Services That Change the Equation
for Winning Your Market

Whether you are a lean startup or a late-stage venture,
Thinktiv’s Venture Accelerator Services activate new competitive strategies, transform market opportunities and multiply company valuation – in as little as 90 days.

We have isolated the areas of expertise that matter most when creating shareholder value in technology-enabled businesses. That combination of expertise is typically unavailable to early stage startups, and nearly impossible to effectively replicate in later stage companies. Thinktiv applies that expertise with extreme force over a sustained period of time, to transform businesses and redefine market opportunities.
 
Clients engage Thinktiv services in two ways. Some engage our resources in focused combinations for 3-6 month projects, to accelerate specific high-priority product or brand initiatives. Others tap the full spectrum of our expertise as a persistent extension of their executive teams over much longer periods of time, to maximize shareholder value and exit potential with extreme capital efficiency. The full array of Thinktiv’s venture acceleration services include:

Market Alignment

Every market is a chessboard. The best players always see the whole board, think several moves ahead, and quickly capitalize on opportunities for strategic advantage. Unfortunately, most early-stage technology companies spend all their time obsessing about the square where they currently sit, compulsively building product features without evaluating the broader context of their market.
 
Thinktiv helps your business see the big picture, by analyzing adjacent market sectors and flows of capital, identifying future competitors and partners, pinpointing potential acquirers and drivers of strategic valuation, and aligning you to the most valuable market opportunity. We don’t ask, “What do you want to do next?” We answer, “This is how we can quickly create an incredible business opportunity from your current collection of assets.”

Business Development and Distribution

The best ideas and technology in the world can be useless without efficient, scalable distribution. Collectively, Thinktiv leadership has decades of expertise optimizing customer acquisition and distribution models for startups across diverse verticals and emerging technology platforms. With our inter-disciplinary expertise and far-reaching industry relationships, we are able to architect and accelerate more holistic, valuable distribution strategies for our clients.

Corporate Development

Most technology startups don’t think about long-term capital requirements, margin targets at scale, strategic partnerships, or exit strategies until they are larger and more mature. At Thinktiv, we believe that by adopting this thinking as early as possible, startups are more disciplined, get more traction out of their capital, and increase the likelihood of highly valued growth rounds or M&A liquidity.
 
Our leadership has positioned companies to successfully raise over $150 million in venture capital, engineer M&A exits, and launch IPOs creating billions of dollars in market value. We help companies make early decisions that lead to market relevance, and avoid decisions that can lock the doors to a successful exit or financing. With Thinktiv’s guidance, technology ventures optimize their revenue models, attract the right capital partners, and generate corporate development interest in their respective markets.

Product Strategy

We create great products. Consumer web services, cloud-based business software, social and mobile applications to name a few. For us, product strategy and product design goes beyond defining essential end user features and capabilities. Thinktiv’s product strategists excel at conceptualizing products that create tremendous asset value for your overall business.
 
We assess competitive products and adjacent market solutions to identify the market gaps your business can exploit. Then we enrich the product with elements that create lasting asset value and drive premium market valuation: patentable IP; embedded methods for driving viral adoption; mechanisms for capturing valuable residual data; rich integrated analytics; and open APIs that allow others to create value with your solution.

User Experience Design

Two world-class visual interaction designers, who recognized that phenomenal end user experiences differentiate and accelerate technology ventures, founded Thinktiv in 2005. That DNA endures in Thinktiv today.
 
Each market strategy we devise and every killer product we imagine is filtered through our unique methodologies for creating the most intuitive, functional user interfaces. We don’t just design screens and pages – we design cohesive systems that will set your company apart and create advantages for user acquisition and retention. At Thinktiv, we don’t design products to address markets. We design them to win markets.

Brand Identity Transformation

At Thinktiv, we believe a company’s brand is the overall end user experience communicated by the sum of its parts. Because of our interdisciplinary approach, we create integrated brands that are deeply bound to a strategy for winning a given market. That includes all visual brand elements like marks, graphic systems and visual languages, but also products themselves, the user experience they create, the core messaging platform for the business, and the collateral that communicates it.
 
We combine these elements to deliver a powerful, consistent brand experience across all your customer touch points and media channels, making your business feel like a much larger company.

Strategy-Driven Engineering

Thinktiv has a dedicated, diversified engineering team that delivers client solutions ranging from cloud-based enterprise software to consumer web services to mobile applications. Once we finalize your unique strategy for venture acceleration and define the technology deliverables that go with it, we deploy our engineers to aggressively bring great solutions to market.

Thinktiventures

Thinktiventures is the investment arm of Thinktiv. For the right companies in the right markets, with the most compelling opportunities for venture acceleration – we make substantial investments of our expert human capital.
 
Using this approach, we have built an outstanding portfolio of equity holdings in over a dozen companies, including emerging market leaders like Socialware, SharesPost, OtherInbox, Pricelock, and Prysm. Learn more…

Thinktiv Headquarters

1011 San Jacinto Blvd. #202
Austin, TX 78701 (map)
512.745.8100 Main
512.857.7751 Fax

Thinktiv North

111 N. Whitfield Street, 2nd Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15206 (map)
412.404.6103 Main

accelerate@thinktiv.com