US Market Expansion › Startup Programs

Expand into the US.

You have customers at home and a strong hunch the US is next. We run the programs that turn that into a real pipeline: weeks in New York or San Francisco, mentors who have already moved a foreign company into this market, meetings with buyers who actually sign, and investors in the room. You go home with conversations started.

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Our programs.

Launchpad

A base rather than a trip. A desk at our center, our team down the hall, and the city's institutions on your doorstep for as long as you need them.

Mentorship

Expert advice on whatever is actually stuck. Sessions with industry veterans who have solved your exact problem before, one to one rather than from a stage.

Accelerator

Scale the business and raise. Intensive growth tactics, investor networking, and Demo Day. For companies with a product already in market and the runway to push on it.

GTM 1:1

No cohort behind you. We act as your US team on the ground: market research, then sales or investor outreach, against a single objective.

GTM for Founders →

What you get, on every program.

Meetings that count

Introductions to corporates and public buyers looking for what you sell, matched to your company rather than a room you share with nine others.

Investor matching

Speed-matching sessions with funds that already back international companies, plus panels on what actually earns a term sheet here.

Demo Day

Every program ends in public, in front of an investor panel that judges rather than watches, with corporate innovation leads in the room.

Pitch coaching

One-to-one narrative work and several full rehearsals, so the first time you say it out loud is not on the night that counts.

Expert workshops

Go-to-market, pricing, messaging, PR, and sales, taught by US operators who have done this with a foreign company rather than read about it.

Office hours

Legal, tax, immigration, hiring, and relocation specialists in the building, so you leave with answers rather than referrals.

Space and community

A desk at our center through the program and access after it ends, plus a cohort that keeps trading introductions long after everyone flies home.

Events and networking

Happy hours, founders-and-funders evenings, and programs timed to the weeks when the city is already full of investors.

Site visits

Corporate headquarters, exchanges, universities, and research centers, so the market stops being an abstraction and starts being a list of names.

400+

startups supported

$150M

raised by alumni companies

200+

industry mentors on call

30+

service providers offering perks

50+

programs run to date

Tap our network of mentors and industry experts.

Venture capital

Funds that already back international companies, met in structured sessions rather than through cold outreach from a foreign area code.

Corporations

Global companies looking for what you sell, across financial services, insurance, industry, agriculture, and energy.

Industry experts

C-level operators, board advisors, and serial entrepreneurs who have taken a foreign company into this market themselves.

Service providers

The legal, tax, hiring, and sales firms you will need in your first year here, most of them extending our cohorts preferential terms.

Public sector

City and state economic development agencies, and the trade offices already working the market you are entering.

Research and academia

University accelerators and research institutions, for companies whose technology needs a lab as much as it needs a customer.

Corporations we work with.

Our US locations.

New York

Our US home for startup programs. Corporate headquarters on the doorstep, and the financial, insurance, and industrial buyers we work with year-round.

About the center →

New Jersey

NJ BASE, the state's business acceleration and soft-landing operation, built to bring international companies into New Jersey's innovation economy.

About the center →

San Francisco

For founders whose buyers and investors sit on the west coast. Rolling out now.

Programs also run out of our Singapore and Tel Aviv centers.

Success stories.

Why Canada's Trade Commissioner Service came back for a second cohort

It was an honor and a true privilege to be in New York City with the Canadian Technology Accelerators, SOSA, and 6 other incredible Canadian startups that are shaking things up in the RetailTech sector. I'm still processing all the incredible discussions and ideas exchanged throughout the week.

Taki Eddine Alimat

Co-Founder & CEO, Synode

Read the story →

Trade agencies

Canada

cohorts commissioned by Canada's Trade Commissioner Service.

Canadian companies landed in New York across the two programs.

15+

active fintech investors in the room for the 2025 cohort.

months of New York office access for alumni, after the program.

Desafía NY: a Spanish cyber cohort that closed US business in-program

Arrange meetings of your own before going there. Fill up your agenda! Make the most of your time in New York.

Lola Miravet

COO & Co-Founder, Enthec