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The operating core you run the program on

Run applications, evaluations, cohorts, activities and events in one workspace your organization owns and controls. The tools it replaces could move data around, but none of them was the source of truth.

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Spring 2026 Accelerator

Programs › Spring 2026 › Applications

RUNNING

Open applications

Overview

Applications

Evaluations

Cohorts

People

Events

Analytics

Stage: Pre-seed → Seed

Sector: All

Sort: Score

44 in round 2 · 3 reviewers each

SUBMITTED

24

Kestrel Bio

Cell-free diagnostics for rural clinics

Rosa Iglesias

HEALTH

Fjord Analytics

Freight emissions ledger for shippers

Jonas Weber

CLIMATE

Orbit Pay

Payroll rails for cross-border teams

Tunde Bakare

FINTECH

IN REVIEW

11

Atlas Materials

7.8

Low-carbon cement additive

Leila Haddad

CLIMATE

Lumen Learning

8.1

Adaptive tutoring for community colleges

Nadia Osei

EDTECH

SHORTLISTED

6

Meridian Robotics

8.9

Warehouse picking arms, sold per pick

Sarah Chen

ROBOTICS

Halcyon Grid

8.4

Battery dispatch software for utilities

Kemi Adeyemi

ENERGY

INTERVIEW

3

Verano Labs

9.1

Soil sensors that price carbon credits

Diego Marín

AGTECH

Thu 14 Mar · 10:00

Baseline Health

8.6

Chronic-care coordination for clinics

Noah Whitfield

HEALTH

Fri 15 Mar · 14:30

Spring 2026

WEEK 6 OF 12

SC

AO

DM

NO

TH

LH

FOUNDERS

12

ON TRACK

82%

RAISED

$4.18M

meridian.startupscience.io

SC

PR

Sarah Chen ↔ Priya Raman

Workspace · Pricing experiment · 6 sessions

ACTIVE

PR

Priya Raman

Tue 09:12

Before we touch price, I want to see how buyers react to per-pick vs. a flat monthly fee. Can you run five interviews with the warehouses in the pilot?

Sarah Chen

Tue 09:30

On it. Two are already booked for Thursday. Sharing the current price page so you can see what they are reacting to.

pricing_page_v2.pdf

SC

Action item created · Run 5 customer interviews · owner Sarah · due 19 Mar

ON THE RECORD

PR

Priya Raman

Tue 09:34

Perfect. Log what they say in the session notes and we will decide on the experiment together next Tuesday.

Write to Priya…

THE FOUNDER RECORD

Sessions logged

6

Hours delivered

5.5 / 8

Next session

Tue 19 Mar · 10:00

Open action items

2

Visible to Meridian Accelerator. Not to other founders or rival programs.

SUGGESTED ADVISOR

91% MATCH

MB

Marcus Bell

Ex-CFO, Kite Robotics · 2 seed rounds led · Boston

FUNDRAISING

SEED → A

ROBOTICS

HARDWARE

Raised for a per-unit hardware business

Available Tue & Thu mornings, your slots

No conflict with Meridian competitors

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Capital directory

Investors your founders can see, curated by Meridian

Saved lists · 3

Add investor

Investors

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Debt

Community funding

Search 1,240 investors…

STAGE: SEED

SECTOR: ROBOTICS

GEO: NORTH AMERICA

CHECK: $500K–2M

INVESTOR

STAGE

CHECK

FOCUS

LEADS

N

Northwind Ventures

Seed fund · Boston

PRE-SEED · SEED

$500K–1.5M

Robotics, industrial automation

Yes

B

Bluefin Capital

Multi-stage · NYC

SEED · A

$1M–3M

Climate, supply chain

Yes

H

Harbor Angels

Angel group · Boston

PRE-SEED

$50K–250K

Hardware, healthtech

No

S

Solstice Fund

Seed fund · Toronto

SEED

$750K–2M

Energy, grid software

Yes

K

Lakeshore Partners

Corporate VC · Chicago

A · B

$2M–5M

Logistics, robotics

Co-lead

Founders see this directory inside their own Capital tab. Notes stay with your program.

