Membership-based advisory platforms are organizations that offer strategic insights, targeted connectivity, physical presence, and business opportunities on a membership basis. While some of these advisory platforms also act as accelerators for startups, providing early seed funding for product conception and production, others act solely in an advisory and networking capacity.
These organizations serve to connect corporates, academics, startups, governments, influencers, and investors for networking, knowledge sharing, and other co-created events. They also serve as an extension of members’ executive teams, to provide peripheral vision and deliver highly-targeted connectivity, deal flow, and experience. These services are intended to drives outcomes, including strategic partnerships, investments, and mergers and acquisitions.
Oftentimes, these platforms offer physical locations where members can co-work, on a full- or part-time basis, or serve as meeting spots for senior corporate executives and start-up founders who want to collaborate and learn.
These locations are designed to encourage the combination of people and ideas through member-to-member collaboration and programming that brings an ecosystem's key players together.
