Measurement & impact
Professionalize and quantify the impact of entrepreneurship support.
You build your ecosystem.
We help you track it.
Make Startups is a measurement and impact company for ESOs and ecosystems. We turn cohort activity into longitudinal outcome data - survival, funding, jobs, and wages - so the programs that grow founders can finally prove what they produce.
TRUSTED BY WORKFORCE BOARDS, STATE AGENCIES & ECOSYSTEM LEADERS
The shift
Outcomes not outputs.
Most ESO software watches the cohort while it runs - CRM logins, LMS completion, workshop attendance. Those are outputs: proof the program happened. Outcomes are what the program produced - survival, funding, jobs, and wages, measured long after the cohort ends.
- CRM activity & LMS completion
- Workshop attendance
- Mentor hours logged
- Satisfaction surveys
Outputs. The program happened.
- Firm survival at 12 / 24 / 60 months
- Capital raised post-program
- Jobs created & wage growth
- Credential attainment
Outcomes. The program worked.
CofounderOS
An impact-measurement OS, not another cohort tracker.
CofounderOS ingests the activity your CRM and LMS already capture, then follows the founders out the door. It ties workforce and economic-development KPIs back to the program that produced them.
Workforce KPIs
Skills, credentials, compliance
Economic development KPIs
Capital, jobs, wages
Source-agnostic
Pulls from the CRM, LMS, and finance tools you already run. No migration, no rip-and-replace.
Attribution, not correlation
Links each outcome to the cohort, mentor, and curriculum segment that produced it.
Board-ready exports
One-click reports formatted for workforce boards, state agencies, and funders.
Standardized credentials
A verified record of progress and potential.
Standardized credentials turn a founder's journey through your program into a portable, trustworthy record. Lenders, workforce boards, and state agencies get something they can act on - not a completion certificate, but evidence of readiness.
- Lenders see verified readiness, lowering underwriting risk.
- Workforce boards get WIOA-aligned attainment they can report.
- State agencies trace ecosystem outcomes to public investment.
- Founders carry a credential that survives the program.
Founder Credential
MAKE-STARTUPS / VERIFIED
- Program
- Growth cohort 12
- Completed
- Mar 2026
- Skills verified
- Financial modeling, GTM, hiring
- Credential
- Founder-Ready, Tier 2
- Firm status
- Active, 24-mo survival
- Capital raised
- $1.1M post-program
- Jobs created
- 4 FTE
ISSUED BY MAKE STARTUPS - PORTABLE ACROSS LENDERS, BOARDS & AGENCIES
Outcomes
What ecosystems measure when they measure the after.
ILLUSTRATIVE - AGGREGATED ACROSS PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS
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Measure the after. Prove the impact.
Book a walkthrough and we will map your current cohort data to the longitudinal outcomes your funders actually ask about.