N

Northwind Ventures

Seed fund · Boston

STAGE

Pre-seed · Seed

CHECK

$500K–1.5M

LEADS

Yes

Robotics, industrial automation · 14 portfolio companies

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Founders

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Marketplace

Curated for Meridian founders · 9 offers · $186K delivered this cohort

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Offers

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STAGE: ANY

TYPE: ALL

REGION: NORTH AMERICA

SORT: MOST REDEEMED

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L

Ledgerly

Bookkeeping

PUBLIC

Save up to $10,000

S

Stackform

Cloud credits

PUBLIC

$25,000 credits

B

Brightpath Legal

Legal

PRIVATE

Save up to $6,500

C

Cloudmint

Payments

PUBLIC

Waive $7,500 fees

N

Northbeam Studio

Brand & design

SPONSORED

Save up to $12,000

K

Kestrel People

Hiring & HR

PUBLIC

Save up to $4,800

L

Ledgerly

Bookkeeping & tax · 4.8 ★ (61)

MERIDIAN PERK

12 months of bookkeeping and your first tax filing, free for cohort founders. Then 40% off.

PRE-SEED → SERIES A · 14 CLAIMS LEFT

Save up to $10,000

01 · Start to finish

Applications, scoring, cohorts, events and reporting in one place, replacing the separate tools that don’t share data.

Application Builder: forms that create a founder record on submit

Evaluation and Scoring: three reviewers on one weighted rubric

Cohort Management: every founder’s week on one board

Application Builder

Forms use conditional questions and flag duplicates. Each submission creates a founder record.

Spring 2026 application

DRAFT

COMPANY

Lumen Health

STAGE

Seed

PITCH DECK

Upload PDF · max 20 MB

Publish

Published

apply.meridian.io/spring
On the recordFounder record created

Chapter 1: Application Builder

Applications create the founder record

Forms use conditional questions and flag duplicate applications as they arrive.

Spring 2026 application

DRAFT

COMPANY

Lumen Health

STAGE

Seed

PITCH DECK

Upload PDF · max 20 MB

Publish

Published

apply.meridian.io/spring

On the record: Founder record created

Chapter 2: Evaluation and Scoring

Blind scoring, weighted by rubric

Reviewers never see each other’s scores. The rubric weighs them; the audit trail keeps every decision.

Before · a scoring sheetAfter · Evaluation and Scoring

ONE RECORD

Scores_v7_FINAL.xlsx

MANUAL

Which tab is the latest?

Scoring round · 48 in review

Ada Okafor · Lumen Health

8.2 · ADVANCE

Luis Peña · Fieldnote

7.4 · HOLD

ON THE RECORD

Three scores, one weighted decision

On the record: Score 8.2 · Advance

Chapter 3: Cohort Management

A live view of the cohort

Sessions, tasks and offers are saved to the founder record, so the cohort board is always current.

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

On the record: Cohort of 12 · on track

Chapter 4: Program Design

Twelve weeks as one template

Build the curriculum once, then reuse it to set up sessions for every cohort.

12-week template

REUSABLE

W1

Kickoff

W2

W3

Calls

W4

W5

Pricing

W6

W7

W8

GTM

W9

W10

W11

W12

Demo day

LIBRARY

Fund

Legal

Hiring

On the record: Template · 12 weeks

Chapter 5: Event Management

Events tied to the cohort

RSVPs, attendance and reminders are saved to each founder’s record.

NOV

21

Demo Day · Spring cohort

Thu 21 Nov · 17:00 · Meridian Hall + stream

RSVPs

64

of 80

M

18

T

19

W

20

T

21

F

22

Reminder sent

to 64 guests · 3 days before

On the record: Demo Day · 64 of 80

Chapter 6: Reporting Dashboards

Numbers from the live record

The dashboard reads the same record the program works in. Export for the sponsor in one click.

