For founders
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Founder support, built by founders.
Ideas Forward helps ambitious founders of early-stage tech startups discover better ideas early, avoid dead ends, and move forward with the right people around them.
We do much of that work in partnership with technology transfer offices, incubators, and other ecosystem builders that want to offer more practical support to founders at the earliest stage of company building.
TTOs, incubators & ecosystem builders
Partner with us to build founder programs that early-stage teams find genuinely useful and help them leap forward.
See how we work with ecosystem partners
What we actually do
We help teams make the hard early calls: what to build, what to ignore, and what to test next. We step in before product–market fit and help teams turn uncertainty into decisions.
Our work is about framing the right problem, testing the critical assumptions, and moving from insight to execution. Instead of optimizing for investor narratives, we optimize for learning velocity and execution quality.
Means of delivery
- Training & coaching
- Start-up support
- Program design & implementation
- Incubation services
Headquarters - Thessaloniki, Greece
We're based in Thessaloniki, with a community-first approach: builders, backers, and believers who help ventures move from uncertainty to progress. From this base, we collaborate with like-minded communities across Europe and connect ventures into wider ecosystems.
These links create tangible upside — partnerships, pilots, mentor access, talent, and cross-border programmes that accelerate learning and adoption.
A deliberate way of working
We choose depth over scale in how we engage. By staying selective, we can commit time, attention, and responsibility — and keep the work anchored in evidence and execution.
This is how we minimize innovation theater and maximize value creation: fewer engagements, deeper involvement, clearer outcomes. When there is strong fit, deeper incubation can follow after working together.
