Where the next number came from: a new application, tested with real customers and taken to a signed term sheet, a field trial and a grant strategy.
Read the caseFor Portfolio Companies
The board gave you a number. Here's where it comes from.
Your board or investors have set a growth target. We help you find where it will actually come from, test it with real customers, and give your team the support of a corporate development and IP department without having to build one.
Results across every industry
2 acquisitions, no corporate development departmentWe did the build-or-buy research IMDEX’s leadership team needed.
12 R&D programs, one way of scoringBHP had twelve programs competing for attention. We scored each on relative value, so the best could be backed.
$20M Series AXTEND’s growth plan and IP held up in front of investors.
What we hear from leadership teams
“The board has given us a number. I can't yet show them where it comes from.”
“We have more good ideas than people to work on them.”
“Our best engineers are pulled in five directions at once.”
This usually happens when a company has won once and needs to win again. The first product worked. The next stage of growth needs something new, and the way you used to make decisions no longer fits.
Advice you grow into, not out of
As your advisors
For growing companies that don't yet have a full strategy or analytics team. We advise the leadership team on where growth will come from and how to get there, in a way that still fits as you grow.
As your corporate development and IP team
For companies with strong people but no full department behind them. We do the behind-the-scenes work: the research, the analysis, the IP and the deal support. Your leaders stay focused on moving projects forward.
What changes for your team
For the CEO
A growth plan you can defend to the board, with evidence behind every bet.
For business unit and technical leaders
Clear priorities, the data in their hands, and hands-on experience running larger growth projects.
For the board and investors
A plan built on the same evidence standard they'd use in due diligence, so it holds up to their questions.
Sixteen weeks from a number to a plan you can test
Weeks 1–4
Scan
We map the technologies, patents and markets around your business.
Weeks 4–8
Size
We test which markets are real and who's already there.
Weeks 8–12
Validate
We talk to customers and run measured experiments.
Weeks 12–16
Decide
Every bet gets a clear call: advance, hold or stop.
Growth capability without the corporate overhead
Large companies have corporate development and IP departments. Most companies from $25M to $150M in revenue don't, yet. We give you that capability now, at the size you are, and your people learn the method as they go.
What it looks like in practice
Helped the head of product and market decide what to build in-house and what to buy. The research led to two acquisitions.
Read the caseA plan your investors can trust
If you're PE-backed, your investors want to see where growth will come from. We build the plan with the same rigor they'd bring to a deal, so board conversations move from "where's the growth?" to "which bet do we fund first?" For Private Equity
Rapid Alpha's data-driven insights enabled us to drill down into the additional data the StrikeCo team needed to bring in investment, taking the hours of research required off the founding team's plates.
Questions from leadership teams
Do you replace our strategy team?
No. We work alongside the people you have and fill the gaps, so they can do more.
What size of company do you work with?
Mostly technical companies with $25M to $150M in revenue, many of them PE-backed.
Where do we start?
With a one-hour working session on your company, or the four-minute diagnostic if you'd like to see where your gap is first.
Is this corporate innovation consulting?
That's the usual label, yes. We do the work a corporate innovation team would do — the research, the analysis and the IP behind it — without you having to build the department.
Start with one conversation
Bring your growth number. In an hour, we'll look at it together and you'll leave knowing whether we can help.