Your startup, on one profile.
Enter it once: you, your company and your venture. Academy courses, Nova, Marketplace perks and capital sources all work from the same profile.
Plans
Everything on the platform, plan by plan.
Start free on Commons. Each plan includes everything in the one before it. Platform plans are separate from Institute memberships. All prices in USD.
Commons
Includes
Your founder profile
Enter your startup once: you, your company and your venture. Use it across the platform.
Academy
Hundreds of courses and playbooks for the phase your company is in.
Resources
A library of templates and files, ready when you need them.
Discovery
Everything in Commons, plus
Nova
Your AI mentor. It reads your startup profile before it answers, so the advice fits your company.
Ping
Direct messages, group chats, threads and file sharing, without leaving the platform.
Marketplace perks
Offers on the tools and services startups use, with every redemption on your profile.
Launch
Everything in Discovery, plus
AI business tools
A dozen AI tools to model your cap table, unit economics, runway and market size. The analysis saves to your profile.
Capital sources
A searchable directory of about 1,000 capital sources, dilutive and non-dilutive. Filter investors by stage, check size and sector.
Where the work happens
Everything in one place
Your profile, sessions, milestones, perks and capital search sit in one place. The founder shown is a sample.
The founder profile
Company, stage, sessions and deliverables. Enter it once and use it across the platform.
On any screen
Works in your phone’s browser: this week’s sessions, what is due and what changed.
Mentor sessions
Notes, hours and action items, written once and shared with you.
Marketplace, from Discovery
Offers on the tools and services startups use. Included from the Discovery plan up.
Capital, on Launch
Search about 1,000 capital sources on the Launch plan.
The Startup Institute
Want it guided?
Start with Phase 1 of the Startup Institute: a live session every Wednesday, an assigned mentor and a peer cohort, all built on the same Startup Lifecycle. $99.95 a month, no application, and you can pause or cancel anytime.
Questions about the platform
Colin Christensen
Lead, Startup Institute · Office hours
Not sure which plan fits, or whether you want it guided? Book 15 minutes with Colin.
Yes. Commons includes your profiles, the Academy and Resources, and you don’t need a credit card to sign up. Move to Discovery or Launch when you want more.
Discovery adds Nova, your AI mentor, Ping communications and Marketplace perks. Launch adds AI business tools and a directory of about 1,000 capital sources. Each plan includes everything in the one below it.
Start on Commons. Move to Discovery when you want Nova and Marketplace perks, and to Launch when you’re ready to model your numbers and look for capital.
Yes. Discovery and Launch each have a yearly option at checkout, which costs less than paying month to month. All prices are in USD.
Nova is the AI mentor on the Startup Science (opens in a new tab) platform. Before it answers, it reads your startup profile (your details, your tools and your recent activity), so the advice fits your company. It’s included from Discovery up.
Not on its own. Launch gives you a searchable directory of about 1,000 capital sources, and you can filter investors by stage, check size and sector. The shortlist and the outreach are yours.
No. Anyone can start free. Institute members do their work on the platform, and the Institute membership doesn’t include a paid plan, so the two are separate.
Startup Science (opens in a new tab), the company Gregory Shepard founded. The platform is built on his Startup Lifecycle, and 100K+ startups are building on it.
Put your startup on one profile.
Start free on Commons, with no credit card. Add Discovery or Launch when you need more.
The company behind the platform and the Institute.