City Innovations | A Venture Studio

We help build digital businesses that will matter to the world. Our strategists, technologists, & capitalists all work to make sure you build the right thing and get it to the market faster.

Build the right thing

Wherever you are in your startup, our Product Validation Funnel methodology can help you test, validate, and re-calibrate until you’re certain that your idea has a solid product-market fit.

Your partner from zeroRight Caretone

From ‘idea’ to ‘market ready’ the City Innovations team helps founders envision, experiment, bootstrap, build, and scale their sustainable digital ventures and products.

Lean Start-up | Applied

Our CEO & Managing Partner Josh Barker talks about his lessons learned in Silicon Valley, and the importance of Lean Startup in Digital ventures. (3mins)

Too many times founders hire consultants to “building the thing right” but have not ensured they are ‘building the right thing’. Here is a 3 minute video about how we envision, experiment, bootstrap, build then scale your venture.

Getting from ‘Idea’ to ’Market Acceptance’ is not a leap

The City Innovations’ process first takes you from concept to the first 10 customers. Together we take what we have learned to get 100 customers. And with this understanding we define features and messages that get to scale. This is why we help you design small and test to ensure the product is right before we scale. We think of it as “Scooter, Bike, Motorcycle, Car”.

The confidence to invest

We help you navigate capitalization with strategies, advisory services, investor communications, and creative capital.

How have you funded your Idea so far?

Unfunded

You have an idea for an innovative product or service. But no venture funding has been solicited because the ideas have not been defined or validated with outside advisors or prospects

Seed

Seed funding has been reached and the idea has enough definition to develop a Minimum Marketable Product. Some validation is required to ensure Product Market Fit.

Startup

Startup financing has been secured to get the first one full-time members of the management team working on it.

1st Stage

The product or service has been fully launched, the company is 2-3 years old, but the goal now is to ramp up production and sales.

2nd Stage

The business is ready for expansion of the business. It could be as simple as increased marketing or as complex as entering new markets.

Bridge

Mezzanine financing to either prepare a company for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) to take it public. It can also be used to prepare a company for its sale to another company.

We can help Coach and Model your Idea to gain funding.

City Innovations can help you Roadmap, Prototype, Validate, and develop Go to Market Strategies to help you find Investors.

Once you have begun to scale, we can be alongside your team to monitor success against goals, prototype new features and help communicate with Investors. In some ventures we can provide ongoing, Technical Leadership.

Case Studies

1:1 Mentoring & Teaching Platform

  • Go-to-Market Roadmap
  • Investor Communications
  • Software Development
  • MVP Onboarding
  • Acting CTO/Creative Capital

Vaccine Management SaaS Platform

  • MVT – Early Prototype
  • MVP – Market Test
  • Product Roadmap
  • Product/Software Development

Round-up Application for in-line Donations

  • MVT – Early Prototype
  • MVP – Market Test
  • Product Roadmap
  • Product/Software Development