Funded Startups
Fuel Your Startup's Growth Through a Validation Playbook
As a newly minted startup, you’re ready to transform your idea into a reality. But going from idea to market acceptance doesn’t have to be a big leap if you have the right partner — one with a data-driven process to strategize, prototype, design, and grow ideas into customer-centric digital solutions.
With City Innovations, we’ll work with you to define features and messages that help scale your idea and make big waves in your market.
It’s time to create a digital venture that will matter to the world.
Co-Founding Your Venture
As co-founders, we take a select group of ventures each year and provide them with a myriad of services and insight for success.
MVP in Under 90 Days
Create a venture that scales. Launch your idea and core features through our game-changing Silicon Valley-powered accelerator in under 90 days.
Customer-Centric Software Development
Build lean digital solutions that your customers actually want — faster than anyone in your market using tech like open source, auto-code, and AI.
We leverage off-the-shelf software solutions that are flexible enough to tackle any application. With strategic recommendations based on code reviews, team interviews, and data discovery, you’ll receive a project roadmap with metrics and measurable results — making sure you’re on the path towards achieving your end goal.
Customer and User Experience Design (CX/UX)
Optimize your user experience to drive conversions, engagement, satisfaction, and retention.
Product Strategy and Growth
Move the needle using a data-driven approach to product management.
Our Growth Team helps develop go-to-market tools and strategies to engage your early market customers with web, social, inbound content, and outbound marketing.
Prototypes for Market Validation
Need to visualize your product before moving forward? By bootstrapping a working prototype, our user experience team can help you create clickable mockups that aid in validating your venture with quick-to-launch, low-fidelity tech and tactics — all before you invest in building the application.
Avoid the high upfront costs of software development and understand what features and behaviors your solution really needs.
Not ready for a co-founder yet? Here’s what we can do for you.
Free 6 Course Master Class
Build a Product that Achieves Exponential Growth
Join our Master Class to learn the secrets of the Market Validation Funnel™ to create a systematized way to validate your innovative ideas and bring your product to life.
Not ready for the Master Class just yet?
That’s okay, we have a host of courses and workshops that can help you take the scaleable steps to launch your venture and beyond.
Venture Workshop
Want to test your venture idea in the market? Take your idea and core features through our lean workshop to develop your Minimal Viable Product.
Venture
Builder
Start clarifying your digital products and ventures. With our immersive business model workshop, we’ll discover your business processes, uncover opportunities, and build the confidence to invest.
Google Design Sprint
Create a Minimum Viable Solution, using low-code/no-code and off-the-shelf software that answers critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers.
A Startup Friendly Approach to Funding
For many startups, you’re likely running on a finite amount of funding. This is where a partner like City Innovations can step in. We invest in startups we believe in by using Creative Capital.
Creative Capital allows us to dial down the hourly rate of work and dial up the profit sharing and equity split. This means you can invest your funding into other critical areas of your startup.
And Creative Capital goes beyond just funding. We offer ideation support, product-market-fit testing, early market messaging assistance, and help bringing your idea to life through development, as well as funding, coaching, and so much more — all to enable your startup with continuous growth and scale.
If you haven’t gotten the funding you need to get your startup off the ground, we can help. As your partner, we’ll assess how you’ve funded your idea so far and what you need to go from “zero to one.”
How have you funded your idea so far?
We can help you through each step of the process in order to find investors. Our Capital Investor Network can provide expertise and insight across the entire spectrum of company building. And once you’ve begun to scale, we come alongside your team to monitor success against goals, prototype new features, and help communicate with investors.