Spring 2026 report

LIVE

FOUNDERS

12

SESSIONS

148

RAISED

$4.18M

OFFERS REDEEMED

41

SESSIONS PER WEEK

Export for sponsor

On the record: Report · live

Chapter 1: Application Builder

Applications create the founder record

Forms use conditional questions and flag duplicate applications as they arrive.

Spring 2026 application

DRAFT

COMPANY

Lumen Health

STAGE

Seed

PITCH DECK

Upload PDF · max 20 MB

Publish

Published

apply.meridian.io/spring

On the record: Founder record created

Chapter 2: Evaluation and Scoring

Blind scoring, weighted by rubric

Reviewers never see each other’s scores. The rubric weighs them; the audit trail keeps every decision.

Before · a scoring sheetAfter · Evaluation and Scoring

ONE RECORD

Scores_v7_FINAL.xlsx

MANUAL

Which tab is the latest?

Scoring round · 48 in review

Ada Okafor · Lumen Health

8.2 · ADVANCE

Luis Peña · Fieldnote

7.4 · HOLD

ON THE RECORD

Three scores, one weighted decision

On the record: Score 8.2 · Advance

Chapter 3: Cohort Management

A live view of the cohort

Sessions, tasks and offers are saved to the founder record, so the cohort board is always current.

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

On the record: Cohort of 12 · on track

Chapter 4: Program Design

Twelve weeks as one template

Build the curriculum once, then reuse it to set up sessions for every cohort.

12-week template

REUSABLE

W1

Kickoff

W2

W3

Calls

W4

W5

Pricing

W6

W7

W8

GTM

W9

W10

W11

W12

Demo day

LIBRARY

Fund

Legal

Hiring

On the record: Template · 12 weeks

Chapter 5: Event Management

Events tied to the cohort

RSVPs, attendance and reminders are saved to each founder’s record.

NOV

21

Demo Day · Spring cohort

Thu 21 Nov · 17:00 · Meridian Hall + stream

RSVPs

64

of 80

M

18

T

19

W

20

T

21

F

22

Reminder sent

to 64 guests · 3 days before

On the record: Demo Day · 64 of 80

Chapter 6: Reporting Dashboards

Numbers from the live record

The dashboard reads the same record the program works in. Export for the sponsor in one click.

Spring 2026 report

LIVE

FOUNDERS

12

SESSIONS

148

RAISED

$4.18M

OFFERS REDEEMED

41

SESSIONS PER WEEK

Export for sponsor

On the record: Report · live

Chapter 1: Application Builder

Applications create the founder record

Forms use conditional questions and flag duplicate applications as they arrive.

Spring 2026 application

DRAFT

COMPANY

Lumen Health

STAGE

Seed

PITCH DECK

Upload PDF · max 20 MB

Publish

Published

apply.meridian.io/spring

On the record: Founder record created

Chapter 2: Evaluation and Scoring

Blind scoring, weighted by rubric

Reviewers never see each other’s scores. The rubric weighs them; the audit trail keeps every decision.

Before · a scoring sheetAfter · Evaluation and Scoring

ONE RECORD

Scores_v7_FINAL.xlsx

MANUAL

Which tab is the latest?

Scoring round · 48 in review

Ada Okafor · Lumen Health

8.2 · ADVANCE

Luis Peña · Fieldnote

7.4 · HOLD

ON THE RECORD

Three scores, one weighted decision

On the record: Score 8.2 · Advance

Chapter 3: Cohort Management

A live view of the cohort

Sessions, tasks and offers are saved to the founder record, so the cohort board is always current.

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

On the record: Cohort of 12 · on track

Chapter 4: Program Design

Twelve weeks as one template

Build the curriculum once, then reuse it to set up sessions for every cohort.

