For Startups & Scale Ups
Each year, we select over 100 ventures to join our diverse hub of founders. Unlike some accelerators. Founders join small cohort sizes through our entrepreneurial program — meaning you get tailored, dedicated guidance to navigate your unique business challenges.
What We Offer
Since 2022, AREA 23 LABS has worked with over 100 tech ventures to provide unbiased support and direct connections for founders to raise capital, attract and retain talent, commercialize technology and IP, and acquire customers. With a focus on hardware and enterprise software technologies, we offer a coveted combination of business and technical expertise, connections to a global network of partners and mentors, access to our 235,000 square foot facility, We are building a brand new $2 million world-class lab for life sciences and robotics to drive innovations from prototype to product.
Our Team
Accelerate Your Growth
AREA 23 LABS offers a number of initiatives focused on helping your business raise capital, retain talent, commercialize your technology and IP, and acquire customers. When you sign up with AREA 23 LABS, you access a range of services crucial for your business. What does your business need to scale?
Prototype & Testing Lab
Access AREA 23 LABS in-house Prototype & Testing lab with state-of-the-art specialized equipment.
Dedicated Advisory
Meet expert advisors and mentors to guide your business strategy and facilitate connections.
Innovation Space
Plug into the innovative tech community at AREA 23 LABS and meet the demands of the changing workforce.
Curated Partnerships
Connect with industry, academic, government, and innovation partners to support your business’s growth.
Opportunities to Showcase
Reach new audiences through monthly Demo Days that put you in front of 30+ investors.
Skill-Building Workshops
Build leadership capacity and expertise with workshops and peer groups specific to your business.
Programs
When you apply to work with AREA 23 LABS you access crucial resources for your business’ success. Whether you’re looking to access new markets or for your next funding round, our programs are tailored to your business’s needs.
Launch
You’re a high potential, early-stage company. Our team will work with you to refine and solidify your value proposition and business model – and prepare you for one of our later-stage growth programs.
Grow
You’ve launched your product or are in-market. Our hands-on advisory services and tailored programming will help bring you to market or accelerate your company’s growth while also offering you the tools and resources to build sustainably.
Scale
You’re ready to scale. We help you optimize your sales and marketing process, aggressively grow your customer base, cultivate top talent to grow your team, and secure investment capital to propel you forward.
Opportunities
Pitch Competition
AREA 23 LABS Annual Pitch Competition awards a collective of $5,000 in cash and in-kind prizing to promising startups and scaleups.
Hackathon
AREA 23 LABS Annual Hackathon Competition awards a collective of $5,000 in cash and in-kind prizing to promising programmers/ devolopers.
Entrepreneurial Cohort Program
The Entrepreneurial Cohort Program encourages innovation for promising early-stage start-ups.
Testimonials
FAQ
We work with innovative growth and scale-stage software, hardware/robitics, and life science companies with some market traction. Your company needs to be incorporated in New Jersey. Most importantly, you must be coachable!
Apply to work with AREA 23 LABS by filling in the form on our Apply page. Each year, we select over 100 ventures to join our diverse hub of founders. By working with AREA 23 LABS, you’ll gain access to our initiatives focused on four pillars critical for any scaling company: raising capital, talent retention, commercializing technology and IP, and customer acquisition.
We take no equity in your company. Founders join small cohort sizes — meaning you get tailored, dedicated guidance to navigate your unique business challenges. You’ll develop relationships in a growing global community of mentors, investors, partners, manufacturers, supply chains, and fellow entrepreneurs, critical to the growth and scaling of your business.