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Startup founder?

Build Traction and Monetize
with Partnerships-led Growth

Got a business idea but no product? Build traction, and become fundable!
Plato-revenues? Utilize partnerships for effective global GTM and expansion!

The Problem is...

Even though Partnerships and collaborations have proven to be successful in building and boosting traction even for early-stage startups, there are some challenges...

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Complex

Too much steps to succeed, and no clear mainstream guide

Un-scaleable

Irregular, volatile, and inconsistent introduction and deals

Unconnected

Lack of community to help each other, build and grow together

Slow ROI

Making money out of partnerships is slow and unpredictable

Introducing Openfor.co

1. Traction Accelerator

2. Tool & Marketplace

3. Monetization & funding

Partnership Accelerator Bootcamp on Revenue generating partnerships, and Global GTM

Partner program builder, collab calls, built-in prospecting-outreach tool and marketplace connect and collab

Set of monetization features that lets you generate revenue and funding opportunities directly to boost

It functions as a startup-traction-validator for investors and accelerators and supports their portfolios as well.

1. Join our traction accelerator

Build Traction with our Partnership Accelerator Bootcamp to Expand your Network, Generate Revenue, and Raise Funding

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Get your first customer, partner, and monetize with

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Traction Builder Cohort

Intensive boot camp to get guaranteed traction to validate your business idea. Practical sessions and workshops designed to help you get started in your endeavor!

Expand your partner & investor network globally with

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Traction Booster Cohort

Intensive boot camp to learn to expand your customer and partner network. Dive deep into the practical sessions and workshops designed to fuel your growth!

Proprietary methodology to help early-stage startups gain traction through sales and partnerships. Enroll for 4 asynchronous modules, office hours, and use our platform for a global partner program, revenue generation, and co-promotion support.

1. AC

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2. Get entire year of access to our Platform, tools and marketplace

We provide our proven methodology, initial boost, and tools to succeed.  You can build a collab program and launch it in less than 10 minutes!  This is the simplest, most affordable, and most efficient way of outreach to strike partnerships.

Build partner program

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Tell you collab story

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Strike Partnerships

Launch and/or integrate other partner programs

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"Inspire, and integrate the world's best (and open) partner programs for the common growth." Learn, benchmark, strike partnerships and collaborations to validate, get tracking, generate revenue and many more!

Build
Discover Anchor
Monetize

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3. Unlock Monetization

features & funding opportunities

We incentivize you to build a partner program, and provide all the products, strategies, and marketing exposure needed, to help you to get more traction!  Plus, there are many other monetary and non-monetary benefits of enabling partnerships, including funding opportunities for startups. In this way, we are able to back the outperforming ones.

We integrate each other's partner programs

We co-promote, invite, share each other's networks

Your partner program gets traction - expands

We give up to 20% rev-share by just simply using us!

Run paid collabs for financing from your community

Funding opportunities by our own syndicator VC, co-capital.co

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To learn more on funding opportunities

check our VC website >> co-capital.co

Our impact on numbers
by fully bootstrapping

8 Figures

Partnership deal success organically

8 Figures

Saved from un efficient partnerships

9 Figures

Estimated Worth of

Equity Portfolio

Our success

A ton of happy network members across the globe, literally.

Searchers-side including: Sumitomo, Honda, Toshiba, NTT, and 2000+ Mid-Large enterprises to startup worldwide

Receiver-side including: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Apple, Applied Materials, and 300+ startups and enterprises

Seeker's & targeted locations including: Japan, USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine, Russia, India, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea

Industries including: IoT, AI, SaaS, Robotics, Computer Vision, Biotech, Fintech, Manufacturing, MarCom, Media, Telecom

Marketplace

+ Global Network

We are proudly part of the Founder Institute Network partners & investors in 100+ countries and 200+ cities in the world. We support FI in multi-partner-custom programs, regional program operations in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and graduate portfolio support by providing free support accessible to its portfolio of 7,400 companies valued at over $30 Billion.

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How do we position ourselves?

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Helps startups build traction and monetize.

Helps you launch a startup and set up fundimentals

Boosts their traction and development.

Feeding VCs with traction validated deal flow

Advocacy support to other earliest stage partners

200+
Investors

30+
Partners

Why partnerships led sales?
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Doubles Revenue

Growth Speed

Companies with the most mature partnership programs are growing overall company revenue nearly 2x as fast as companies than less mature programs” and more than 28% of your total revenue can come from partnership channels by Forrester consulting.

Use cases for startups

Some other use cases for startups

Here are some of the common use cases, among the hundreds of different ways of utilizing partnerships for startups.

Validator

Traction can be reverse-engineered by securing more LOIs, and MOUs. The initial customers of an early-stage startup are generally the believers and the supporters, so in a way, they can be partner / collaborators. If they can collect these “validators” all the other potential stakeholders like investors, early employees, early partners, and customers.

Revenue

Partnerships in a sense as door openers to build up sales traction. Incentive others by setting up revenue-generating collaborations directly linked to the startup idea. Startups can learn how to incentivize their partners by creating great ask & offer structures and deals. Finally building a systematic approach so it can scale up more easily, and effectively. 

Community

Traction can be reverse-engineered by securing more LOIs, and MOUs. The initial customers of an early-stage startup are generally the believers and the supporters, so in a way, they can be partner / collaborators. If they can collect these “validators” all the other potential stakeholders like investors, early employees, early partners, and customers.

