Each startup will receive invaluable deep collaboration with leading industry innovators and will work directly with key members of the world’s most influential corporations.

Industry Collaborators

Industry support will be contextual to the vertical that your startup is focusing on (mobile, search, education, social, local, and many more), and will provide vital industry assets and resources that will accelerate company growth.

Google

Google

Google is providing Extreme Startups participants mentorship and opportunities to interact with key individuals and resources.  Our cohorts have guidance and direction on a number of topics.

Google is a leader in providing internet related products and services. Google search engine receives millions of queries every day and is the most visited site on the web. Many other successful Google products including Google Earth, Google Chrome, Google +, and many others will continue their vision of making old and new data easily accessible for all web users.

Intel

Intel

Intel interacts with Extreme Startups’ companies by providing mentoring through facilitated interactive and intimate sessions.  This enables our companies to learn quickly and effectively.

Intel has been a major innovator of microprocessors since the 1970’s and continues to define the standard of efficient micro processing systems. Intel works with the worlds leading computer and mobile companies to deliver the most competent products available.

Citrix

Citrix

Citrix, through its Startup Accelerator program is helping Extreme Startups with companies addressing the enterprise and the Mobile Workstyle. They are investing in companies exploring the edge between technological possibility and market viability, those creating new solutions for the rapidly emerging Mobile Workstyle and the underlying Cloud Services that empower it.

RIM

Research In Motion (RIM)

Our cohort has access to key resources at RIM that provide guidance on product management, corporate development, and developer / platform resources.

RIM is a major telecommunication company responsible for revolutionizing the popularity of smartphones with the release of the Blackberry. RIM’s major focus is towards manufacturing and providing the best possible wireless solutions for all its customers.

Autodesk

Autodesk

Autodesk is a key industry collaborator providing access to their suite of products and audience among the maker movement.  Our startups tap into their expertise in design and consumer products.

Autodesk specializes on 3D design software that is used by architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media and entertainment industries. Autodesk also provides digital media creation and management software for film and television visual effects, color grading, and editing as well as animation, game development, and design visualization.

Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft is a key partner through its Bizspark Plus program. With support through events, advertisement, and guidance and support. Microsoft has been one of the most important and influential technology companies in the world. Some of its products including Microsoft Windows, Internet explorer, and Microsoft Office without a doubt have increased the productivity of computers for all users.

Product & Service Partnerships

Extreme Startups has forged partnerships with the leading technology companies, giving our cohorts credits, in-kind support and discounts of services.

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS has been providing on demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure to business of all sizes.  Our startups have credit that they can use towards AWS over a 24-month period.

Base CRM

Base CRM provides each of our companies with free CRM for six months.

Base is the next-generation CRM designed to boost your team’s sales productivity and keep your customer relationships on track. Take control of your sales pipeline workflow with customized sales stages and an easy drag-and-drop interface. Stay on top of your sales even when you’re out of the office with native mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

Bizspark

BizSpark Plus

The BizSpark Plus Program provides high potential startups with additional offers, products and services through selected incubators and accelerators around the world.  The first of these offers is Windows Azure with up to $60,000 USD worth of storage and compute over a two-year period.

ClearFit

ClearFit is an only online solution that makes it easy for anyone to find and hire the best person for their company. In particular for most small businesses who don’t know how to find employees who fit, or how to hire accurately and legally.

Code School

Code School provides each of our companies with 4 months of free service.

Code School is an online learning platform that teaches a variety of programming and web design skills. Courses range from beginner to advanced levels and you get to earn rewards and badges as you learn. Our courses use screencasts and interactive exercises to guide you to better code. Each course has at least five levels. Each level begins with a 10-15 minute screencast, followed by a series of code challenges you must solve to make it to the next level.

Desk.com

Desk.com provides each of our companies with six months of free service.

Now every business can deliver personalized customer service through Twitter, Facebook, phone, email and web. Desk.com puts a mobile help desk in every employee’s pocket, letting companies help customers anywhere, anytime. Thousands of fast-growing companies, including Bonobos, Klout, and Spotify, are wowing their customers using Desk.com

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Engine Yard

The Engine Yard Incubator Program works with accelerators to deliver PaaS and related benefits.  As a Select Tier partner, our startups have access to 2,500 hours of free hosting services on one Engine Yard server and discounts on professional services for custom engagements.

