Hardware & advanced-manufacturing intelligence · US & Canada
Know which physical-product startups need help next.
InnovationSignal turns patents, grants, crowdfunding, accelerator participation, and university innovation into actionable commercialization opportunities.
For attorneys, design and engineering firms, manufacturers, investors, and ecosystem organizations.
How the Opportunity Score is built
Every score shows its factors and weights.
- Signal momentum30%
Recent verified patents, grants, campaigns and program awards
- Stage transition25%
Evidence the company is moving to its next commercialization stage
- Funding capacity20%
Known grants, rounds and crowdfunding
- Service gap25%
Needs the company has not yet filled
Every startup, placed on its commercialization journey
Nine stages from idea to scale. Where a company sits tells you what it needs next.
- 1. Idea and validation
- 2. Intellectual property
- 3. Funding and formation
- 4. Concept design
- 5. Engineering and prototype
- 6. Testing and certification
- 7. Manufacturing preparation
- 8. Launch and early production
- 9. Scale
How it works
- 01
Aggregate
Collect public commercialization signals: patents, grants, crowdfunding, accelerators, university licensing.
- 02
Place
Position each startup on a nine-stage commercialization journey.
- 03
Score
Calculate an explainable Opportunity Score with visible factors and weights.
- 04
Connect
Detect likely service needs, recommend next actions, and match with providers.
Built for the people who help hardware get made
Service providers
Attorneys, design, engineering, and manufacturing firms find companies at the moment they need you.
Learn moreInvestors
Track commercialization momentum across hardware sectors before rounds are announced.
Learn moreEcosystem organizations
Universities, accelerators, and economic developers see portfolio progress and gaps.
Learn moreStartups
Claim your profile, correct your data, and get introduced to the right partners.
Learn morePricing
Free for startups. Paid plans for teams who act on the intelligence.
Startup
Hardware founders
- Claim and manage a profile
- Add milestones
- Identify service needs
- Receive provider recommendations
- Request introductions
- Limited messaging
Professional
Individual attorneys, advisors, investors
or $1,490 billed annually
- One user
- 100 detailed profiles monthly
- Ten saved searches
- Weekly alerts
- Full score explanations
- Service-need recommendations
- Ten contact reveals monthly
- Five introduction requests monthly
- Basic pipeline
- $50 per accepted introduction
Growth
Firms and service teams
or $4,990 billed annually
- Five users
- Unlimited profile views and saved searches
- Daily alerts
- 50 contact reveals monthly
- 20 introduction requests monthly
- CSV export
- Provider matching
- Team workspace and pipeline management
- One promoted provider listing
- Monthly ecosystem report
- $35 per accepted introduction
Data you can trust and trace
Public, cited sources
Every signal links back to where it came from.
Verified vs. unverified
Signals are clearly marked by confidence level.
Founder control
Startups can correct their profile or request removal.
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