We support future founders and entrepreneurs by providing a variety of resources and guidance to start and run their new businesses. Five phases designed to maximise the viability of the startup path from inception to market scale.
Shipyards focuses on helping founders get the information they need to excel from lab to funding and from lab to market — creating optimal teams and delivering products that survive contact with customers.
Each phase has entry criteria, a deliverable set and an honest exit conversation. We would rather tell a founder in Inceptor that the market is not there than let them spend two years finding out the expensive way. That conversation is the most valuable thing we offer.
Legal & IP clinic
Prototype workshop
Partner network
Investor review
Post-launch advisory
Select a phase to see what it demands and what you leave with.
A ten-class introductory course on becoming an entrepreneurial pioneer and what it means to be one. Founders leave with a written problem statement, a customer hypothesis and an honest self-assessment of what they can and cannot build alone.
Our pre-filtration system that advises prospective startups on processes, needs and documentation to minimise the difficulties and mistakes common in the startup industry. This is where we tell founders the hard truths early — before they are expensive.
With our incubator partnerships we help secure resources, funding, advisory and experienced mentor guidance to build out your product in depth. Teams ship a working system against real users.
Our accelerator platforms provide startups with everything needed to finish the last mile to market: pricing, positioning, compliance, hiring and the investor materials that survive scrutiny.
Even after going to market, startups often need extra support on marketing, advertising and handling growth and scale. We provide continued access to advisors so the founder is not alone at the moment the company starts working.
Each phase gate is designed around one of these failure modes.
The most common ending. A founder spends eighteen months on a product nobody was waiting for, because building is comfortable and asking strangers hard questions is not. Inceptor exists to force that conversation in week three, not month eighteen.
Work done during employment, in a university lab or with an unpaid collaborator has an owner, and that owner is often not you. Our IP clinic resolves this before a term sheet does it for you, expensively.
Investors fund evidence of a working loop: acquisition, activation, retention, revenue. Accelerator will not let you open a data room until that loop is instrumented and honest.
Pioneer runs three times a year and is the entry point for everyone. If you already have a validated problem statement and early customers, you may apply directly to Inceptor — tell us so in your application and include the evidence.
Pioneer is ten classes and costs you nothing but attention. It is the cheapest way to find out whether the idea holds.