Ecquire

Ecquire provides each of our startups with free use of their software.

Ecquire is a sales productivity tool to automate data entry. With one click, Ecquire captures contacts, emails, & tasks from anywhere and sends them to the right account in your CRM.

Frank and Oak

Frank and Oak provides our startups with a 15% discount for life.

We provide men with the simplest shopping experience. Gain access to monthly issues of curated style and never look back.

Geckoboard

Geckoboard provides each of our companies with discounted services for life.

Geckoboard is your key data, in one place. Stop spending time checking services and start monitoring your business in real-time. All your information available all the time, at a glance. From uptime and analytics to check-ins, Geckoboard is a hosted dashboard that’s available on any screen with a browser. The services you use daily are integrated already and more are added all the time. Or, use the Geckoboard API to bring your own data. The possibilities are endless.

Github

Github provides each of our companies with free private repositories for a year.

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over two million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Intercom

Intercom provides each of our companies with free service for six months.

Intercom is a customer relationship management and messaging tool for web businesses. It is the best way to get users actually using your product.

JetBrains

JetBrains provides each of our companies with development environments to build with.

JetBrains is a technology-leading software development firm specializing in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing software. The company is widely known for its innovative, award-winning Java™ integrated development environment IntelliJ™ IDEA, TeamCity— a continuous integration and build management environment, ReSharper – the leading Visual Studio productivity tool, dotTrace — a family of performance and memory profilers for .NET applications, and YouTrack — an intelligent issue and bug tracker, among others. JetBrains maintains its headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic, with its R&D labs located in St. Petersburg, Russia; Munich, Germany; and Boston, Massachusetts.

KISSmetrics

KISSmetrics provides each of our companies with free service.

KISSmetrics helps you understand each of your customers without logging into multiple products. Get actionable insights in your analytics tool and say goodbye to vanity metrics like Page Views, Bounce Rate and Time on Site.

Kobo

Kobo provides each member of our cohort with a Kobo eReader.

Inspired by a “Read Freely” philosophy and a passion for innovation, Kobo is one of the world’s fastest-growing eReading services. Read Freely stems from Kobo’s belief that consumers should have the freedom to read any book, anytime, anyplace – and on any device. As a result, Kobo has attracted millions of readers from more than 170 countries and features one of the world’s largest eReading catalogues with over 2.5 million eBook, newspaper and magazine titles.

mesh Conference

mesh Conference showcases several of our cohort companies in the 15 Minutes of Fame Vignette.

The mesh conference is a two-day event that explores how the web is evolving, the emergence of new and emerging trends, and what’s over the digital horizon. It’s a thinking person’s conference that features challenging, insightful, engaging and provocative speakers and content. You will come away from mesh with new ideas, inspiration and tons of food for thought on how you personally and professionally use the Web.

Mixpanel

Mixpanel provides our companies with free use of their Business Plan.

Mixpanel is the most advanced analytics platform ever for mobile and the web. Mixpanel collects data by tracking how users interact and engage with web and mobile applications. Mixpanel's mission is to help the world learn from their data, by offering a sophisticated analytics platform that companies can use to understand how users behave.

MongoHQ

MongoHQ provides our companies with credits to use towards MongoHQ services.

With our background creating software as a service, we were intrigued at the future of a data layer that could be offered to developers, allowing them to focus on their code instead of having to worry about their data. With that, we created MongoHQ, the first DBaaS (Database as a Service) of its kind.

New Relic

New Relic provides our companies with discounted New Relic services.

New Relic, Inc. is the all-in-one web application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. Its SaaS solution combines real user monitoring, server monitoring, application monitoring, and availability monitoring in a single solution built from the ground up. It changes the way organizations manage web application performance in real-time, enabling developers and operations teams to quickly and cost effectively monitor, troubleshoot, and tune application performance.

Offerpop

Offerpop provides our companies with one year of free service.

At Offerpop, we're about forming real connections. We value communicating with marketers about your goals and challenges. And we're committed to helping you form stronger relationships with your audiences on Facebook and Twitter.

Olark

Olark provides our companies with four months of free service.

Talk to your customers. You’ll sell more, faster. Olark Live Chat helps thousands of businesses connect their sales and support teams to the customers browsing their website so they can drive more sales and make happier customers. Try it FREE at Olark.com.

