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IGC

Innovative Growth Capital

The First Reverse VC Fund

IGC transforms venture into a science - engineered for predictable, accelerated outcomes.

Innovative Growth Capital (IGC) is the first Reverse VC™ fund: purpose-built to align corporate demand with startup capability, accelerate commercialization, and engineer exits earlier by design.

Venture capital was built for a different era.

It assumed long timelines, probabilistic outcomes, and eventual alignment between innovation and buyers.

The market no longer works this way.

Corporates want strategic alignment, technology optionality, and credible acquisition vectors. Corporates Do Not Want Startups - They Want Outcomes.

Founders need faster paths to revenue, relevance, and meaningful exits.

LPs need shorter timelines, faster DPI, predictability, and efficiency.

Reverse VC aligns all three.

Traditional venture relies on pattern matching and hope.

The market now demands precision, speed, and proof.

The Market Moved. The Venture Model Did Not.

Why IGC Created Reverse VC as a New Category

IGC transforms venture into a science — and science accelerates outcomes.

Venture relied on intuition and pattern matching

The market now demands precision, speed, and proof

Reverse VC replaces guesswork with architecture and execution discipline

Demand → commercialization → exit, designed from day one

Outcomes become engineered, not hoped for.

We begin with the exit context — corporate demand, growth objectives, and technology roadmaps — not with capital deployment.

From day one, we engineer commercialization, activate strategic buyers, and shape acquisition pathways — informed by real buyer logic and timing.

This architecture has delivered outcomes across multiple market and technology cycles. 

IGC engineers outcomes by design.

What Makes IGC Different

Reverse VC is a Closed Loop System Designed for Outcomes

Science identifies future value.

Commercialization turns insight into relevance.

Exit architecture converts relevance into liquidity.

Catalysts make it all happen.

IGC institutionalizes this closed loop system to produce repeatable outcomes.

How Reverse VC Works

Reverse VC replaces guesswork with execution architecture.

IGC begins where venture typically ends: the exit

By aligning corporate demand, startup capability, commercialization engineering, and exit logic from day one, outcomes become intentional rather than accidental.

Thus the causal chain is explicit and enforced:

Demand → Commercialization → Valuation → Capital → Exit

Demand-Aligned Growth Focus

IGC invests where corporate demand concentrates repeatedly and with conviction — because that demand converts directly into top line revenue and strategic outcomes.

Across cycles, industries, and buyers, demand consistently clusters in three areas:

Health of the Human — neuroscience and neurotechnology; cognitive, mental, and human performance; women’s health; AI-driven health and performance optimization

Health of the Planet — energy transition, new energy sources, and next-generation energy systems; advanced materials; food, agriculture, and supply chain innovation; climate and infrastructure resilience

Transformative Technologies — AI, data science, and advanced compute; next-generation computing and security; autonomy and sensing; and dual-use commercial and defense technologies 

These are not themes.

They are areas where corporate demand has already signaled durable, repeatable conviction.

Why It Works

Corporate demand is the strongest leading indicator of future enterprise value

When demand precedes investment:

• Capital efficiency improves

• Time to relevance, exit, and returns compresses

• Strategic alignment increases

• Commercialization and exit pathways are activated earlier by design

Reverse VC aligns incentives across founders, corporates, and investors — structurally.

This structure has delivered outcomes across multiple market and technology cycles.

IGC For Founders

Founders do not need more capital.

They need relevance, traction, and a clear path to outcomes.

IGC works with founders to:

• Align products to real corporate demand

• Accelerate early revenue and strategic validation

• Reduce wasted cycles and unfocused iteration

• Design commercialization and exit pathways early

IGC is built for founders who want to build with intent.

IGC For Corporates

Corporates do not want startups.

They want outcomes.

IGC helps corporates:

• Grow top line revenue

• Identify emerging capabilities aligned to real needs

• Reduce innovation and acquisition risk

• Engage with companies architected for integration

• Create optionality across partnership, investment, and acquisition

IGC transforms innovation into strategic outcomes by design.

IGC For Dual-Use Innovation

Dual-use technologies require precision, trust, and responsible pathways.

IGC supports dual-use innovation by aligning commercial and strategic demand early, designing adoption pathways that respect regulatory realities, and accelerating deployment without compromising integrity.

The IGC Team

Outcome Engineers

With years of proven collaboration and billions in market value created across dozens of companies, the IGC team is a global collective of industry and category experts solving complex challenges and accelerating engineered outcomes.

We do not just invest.

We catalyze alignment, accelerate revenue, and deliver high-impact exits.

Stephen Meyer

Wesley King

Dr. Andy Walshe

Dr. Sue Robson

Lee Esmond

Brad Chedister

Jason Monberg

Liz Dalton

Josh Wachtel

Lionel Conacher

Dr. Galen Buckwalter

Vera Futorjanski

Wayne Pfeffer

Tracy Thie

Taylor Johnson

Peter Goldie

Melissa Barall

Sean Voigt

George B. Reed III

Jose Alvarez

Jeff Sturgeon

Rikin Patel

Ryan McKim

What Comes Next

How corporate demand, technology, and execution are converging.

The market has changed.

Corporates are replacing internal R&D with external capability to drive top line revenue.

Founders need faster paths to relevance and exits.

Investors demand faster returns and  better alignment between risk, time, and outcome.

IGC was built for this moment.

We are proactively scaling capabilities — we are not a traditional VC or PE firm.

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