Ideas Forward helps technology transfer offices, incubators, and innovation agencies across Europe deliver founder support that's designed around how startups actually work.

Founded in 2019 by three founders who had each built tech startups before, we draw on firsthand experience building, funding, and coaching startups to create programs that address the core early-stage challenge: founders too often waste time on the wrong problem, or approach the right problem the wrong way.

We design and run entrepreneurship training, coaching, and mentoring programs in partnership with universities, research organizations, corporates, and public innovation bodies. Since 2021, we've worked with 400+ startup teams across 9 European countries and built a trusted network of 20+ institutional partners.

Our mission: help ambitious founders across Europe escape dead ends, skip the theater, and build with a real community behind them.

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