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SEED SPOT has a partnership with Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation which offers pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs through their matchmaking program.
Eligibility:
- 2-3 years in business with revenue
- Demonstrated track record of impact
- Beyond idea-stage
Savvi is a legal platform that allows founders to handle routine legal needs while enabling collaboration with counsel for custom and complex scenarios. Savvi’s workspace tracks all your legal work in one hub, allowing you to generate, sign, track, and store documents with both attorneys and investors.
Shulman Rogers, NEXT disrupts the legacy legal industry by offering a broad range of fixed-fee solutions (stand-alone products and annual legal plans) delivered by senior attorneys with valuable business expertise.
Eligibility:
- Must be able to pay for legal support
- Beyond the idea stage
Access to HubSpot Growth Platform, a full suite of software for marketing, sales, and customer service, with a completely free CRM at its core at a startup-friendly price, to help you grow and scale better. The software grows as you do, so you have access to in-person product training, too. All of this is up to 90% off.
Eligibility:
- A new HubSpot user
- A startup with under $2 Million in funding
Access an interactive branding workshop designed for you if you're a startup founder, have a business idea, or want to build a personal brand!
The psychology-backed program will walk with you to craft a personalized positioning statement, brand personality, and purpose statement which will help you communicate your idea and acquire customers easily throughout your entrepreneurial journey.
General Assembly - UX/UI Development
Free user experience or user interface development through General Assembly. If your idea is chosen as a project, a student team will work with you to develop the UX/UI of your app.
ThinkNimble Labs is a space for entrepreneurs to have a lifeline to technical and business advice. This isn’t an incubator, this isn’t an accelerator. It is an open door to a group of people who want to connect you to resources, partners, and advice to help you succeed.
Gain access to free technical office hours through SEED SPOT. Entrepreneurs can expect to come out of the office hours with informed, technical advice on best next steps, clarity around current technical issues, and a deeper understanding of the technical process to make better informed decisions for their business.
In need of insurance, bookkeeping, payroll, business communications, cap table management, or other critical tech? SEED SPOT has partnered with a startup perk program, the Startup Stack, which collects the best operational tech discounts in one place. Explore the Stack to take advantage of these exclusive offers.
Itirra undertands the unique challenges that tech startups face in their journey. SEED SPOT is excited to partner with Itirra to offer an exclusive opportunity for tech innovators and entrepreneur: 5 HOURS OF FREE CONSULTING to supercharge your technology development and business growth.
Receive up to a $15,000 loan with 0% interest for your business.
Streamline how you manage equity through Carta. With Carta, your cap table updates automatically when you issue electronic securities, raise a round, or get a 409A valuation. So you can always trust Carta as your source of truth for equity information.
Free Plan Eligibility:
- Under $1M raised
- no 409a needed
Find the right companies to target. Identify the right contacts at these companies to reach out to. Connect with decision-makers without leaving Crunchbase – all in one prospecting solution. 1-year subscription for free as part of being a SEED SPOT Alumni.
Fill out the Alumni Resource Intake Form to receive access to this benefit.
Visible is your Investor relationship hub and provides tools for startups to easily update investors, track KPI's, and manage a fundraise in one place. Update investors, raise capital and track metrics from a single platform. For the first 6 months you can get 90% off of any of their three plans when you mention SEED SPOT.
An equity crowdfunding platform that allows you to fundraise money for equity. Over $2.2 billion dollars of venture capital has been invested in companies first funded on Wefunder.
SEED SPOT has partnered with Mercury to offer you no fee business banking! Mercury is a bank built to serve startups. With beefed-up analytics, searchable transactions, and intuitive payments, you'll basically have a fractional CFO without the price.
FINSYNC is a software that helps companies manage their accounting and cash flow and during COVID-19 they are waving their $45/mo fee!
Accounting service and advisory to help with bookkeeping, fundraising, and tax prep. They offer two startup packages starting at $1,500.
Don't let location be a barrier. Plug into the power of Silicon Valley by simply opening up your laptop. Be a part of this community for $10 a month to access a Full Event Calendar, AMA's w/ founders, and get help with fundraising.
Simple and affordable healthcare solutions for the independent population (Solopreneurs, Freelancers, Self-employed, and Small Business Owners).
Ratio Exchange is a innovation marketplace that brings together millions of companies with the biggest buyer of innovation in the world – the US government. The platform uses data to expose opportunities, provide market intelligence, and facilitate partnership formation all in one place. Additionally, the functionality of the platform goes in multiple directions. Not only do companies utilize Ratio Exchange to find revenue opportunities with the US government, but government agencies also use it to conduct market research, run challenges, and source innovation. Large contractors and system integrators also use Ratio Exchange to both find opportunities and build their team that will give them the best chance to win the business. In short, Ratio Exchange is utilizing data to democratize the government contracting system.
Fill out the Alumni Resource Intake Form to gain access to this resource and introduced via email.
BlackFocusX is a digital platform and marketplace specifically designed for Black entrepreneurs, founders, startups, and small businesses. We connect Black innovators to revenue opportunities and non-dilutive capital from the US Government - the biggest buyer of innovation in the world. BlackFocusX provides personalized opportunity feeds, market intelligence, and the chance to be discovered by government innovation centers like Defensewerx and Sofwerx, who use the platform to source the best innovations to further their missions.
Learn more in this quick one-pager and be sure to fill out the Alumni Resource Intake Form to gain access and be given an introduction.