The NSIN Defense Innovation Accelerator (DIA) matches breakthrough Department of Defense (DoD) lab technology with teams of entrepreneurs to solve the real-world problems of DoD and commercial customers. Entrepreneurs work with DoD lab inventors, mentors and subject matter experts from the Government and private sectors, and world class instructors to assess the market viability and the potential to commercialize DoD lab technologies.
DIA is an intensive 4-month cohort-based program executed in two phases: customer discovery and early company formation. Successful teams have gone on to form companies, license the technology from the labs and pursue various funding opportunities.
The NSIN Defense Innovation Accelerator (DIA) matches breakthrough Department of Defense (DoD) lab technology with teams of entrepreneurs to solve the real-world problems of DoD and commercial customers. Entrepreneurs work with DoD lab inventors, mentors and subject matter experts from the Government and private sectors, and world class instructors to assess the market viability and the potential to commercialize DoD lab technologies.
DIA is an intensive 4-month cohort-based program executed in two phases: customer discovery and early company formation. Successful teams have gone on to form companies, license the technology from the labs and pursue various funding opportunities.
Corporate Venture
/ˈkôrp(ə)rət, ˈven(t)SHər/
noun
Corporate Venture is about setting up structural collaborations with external ventures or parties to drive mutual growth. These external ventures are startups or scaleup companies that have found product/market fit that come from outside the organization.
We work with our corporate partners to deeply understand their needs, then we collect, synthesize, and analyze data on emerging tech from our differentiated pipeline. After evaluating the data based on partner fit, market assessment and competitive analysis we present the technologies to our client and make recommendations for next steps.