Parse

Parse

Parse provides our companies with three months of their platform for free.

Parse is transforming the way mobile applications store, sync, and push data. Our vision is a world where mobile developers never have to develop, deploy, or maintain their own server-side stack. Our simple but powerful native mobile SDKs provide all the server-side functionality developers need for rich, internet enabled applications.

Pivotal Tracker

Pivotal Tracker provides each of our startups with free project management software for a year.

Pivotal Tracker is an Agile project management software from the agile software development experts. Easy to use, Tracker enables real time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog. When everyone shares the same view of what's going on, product owners know where things stand and developers know what to focus on.

Pusher

Pusher

Pusher provides our companies with six months of their platform for free.

Pusher is a platform that makes it incredibly easy to deliver live interactive and engaging experiences. We provide a scalable hosted infrastructure, that allows you to instantly broadcast data to any number of clients via our API. Use Pusher to power instant notifications, live content, second-screen experiences, multi-player games and other great interactive experiences.

Rackspace

Rackspace

Rackspace offers each of our startups $2,000 per month for one year of Cloud Hosting.  They also provide technical, project management, marketing and PR mentor and support for our startups.

RJMetrics

RJMetrics offers each of our startups a discount on the use of their service.

RJMetrics is a hosted business intelligence platform for online businesses. It provides analysis of customer purchases, user activities, product merchandizing and more, giving businesses a simple, web-based interface to drive growth through smarter decision-making. Through its Data Warehouse API, RJMetrics offers a complete Data Warehouse as a Service (DWaaS) solution, giving companies plug-and-play access to enterprise-class data warehouse functionality.

Scalr

Scalr provides each of our companies with free service for six months.

Just like jQuery makes your javascript / front-end engineers more productive by providing a framework and pre-built animations, Scalr makes your infrastructure operations more productive with its cloud management tooling and pre-built roles. Take it for a spin and see how you like it.

Segment.io

Segment.io provides each of our companies with free use of their services for a 8 months.

Segment.io gives you the ability to instrument your web app for analytics once, and then send your data to any number of analytics services, including Google Analytics, Mixpanel, KissMetrics, Customer.io, Intercom.io and others. This keeps your code clean, saves development time, and makes it easy to add, remove and experiment with different analytics services without touching any code.

SendGrid

SendGrid provides each of our companies with free emailing for six months.

SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability and real-time analytics along with flexible API's that make custom integration a breeze.

SoftLayer

SoftLayer provides our companies with a year of credits along with support and advice.

SoftLayer is the worlds most advanced Dedicated, Cloud and Hybrid hosting Company. We integrate best-in-class technology and connectivity into the industry’s only fully automated platform, empowering startups with complete access, control, security, and scalability.

Stride

Stride provides our companies with six months of free use of their platform.

Stride helps your startup grow. We provide a simple and beautiful platform that helps you keep track of and manage your sales process, so you can get back to managing your business. With Stride, you'll close more deals and save more time.

Stripe

Stripe

Stripe provides our companies with credits towards their use of Stripe.

Stripe makes it easy to start accepting credit cards on the web today. Stripe offers instant signup, CAD and USD support, and seamlessly transfers to any Canadian bank account.

Switch Video

Switch Video

Switch Video provides one hour of consulting for each of the companies for production video scripting.

Switch Video produce simple explanatory videos that help clients clearly explain what they do and engage with their prospects. Explanatory videos have become a popular and effective marketing tool for countless companies.

ToutApp

ToutApp

ToutApp provides our companies with 50% off for six months.

ToutApp is a complete Sales Communications Platform. We're a startup based in San Francisco. Founded in 2010. Our software helps sales teams streamline communications and close more deals.

Transloadit

Transloadit

Transloadit provides our companies with six months of transcoding for free.

Transloadit offers fantastic file uploading, image/video/audio conversion and file storage for mobile and web apps. Everything is fully customizable with the help of nice JSON API. You can even mix conversion steps just as you like. It's truly powerful and easy to integrate.

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Travis CI

Travis CI provides our companies with discounted services.

Travis CI helps you test your code without the need or fuss with setting up and maintaining a Continuous Integration server.

Unbounce

Unbounce provides our companies with four months on their platform for free.

