Project SCIFI Competitors

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)

InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s smartest companies. We exist to make every kind of work more collaborative, inclusive and impactful. Between our platform, our practices, and our community, we enable tens of thousands of organizations to improve their processes and workflows so they can get the most out of their most valuable asset: their people. Today, more than 7 million people across global enterprises and small teams come to us when they are looking to transform the way they work together. The heart of InVision is Freehand, our online digital whiteboard. Teams use Freehand to brainstorm, create, test, and develop new ideas; unify and connect team members across disciplines and distances; and improve workflows, maintain a single source of truth, and more efficiently make actionable decisions. Our platform allows teams to collaborate at any point with stakeholders, giving individuals the visibility and know-how they require to drive work forward. InVision customers include 100% of the Fortune 100, and organizations including American Express, Adidas, Boeing, Ford Motor, Netflix, HBO, Ikea, Slack and Virgin Atlantic.

Synapse Studios is a top-tier full-stack JavaScript consultancy, working with startups and Fortune 500s alike. We build high impact web and mobile apps for some fantastic companies, but we go deeper than that: we work to build multi-year partnerships with our clients and uncover and solve the real problems they face. We're an entirely US-based firm, and experts at product development, agile and lean practices, digital transformation and corporate innovation, and bringing our amazing team to bear on some of the hardest problems out there. We're a collection of mentors, thought leaders, engineers, designers, testers, and product people and we're here to work in the trenches with your team to get things done and make a real impact. We also write a LOT of Node and React, and we've been building apps in React Native since it was first announced.