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Build a Strong Future with a Growth Factory

Systematically launch new ventures into the market at breakneck speed

The largest companies in the world were once innovative startups. Today, they’re busy with existing lines of business, improving profit margins, and keeping shareholders happy. To secure growth, they launch disjointed growth initiatives: a random incubation, an innovation competition without winners, a corporate venture capital division that doesn’t communicate with the rest of the company. But these efforts don’t add up to real growth. 


You need a growth factory that generates a pipeline and portfolio of new businesses to achieve sustainable growth. 

Business-As-Usual is Slowly Killing Your Company

Growth is a requirement if you want to maintain your dominance decades in the future. But this isn’t the reality for most companies. Of the Fortune 500 firms from 50 years ago, 88% have been overtaken, disappeared, or become irrelevant.


CEOs know this: 40% fear their organization won’t survive if they continue with business as usual. 


One-off attempts don’t produce the sustained growth companies need because they aren’t grounded in a streamlined process for future venture success.

Shiny New Things Rarely Revolutionize Growth

Recognizing the need for change and seeking to grow, corporations create new business units to launch more products and services. But without a strategy to pull these efforts together and keep a steady cadence of new bets, innovation efforts fall flat. 


Don’t be the team that hires, builds product plans and prototypes, and launches shiny new things that get shelved the next quarter. You need to have multiple cutting-edge projects going at once to increase your chances of creating a category-defining new business.

Here's How Three Corporate Giants Systematically Generate Billion Dollar Businesses at Scale:

  • Japanese Manufacturer Builds Growth Engine and Branches Out into New Business Models

    Who: Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic materials and components.


    Why: The European division sought to launch a venture competition in Spring 2022 to source additional innovative venture ideas from their employees, focused on the environment, healthcare, electric vehicles, and new business models. 


    Challenge: Bring business ideas to life within the framework of their growth engine.


    Solution: Mach49 built an internal website to generate excitement and awareness, then mentored eight teams to get them ready for the corporation’s New Venture Board. One team helped incubate the winning idea.  


    Result: The new venture born out of the competition grew the corporation’s core business and extended it to smart sensors for the mobility sector. It is now live within the company’s Developing Technologies division.


    From-to shift: From electronics manufacturing to a pipeline of new tech companies (built by invigorated and engaged employees!).

  • Tech Giant Launches Dozens of Ventures Independently – Multi-Billions in Valuations

    Who: Multinational tech company with 100,000+ employees.


    Why: The company was keen to build startups that could disrupt the corporate status quo –before they were disrupted themselves .  


    Challenge: With no experience launching an internal venture competition, would it work?


    Solution: The design and execution of a growth factory, starting with a venture competition that generated hundreds of pitches. Mach49 helped select the best pitch ideas, helped the company hire their internal growth team and trained them on the Mach49 venture building methodology before testing the winners for viability. 


    Once a dozen ideas were selected, Mach49 supported the incubation of the new venture ideas, including understanding their customer, validate (or invalidate) their unique offering, and creating a plan for launching their product or service into the market, along with a business case to justify further funding of their next phase.  


    Result: Now in its fifth year, the company’s new venture program is key to growing beyond the corporation’s core. The corporate growth engine has independently launched several dozen startups with total valuations in the multi-billions, and at least one unicorn.


    From-to shift: From a strong semiconductor business to an independently run factory of new businesses that will grow the core of the company, indefinitely. 

  • South African Finance Giant Built Venture Incubator in 2018 - and it's Still Wildly Successful

    Who: 160-year-old South African financial leader.


    Why: Building the financial infrastructure for a more connected Africa.


    Challenge: Build ventures through an internal startup incubator to create new business opportunities.


    Solution: With Mach49’s proprietary customer development methodology, the company conducted hundreds of customer interviews to understand customer pain and marry it with “the art of the possible” to identify solutions and new technologies to solve that pain.


    Result: The large financial launched an incubator for exciting new ventures in 2018, with the methodology that the team learned during their 12 weeks onsite in Silicon Valley with Mach49. The growth factory is still up and running, building ventures year after year.


    From-to shift: From a banking system within one country, to a suite of new financial solutions that can connect the entire African continent. 

Build a System For Sustainable, Disruptive Success

Build a factory for incubations and scale-ups known as a Growth Engine.

Ideate and explore new industries or markets.

Run internal competitions to generate hundreds of new ideas   and teams excited to work on them.

Experienced investor panels select the ideas with the most potential.

Seasoned entrepreneurs run a repeatable incubation process to test the viability of ideas – together with internal experts in product, go-to-market, user experience, engineering, finance, and beyond.

Fund the best ventures and build an initial product for pilot customers (and momentum for the next funding round).

Your engine continues to drive growth with fresh ideas + innovative new incubations.

Growth Factories Restore Your Start-up Mentality

We don’t just design your growth engine, we execute it alongside you. Success to us, means you've taken the reigns and run your growth factory seamlessly on your own.

We’ve launched over 300 new ventures with our clients

The average Mach49-er has founded 6.3 startups (before joining Mach49!)

We've spent 10 years on the Board or in the C-suite, on average

We understand your stakeholders, audience, vocabulary, ecosystem, and goals

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