Accelerators
Help your hardware clients scale up quickly
NextCorps’ Manufacturing Accelerator helps entrepreneur support organizations by providing the tools needed to assess their readiness to scale up and focusing their time and financial resources on the most important projects required at their current stage of development.
Contact us to find out how you can get involved!
Program Benefits
Manufacturing CUrriculum
Offer your client access to curriculum designed to help hardware clients focus their resources
Mentor Training
Get Train the Trainer materials for mentors to assist their hardware clients
Expand Your Network
Connect with a nationwide ecosystem of technical and financial resources.
How it Works
Instruction
We provide 8 weeks of instructor led sessions inspired by the Department of Defense’s Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) methodology.
Documentation
We work with the startups to develop critical documentation for their product, including their Technical Drawings, Product Requirements Document, Bill of Materials, Quality Plan.
Introduction
We connect you and your MEP in order to match startup teams with appropriate contract manufacturers and suppliers to help them scale up production
Testimonials
“Too often startup companies discover that commercialization of a product is more than showing a contract manufacturer a prototype and asking them to build a lot more. Helping a company early to understand the steps necessary to build a quality product is a much better use of a founder’s time than trying to do it through self-discovery. We have found that companies that use the MRL assessment process and participate in a manufacturing accelerator are faster to market.”
KATHERINE O’BRIEN
VENTURE COACH
RIT VENTURE CREATIONS
“Determining the real technological and manufacturing maturity of a product is one of the biggest challenges we face when working with hardware startups. The NextCorps Manufacturing Accelerator Program provides an incredible, systematic framework for uncovering technical risks our companies didn’t even know they had. Working to mitigate these risks allows us to help these companies work far more successfully with US manufacturers.”
MATT VERLINICH
SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER
INNOVATION WORKS