Unbounce is a self-serve hosted service that provides marketers doing paid search, banner ads, email or social media marketing, the easiest way to create, publish & test promotion specific landing pages without the need for IT or developers.

UserTesting.com

UserTesting.com provides our companies with free user testing.

UserTesting.com provides on-demand usability testing that lets you see and hear where users get stuck on your website or mobile app . You’ll get two things from each participant: 1) a video of users speaking their thoughts as they perform your tasks and 2) written feedback describing the problems they encounter. And you can get results fast, usually within one hour.

UserVoice

UserVoice provides our companies with a reduced rate on their platform for a year.

UserVoice integrates easy-to-use feedback, helpdesk, and knowledge base management tools in one platform that empowers users to speak and companies to understand.

VM Farms

VM Farms

VM Farms offers each startup in Extreme Startups’ cohort 3X 1GB VMs for free for up to a year ($3,200 value). In addition, they provide up to $3,000 per month of professional services from their team for education, technical support, advice, and general troubleshooting.

VM Farms is Operations-as-a-Service offering application deployment, management and scaling services.

Wave Accounting

Wave Accounting

Wave Accounting provides each of our startups free Payroll for three months.

Wave Accounting is an application that aims to assist small business owners with accounting needs that allows them to allocate their time with more pressing matters. Along with Wave Accounting, Wave Payroll lets you pay your employees by direct deposit, and manage all your deductions without ever touching a calculator again.

WhatRunsWhere

WhatRunsWhere

WhatRunsWhere provides each of our startups with six months of free services.

WhatRunsWhere is a competitive intelligence tool for mobile and online advertising. We help you buy media more profitably, discover new traffic sources and keep an eye on what your competition is up to. All in one amazing feasible package.

ZenDesk

Zendesk provides each of our companies with free use of their platform for a year.

Zendesk is the leading cloud-based customer service software solution. More than 65 million people around the world receive support from Zendesk-powered customer service departments and help desks. While industry averages point to low customer satisfaction, our customers experience positive ratings for over 86% of their interactions.

Workspace Partnerships

Extreme Startups has established relationships with the premier accelerators, incubators and technology focused educational agencies around the world.

1871

1871 provides our companies with landing spots in their Chicago offices.

1871 is a community of designers, coders and entrepreneurs, a co-working space and an educational company that offers hundreds of classes, lectures, seminars and other programs.

General Assembly

General Assembly provides our companies with landing spots in their NYC offices.

General Assembly is a global network of campuses for individuals seeking opportunity and education in technology, business, and design.

Agencies

Extreme Startups has established relationships with the premier development agencies in Toronto.

Xtreme Labs

Xtreme Labs

Xtreme Labs is a world class mobile strategy, design, and development agency. They deliver outstanding results for the world’s largest brands with a team of engineers, designers, business strategists, QA, and U/X specialists. Their customers include Groupon, Thomson Reuters, IAC and CBS.

Extreme Startups is co-located with Xtreme Labs, taking advantage of their weekly demo cadence. They also provide resources such as coop students from UW to our companies.

Jet Cooper

Jet Cooper is a design agency providing product strategy and UX/UI services to early stage technology companies. They design smart, capable and beautiful applications for web and mobile experiences.

Extreme Startups is part of the Designer in Residence (DiR) program that Jet Cooper offers. DiR components that our cohorts can take advantage of include On-Site Presentations, UX Workshops, Bi-Weekly Office Hours, and Discounted Resources.

KPMG

The Working Group (TWG)

TWG designs and builds websites, web apps, iPhone apps, and system integrations for entrepreneurs, business, governments, and non-profits. They offer thoughtful, actionable and valuable options to clients.

Extreme Startups has partnered with TWG to provide workshops on agile/scrum, technical & architecture reviews, office hours, RoR courses, and preferred follow-on rates for our cohorts.

bnotions

bnotions is a socially conscious Toronto and Kelowna-based development and internet strategy firm. Their goal is to deliver rich, dynamic applications while using the latest, most flexible technologies.

bnotions provides office hours to Extreme Startups cohorts.

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Playground

Playground is a creative agency in Toronto. They build companies and design experiences in the digital space. Playground specializes in taking business ideas from concept to market. Their services include user experience design, web and mobile development, branding and identity and business consultation.

Playground provides office hours to Extreme Startups cohorts.