Stephen Meyer

IGC - Innovative Growth Capital

2024 - Current

IGC – The First Reverse VC Fund™ Accelerating breakthrough companies with proven commercialization signals. Innovative Growth Capital (IGC) is a GTM acceleration fund investing in transformative technologies backed by strong commercialization signals and validated market demand. Our proprietary Reverse VC™ model prioritizes outcomes first, driving scale, rapid Go-To-Market traction, revenue growth, and faster exits. Reverse VC: A Demand-Driven Investment Model IGC reverses the venture process, focusing on outcomes — starting with corporate demand, not guesswork. Leveraging our ReverseVision™ platform, we identify corporate demand signals and match them with the right emerging technology companies. This approach ensures: • Accelerated Growth: Market demand fuels rapid growth. • Stronger Deal Terms: Strategic positioning and leverage maximize value. • De-Risked Investing: Innovation that is already in demand from Global 5000 companies. We invest in the future we want to live in—where human potential is elevated, the planet is protected, and transformative technologies power both. IGC focuses on category-defining companies in high-growth sectors, including: 1. Health of the Human Enhancing longevity, well-being, & performance • Precision health & wellness innovation • Cognitive & physical performance, resiliency, & personalized nutrition • AI-driven health & performance optimization 2. Health of the Planet Regenerating ecosystems & powering industries • Sustainable energy systems & climate tech • Next-gen agriculture & food innovation • Circular supply chains & green infrastructure 3. Transformative Technologies Powering the future of industry, infrastructure, & society with secure, adaptive systems • AI, data science, edge compute, and data center innovation • Quantum and next-gen computing with resilient cyber security • Dual-use (commercial & defense) innovation We don’t just invest—we accelerate alignment, revenue, and exits.

Karerra

2015

The Science of Innovation, Measured by Outcomes. We’ve built the world’s first outcome accelerator for business builders, visionaries, and innovators. Because solving for growth is challenging, and the problems are dynamic. So, we created the science of PreSight™ to deliver predictive outcomes by combining the elements of strategy, customers, and scale, all while moving with velocity. We are a team of seasoned entrepreneurs, investors, data scientists, and technologists. We are Outcome Engineers. (1) PreSight - verb: The science of PreSight is identifying and understanding future patterns and global market opportunities, then matching these to corporate intentions. Accelerated Outcomes = Velocity10 / Time Karerra brings together technology startups, growth companies, and corporations, operationalizing business building at scale up to 10x faster than ever before. As a result, Karerra generates an order of magnitude difference in velocity, thereby bending time and advancing our clients light years ahead of their competition. Website: karerra.com

Northstarr

2021

Empowering Health, Wellness, Performance, and Resiliency Leveraging cutting-edge AI, our platform deciphers cognitive, emotional, and physical well-being. It provides precise, personalized recommendations with a unique N=1 insights score for context-driven next actions. Continuous learning through AI-driven processes ensures constant refinement and optimization over time.

Coherent Capital

2020

DATA DRIVEN FUNDRAISING Find Strategic Investors , Identify Revenue Opportunities, Lift Valuation, and Accelerate Growth. We are Coherent, Your Trusted Partner for Strategic Capital. Adding the right investors at the right time has ripple effects that enable a better outcome for your business. At Coherent Capital, we focus on leveraging the fundraising process to build long-term value for clients as we establish lasting relationships and craft strategic partnerships.

TechFund Capital and TechFund Capital Europe - Managing Partner

2000

Exemplar Companies, Inc.

2018 - 2020

Exemplar is a new age services firm that holistically integrates the formative elements of Legal and Consulting capabilities. Exemplar is committed to serving innovators, revolutionaries, game-changers, eco-social entrepreneurs, and impact businesses to help them achieve their success.

Airspace Systems Inc.

2019 - 2019

Airspace uses artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and advanced robotics to create automated, persistent solutions that provide long-range detection and instant identification of drones, allowing customers to ensure that businesses are clear of drones and, should drones be detected, providing drone and drone operator location for potential response by security and law enforcement.

RocketSpace

2017 - 2018

RocketSpace (RS) provides speed and direction to the world’s top tech startup and corporate innovators.

Dakota Capital

2005 - 2015

Bridging the intersection of startups and corporations with a dynamic set of outcome oriented services and products, designed to bring innovation at scale to market and drive digital transformation. Reverse engineering venture capital while transforming corporate and startup engagement, accelerating the pace of innovation, mitigating risk, reducing the friction, creating lift, and achieving scale fueled by a blend of capital, sales deals, partnerships, talent, and community that generate revenue and growth. Operationalizing innovation as a service up to 10x faster than ever before, generating an order of magnitude difference in velocity along with a step function lift in non-organic revenue growth, thereby forging digital catalysts, and separating clients from their competitors. Delivering a unique predictive analytics global platform and applied data science driven approach that transcends all previous expected outcomes, providing corporations unprecedented access to the world’s leading startups, adding velocity and direction to the development of the next generation of great digital businesses. Identifying innovative opportunities, recognizing the market need, developing a gap analysis, and identifying the elements necessary to achieve success, then building the right teams, products, and partnerships while delivering performance and results. Making high velocity decisions and deliver results, bridging from strategy though implementation, with grit and integrity. Collaboratively establishing metrics and KPIs that will contribute to continuous process improvement. Successfully developing, empowering, and retaining high performing teams and leaders, cultivating entrepreneurship, while reinforcing the global culture of collaboration, excellence, development, accountability, and mentoring throughout these groups. Connecting corporations seeking digital transformation and growth with the best startups, to drive innovation and exponential outcomes.

President and COO

1998 - 2000