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Run the program on a core you own

Run applications, evaluations, cohorts, activities and events in one workspace under your own brand, and stop reconciling a stack of tools by hand.

Spring cohort

12 SEATS

APPLIED

312

INTERVIEWED

40

ACCEPTED

12

AO

Ada Okafor · Lumen Health

InterviewAccepted

MT

Mei Tanaka · Kite Robotics

InterviewAccepted

LP

Luis Peña · Fieldnote

AppliedInterview

The program operating core that replaces

A program-management SaaS

01 · Which one are you?

Built for how your program runs

Accelerators

It’s Tuesday. Demo day is in eleven days, and the sponsor report due Friday needs eighteen data points from different systems.

It’s Tuesday. Demo day is in eleven days, and the sponsor report due Friday needs eighteen data points from different systems.

Universities

The semester ends and the founders scatter. What you know about your alumni is the headline stories and almost none of the long tail.

The semester ends and the founders scatter. What you know about your alumni is the headline stories and almost none of the long tail.

Incubators

Residents arrive on different timelines and leave on different timelines, and the only person who knows where everyone is has it in their head.

Residents arrive on different timelines and leave on different timelines, and the only person who knows where everyone is has it in their head.

Corporate innovation

The innovation program has to justify itself to a business unit that measures everything, with data spread across different systems.

The innovation program has to justify itself to a business unit that measures everything, with data spread across different systems.

Chambers of commerce

The energy at the kickoff dinner doesn’t last. Members scatter back to their businesses and there’s no system pulling them back in.

The energy at the kickoff dinner doesn’t last. Members scatter back to their businesses and there’s no system pulling them back in.

Associations

One national membership has many chapters, and each runs its own tools. The number the board sees is assembled by hand.

One national membership has many chapters, and each runs its own tools. The number the board sees is assembled by hand.

Startup studios

You’re running several ventures at once, at different stages, and the operating picture lives across as many stacks as you have companies.

You’re running several ventures at once, at different stages, and the operating picture lives across as many stacks as you have companies.

Government and economic development

The programs run across several offices, each with its own stack, and proving economic impact to a legislature means reconciling them by hand.

The programs run across several offices, each with its own stack, and proving economic impact to a legislature means reconciling them by hand.

02 · Your first week

Four things you’d use in week one

Program teams usually start with these four. All four work from the same founder record, and nothing is entered twice.

Application Builder

Publish the form in an afternoon

A founder applying to your program is often already in the system. The application is added to their existing record.

Spring 2026 application

DRAFT

COMPANY

Lumen Health

STAGE

Seed

PITCH DECK

Upload PDF · max 20 MB

Publish

Published

apply.meridian.io/spring

Live

Replaces Typeform and Google Forms

Cohort Management

Know where every founder is this week

See where each founder in the cohort stands and what they owe you this week.

Spring cohort

12 SEATS

APPLIED

312

INTERVIEWED

40

ACCEPTED

12

AO

Ada Okafor · Lumen Health

InterviewAccepted

MT

Mei Tanaka · Kite Robotics

InterviewAccepted

LP

Luis Peña · Fieldnote

AppliedInterview

Live

Replaces Airtable and monday.com

Reporting Dashboards

Sponsor numbers straight from the record

Dashboards show the figures your board, funder and sponsor ask for, drawn from one set of program data.

Spring 2026 report

LIVE

FOUNDERS

12

SESSIONS

148

RAISED

$4.18M

OFFERS REDEEMED

41

SESSIONS PER WEEK

Export for sponsor

Live

Replaces a quarterly rebuild

Advisor matching

Pair founders and advisors on evidence

Pairs are scored on stage, sector and the gaps the founder named.

AO

Ada Okafor

Founder · Lumen Health

91%
fit

YS

Yara Sadiq

Advisor · Go-to-market

THU

14

Pricing review · 10:00

45 min · Meridian workspace

REC

Session logged

→ Ada’s founder record

Live

Replaces first-come pairing

Application Builder

Publish the form in an afternoon

A founder applying to your program is often already in the system. The application is added to their existing record.

Spring 2026 application

DRAFT

COMPANY

Lumen Health

STAGE

Seed

PITCH DECK

Upload PDF · max 20 MB

Publish

Published

apply.meridian.io/spring

Live

Replaces Typeform and Google Forms

Cohort Management

Know where every founder is this week

See where each founder in the cohort stands and what they owe you this week.

Spring cohort

12 SEATS

APPLIED

312

INTERVIEWED

40

ACCEPTED

12

AO

Ada Okafor · Lumen Health

InterviewAccepted

MT

Mei Tanaka · Kite Robotics

InterviewAccepted

LP

Luis Peña · Fieldnote

AppliedInterview

Live

Replaces Airtable and monday.com

Reporting Dashboards

Sponsor numbers straight from the record

Dashboards show the figures your board, funder and sponsor ask for, drawn from one set of program data.

Spring 2026 report

LIVE

FOUNDERS

12

SESSIONS

148

RAISED

$4.18M

OFFERS REDEEMED

41

SESSIONS PER WEEK

Export for sponsor

Live

Replaces a quarterly rebuild

Advisor matching

Pair founders and advisors on evidence

Pairs are scored on stage, sector and the gaps the founder named.

