Sponsors

Lean Startup Company teaches practical, hands-on methods that ensure rapid acquisition and long-term retention of core skills that support continuous innovation and sustainable growth. We provide customized, interactive in-person training, virtual coaching, and consulting based upon your current goals and challenges. Our faculty members are the most expert Lean Startup practitioners and teachers in the world. We travel to any location worldwide to help groups ranging in size from a small number of executives to medium-sized project/product teams to large sets of cross-functional teams. Want to find out more? Send an email to [email protected]

Pivotal transforms how the world builds software. Pivotal combines the Silicon Valley state of mind, modern approach, and infrastructure with organizations’ core expertise and values.

Bionic is an army of entrepreneurs igniting growth revolutions inside the world’s largest companies. We believe enterprises can grow like startups again – because that’s where they began. And we believe venture capital and entrepreneurship are the new forms of growth management. We’ve created a unique approach to enterprise growth that we call the Growth OS – a platform that combines the mechanics, tools, and mindsets of entrepreneurship and VC that ultimately grafts a sustainable growth capability inside our Partners.

Moves the Needle ignites entrepreneurial action within organizations by educating, enabling and empowering people to be closer to the customer, move faster and act bolder. Leveraging design thinking and Lean Startup principles tailored for the enterprise, Moves the Needle's lean innovation bootcamps, accelerator programs and strategic advising create immediate and lasting impact.

GLIDR is the leading SaaS platform for innovation portfolio management, empowering teams with a toolset to accelerate the exploration and evaluation of projects and enabling leaders to gain control over their innovation investments by collecting, organizing and analyzing metrics across the full portfolio. GLIDR is built by Launchpad, which was founded by some of the pioneers of Lean Innovation. Our software has been used by 20,000+ innovation teams in 90 countries, at organization like W.L. Gore, Unilever, Cisco, Google, Black & Veatch, Intel, Duke Energy, NSF, NIH and DoD.
GLIDR by Launchpad is a sponsor of Lean Startup events and a regular participant in the Lean Startup community.
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Clevertech is a digital product innovation studio that has been partnering with visionary founders, serial entrepreneurs, sophisticated investors, and C-level executives to help create new businesses and drive product innovation for over fifteen years. With a team of over 150 savvy technologists and designers, Clevertech has helped launch products on the web and mobile that have received over $1.5B in venture funding, been featured on Shark Tank, and has digitized entire businesses to embrace our new mobile world. Based in New York City and with a distributed team across North America and Western Europe, Clevertech works with founders and executives across the globe.

MURAL is a digital whiteboard that allows teams to collaborate in real time. We make remote design work by enabling distributed creative teams to collaborate on researching, brainstorming and designing ideas.

Expert designers and developers who turn your idea into the right product. Clients hire us to solve problems for people. We interview potential customers. We sketch. We prototype. We make and ship working software. We measure use of the software. We like to work face-to-face with our clients. We bring their visions to life at our offices with not much more than whiteboards, sticky notes, sketchbooks, laptops, phones, computer code, and good old human connections. thoughtbot was founded in 2003 and has offices in Boston, San Francisco, New York City, London, Raleigh, Austin, and Washington, DC.

Philosophie is a digital innovation firm with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. We help large organizations validate and develop their promising ideas through rapid UX prototyping and testing. Whether it’s to reduce costs, explore emerging markets, or improve the customer experience, we apply a startup mentality and toolset to deliver meaningful progress faster than you think is possible.

The Garage Group is a Lean Innovation and Growth Strategy firm that hustles to enable corporate teams to apply startup-inspired approaches against their toughest innovation and growth challenges. Check your “we can’t do thats” at the door. We bring battle-tested approaches to allow you to think and act bolder. Courageous Minds Only.

Econic connects startups & enterprises to accelerate innovation. Our collaborative Innovation Outpost is the Midwest's first corporate accelerator lab designed to help new innovators learn, interact and connect with experts and peers in the world of startup-driven innovation, while our Inside Outside Innovation podcast explores the ins and outs of innovation with raw stories, real insights, and tactical advice from the best and brightest in the world of startups & innovation. Contact us to learn how to think, move, and execute at startup speed.

No one understands startups like SVB. From Stripe to Pinterest and Jive to Cloudera, we’re the platform that powers the world’s most disruptive technologies. And unlike a typical bank, we were founded in Silicon Valley, so our products have been designed alongside founders just like you and are honed for the unique needs of rapidly growing technology startups. So take the guesswork out of banking — we have everything you need to get set-up, get running, and most importantly - get back to building.

Everything you need to know about Design Thinking, and Design Sprints with the perfect integration of Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile. Learn the skills and tools you need to plan and execute your own Design Sprints. Get certified online, and join a growing global community of Design Sprint Masters. You'll learn two approaches: Google Ventures (SPRINT) and The MVS, Minimum Valuable Service (THE SERVICE STARTUP). From our four-week online program to the in-company workshops, we focus on empowering individuals and organizations to become masters in creating things people love.

At UC Berkeley Executive Education, we serve leaders and organizations who aspire to redefine the future of business. Our profound and unique learning experiences, led by renowned UC Berkeley faculty, equip global executives and their organizations with the vision, culture, and capabilities to thrive in an ever-changing world. In addition to their award-winning research, our faculty have deep connections with international and Silicon Valley companies, bringing real-world, actionable insights into the classroom. To review our portfolio of programs for individuals, or to learn more about our custom program offerings, please visit executive.berkeley.edu.

West Agile Labs is a Digital Product Agency based in San Francisco. Through our design, development and consulting services we build working products, foster close relationships and help incredible companies grow. Our clients included startups building their MVPs all the way to large enterprise clients building internal and external applications.

Balsamiq is the maker of Mockups - https://balsamiq.com/products/mockups - the rapid wireframing software that combines the simplicity of paper sketching with the power of a digital tool so that teams can focus on what's important. Balsamiq is a small and personable company that competes on usability and customer service. Balsamiq believes work should be fun, and that life is too short for bad software.

WeWork is the community for creators. We transform buildings into beautiful, collaborative workspaces and provide infrastructure, services, events and technology so our members can focus on doing what they love.

Sense & Respond Press publishes short, beautiful, actionable books by leading practitioners in the field of innovation, digital transformation, product management, and design. Our readers are smart, busy, practical innovators. Our authors are experts working in the fields they write about. Our first titles will be available in the fall of 2017. Series co-editors Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden wrote Lean UX (O’Reilly) and Sense & Respond (Harvard Business Review Press) together. In 2017 they were short-listed for the Thinkers50 award for their contributions to innovation leadership. Learn more about Jeff and Josh at www.jeffgothelf.com and www.joshseiden.com.