12-week template

REUSABLE

W1

Kickoff

W2

W3

Calls

W4

W5

Pricing

W6

W7

W8

GTM

W9

W10

W11

W12

Demo day

LIBRARY

Fund

Legal

Hiring

On the record: Template · 12 weeks

Chapter 5: Event Management

Events tied to the cohort

RSVPs, attendance and reminders are saved to each founder’s record.

NOV

21

Demo Day · Spring cohort

Thu 21 Nov · 17:00 · Meridian Hall + stream

RSVPs

64

of 80

M

18

T

19

W

20

T

21

F

22

Reminder sent

to 64 guests · 3 days before

On the record: Demo Day · 64 of 80

Chapter 6: Reporting Dashboards

Numbers from the live record

The dashboard reads the same record the program works in. Export for the sponsor in one click.

Spring 2026 report

LIVE

FOUNDERS

12

SESSIONS

148

RAISED

$4.18M

OFFERS REDEEMED

41

SESSIONS PER WEEK

Export for sponsor

On the record: Report · live

Chapter 1: Application Builder

Applications create the founder record

Forms use conditional questions and flag duplicate applications as they arrive.

Spring 2026 application

DRAFT

COMPANY

Lumen Health

STAGE

Seed

PITCH DECK

Upload PDF · max 20 MB

Publish

Published

apply.meridian.io/spring

On the record: Founder record created

Chapter 2: Evaluation and Scoring

Blind scoring, weighted by rubric

Reviewers never see each other’s scores. The rubric weighs them; the audit trail keeps every decision.

Before · a scoring sheetAfter · Evaluation and Scoring

ONE RECORD

Scores_v7_FINAL.xlsx

MANUAL

Which tab is the latest?

Scoring round · 48 in review

Ada Okafor · Lumen Health

8.2 · ADVANCE

Luis Peña · Fieldnote

7.4 · HOLD

ON THE RECORD

Three scores, one weighted decision

On the record: Score 8.2 · Advance

Chapter 3: Cohort Management

A live view of the cohort

Sessions, tasks and offers are saved to the founder record, so the cohort board is always current.

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

On the record: Cohort of 12 · on track

Chapter 4: Program Design

Twelve weeks as one template

Build the curriculum once, then reuse it to set up sessions for every cohort.

12-week template

REUSABLE

W1

Kickoff

W2

W3

Calls

W4

W5

Pricing

W6

W7

W8

GTM

W9

W10

W11

W12

Demo day

LIBRARY

Fund

Legal

Hiring

On the record: Template · 12 weeks

Chapter 5: Event Management

Events tied to the cohort

RSVPs, attendance and reminders are saved to each founder’s record.

NOV

21

Demo Day · Spring cohort

Thu 21 Nov · 17:00 · Meridian Hall + stream

RSVPs

64

of 80

M

18

T

19

W

20

T

21

F

22

Reminder sent

to 64 guests · 3 days before

On the record: Demo Day · 64 of 80

Chapter 6: Reporting Dashboards

Numbers from the live record

The dashboard reads the same record the program works in. Export for the sponsor in one click.

Spring 2026 report

LIVE

FOUNDERS

12

SESSIONS

148

RAISED

$4.18M

OFFERS REDEEMED

41

SESSIONS PER WEEK

Export for sponsor

On the record: Report · live

02 · Who it’s for

For your organization

For your organization

Run more cohorts without hiring. Every application, score, session and outcome sits on one record, and reports are built straight from it.

For your founders

For your founders

Structure, deadlines they can actually see, and a profile of what they built that they keep afterward.

03 · Every side of it

What each side gets

For founders

For founders

Engagement that doesn’t collapse in week three

Founders drop off because of friction with the tools, and it shows up in your numbers. Remove the second login, the duplicate profile and the deliverable posted somewhere nobody checks.

  • Application answers carry straight into their profile

  • All deliverables and deadlines in one list

  • Sessions, notes and feedback attached to the same profile

  • Alumni keep their profile, and you can still reach them

For advisors

For advisors

Mentors who stay because they can finally see their impact

Recruiting mentors is hard, and many drift away after a session or two. Give them context before each call and a report on what their work produced.

