Stephen Meyer

Innovative Growth Capital (IGC)

2024

The First Reverse VC Fund An early-stage fund that reverses the process of investing by starting with outcomes first and then working back to smarter investments by matching startups with corporates. We get early signals from corporates and identify startups that meet those needs. Deep Experience in Technology and Investing Our seasoned team has international experience in managing and investing across a range of technology-enabled areas, including: AI and Data Science Healthtech and Wellness Innovations Transformative Technologies Next-Generation Computing and Security Sustainable Technologies and Innovation Smart Mobility & Supply Chain Food and Ag Innovation Dual Use - Commercial & Defense IGC Approach IGC’s approach focuses on obtaining early revenue and acquisition signals from innovative corporates, then matching these insights with emerging technology companies. This strategy rapidly scales up viable businesses, sustains growth over time, and creates enduring, profitable, and customer-validated products, services, and solutions while also positioning portfolio companies for an exit.

Karerra

2015

The Science of Innovation, Measured by Outcomes. We’ve built the world’s first outcome accelerator for business builders, visionaries, and innovators. Because solving for growth is challenging, and the problems are dynamic. So, we created the science of PreSight™ to deliver predictive outcomes by combining the elements of strategy, customers, and scale, all while moving with velocity. We are a team of seasoned entrepreneurs, investors, data scientists, and technologists. We are Outcome Engineers. (1) PreSight - verb: The science of PreSight is identifying and understanding future patterns and global market opportunities, then matching these to corporate intentions. Accelerated Outcomes = Velocity10 / Time Karerra brings together technology startups, growth companies, and corporations, operationalizing business building at scale up to 10x faster than ever before. As a result, Karerra generates an order of magnitude difference in velocity, thereby bending time and advancing our clients light years ahead of their competition.

Northstarr

2021

Empowering Health, Wellness, Performance, and Resiliency Leveraging cutting-edge AI, our platform deciphers cognitive, emotional, and physical well-being. It provides precise, personalized recommendations with a unique N=1 insights score for context-driven next actions. Continuous learning through AI-driven processes ensures constant refinement and optimization over time.

Coherent Capital

2020

DATA DRIVEN FUNDRAISING Find Strategic Investors , Identify Revenue Opportunities, Lift Valuation, and Accelerate Growth. We are Coherent, Your Trusted Partner for Strategic Capital. Adding the right investors at the right time has ripple effects that enable a better outcome for your business. At Coherent Capital, we focus on leveraging the fundraising process to build long-term value for clients as we establish lasting relationships and craft strategic partnerships.

International Strategic Advisor, Acceleration and Transformation Outcomes Partner

2005

Bridging the intersection of startups and corporations with a dynamic set of outcome oriented services and products, designed to bring innovation at scale to market and drive digital transformation. Reverse engineering venture capital while transforming corporate and startup engagement, accelerating the pace of innovation, mitigating risk, reducing the friction, creating lift, and achieving scale fueled by a blend of capital, sales deals, partnerships, talent, and community that generate revenue and growth. Operationalizing innovation as a service up to 10x faster than ever before, generating an order of magnitude difference in velocity along with a step function lift in non-organic revenue growth, thereby forging digital catalysts, and separating clients from their competitors. Delivering a unique predictive analytics global platform and applied data science driven approach that transcends all previous expected outcomes, providing corporations unprecedented access to the world’s leading startups, adding velocity and direction to the development of the next generation of great digital businesses. Identifying innovative opportunities, recognizing the market need, developing a gap analysis, and identifying the elements necessary to achieve success, then building the right teams, products, and partnerships while delivering performance and results. Making high velocity decisions and deliver results, bridging from strategy though implementation, with grit and integrity. Collaboratively establishing metrics and KPIs that will contribute to continuous process improvement. Successfully developing, empowering, and retaining high performing teams and leaders, cultivating entrepreneurship, while reinforcing the global culture of collaboration, excellence, development, accountability, and mentoring throughout these groups. Connecting corporations seeking digital transformation and growth with the best startups, to drive innovation and exponential outcomes.

TechFund Capital and TechFund Capital Europe - Managing Partner

2000

Exemplar Companies, Inc.

2018 - 2020

Exemplar is a new age services firm that holistically integrates the formative elements of Legal and Consulting capabilities. Exemplar is committed to serving innovators, revolutionaries, game-changers, eco-social entrepreneurs, and impact businesses to help them achieve their success.

Airspace Systems Inc.

2019 - 2019

Airspace uses artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and advanced robotics to create automated, persistent solutions that provide long-range detection and instant identification of drones, allowing customers to ensure that businesses are clear of drones and, should drones be detected, providing drone and drone operator location for potential response by security and law enforcement.

RocketSpace

2017 - 2018

RocketSpace (RS) provides speed and direction to the world’s top tech startup and corporate innovators.

President and COO

1998 - 2000