The operating platform for
university accelerators
One platform for everything an entrepreneurship program does — the relationships, the founders, the events, the marketing, and the big nights — ready for whatever AI your institution trusts.
- CRM
- Ventures & Mentorship
- Events
- Marketing
- Competitions & Awards
- AI
One platform for the whole journey
From the first hello at a freshman pitch night to the check that funds a graduating venture — every layer of StartupForge is built for how entrepreneurship programs actually run.
The Foundation
Every relationship, remembered
Your ecosystem is bigger than any spreadsheet — students, alumni, mentors, judges, donors, partner companies, and the institutions behind them. StartupForge holds all of it in one living record, so nobody on your team ever asks "do we know anyone who…?" twice.
- The complete picture — every person, company, and institution, with the relationships, history, and context that connect them.
- A shared team wiki — procedures, playbooks, and institutional knowledge, so large operations run the same no matter who is on shift.
- Recall, not retrieval — search that understands what you mean and surfaces the right person, note, or page in seconds.
Dana Park
Mentor · Alumni '18 · VP Product, Corvid Health
Last note · Introduced to the Solara team, May 12
Ray Morales
Mentor · Founder, BioSignal (acquired '24)
Amara Klein
Judge · Partner, Ridgeline Ventures
Solara Energy
Founded by Priya N. · Team of 4
Dana Park · Mentor
Your unit economics slide is close — let's tighten CAC before Thursday's rehearsal.
Priya · Founder
Updated! We also reworked the channels worksheet — take a look.
Founder Development
Where ideas learn to become companies
Every venture gets a home — a place for founders to build with their team, hear from their mentors, and see how far they've come. Your staff sees the whole portfolio; every founder sees a program built around them.
- From idea to scale — founders manage their venture through every stage, coordinating with teammates and mentors through chat and shared notes.
- Teach the founder mindset — a curated reference library and interactive tools like the Business Model Canvas turn first-time entrepreneurs into practiced ones.
- Find the missing piece — a directory of people and skills across your community helps every team recruit the developer, designer, or operator they need to launch.
Community
From office hours to demo day
A program is measured by its moments. StartupForge runs the calendar behind all of them — the weekly and the once-a-year — and makes the door, the desk, and the badge table disappear.
- Calendars for every audience — public calendars your community subscribes to, private ones that let staff see operations across every set of activity.
- Events that run themselves — RSVPs, capacity, and walk-ins handled without a spreadsheet in sight.
- A five-second front door — in-person check-in with on-the-spot badge printing, so the line moves and the attendance lands in your CRM.
Demo Day 2026
Main Auditorium · 6:00 PM
212 / 260 checked in
Jordan Wells
Badge printedMei Tanaka
Badge printedSam O'Neal
Walk-in · registeredWelcome new applicants
Automation · running since Aug 4
Trigger
Application form submitted
Welcome from the director
Wait
3 days
Your invite: Fall Pitch Night
Reach
Marketing muscle, no agency required
The tools professional marketing teams pay a stack of subscriptions for — landing pages, forms, email, and automation — built in, and already connected to the community you serve.
- Launch in an afternoon — spin up polished landing pages, application forms, and email campaigns with drag-and-drop builders.
- Email done right — beautiful templates, personalization, scheduling, open and click reporting, and the deliverability details handled for you.
- Speak to segments, not the masses — slice your audience by program, interest, or history, and measure what actually resonates.
- Automation that never sleeps — drip campaigns and custom triggers welcome, remind, and re-engage while your team does higher-value work.
The Big Stage
Competition day, minus the chaos
The pitch competition is your program's biggest night — and its biggest operational lift. StartupForge runs the whole arc, from the first application to the moment the check clears.
- Applications without the paperwork — configure your application process in minutes and watch submissions organize themselves.
- Judging that feels fair — judges review and score against the rubric you design, in a view built just for them.
- A room that participates — live question and answer, audience questions, and audience voting bring the whole crowd into the moment.
- The story in the scores — detailed measurement and visualization of team performance, across every round.
- Awards that reconcile — team and individual awards tracked from announcement to payment, with clean exports for your accounting systems.
Solara Energy
New Venture Competition · Final Round
Problem & market
9 / 10
Traction
7 / 10
Team
8 / 10
The pitch
9 / 10
AI, on your terms
Bring the AI you trust.
We make it
useful.
No black boxes, and no new AI vendor to vet. StartupForge speaks the open standard that connects modern AI services — so your team can put the AI your institution has already approved to work across every layer of the platform, from finding the right mentor to prepping tomorrow's event.
- Your AI, your choice — works with whatever AI service your institution runs on, today and as the landscape changes.
- Secure to the core — AI acts only as the signed-in person, sees only what they are allowed to see, and works under the same permissions as the rest of the platform.
- People stay in charge — the moments that matter most, like approving payments and merging records, always take a human hand.
› Who from this fall's cohort hasn't RSVP'd to Demo Day?
tool find-people program="Fall 2026"
tool list-event-attendees event="Demo Day"
Six founders haven't responded. Want me to add them to the Demo Day reminders list?
› Yes, and create a task for me to follow up Friday.
tool add-list-members 6 people
tool create-task due=Friday
Done.
Built for the hardest review on campus
The questions your IT and security teams will ask first — answered before they ask.
Security without asterisks
Bank-grade encryption in transit and at rest, deny-by-default access policies on every record, and a full audit trail behind every change.
Your data, alone
Every organization runs on its own isolated instance. Your community's data never shares an environment with anyone else's — no crossover, no commingling, ever.
One login, any setup
A single account across every layer, with sign-in that meets your campus where it is — passkeys, passwords, or Google. Whatever your identity setup, we accommodate it.
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