Engage

What is Engage?

Engage is a venture fund and go-to-market accelerator program that operates as a collaborative innovation and corporate venture platform.

The platform is backed by 10 leading corporations, Georgia Tech, and Tech Square Ventures. Engage's primary focus is to invest in enterprise B2B startups that create opportunities for their 14 Fortune 500 corporate partners based in the Southeast. With headquarters at 75 5th St NW #2100, Atlanta, GA 30308, Engage supports these startups by providing a smooth path to accelerate their enterprise go-to-market strategy and establish partnerships within the Fortune 500 network.

They offer a proprietary platform that creates connections and facilitates relationships between entrepreneurs and top-tier corporate decision-makers. This is further enhanced by their twice-yearly 10-week program designed to help startups refine their enterprise sales playbook and establish critical corporate connections.

Engage prides itself on direct top-down support from senior leaders and executives within corporate partners like AT&T, Chick-fil-A, and Delta Air Lines, among others, helping startups navigate complex enterprise sales and partnership processes. The platform, in conjunction with the Enterprise Innovation Institute at Georgia Tech, collates and analyzes new enterprise verticals, providing powerful insights and developing data-driven theses to share with corporate partners, enabling better innovation decisions.

Engage's corporate partners benefit from cross-corporate learning, insights engines, and various events that foster the convergence of startups and enterprises. To date, Engage has worked with 99 portfolio companies, facilitated 160 corporate contracts, and engaged over 400 executives and leaders, leading to the creation of over 2000 jobs and raising over $2.2 billion in follow-on capital.

They have demonstrated a commitment to delivering results by leveraging insights from partners' strategic goals and challenges, enhancing the entrepreneurs' access to customers and new markets.

What they say:

We invest in enterprise B2B startups tackling opportunities for our 14 Fortune 500s corporate partners based in the Southeast.