Overview
If your team has received an Innovation Gap Fund award and is currently working with a CoMotion Innovation Manager to develop a plan for bringing your innovation to market, you’re invited to join the program.
In this program, your team will work with an expert mentor to apply lean startup principles to your innovation. Through personalized one-on-one mentorship and hands-on activities, your team will create an actionable plan with clear deliverables and milestones.
What you’ll do in the program
- Further your understanding of your customer and your market ecosystem.
- Identify pathways forward for launching your product.
- Prepare plans to address gaps in:
- Business Plan
- Technology de-risking
- Financials
- Team formation
What you'll get from the program
- Actionable plans with milestones for developing a compelling business plan.
- Identify how you can develop your product into something that can be disseminated.
- Determine what kind of non-dilutive funding you could seek out, as well as learn about the dilutive funding structures.
- Identify who you have on your team and who you will need on your team.
What participants have said
“Overall, it was a very enriching experience. I got to learn a lot about the commercial landscape and the regulatory landscape that I otherwise wasn’t aware of, and I really enjoyed working with CoMotion. Being able to think about things like building a team, how to think about IP and patents and protection — these are things we don’t really think about beyond just the development of the product. We had specific modules in Plan to Launch that addressed each of these concerns one by one.”
- Ashish Phal, Ph.D. candidate in UW Department of Bioengineering
“There were a lot of great highlights with the Plan to Launch program. We talked about fundraising through the lens of connecting with investors, and what would make this idea really exciting to venture capitalists, along with non-dilutive funding and grants and the whole range of possible ways to fund the company.”
- Conor Camplisson, Ph.D. candidate in UW Department of Genome Sciences
Questions?
Contact [email protected].