US Market Expansion › Government & Trade Programs

Your companies, landed properly.

Flying a cohort to the US is the easy part. What happens after they arrive is the work. We build the agenda hour by hour, sit your founders down with mentors who have already taken a foreign company into this market, and work the positioning, the pricing, and the pitch on the ground until it lands. Your companies go home with real conversations started.

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Our programs.

Pick the program that fits. We've run over 50.

Bootcamp

Core skills, fast. Workshops, lectures, and hands-on work on the product and the pitch. For pre-seed teams who need the foundations before anything else.

Accelerator

Scale the business and raise. Intensive growth tactics, investor networking, and Demo Day. For startups with a product in market that are ready to grow.

Immersion

Deep integration into the local market and its ecosystem. Networking, cultural adaptation, and meeting the partners who actually matter here.

Executive immersion

For industry leaders rather than founders. Site visits to major carriers, manufacturers, or banks, roundtables with their innovation leads, a startup demo day, and a public panel.

Key elements of every program.

Dealflow

Curated one-to-one meetings with corporates and public buyers looking for what your cohort sells. Matched company by company, never a shared room.

Investor matching

Speed-matching sessions with funds that already back international companies, plus panels on what actually earns a term sheet here.

Demo Day

Every program ends in public, with an investor panel that judges rather than watches, and a room your ambassador can address.

Pitch coaching

One-to-one narrative work and several full rehearsals, so nobody walks on stage having never said it out loud.

Expert workshops

Go-to-market, pricing, messaging, PR, and sales, led by US operators who have taken a foreign company into this market themselves.

Office hours

Legal, tax, immigration, hiring, and relocation specialists running in parallel, so founders leave with answers rather than referrals.

Space and community

Desks at our center through the program and access after it ends, plus a cohort that keeps trading introductions long after the flights home.

Events and networking

Happy hours, founders-and-funders evenings, and programs timed to the weeks when the city is already full of investors.

Site visits

Corporate headquarters, exchanges, universities, and research centers, so the market stops being an abstraction.

50+

programs designed and run

400+

startups supported

200+

industry mentors on call

30+

service providers offering perks

$150M

raised by alumni companies

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Venture capital

Funds that already back international companies, met in curated one-to-one sessions rather than through cold outreach.

Corporations

Global companies looking for what your cohort sells, across financial services, insurance, industry, agriculture, and energy.

Industry experts

C-level operators, board advisors, and serial entrepreneurs who have taken a foreign company into this market themselves.

Service providers

The legal, tax, hiring, and sales firms a new arrival needs, most of them extending our cohorts preferential terms.

Public sector

City and state economic development agencies, and the consulates and trade offices already working the same market.

Research and academia

University accelerators and research institutions, for cohorts whose technology needs a lab as much as it needs a customer.

Success stories.

Why Canada's Trade Commissioner Service came back for a second cohort

It was an honor and a true privilege to be in New York City with the Canadian Technology Accelerators, SOSA, and 6 other incredible Canadian startups that are shaking things up in the RetailTech sector. I'm still processing all the incredible discussions and ideas exchanged throughout the week.

Taki Eddine Alimat

Co-Founder & CEO, Synode

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Trade agencies

Canada

cohorts commissioned by Canada's Trade Commissioner Service.

Canadian companies landed in New York across the two programs.

15+

active fintech investors in the room for the 2025 cohort.

months of New York office access for alumni, after the program.

Desafía NY: a Spanish cyber cohort that closed US business in-program

Madrid cybersecurity firm Enthec came in with its own agenda, worked four assigned New York mentors, closed a POC with a health tech client inside the program, and left planning its first US sales hire.