are eager to learn, network and fully tap into the resources and opportunities offered through Communitech
- Have a social focus (an asset, as two spots per cohort will be reserved for social ventures)
