Startup Ecosystem

Enable your cohorts to move faster, secure more customers, and prove product market fit.

Building Stronger Innovation Ecosystems

You support the founders. We help you go further.

Incubators, accelerators, VCs, and public programs all face the same challenge: delivering real commercialization outcomes at scale.

We partner with ecosystem leaders to design programs, deliver founder support, and embed processes that move startups from idea to traction.

Whether you need fractional EIRs, playbooks, or curriculum, we bring hands-on expertise that blends national reach with deep local impact.

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“The Founder Led Consulting team is incredibly easy to work with.  They always challenge our way of thinking, connect us with industry leads and partners that fit our needs and help us make data driven decisions that had a big impact on the founders we coached.”

 

John Nelson, Executive Coach

Former Director, Carleton University Innovation Hub

Impactful Results

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    Embedded in Leading Programs

    We've been trusted to deliver inside top incubators, accelerators, and national innovation programs often as fractional staff or direct founder support.

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    Founder-First Curriculum

    Our workshops, playbooks, and toolkits are designed for practical use by real founders—not theory heavy content that gets left behind.

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    National Reach, Local Depth

    While our work spans Canada, we maintain a deep operational footprint in Ottawa’s innovation ecosystem, supporting both grassroots and institutional programs.

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    Ecosystem Builders Trust Us

    We’re called in not just to teach but to help shape what great founder support looks like across government, VC, and academic networks.

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  • We partner with venture capital funds, incubators, accelerators, government programs, and corporate innovation teams that work with science-based founders.

  • Our team designs and delivers programming, fractional staffing (such as Entrepreneurs-in-Residence), playbook and process development, and founder support tools that strengthen commercialization outcomes.

  • Success is measured through founder commercialization readiness, program efficiency, and the long-term traction founders achieve with customers and capital.

  • No. While our roots are in healthtech, we now support science-based founders across biotech, defence, and broader STEM-driven ventures.

  • We work either as an embedded partner within your organization, co-delivering programs with your team, or as an external advisor, building tools, frameworks, and playbooks you can scale.