Springboard

Five capabilities. One platform.

Shared Data Layer

A single centralized database for every innovation activity across your university. Student startups, faculty IP, research projects — all in one place, finally.

Custom Stakeholder Views

Each program sees what matters to them. Entrepreneurship tracks student teams. Tech transfer tracks IP. The Innovation District sees their directory. Same data. Different lenses.

Lifecycle Tracking

Follow every venture from first idea through team formation, acceleration, funding, and outcomes. Know exactly where each team stands and what they need next.

Smart Communications

Filter by stage, program, competition, or milestone. Reach the right teams at the right moment with targeted messaging. No one gets left behind.

Storytelling Pipeline

Milestones, founder journeys, and outcomes surface automatically to your marketing and communications team. No more chasing anecdotes. The stories your university needs to tell — to donors, legislators, media, and the public — are already there, waiting.

Built for the people building ecosystems

Innovation District Directors

Complete visibility across your ecosystem. Report impact with confidence.

Entrepreneurship Directors

Track ventures, manage communications, prove outcomes.

Provosts & VPs of Research

Demonstrate innovation impact to boards, legislators, and stakeholders.

Cross-College Partnerships

Shared visibility. Clear boundaries. Real collaboration.

Marketing & Communications

Success stories surface automatically. Tell the innovation story your university deserves.

In the age of AI, universities face unprecedented pressure to prove their relevance. Tracking innovation is only half the answer. The other half is telling the story.

To donors. To legislators. To boards. To prospective students and the public. Most universities can't do either today. Springboard gives them the infrastructure to track their innovation portfolio and the pipeline to turn it into a narrative that moves the needle.

Your university produces extraordinary innovation. Student startups. Faculty IP. Research with commercial potential. Teams competing, building, raising capital. But right now, nobody can see any of it.

It lives in scattered spreadsheets, siloed programs, and static lists. Teams fall through the cracks. Impact goes unreported. And when marcom needs a success story for the president's report or a legislative briefing, they're left chasing anecdotes by email.

Springboard is the single source of truth — one shared data layer that tracks every venture across its full lifecycle, with custom views for every stakeholder who needs to see it.