THE AI-POWERED STARTUP LAUNCHPAD
For Pioneering next-gen technology. For capturing your target audience. For driving customer aqcuisition. For boosting revenue and profit. For rapid growth and scale.

 

WE HELP INNOVATIVE FOUNDERS HARNESS AI TO CREATE TECHNOLOGY AND BUILD VENTURES FASTER THAN EVER.

DEVELOP CUTTING-EDGE TECH. ATTRACT USERS AND CUSTOMERS. UNLOCK CHANNELS FOR ACCELERATED GROWTH.

 

This is startup innovation reimagined. The AI-driven Vertical Accelerator and Venture Builder propels you to conceive, create, and launch transformative tech, scale new ventures, and achieve success, all at unprecedented speed.

WHAT OUR FOUNDERS ARE SAYING

  • Ashley Vaughan [Pithaya]

    “The CLIMB 1 part of the Vertical Accelerator has been instrumental in helping me develop a cost-effective plan to launch my app. Highly recommend for anyone who has a compelling tech business idea, but needs a framework to help them bring it to fruition.”

  • Makeba Lloyd [Scentonomy]

    “I learned how I can work with the resources I already have to build a lean project, generate revenue and establish proof of concept.   This kind of revelation is priceless. I am forever grateful for CLIMB.”

  • Dienesha Palmer [Nikassa]

    “Throughout my launch process and having coaches, the Vertical Accelerator is one of the best approaches that I have encountered. In addition to giving a thorough the step-by-step process, and meeting three times a week, we are also able to get personal genuine one-on-one attention.”

  • B. Calinao [WALKSPAN]

    “The Climb2 program will not disappoint. This is the third and the best accelerator program by comparison that I've been part of. It is organic, devoid of fluff and beautifully delivered.”

  • Janel Young [PETCULT]

    “I love this program, Edward and his team! They really take the time to understand your business and provide the resources and tools to equip you with the technical guidance and how to win in the niche space you pursue.”

  • Disharick Howze [Pentacle Pay]

    “I'm grateful to have found CLIMB 1 when I did. It has been a very helpful part of my journey being able to get 1 on 1 help with mapping out my plans for my startup. Having access to group and individual 1 on 1 sessions really has made this cohort worthwhile for me.”

HERE ARE OUR CASE STUDIES

 
Onegreek [STARTUP]

Onegreek [STARTUP]

Just $8k and 3 months to launch. 330k users and an exit 1 year later.

An invitation-only social network for fraternities and sororities that launched in 2015, OneGreek grew from 150 to 330,000 users in a period of just 9 months, making it the fastest-growing social network ever built, after Instagram. 

Using Vertical to build their technology stack for just $8000, the company went from bootstrapped startup to acquisition in under 18 months.

OneGreek was acquired by GroupThreads in September 2016.

Audivity [STARTUP]

Audivity [STARTUP]

A COMPLETELY NEW WAY OF CREATING PODCASTS. AND A SUCCESSFUL EXIT.

In 2018, the Audivity team formed with a mission to build a completely new type of SaaS technology: start with any kind of written web content, and then transform it into podcasts and high-quality narratives in as little as two hours.

To do that, they needed to deliver new tech platforms that included automated scripting, voice-overs, editing, publishing, and analytics so creators and publishers could get higher engagement and revenue from their existing content.

We helped Audivity with the foundation for building this new multi-platform technology, and 18 months later, they had a successful exit.

WELGO [STARTUP]

WELGO [STARTUP]

$0 to $1.5M in annual recurring revenue in just 18 months.

A new hospitality-based venture with properties throughout the Southwest and now expanding internationally, Welgo specializes in Airbnb arbitrage — renting low and Airbnb’ing high. So no need to purchase properties to turn them into investments with high returns.

Go For Vertical helped take them from $0 to $500K in ARR in 5 months starting with the business concept, leveraging existing tech platforms to scale quickly, and requiring less than $10k to launch.

LOOK [STARTUP]

LOOK [STARTUP]

ONE STARTUP. FIVE TECHNOLOGIES.

Go For Vertical was introduced to the Look team as they were coming straight out of college at UArizona, where they had already laid out the business plan for their unique platform for social virtual reality, but like many startups, still had the challenge of delivering their technology.

We got into the trenches with their young lead engineer and used Vertical to lay out the architecture not just for their mobile app, but for the hardware for their new VR recording device, the firmware running on it, the datastore for the VR recordings, and the backend for their new platform, or five unique tech platforms altogether.

The Look platform was launched successfully in 2016.

dishlist [prototype]

dishlist [prototype]

A $1400 prototype. a more than 40% user conversion rate.

The new app concept? Tinder for food. Swipe right if you like a dish and want to try it, and swipe left if you don’t. Add in some amazing dishes from local restaurants and thousands of foodies who love to eat out, and you have the beginning of a new app.

The Dishlist prototype was developed using Vertical in a few weeks at a cost of $1400, and it quickly became a clear success: 245 users signed up to try it, and 43% converted by swiping to like at least 15 dishes and provided their contact information to get future releases.

CIC [ENTERPRISE]

CIC [ENTERPRISE]

FROM MS ACCESS TO ORACLE DB FOR LESS THAN $10K.

In 2018, Community Investment Corporation was running their Mortgage Credit Certificate program with a 15-year -old desktop application written in Microsoft Access.

G4V guided CIC through the Vertical process, creating the roadmap and blueprint to replace this legacy system that had numerous financial and regulatory features with a new Oracle-based enterprise platform. We even helped them find a seasoned engineer with a security clearance and deep Oracle experience to build it.

The new enterprise version of the system was launched in 2019 for less than $10k, a fraction of what it would cost to build by hiring a consulting firm.

Melior USA [Social Impact]

Melior USA [Social Impact]

a COVID-19 RESPONSE launched in JUST three weeks.

Protect Everyone. That’s the motto of Melior USA, a new social impact venture that Go For Vertical launched in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

When it became clear that there would not be enough PPE like N95 masks for frontline healthcare workers here, we began working on a plan to bring KN95 masks made overseas to the US to help alleviate the shortage.

So we launched Melior USA in just three weeks, creating a new front end for a supply chain that delivered more than 1M masks to front-line medical workers in the first months of the pandemic.

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STARTUPS.

12 cohorts. 60+ early-stage founders. And 2 exits (so far). Learn how The Vertical Accelerator made Cinderella stories possible for unfunded startups like OneGreek, Audivity and Welgo .

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ECOSYSTEMS.

Silicon Valley. Austin, Texas. Phoenix, Arizona. We help our accelerator and incubator partners in established and emerging tech markets deliver major-league results.

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ENTERPRISE.

15+ major systems. >$1B in online transactions. All delivered by bringing startup innovation to the enterprise, with companies like Computer Associates and AMD.

 

“Vertical progress means doing new things — going from 0 to 1. Vertical progress is hard to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done.”

— Peter Thiel in Zero to One

Let’s BUILD SOMETHING AMAZING together.