Edge Institute

Name

Edge Institute

Legal name

Edge Institute

Website

https://edge-institute.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Entrepreneurship Training Services

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (611430), Business Schools and Computer and Management Training (6114), All Other Schools and Instruction (61169)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Entrepreneurship Foundations & Startup Basics (EDAMAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Business Planning, Pitching & Competitions (Pitch Decks, Demo Days) (EDAMAHAB), Leadership, Management & Teamwork for Business (EDAMAHAI), Mentorship & Coaching (Career, Academic, Industry-Specific) (EDAMAKAA)

Keywords

• Entrepreneurship training programs
• Experiential learning methodology
• Customized corporate training
• Entrepreneurship education services
• Change agent development

Headquarters

HQ city

Holliston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Customized Training Programs: Fee-for-service training programs customized to client needs. Programs range from one-day workshops to 3, 6, or 9-month engagements. Delivered online, blended, or onsite.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Edge Institute co-creates and delivers customized entrepreneurship training programs for organizations and individuals, ranging from one-day workshops to 9-month intensive engagements. Programs are built on Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory and a design thinking approach, and are delivered online, blended, or onsite to clients including economic development agencies, corporations, universities, government agencies, and NGOs. The portfolio is anchored by the Entrepreneur Change Agent Programs (eCAPs), the Trainer Educator & Coach (TEC) Programs, and the trademarked Entrepreneurship Impact Indicator (EII) measurement tool.

Product overview

Edge Institute offers a unified portfolio of entrepreneurship training products centered on cultivating confident change agents. The core offerings include the Entrepreneur Change Agent Programs (eCAPs) for entrepreneurs and the Trainer, Educator & Coach Programs (TEC) for educators, both of which leverage experiential learning methodologies and design thinking approaches. The Entrepreneurship Impact Indicator (EII) serves as the proprietary measurement framework assessing 14 distinct measures of entrepreneurial confidence across all programs. Customized Training Programs provide flexible delivery options ranging from one-day sessions to 9-month intensive programs, with online, blended, or onsite formats. Together, these products form an integrated ecosystem where the eCAP and TEC programs deliver the training while the EII provides the outcome measurement, and customized programs extend the reach to various organizational clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Entrepreneurship Impact Indicator™ (EII): A trademark tool that measures outcomes based on reliable and validated survey instruments assessing 14 distinct measures of entrepreneurial confidence and future-oriented success factors.
• Entrepreneurs Change Agent Programs (eCAPs)
• Trainer, Educator & Coach (TEC) Programs

Products and services

• Entrepreneur Change Agent Programs (eCAPs) Custom-designed programs for entrepreneurs using a learn-by-doing approach with three phases (inspire, ideation, implementation), culminating in a Change Agent Project (CAP) presentation.
• Trainer, Educator & Coach Programs (TEC) Programs that prepare educators to develop experiential, student-centric instructional strategies using Kolb's experiential learning theory, culminating in a Teaching Experiment project.
• Entrepreneurship Impact Indicator (EII) A trademark measurement tool consisting of the Entrepreneurs Impact Assessment and the Entrepreneurship Educator Impact Assessment, measuring 14 distinct measures of entrepreneurial confidence and success factors including self-efficacy, grit, growth mindset, and reflective capacity.
• Customized Training Programs Tailored training programs ranging from one-day workshops to 9-month intensive programs, delivered online, blended, or onsite, targeting entrepreneurs and educators at economic development agencies, corporations, universities, and NGOs.

Quantifiable outcome

• 14 distinct measures of entrepreneurial confidence and future-oriented success factors

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• David RabinovitzminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMBA from Babson College with expertise in finance, strategy, debt workout, business turnarounds, and cannabis industry consulting. Serves as consultant and mentor to Social Equity program participants. Active member of Edge Institute's Social Equity training team.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• IDEO U: Design thinking and human-centered design training for individuals and organizations. Closely aligned with Edge Institute's experiential, design thinking-based entrepreneurship methodology and similar enterprise training customers.
• Kaospilot: Denmark-based 'entrepreneurship education as a worldly experiment' school offering experiential entrepreneurial leadership programs. Highly comparable to Edge Institute's eCAP experiential approach and global student/entrepreneur audience.
• Creative Education Foundation: Non-profit promoting creative problem-solving and experiential facilitation in education. Comparable philosophy (experiential adult learning) and educator/trainer audience overlap with Edge Institute's TEC programs.

Emerging players

• Second City Works: Corporate training provider using experiential, improv-based learning. Similar experiential methodology and enterprise training customers, though focused on innovation, leadership, and communication rather than entrepreneurship specifically.
• MindEdge (online professional education): Online professional development and business skills training provider. Comparable in offering business/entrepreneurship training to organizations and individuals, but more productized and less experiential than Edge Institute.

Broad incumbents

• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: Major foundation focused on entrepreneurship education and research, funding and operating programs similar to Edge Institute's entrepreneur development work. Comparable as a non-degree entrepreneurship training and ecosystem-building entity.
• Babson College: The world's leading entrepreneurship education institution. Edge Institute's founder teaches at Babson and the methodology is aligned with Babson's entrepreneurial thinking curriculum, making it a natural comparand in entrepreneurship training.
• Stanford d.school: Pioneer of design thinking education with corporate and executive programs. Operates in the same experiential, design-thinking methodology space as Edge Institute and trains similar enterprise and educator audiences.
• EVERFI: Digital education and training provider selling to corporations, governments, and educational institutions. Comparable enterprise/government GTM and outcome-measurement orientation, though at much larger scale and broader topic coverage.

Regional players

• Tecnológico de Monterrey (EGADE): Top Latin American business school with entrepreneurship programs where Edge Institute's founder has taught. Comparable entrepreneurship education methodology and Latin American market footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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