Generate revenue even from
non-converting outbound activities

Openforco enables you to profit from outbound activities, including even those that don't immediately convert, like searching for content creation partners. The key is our mutual incentive program. The more you seek partnerships, engaging your network and activating ours, the more you earn.

Multiracial Colleagues

Get ROI Faster & Easier From Partnerships

Build a partner program, and start reaching out to your potential partner, to get up to 20% from us while growing your partner ecosystem! Everything is designed to help you break even (to enable the upside) fast and easily and to motivate you to collaborate with other businesses! 

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For whom is this for?

💡 Solo-preneurs

 🦄 Growth Startups

🚀 Early Startups

🪜 Corporate

Testimonials

What do people say? 💬

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Takamichi Matsusako

  • LinkedIn

Achieving the first

wave of traction is a game-changer for startups.

With openfor.co, I've grasped the significance of harnessing partnerships.

The resources they provide,

from a collaborator academy

to a unique incentivization model, and the online platform are noteworthy.

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Hyunho
Kim

  • LinkedIn

I have been using Openfor.co platform to define, search, and ideate potential collabs. It is easy to find various collaborations on their marketplace also. Partnering with them helped us to get more exposure and created more opportunities to engage collaborations. If you want to generate more collaborations, Openfor.co is the way to go!

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Einstein
Rojas

  • LinkedIn

The diversity of the international cohort at Openfor.co is one of its standout features.  Gaining momentum for our startup has been vital. Their approach has allowed us to delve into the intricacies of partnership dynamics, and provides resources, including online tools and a specialized academy, making it a valuable platform for growth and collaboration. This will be essential as we venture into an international collaboration of innovation and startup ecosystem building

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Yu
Yamanaka

  • LinkedIn

After collaborating with Openfor.co,

I got to know how to find, ask, offer, initiate,

or maintain meaningful and profitable collaborations with other people and organizations.

Now I’m already partnering

with openfor.co

and plenty of other collaborations are lining up! It is highly recommended!

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Naoko
Fujihira

  • LinkedIn

Our partnership with Openfor.co brings a new perspective and highlights that even start-ups can grow through strategic partnerships. Insights and guidance from Erdinc, Yuli, and their dedicated team guided us towards an ideal collaboration for market validation and traction. They generously shared their precious time and passion with us. Also, the tools combined with training are essential and highly recommended.

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Deniz Aygün
Benba

  • LinkedIn

Joining Openfor.co 

made me realize that partnerships are beneficial for companies of every size, even if you are an early-stage startup! Erdinc, Yuli and their team have been proven to be helpful to identify which types of partnerships are needed for validation, traction, and market adoption. I’m looking forward to collab more!

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Michelangiolo Mazzeschi

  • LinkedIn

Collaborating with openfor.co is one of the most beneficial ways to ideate, identity, and initiate meaningful collaborations. On their marketplace, it’s easy to browse any type of partnership to grow your business. You can get essential partnership development know-how, platform, and exposure in one place conveniently.

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Dogukan
Atar

  • LinkedIn

As a graduate of the first cohort, I have to say that it was quite helpful. Whether you're just starting out or already have experience with partnerships and collaborations, the Openfor.co, Inc. team teaches how to make good collaborations. It is also another opportunity to network with quality entrepreneurs and give and receive feedback on each other's businesses.

Wait! There is even more.

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This will be a valuable opportunity to rapidly prepare for partner development and engage at a high level!" 

- Daisuke Ito - Founder and CEO of Ad-Dice 

 

"Looks interesting. I know you both have succeeded at making many partnerships in Japan and also Korea too now!" 

- Tyson Batino - Founder and CEO -  Scaling Your Company 

 

"🚀 Congrats to Openfor on launching this golden opportunity for startups! A comprehensive boot camp to master collaboration and supercharge growth. 🤝" 

- Khatanbold Bat-Erdene - Co-founder and CEO of GerTech - OkusuriAI 

 

"This looks great! Thanks for providing opportunities to collaborate and build our network!" - Raghvendra Jain Ph.D. - Co-founder at Optimays Inc. 

 

"Absolutely thrilled about this! 🚀 Sounds like an opportunity not to be missed."  

- Ace Apolonio - CEO at Fusionate AI 

 

"This looks like a really unique opportunity! Partnership development has become a new focus for my company, so I will definitely look into applying for the cohort!" 

- Devin Overman - Founder - Banter English 

 

"The fact that the first pilot cohort is FREE makes it even more exciting – kudos for making it accessible to aspiring entrepreneurs." 

- InGyn Nyi - Assistant Business Advisor at SME intellect 

Our Common Collabs Types

Did you know?  Becoming openfor.collaborations can increase your revenues %28, right away!

Co-Sell

Affiliate, bundle, resale, distribution partnerships

Affiliate Partner
Referral Partner
Reseller / Distributor

Co-Marketing

Blogging, social media influencer, content

Co-Branding Partner
Content Partner
Ambassador Partner
Co-events Partner

Co-Supply

Supplier & procurement partnerships

Solution Partner
Service Partner
Supplier Partner

Co-Develop

New products, services, and PoC

Tech Partner
PoC Partner
Innovation Partner

Co-Cause

Support a common cause together 

CSR Partner
Non-profit Partner
Pro-bono Partner

We thought this should've existed. Then we realized it wasn't. So we built one.

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Our Story

Our pledge to support amazing
businesses from all around the world