Startup & Corporate Collaboration: Intuit Prosperity Accelerator™: AI Demo Day Demonstrates the Power of Collaboration
The cohort of seven early-stage, AI-driven startups from across North America have worked closely with Intuit to build upon innovative solutions helping to overcome some of today’s biggest financial challenges. This year’s Demo Day was packed with insights, featuring a fireside chat with serial entrepreneur and Dragon’s Den venture capitalist, Michele Romanow, and polished pitches from the participating founders.
The day demonstrated the impact and accelerated growth that is possible when startups and large corporations collaborate.
The Intuit Prosperity Accelerator™:AI is a partnership between Intuit and Highline Beta that brought together seven of the most promising early-stage, AI-driven, startups from top technology hubs including Montreal, Toronto, New York and San Francisco to help consumers and small businesses overcome financial challenges.
This five-month program was laser-focused and tailored to the participating startups’ needs, including but not limited to addressing issues related to customer engagement, consumer credit-building, and marketing.
Intuit provided in-depth product and technology expertise through dedicated sessions and connections to their exclusive network of highly qualified Innovation Catalysts (ICs), AI mentors and other experts to support the startups’ priority needs. Startups were able to leverage Intuit’s Customer Connect program to obtain insights from, conduct experiments with and test their solutions with Intuit customers.
Startups were given the opportunity to leverage Intuit’s design-thinking methodology, Design for Delight (D4D),paying close attention to its three defining principles: deep customer empathy, go broad to go narrow, and rapid experiments with customers, followed by quick iterations and measurable results.
The program concluded with an inspiring Demo Day hosted in partnership with TechTO and promoted by Startup Grind. The event featured an opening fireside chat with Intuit Canada Country Manager David Marquis and Michele Romanow, Dragon’s Den venture capitalist and CEO of Clearco, followed by pitches from each of the participating startups:
Adaptive Pulse (Waterloo, ON) helps businesses keep a pulse on every customer while predicting and prioritizing their retention efforts, reducing churn and increasing revenues.
Aphrodite (San Francisco, CA) is a plug-n-play data analytics platform intended to help users drive revenue by providing financial clarity and data-driven insights to small businesses.
Bankuish (New York, NY) is a marketplace that provides gig workers and freelancers a simple way to access affordable banking.
Beam.city Inc (Toronto, ON) is an advertising automation platform that helps businesses optimize their performance and skyrocket profits automatically.
Boom (New York, NY) is on a mission to level the playing field for the 110 million renters in the US by making housing more flexible, affordable, and attainable.
QuoteMachine (Montreal, QC) is a software that brings humans back to digital commerce by helping independent retailers close more deals through simplified and personalized sales processes.
Stamped AI (Quebec City, QC) is an AI platform that streamlines and automates accounting data certification, making small businesses year-end ready, all year round.
If you’d like to learn more about the Intuit Prosperity Accelerator: AI program, you can watch the full fireside chat with Michele and David, and see the demos from participating startups.
About Intuit: Intuit is the global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses overcome their most important financial challenges. Serving more than 100 million customers worldwide with TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible. Please visit us for the latest information about Intuit, our products and services, and find us on social.
About Highline Beta: Highline Beta is a venture studio and venture capital firm helping Fortune 1000s grow outside of their core through venture development and startup partnerships. Highline Beta runs accelerator programs with leading corporations to help them partner and pilot more quickly and effectively with startups. Learn more at Highline Beta.
