What’s in the ETsource™ database?
ETsource™ contains detailed profiles of emerging tech companies from across all technology sectors and funded by the full spectrum of investors. “Graduated” companies that have had liquidity events are retained for up to two years following the event.

ETsource™ also contains IP for sale and corporately incubated products/services.

What’s an ET? What Defines an“Emerging Technology Company?”
For our purposes an emerging technology company is one that was formed to convert intellectual property into a product or service and then take that product to market.

Organizational structure is usually an angel-funded or venture capital-funded start-up corporation. However, emerging tech companies can be self-funded. And they can also be technology-incubation entities within a much larger parent company.

What’s the difference between “Free Search” and “Subscriber Search”?
“Free Search” is a snapshot of ETsource™ data provided to non-subscribers. “Subscriber Search” delivers complete profile data. Subscribers also have the benefit of ETtools study, collaboration, and decision.

How are ETsource™ listings created?
Emerging Tech Accelerator’s staff of editors assembled the original database. Upon Emerging Tech Accelerator’s public launch, companies began placing their own profiles. Investment groups post their profile companies. IP owners post their license listings.

Why not just use Internet Search?
We’re 10 times faster for finding emerging tech, and 20 times faster for sharing your findings with colleagues.

Many early and mid stage companies are hard to find because their websites are not optimized to be searchable.

Beyond that, Internet searches return thousands of responses that have to be scanned and evaluated to filter out the very few truly emerging technologies.

How Much Faster Than Internet Search? Time Trial Results
We worked with a team of researchers from a Top 10 international solution provider. The objective was real. They were searching for solutions to a real client’s supply chain problem.

Field Test Score:
        ETsource™ 12
Internet Search 0

 
During this field test, the Internet method delivered zero relevant emerging tech companies. (It did deliver 3 long-established relevant vendors)

Emerging Tech Accelerator delivered 12 relevant emerging tech companies. Four of them were of significant immediate interest. (scroll to see the sample personal ShortList below)

All the relevant Emerging Tech Accelerator search returns were identified within 10 minutes. The 30 minute time limit expired for the Internet method.

Collaboration and Decision Time: No Contest

Assemble Data

With Emerging Tech Accelerator, company data is already assembled as the companies are selected and ranked.

Alternatively, in order to support distance work in non-real time, the team members had to cut and paste web text, then send email. Their verbatim comments indicate this would take “days and weeks”.

Review and Comment

With Emerging Tech Accelerator, team members are appending their comments as they search. Additional iterations of comment and collaboration are done on the Team ShortList.

Alternatively, with the Internet search method, team members had to cut and paste, and then comment. Collaboration was by email with attachment, then everyone read everyone else’s mail, then everyone “reply all”, then repeat for more iterations. Again, time estimates to reach consensus were “days and weeks”.

Publish Results

With Emerging Tech Accelerator, when the Team ShortList collaboration is done, the rankings, company profiles, and team comments can be downloaded to Excel.

What’s in the Toolset? What Does It Do?
Our tools virtualize and compress the process large organizations typically use to identify external innovation and reach consensus on what should be examined and implemented.

ETtools captures and retains the full value of each of your visits because you do your personal tracking and mark up in our environment.

No need to take notes off to the side.
No need to cut and paste Internet findings into a spreadsheet.
No need to maintain a separate index of related files.
And, no need to attach exhibits and analysis to “reply-all” emails with huge long strings.
The work is perpetually visible for individual study and for shared visibility with your chosen collaborators.

So, individuals and teams can build and retain a focused body of knowledge on precisely the emerging technologies that will make a difference.

Teams usually can go through a recurring discovery, study and decision process of 100+ possibilities in as little as 6 weeks.

(That process using normal methods can take 18 to 24 months)

For a quick tour, visit ETtools

How Does ETconnect Work?
ETconnect enables buyers to directly address senior sales management at the emerging tech company. ETconnect presents the sellers standard algorithm of opening qualifying questions. The buyer keys in this opening round information, and other free-form information. Emerging Tech Accelerator then forwards the query to the seller’s designated high-level responder.

Net result: many cycles are avoided by getting the right selling resource in front of the qualified buyer on the first round.

Can I try ETsource™ Before I Buy?
Yes.

If you’re not logged in, just do a search. You’ll see up to 500 returns for each search argument.

You search by word or phrase. To search by phrase “just put your phrase in quotes”

Complete advanced search tools, and complete detailed profiles, are available with subscription.

Can I try ETtools Before I Buy?
For a quick tour, visit ETtools. Or check out our videos for demos and tutorials.

If you still have questions, let us know. We’ll be happy to talk with you.

   For Buyers

   For Sellers

   For Investors

Our focus is the large-enterprise buyer that regularly searches for externally sourced solutions.

By serving their needs we pull through demand for innovation from emerging tech companies and IP sources. It naturally follows that we push out value to emerging tech sellers, investors, university IP managers, innovation NGOs, and tech blog/media readers.

We enable buyer and seller to meet under favorable circumstances.

We also enable alliance and co-marketing to form among entrepreneurs.

Our tools were designed for consensus decision on market ready products, services, and ingredients. But, the same tools work for sourcing and decision on acquisition and IP purchase – and other consensus selections from multiple options.

Our interactions are with the man or woman in the arena – buyer, seller, researcher, implementer.

Buyers
“Intuitive tools and process”
“Fills gaps in our workflow, leading to better result in fewer cycles”
“Enhances our relationship with internal business unit clients”
“Cost effective”
—Curt Smith
—Director of Innovation
—BP

Sellers
"I have been searching world wide for a solution like yours. No one has one. I have only been able to dream of a collaboration toolset like yours.”
—Joy Howland
—Senior Director, Research and Development
—Center for Pacific Northwest Innovation

Investors
“The Willamette MBA program is using ETtools to track and evaluate hundreds of angel investments. It saves huge swaths of time during our initial evaluation of each opportunity, and in archiving our findings for analysis.”
—Rob Wiltbank PhD
—Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University
—Former Partner, Buerk Dale Victor LLC