LightSpeed Innovations is
The Aerospace Start-up Factory
2 years of development in 4 months!  Be Ready to Launch! 
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Our program accelerates your business and success via weekly sessions addressing company-building principles – centered on the Lean Business Start-up.  We take you from your core idea as it stands through Customer Discovery and achieving product-market fit, through addressing legal issues, recruiting advisors/managing mentors, with the latter part of the class addressing bootstrapping/fundraising and investor relations where you get ready to pitch to investors/established aerospace companies. 

You are given challenging assignments that are meant to provoke thinking on your business, understanding of the market, and address challenges head-on.   We conduct cohort sessions so that you all benefit from each other’s questions and answers,  as well as individual check-up sessions with each company on a weekly basis.  It is here that we will  tailor support to you and your business – from addressing market opportunity sizing to assisting with finding needed talent. 

We pair you with mentors who have business experience and ALSO with mentors who have technical knowledge, a mix that we have found aeropreneurs need.  We will work with you to build out lasting mentor relationships.  We also prepare you to be mentors yourselves.    

Our work begins during the Kickoff Weekend - and lasts way beyond the Accelerator program.  


A peek into our
​lean start-up curriculum.

2 years of development packed into 4 months!  It is fast and furious!

Who should apply?
Anybody who is passionate about building a technology company should apply.  We are aerospace focused in the broadest sense- supporting a wide range of technology industries: including drones, space, robotics, big data, artificial intelligence, communications, electronics, energy, clean tech, and more.  We group companies into cohorts in order to facilitate learning, information sharing, business ties, and general camaraderie!