Croissance is for hardtech companies that have validated their market and are now preparing to scale: industrializing production, the first recurring sales, building out the team, and getting ready to raise.
Industrialization · sales · fundraising · team
Every company in Croissance carries on with its Garage Readiness Level, our diagnostic. At this stage, the diagnostic concentrates on the dimensions that decide whether a company can scale: production capacity, commercial traction and financial strength. We build the support plan from that reading, and the company uses the same reading as common language with its industrial partners and its investors.
Your sales are signed and delivered, and your first production run is behind you. Each lot costs too much and takes too much engineering time to hold at the scale you are aiming for.
You are producing, but your processes are undocumented, your quality rests on individuals, and your governance is still to be built. Your absence alone is enough to stop the line.
Investors are talking to you, and you cannot yet defend your unit cost at volume, your margin at scale or your production schedule. A hardtech investor checks all three in the first conversations.
Part of what moves a hardtech project forward comes from the community: the other founders, the manufacturers and the experts in the same room. We include these gatherings in all three programs.
Founders who live with the same constraints meet in a small group, without our team in the room.
Founders, manufacturers and investors meet in the same room.
In each session, one company brings a case and leaves with an answer it can apply.
We hold workshops and conferences throughout the year. Keep an eye on our monthly programming.
You fill in the Garage Readiness Level in under ten minutes. It situates your company, and you see whether Croissance is the right program for you.
We go back through your file with you, and we set the scope of the engagement.
You receive the written offer, with the scope of the engagement, the price and the terms.
You open the first workstream with the expert we assign to it.
Croissance is for hardtech companies that have validated their market with first sales or conclusive pilots, and that are now preparing their industrialization and their raise. Companies that still have a market to validate belong in Incubation, and companies at the technical feasibility stage start with Connect.
The move rests on the GRL diagnostic. When a company shows a product the market has validated and the capacity to deliver, we shift its support plan to the questions of growth: volume production, commercial traction, the raise. Companies can also enter Croissance directly when their stage warrants it.
Yes. We prepare companies for the round: the narrative, the financial model, the valuation, the pitch. We then make targeted introductions across our investor network. We open the doors, and the company runs its own negotiations, because the relationship with an investor belongs to the founders.
Yes. Industrialization is one pillar of the program: choosing production partners from our network of more than 60 manufacturers, design for manufacturing, quality control and supply chain. We support companies through to their first volume production contracts.
No. Companies enter the program continuously, when they are ready, and we build each support plan to measure from the GRL diagnostic. Each company keeps its own calendar, and we impose no demo day.
The length depends on what each company sets out to do: a raise, a first volume production contract and a market expansion do not follow the same calendar. We set milestones specific to each company in the support plan, and the program ends when the company reaches them.
The price depends on what you ask of us, and it starts at CA$4,000 a year. The amount follows the expertise the company draws on and how intensively it draws on it. We set the price after the first meeting, once we have chosen the workstreams with you.
No. Garage&co is a not-for-profit organization and takes no equity in the companies it supports.
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