Your Runway to Traction
FutureX offers early-stage founders the runway they need to build proof-of-concept, traction, and repeatable revenue. If you have graduated from any of the region’s many accelerators and bootcamps and you are committed to launching your startup or getting to the next level, this is the program for you. The program is a perfect fit for ventures that can scale their customer base and revenue to investable valuation levels.
Based out of Flywheel’s coworking innovation center in the Crescent Innovation District, the program is a collaboration between the Furman Innovation Lab and the Flywheel Foundation. Collaborating program partners include:
- Furman’s Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Program lead)
- The Flywheel Foundation (Administration, fundraising, and content)
- Designli (Tech stack mentorship and design sprints)
- Furman’s Center for Innovative Leadership (Leadership development)
- Founderville.vc (Getting investor ready)
Your Runway to Traction
FutureX offers early-stage founders the runway they need to build proof-of-concept, traction, and repeatable revenue. If you have graduated from any of the region’s many accelerators and bootcamps and you are committed to launching your startup or getting to the next level, this is the program for you. The program is a perfect fit for ventures that can scale their customer base and revenue to investable valuation levels.
Based out of Flywheel’s coworking innovation center in the Crescent Innovation District, the program is a collaboration between the Furman Innovation Lab and the Flywheel Foundation. Collaborating program partners include:
- Furman’s Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Program lead)
- The Flywheel Foundation (Administration, fundraising, and content)
- Designli (Tech stack mentorship and design sprints)
- Furman’s Center for Innovative Leadership (Leadership development)
- Founderville.vc (Getting investor ready)
Resources
Cofounder Bureau
The program partners have curated a team of experienced founders ready to contribute when needed, using a predetermined equity-for-value formula.
Advisors
We’ll help you organize the right team of subject matter experts to advise your development, drawing from our extensive relationships in the ecosystem and our own Mentor Deck program.
Customized Coaching
We meet founders where they are in each stage of development against the key milestones of product-market fit, first customers, validated go-to-market, and capacity to scale.
Founder Community
Flywheel Greenville and the Crescent Innovation District offer a high-density community of supportive founders and service providers who learn from each other.
Exceptional Workspace
Flywheel offers a modern, inspiring individual and team workspace designed for focused work, productivity, and social networking that founders need in the startup grind.
Collaboration Technology
All meeting rooms include state-of-the-art HD audio and video collaboration technologies and tablet-based whiteboard systems, making it easy to share locally or remotely with team members, advisers, and customers.
Tools and Templates
FutureX provides tools and templates for contracts, sales, marketing, and scenario-based financial planning.
Networks
Over the decades, we have developed extensive networks in the investment capital communities and can provide access to key customers in a variety of market verticals.
Events
Our monthly cadence of events, such as Pitch-Space Live, Flywheel Café, Tech Slam ‘N Eggs, Creator X Change, and others, guarantees you will make valued connections on your way to the mainstage at ConvergeSouth, our annual startup expo.
Ecosystem Partners
It takes a village to support a startup community, and we are proud to partner and share resources with entrepreneurship support organizations in the community like NextGen, Village Launch, the Platform at Greer, Venture South, Vicinity Capital, Abundance Capital, and many others.
Leaders
Bryan Davis
Eric Cooperman
Garrett Stern
Keith Shields
Joshua Tucker
Peter Marsh
