About
We build for the people who power entrepreneurship.
Rally is built by Fluent, an innovation studio that has done the work you do everyday. Our founder, Beth McKeon, has led over 25 accelerator cohorts in nine states. Our team has worked closely as an advisor and resource to entrepreneurship programs nationwide since 2016. We built Rally to serve your exact needs, because we know them inside and out.
We built Rally with the organizations that need to show the results of their work.
Non-profit accelerators and incubators, university programs, CDFIs, state-level agencies, government innovation labs. They get funding, and they have stakeholders looking for impact.
New programs get about 3 to 5 years to prove impact.
That's how innovation funding works. The first grant or seed money buys you a few years. The next one has to be earned with real outcomes: jobs created, companies formed, capital raised. We've watched what happens at the end of that window for a decade. The programs that have data thrive and expand. The programs that don't, fold. Rally is here to help programs like yours thrive.
NXTUS is a strong, funded program, based in Wichita, KS, that continues to expand, in part, because it has objective, clear data to back up its claims on impact. NXTUS has been using Fluent's platform for founder data for over five years. Here's what one of their funders says:
"From the start, it feels different from other programs, calculating a pre-program Fluency Score to analyze risks in the entrepreneur's business model… and wrapping up with a post-program Fluency Score to show progress and market readiness. I haven't seen that closed-loop method in other programs."
The track record
Rally's engine is modeled off the Fluency Score process that has measured over 1,000 companies. With the Fluency Score, we partnered with dozens of entrepreneurship programs nationwide to develop our proprietary system for taking messy startup data, cleaning it up, and presenting objective, standardized data. Now, we've built Rally on top of that expertise.
