Program Perks & Resources

Brex

Brex makes it easy to get your complete business account set up the right way, with credit cards, cash management, expenses, and accounting in one place.

Insperity

Insperity provides full-service HR, employee benefits administration and HCM software to America’s best businesses, allowing founders like you to focus on growth while leaving your HR needs to us.

Carta

Carta helps companies and investors manage their cap tables, valuations, financing rounds, and equity plans. 

As part of our partnership, Plug and Play companies get access to exclusive perks across Carta products. Here is the link to sign up for either our free Launch plan or one of our paid plans with a 25% first year discount and waived implementation fees. Alternatively, reach out to partners@carta.com to learn more!"

Plaid

Plaid is a technology platform that enables applications to connect with users’ bank accounts.

Chemical Angel Network

The Chemical Angel Network provides a forum to present business proposals to a network of highly qualified and experienced accredited investors who are interested in providing funding, mentorship, contacts, and technical expertise to support deserving companies.

Innovation Network for Advanced Materials (INAM)

INAM supports innovative Advanced Materials and adjacent technologies, ideas, products and processes in the business and technical challenges of this field through a variety of curated services, events and programs.

Since 2016, INAM's global network has been fostering collaboration between Startups, SMEs, Corporations, Researchers and Investors, thereby accelerating the global market entry of innovations in a number of industry sectors.

Spectacle

Spectacle is the Agency for Change Agents. We've helped clients from startups to global powerhouses to grow smarter and faster - by better understanding what drives their consumers and building brands that win in the market.

We've worked across a wide variety of industries and have helped businesses from VC-backed startups to some of the world's most recognized brands like Slack, Webflow, T-Mobile, and The New York Times. 

Our Service Offerings Include: Brand Positioning Strategy, Naming, Logo / Visual Identity, Product & Experience Innovation, Consumer Insights (primary research), Content Strategy and Creative Campaign Development.

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Laurie McGinley

For climate focused startup founders

I run a four session group that is designed to help early stage, climate focused startup founders break through barriers that hold them back. We cover the four topics I offered this week in depth during four, 90 minute meetings. Groups are limited to six people, cost is $900. Sign up for an info session here. Read all about it here. 

Private coaching

If you want to move fast and are ready to do what it takes to get results, let's talk and see if private coaching is for you. We will define your breakthrough and work towards it furiously until you have what you need to get it. Cost is $3k/month and the average time to breakthrough is four months. Find a time to talk and see if it is right for you here.

Cushman & Wakefield Tenant Advisory Group

Cushman & Wakefield’s Tenant Advisory Group specializes in working with startups to minimize their real estate costs while enabling them to focus on their core business. By providing strategic real estate advisory, we ensure our clients achieve a real estate outcome that thoroughly satisfies key financial, operational and business goals. 

We support startups with finding their first office or facility, relocation, lease negotiation, lease renewals and more. For information on our team and to get in touch with us, click here.

Ron Erd

Unlocking Growth partners with companies to build strategy and roadmaps to big deals with large corporate customers.  Unlocking Growth works with Seed to Series C companies to create, Strategy, Go-To-Market and pathways to exponential growth. 

Ron Erd, CEO of Unlocking Growth, is 5x CEO and now provides strategic guidance as an advisor, consultant or Interim Executive to build strategy, momentum and a permanent team. For more information, click here.

Enduring Planet

The Enduring Planet Grant Advance is specifically tailored to the needs of government-backed climate entrepreneurs, offering quick working capital to execute on a grant, without having to wait for the state/federal agency to make milestone payments or reimburse for expenses. We've worked with over a dozen companies to date (check out our case studies here); applications take ~10 mins, we cut term sheets in ~1 week, and typically fund in 30 days.