AO

Ada Okafor

Founder · Lumen Health

91%
fit

YS

Yara Sadiq

Advisor · Go-to-market

THU

14

Pricing review · 10:00

45 min · Meridian workspace

REC

Session logged

→ Ada’s founder record

Live

Replaces first-come pairing

Application Builder

Publish the form in an afternoon

A founder applying to your program is often already in the system. The application is added to their existing record.

Spring 2026 application

DRAFT

COMPANY

Lumen Health

STAGE

Seed

PITCH DECK

Upload PDF · max 20 MB

Publish

Published

apply.meridian.io/spring

Live

Replaces Typeform and Google Forms

Cohort Management

Know where every founder is this week

See where each founder in the cohort stands and what they owe you this week.

Spring cohort

12 SEATS

APPLIED

312

INTERVIEWED

40

ACCEPTED

12

AO

Ada Okafor · Lumen Health

InterviewAccepted

MT

Mei Tanaka · Kite Robotics

InterviewAccepted

LP

Luis Peña · Fieldnote

AppliedInterview

Live

Replaces Airtable and monday.com

Reporting Dashboards

Sponsor numbers straight from the record

Dashboards show the figures your board, funder and sponsor ask for, drawn from one set of program data.

Spring 2026 report

LIVE

FOUNDERS

12

SESSIONS

148

RAISED

$4.18M

OFFERS REDEEMED

41

SESSIONS PER WEEK

Export for sponsor

Live

Replaces a quarterly rebuild

Advisor matching

Pair founders and advisors on evidence

Pairs are scored on stage, sector and the gaps the founder named.

AO

Ada Okafor

Founder · Lumen Health

91%
fit

YS

Yara Sadiq

Advisor · Go-to-market

THU

14

Pricing review · 10:00

45 min · Meridian workspace

REC

Session logged

→ Ada’s founder record

Live

Replaces first-come pairing

03 · The jobs

What the platform does here

Run programs

Run programs

Run every program from one workspace

Applications, evaluations, cohorts, activities and events sit in one workspace your organization owns and controls. Data entered once is available across all of it.

Program teams lose their week to reconciliation: moving the same founder between a form tool, a CRM, a notes platform and a slide deck. A stack can move data around, but it can’t be the source of truth. There’s no single view of who’s on track and who’s at risk. That work never makes the program better, and it grows with every cohort you add.

Manage advisors

Manage advisors

Advisors who stay, and evidence you can show them

Advisors are matched on stage, sector and the gaps the founder named, with every session, action and outcome logged on the founder record.

Recruiting advisors is hard and managing them is harder. Without structured matching, there’s no way to place the right person. Without session tracking, you can’t tell whether the advice landed or show an advisor anything that would make them stay. Advisor churn costs a program more than it usually admits, because each departure takes relationships and context with it.

Manage investors

Manage investors

Capital outcomes across the cohort

Readiness and raise tracking across the whole cohort is coming soon. It will turn capital outcomes into numbers you can report.

Capital outcomes are the headline every sponsor and funder asks about, and they’re usually the hardest to evidence. The raises happen in conversations the program wasn’t part of, and the amounts arrive by hearsay months later. The number in the report is pieced together from whatever founders happened to mention.

Manage founders

Manage founders

A record that outlives the cohort

Every founder keeps a live profile. Alumni stay reachable and countable long after graduation.

Three months after demo day the program has moved on to the next cohort, and six months later half the alumni have dropped out of view. Three years later one of them has a real outcome, and the program has lost so much continuity it can’t credibly claim attribution. Most programs stop tracking founders once the cohort ends.

Prove impact

Prove impact

Outcomes on one record per founder

Keep a persistent record per founder covering applications, activities and outcomes. Reports for funders come from the same record.

Proving outcomes to secure the next funding cycle is the primary pain of this job, and today it’s done by hand. Someone pulls eighteen data points from a dozen tools the week the sponsor report is due, usually the person who can least afford the week. The data exists, but it’s trapped in tools that won’t share it, so every number has to be checked by hand.

Grant reporting

Grant reporting

Beneficiary counts that reconcile the first time

Report by grant period, with outcomes logged against the founders who produced them.

Grants are harder to win than they were, slower to land, and are being cut. That makes every reporting cycle consequential, because the report is what protects the next one. Federal and state funders want clean outcomes on their own calendar, and the reporting team stitches them together from separate systems every quarter.

Switching costs

Migration is free

Our team does the migration with you, and there’s no fee for it. These are the questions people ask before they switch.

We’ll lose our history?

+

The program will go dark while we move?

+

Retraining everyone will take months?

+

We’ll be stuck if it doesn’t work?

+

Someone will send us a bill for the move?

+

It’ll need an integration project?

+

Switching costs

Migration is free

Our team does the migration with you, and there’s no fee for it. These are the questions people ask before they switch.

We’ll lose our history?

+

The program will go dark while we move?

+

Retraining everyone will take months?

+

We’ll be stuck if it doesn’t work?

+

Someone will send us a bill for the move?

+

It’ll need an integration project?

+

Run every cohort from application to alumni on one record.

Applications, evaluations, cohorts, events and reporting on one founder record.

Thirty minutes on your use case. No deck and no commitment.

Run every cohort from application to alumni on one record.

Applications, evaluations, cohorts, events and reporting on one founder record.

Thirty minutes on your use case. No deck and no commitment.

Run every cohort from application to alumni on one record.

Applications, evaluations, cohorts, events and reporting on one founder record.

Thirty minutes on your use case. No deck and no commitment.