Cleantech and tough-tech companies do not follow the classic Silicon Valley VC-backed software company path of two-years-idea-to-exit or bust. Building real, physical things takes time, and the strategy to survive a five-to-eight-year commercialization time horizon requires deliberate attention to factors that quick-exit software companies can avoid.
In phase 1, Ridgeline Strategy will work closely with company leaders and team to identify and document all stakeholder needs and to assess underlying execution risks, including technology-scaling, novelty, team bandwidth and growth, cost, safety, and product-market fit. In phase 2, Ridgeline Strategy will provide recommendations for an updated execution plan, including actionable company goals tied to fundraising plans, technology and commercial risk-reduction measures to be taken, and recommendations for building a collaborative, high-functioning team collectively focused on achieving those goals.
Of particular importance for cleantech and tough-tech companies is the alignment of technology development plans with the needs and timelines of all other stakeholders. His technology clients include companies in the metals and ceramics, carbon capture, industrial decarbonization, and grid-scale energy storage spaces for engagements spanning technical advisor to independent design reviewer to manufacturing scaleup strategy development. Ridgeline Strategy is a firm believer in leveraging the power of experiential diversity to create robust courses of action and in engaging people of all perspectives to ensure collective buy-in and success.
Teams, communities, and companies are stronger when all individuals are able to realize their own paths to success as part of achieving common goals. In advising companies, Ridgeline Strategy works to ensure that communities are engaged so that all are heard, included and advanced, and are able to share in the economic outcomesβand then helps companies understand how these principles benefit their long-term success. Ridgeline Strategy will perform this voucher service at its office site in the Greater Boston Area and interface with the Voucher Recipient remotely.
For Voucher Recipients in the Greater Boston Area, Ridgeline Strategy will meet with recipients at their site for portions of the project. This capability is best suited for SEED through Series B stage companies developing physical solutions to challenging environmental problems. Interim report identifying and documenting all stakeholder needs and assessing underlying execution risks.
