Work on Real Enterprise Challenges
RAVA begins with real problems sourced directly from corporate partners. Startups are matched with challenges that align with their technology and capabilities. This ensures that innovation developed through RAVA is connected to real market demand.
Move Beyond the Pilot Trap
Many startups become stuck in endless proof-of-concept projects that never lead to real adoption. RAVA focuses on solutions designed for deployment. Our programs prioritize technologies that can integrate into real enterprise environments and deliver measurable value.
Build Enterprise-Ready AI
Working with enterprise organizations requires more than strong technology. Solutions must meet high standards for security, compliance, and reliability. Through RAVA, startups gain exposure to:
• Enterprise data environments
• Regulatory and compliance requirements
• Cybersecurity standards
• Operational deployment considerations
What Startups Receive from RAVA
01. Active pilot engagement with a Fortune 500 or leading public sector partner. Scoped project with real objectives and a clear post-project pathway.
02. Enterprise readiness prep before any introduction.
03. Access to RAVA's cohort curriculum covering enterprise sales, compliance, scaling operations, and partnership management.
04. Introductions to additional corporate partners across sectors, once an initial engagement is active.
The Process
Areas of Focus
The requests below come directly from our corporate partners, who are eager to pilot, co-
develop, and deploy solutions with the right startups. These are not the only problems we care
about, though. If you are building something ambitious that does not fall into one of these areas,
please apply anyway.
Finance & Forecasting
Operations & Supply Chain
Scientific Compute & HPC for Startups
Operations & Supply Chain
Processing thousands of SKUs across a complex North American distribution operation creates enormous demand for smarter financial tooling.
We are looking for startups building AI-native tools for sales forecasting, demand planning, or financial reporting
that can operate at the speed and scale of a global manufacturer.
Getting product from factory to shelf involves a web of purchase orders, invoices, compliance documents, and logistics workflows.
We want to see startups automating the unglamorous but critical back-office processes like invoice processing, order tracking, and vendor management that still eat enormous amounts of time at large distributors.
Most accelerators hand you AWS credits and call it infrastructure support, but compute-intensive startups in energy, climate, life sciences, and materials discovery deserve something better.
We are looking for startups whose core technical moat depends on simulation, large-scale parallelism, or long-running compute jobs, and who are ready to benchmark what HPC can actually unlock for their stack.