Control Group Information

Control Group is an operating platform that helps scientists turn research into companies. We provide the core business infrastructure science-first founders need—company formation, legal and banking setup, market discovery, commercialization strategy, and grant positioning—so teams can focus on building the technology. We don’t charge fees. We take a single digit equity stake and align entirely with long-term success. We also support founders in strategy and writing for commercializable, non-dilutive funding programs such as SBIR and STTR, participating only in upside we help create. Control Group operates through a distributed partner network embedded in top research universities, with active partners at Pitt, CMU, Northwestern, and MIT. We also support faculty-led startups through CEO matching, enabling commercialization without leaving academia. Control Group brings business infrastructure to science that’s ready to scale.