[robalow]

Let's be careful about proclaiming a new space and offering. This product space has existed for a few years now. There are companies providing matching algorithms between an uploaded tech abstract/patent/publication and interested companies (as well as for companies seeking academics). My own company already provides this exact service in Scout (wellspring.com) and we have competitors, some mentioned below. We have 100's of clients. So, do some of our competitors. This just isn't new.

[chasebonhag]

It's such an amazing market to support! Playing any role in helping scientific breakthroughs get to market is a noble cause. We share many of the same customers and they don't describe your offering as competitive to ours, in fact, in most cases they subscribe to both! They refer to wellspring as a passive marketing approach while dubbing ours an active marketing approach. The difference being is with FirstIgnite you will get the email addresses of those to reach out to, which isn't something they are getting from Wellspring.