public-private-partnerships
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The Company That Builds the Room Where Power Meets
Richard Attias & Associates sells something harder to explain than an event and more valuable than a stage: a temporary center of gravity for people who rarely share a room.
The Company That Sells the Space Between a Handshake and a Headline
For nearly half a century, Strategic Partnerships has worked the overlooked territory between institutions - where a university needs an employer, a nonprofit needs a governor, and a good idea needs someone powerful to notice.
The Scientists Who Learned to Speak Washington
A small Washington firm found a lucrative gap between the laboratory and the legislature. Its job is to make good science legible to the people who fund it.
The 105 Knocks on Greenville's Door
A county-created nonprofit turns confidential inquiries into factories, tax agreements and paychecks. Its real product is not land or money, but a shorter distance between a corporate maybe and a public yes.
Meteorite makes the meeting after the meeting matter
A coalition needs more than a group photo. Meteorite builds the commitments, tools and working relationships that help companies turn a shared cause into something they actually do.
The Venture Firm That Put Columbus on the Cap Table
Rev1 Ventures took a regional startup club, rebuilt it as public-private infrastructure and learned to sell Ohio's least glamorous advantage: everyone useful is already in the room.
Québec Tech Is Building an Export Team, Not Another Startup Club
Québec has no shortage of clever technology. Québec Tech is betting that the missing machinery is commercial - a selective, publicly backed route from local proof to international revenue.
French Tech Méditerranée: €100 and a Better Address Book
In Gard and Hérault, an entrepreneur-run association turns national startup programs into local introductions. Its real test is what happens after the handshake.
Startups.st sells the work behind the startup dream
From a ham-carver marketplace in Cáceres to a European fellowship for women founders, Startups.st turns entrepreneurship policy into programs people can use. Its business is making the introductions, teaching the skills and keeping the work moving.
La French Tech La Réunion wants the next meeting to become a customer
France’s first overseas French Tech Capital is tackling a practical island problem: getting founders in front of the people who can buy, fund or unblock their work.
Plexal’s next race: turning startup introductions into contracts
Born on London’s Olympic campus, Plexal grew from workspace into a partner for government technology programmes. Its next test is helping the companies it supports win customers who keep buying.
Leaders International Wants Small Businesses on the Purchasing List
From Jordanian suppliers to Tunisian tourism, the nonprofit connects business support to buyers and jobs. Its projects show what that takes - and its accounts show the financial strain behind the work.
Las Rozas Innova gives startups a city to test in
A municipal company near Madrid connects founders with real users, turns public roofs into power plants and puts new technology through everyday tests. The useful part is what happens after the pitch.
Tech Istanbul Opens the Door to a City-Sized Customer
Free support is the easy part to explain. Tech Istanbul’s more interesting offer is a chance to test a startup’s product inside the machinery of Istanbul’s municipal services.
Central Japan’s Startup Pitch: The Factory Is Next Door
The Central Japan Startup Ecosystem connects founders to manufacturers, university labs and public support across Japan’s industrial heartland. Its most revealing story starts with a robot that would not sell.
HIEx Wants Health Startups to Escape the Pilot Trap
A good health invention can spend years waiting for a buyer. Geneva’s Health Innovation Exchange brings ministries, founders and investors together to help promising solutions reach the people they were built for.
Córdoba Has a Deal for Startups: Bring an Investor
Agencia Córdoba Innovar y Emprender puts public money beside private conviction. Its programs connect startup finance, university research and the unglamorous business of getting useful technology into companies.
Dubai Future Foundation has a city for your next experiment
A printed office, government-backed pilots and supervised regulatory trials reveal how Dubai Future Foundation works. Its most useful offer to innovators is access to the people who can put an idea to work.
SA Innovation Week wants the deal after the demo
South Africa’s new national innovation platform puts founders, funders and buyers in the same room. Its real test begins when the exhibition stands come down.
Next Challenge Foundation Is Giving Jeju Startups a Wider Map
From a startup base in Seogwipo to consumer interviews in Kuala Lumpur, the Korean accelerator is building routes into bigger markets. Its hardest test is what happens after the introductions.
Leading Cities wants your next climate idea to survive City Hall
The Boston nonprofit pairs startup training with prepaid city pilots. Its real test comes after the pitch: getting a charger onto a curb, a map into local hands, and a useful experiment into everyday service.
Lyonbiopôle works on biotech’s other problem: who opens the next door?
A promising discovery still needs partners, money and a route to patients. Lyonbiopôle has spent two decades organizing those introductions - and its new strategy puts the business end of science under the microscope.
At Newlab, the Pitch Has to Survive the Street
A Brooklyn shipyard became a home for hardware startups. Now Newlab is taking their inventions into ports, city streets and factories - where a working demo meets a much tougher audience.
Elmington Built a Housing Machine. Now It Has to Prove the Machine Can Keep Homes Affordable.
The Nashville firm turned recession-era opportunism into a vertically integrated housing business. Its next test is harder: making public-private affordability work at city-shaping scale.
Forte
Forte is a New York-based social enterprise that finances reskilling and workforce development at no cost to individuals or governments and without relying on philanthropy. Founded by Dr Nat Ware on an idea he developed during his economics PhD at Oxford, Forte (Financing Of Return To Employment) sits between funders of education and training and the providers who deliver it, so funders 'never fund failure' - they only pay when people are trained and placed into better jobs. Repayment is tied to the future income-tax uplift generated by newly employed workers. Forte has run programs across Australia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, the United States and Peru, and its model has been endorsed by the World Economic Forum.
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP)
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) is an infrastructure developer and holding company that builds and operates businesses reshaping how energy and digital systems work together. Founded inside Alphabet in 2017 and spun out as independent in 2019 by Sidewalk Labs veterans Jonathan Winer and Brian Barlow, SIP raised $400 million in 2020 backed by Alphabet and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. It identifies bottlenecks in physical infrastructure, then pairs technology with capital to create new operating companies - most recently Renew Home, a roughly one-gigawatt residential virtual power plant, and Verrus, which designs large-scale data centers that flex their grid draw on demand.