  • Matched on stage, sector and the gaps founders name

  • Advisors get cohort context, and you skip the briefing

  • Sessions and actions logged against the founder record

  • Hours and outcomes reported from logged sessions

For investors

For investors

Capital outcomes you can put in the report

Raises happen in meetings you weren’t in, and the amounts reach you secondhand months later. Track readiness across the cohort and attach each raise to the founder who made it.

  • Readiness tracked across the whole cohort at once

  • Investors can read each founder’s actual progress

  • What was raised, attached to who raised it

  • A capital number that reconciles with the rest of your reporting

05 · Two field guides for this module

Read the field guides

Field guide

Field guide

The Renewal Cycle

Why the accelerator calendar you run on is the sponsor’s, not the cohort’s

Why the accelerator calendar you run on is the sponsor’s, not the cohort’s

7 pages · Free

7 pages · Free

Get the guide

Get the guide

Field guide

Field guide

The Fragmentation Tax

Why accelerators and incubators are running modern programs on disconnected infrastructure

Why accelerators and incubators are running modern programs on disconnected infrastructure

9 pages · Free

9 pages · Free

Get the guide

Get the guide

Switching costs

Migration is free

Our team does the migration with you, and there’s no fee for it. The FAQ below answers the questions people ask before they switch.

Switching costs

Migration is free

Our team does the migration with you, and there’s no fee for it. The FAQ below answers the questions people ask before they switch.

06 · Common questions

Asked at most demos

Anything else? Talk to us.

What does the module actually include?

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Is it really unlimited seats?

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We’re mid-cohort. Can we still move?

+

Who does the migration work?

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Do we keep our brand?

+

Can a program earn revenue too?

+

What about the funder report?

+

What happens when a cohort ends?

+

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?

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The comparison

Why teams choose Startup Science over the alternatives

Usually the competition is a dozen tools bought at different times. None were built for this work, and they don’t talk to each other.

What matters

Startup Science

Other tools

One record across everything

✓

✕ Every tool holds its own version of the same person

One flat price, unlimited seats

✓

✕ Priced per seat, so growing costs more

Built for the early-stage economy

✓

✕ Borrowed from software made for another industry

Founders, advisors and providers on one platform

✓

✕ Each side in a different system, or in none

Reporting from live data

✓

✕ Rebuilt by hand from exports, every quarter

Your brand end to end

✓

✕ Their brand, with your logo in a corner

Month to month

✓

✕ Annual contracts and quote-only pricing

Migration and orientation included

✓

✕ A migration fee, or no migration path at all

“Other tools” means the dozen or so separate products a program usually ends up running side by side.

The comparison

Why teams choose Startup Science over the alternatives

Usually the competition is a dozen tools bought at different times. None were built for this work, and they don’t talk to each other.

One record across everything

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Every tool holds its own version of the same person

One flat price, unlimited seats

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Priced per seat, so growing costs more

Built for the early-stage economy

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Borrowed from software made for another industry

Founders, advisors and providers on one platform

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Each side in a different system, or in none

Reporting from live data

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Rebuilt by hand from exports, every quarter

Your brand end to end

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Their brand, with your logo in a corner

Month to month

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ Annual contracts and quote-only pricing

Migration and orientation included

✓

Startup Science

Other tools

✕ A migration fee, or no migration path at all

“Other tools” means the dozen or so separate products a program usually ends up running side by side.

One price for the whole platform: $495 a month, flat, with unlimited seats.

Every product in the module is included, with no tiers and no add-ons.

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

One price for the whole platform: $495 a month, flat, with unlimited seats.

Every product in the module is included, with no tiers and no add-ons.

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

One price for the whole platform: $495 a month, flat, with unlimited seats.

Every product in the module is included, with no tiers and no add-ons.

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