When starting or growing a business, there’s no shortage of important decisions you need to make. We’re here to help with that. Our Preferred Partner Matrix is a highly-curated set of resources and offers provided by organizations we know and love, designed to help you navigate the startup journey. Whether you’re just getting started, hiring your first few employees, or scaling globally – there’s something here for you (and we’ll be adding something new each month!).

Google for Startups is Google’s initiative to help startups thrive across every corner of the world. We bring the best of Google's products, connections, and best practices to enable startups to build something better.

Monticello is a boutique real estate firm offering highly specialized services for buyers and sellers in the Capital Region. The Albany Business Review ranked Monticello as the 2018 & 2017 fastest growing residential real estate brokerage in the Capital Region. In 2018 Business Review ranked Monticello the seventh fastest growing company in the entire region. The firm sold over 200 homes in 2018, with a total sales volume of more than $46,000,000. As an independent brokerage, Monticello focuses more on providing white glove service, highly specialized marketing tools, and innovative solutions to selling homes and assisting their clients. Monticello trains their agents to serve much like sherpas: reducing risk, carrying the load, and providing comfort along the way. As founder Alexander Monticello describes the service, “We strive to provide honest advice and a simplified experience, all with a sophisticated perspective.” In the words of one satisfied client, Monticello “will give you the professionalism and devotion that you will not find from one of the big box stores.” Monticello has been repeatedly quoted in the Times Union newspaper (see also here), featured in Inman News, profiled on TLC’s My First Home TV show, and featured on WAMC radio, among other media outlets

The Bull Moose Club is a hyper-charged coworking space where the thinkers, leaders and communicators shaping the New York State Capitol can create, learn, and connect with other change makers

Search Consultants Group is an international executive search firm. Our areas of focus are Finance, Information Technology, Engineering, and Healthcare. We do both retained and contingent searches.

co-mads provides services that include marketing, content curation, events, and volunteerism coordination for travel/tourism professionals & forward-thinking organizations who value community impact and social responsibility.

.IgniteU NY is a program that helps businesses scale their operations here in New York State. At our entrepreneurial hub in downtown troy, we host a wide range of events including industry-specific panels, business competitions, and non-dilutive accelerator programs. Since 2015, IgniteU has supported hundreds of local startups in reaching their full potential. INNOVATE. ACCELERATE. SHAPE THE FUTURE.

Troy Innovation Garage is a place where collisions happen across industry and areas of specialty and across generations and experience. We serve the creative economy, a diverse and growing sector in New York’s Capital Region. We cater to innovators, changemakers, and disruptors.

Upstate Venture Connect is an entrepreneur-led nonprofit focused on building a region wide startup community. We connect high growth company founders with the people and resources needed for success. We also partner with ecosystem leaders to create angel capital funds and build programs that assist entrepreneurial college students, researchers and technologists.

Startup Tech Valley is an established monthly meetup for first-time entrepreneurs, experienced entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, employees of startups, service providers to startups, and anyone else who wants to be involved.