Five companies participating in MarketEdge Discover by VentureWrench Launch!™ have successfully completed the program.
Five Deep-Technology Utah Teams completed the 10 week Customer Discovery and Business Model Canvas Coaching Program
Salt Lake City, UT (June 30, 2026) – The VentureWrench™ Launch! Startup Community from Enclavix™, LLC is pleased to announce that five teams have successfully completed the 2026 MarketEdge Discover program by VentureWrench Launch! to accelerate their market success. This is the fourth year of the program, sponsored by Utah’s Nucleus Grow (formerly the Utah Innovation Center of GOEO) as the MarketEdge Discover program. This fully sponsored program for the Utah SBIR/STTR small business community in Utah is based on the well known Lean Launchpad curriculum pioneered by Steve Blank and his colleagues at Stanford University.
Five Successful teams
Anziva Pharmaceuticals Inc
Elphel, Inc.
GENYS AI Inc.
Packizon LLC
We Healthy LLC
Participant Praise for VentureWrench Launch!
“If you are a founder who is serious about moving from a technical innovation to a validated, market-ready business, this program provides the exact framework and local networking needed to succeed..”
“VentureWrench Launch! was instrumental in helping [our company] transition from a technical concept to a validated business model. The program was effective and helpful in several key ways…The program provided the framework for us to rethink and fine-tune our Business Model Canvas. This was critical in aligning our [product] with the actual operational needs of [our potential customers]…
“The 1-on-1 coaching sessions were the most helpful. Feedback on the Business Model Canvas was very valuable.”
“I enjoyed participating in the program and found it very helpful. It pushed me to actively seek engagement with potential customers and to think more systematically about how to shape a useful business strategy. The program helped accelerate our path to market by giving structure to customer discovery, helping us refine our value proposition, and encouraging us to connect our technical work with real market needs.”
“I would recommend this program because it provides useful structure, practical guidance, and direct coaching that can help companies move from technical work toward stronger commercialization thinking. The presentations and one-on-one support were especially helpful, and the program can be very valuable for founders who want to sharpen customer discovery, messaging, and go-to-market strategy..”
“Completing 77 customer interviews was a turning point that helped us truly understand our product-market fit and identify lucrative co-selling opportunities that we hadn’t originally considered., “
“I would highly recommend Nicole and this program to all who are entrepreneurs and researchers, especially in the areas of tech and commercializing research, it was so valuable to me…”
“The one-on-one advisory sessions were incredibly valuable. Nicole’s insight, strategic thinking, and business mindset were instrumental in helping translate complexity from research into practical real-world application and simplicity for delivery, while also strengthening how I communicate and position myself as a founder.”
About Enclavix, LLC and the VentureWrench Startup Community
Enclavix is an Artificial Intelligence software company that creates online tools to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship by applying artificial intelligence, machine learning and related technologies to identify and curate the highest quality, most useful resources to coach and support startup entrepreneurs and to tackle intellectual property challenges. The company has received over $1.2 million in funding from the National Science Foundation through the SBIR program to allow the launch of the AI – powered VentureWrench Library. The VentureWrench Startup Community combines artificial intelligence and advanced software with rich content to help entrepreneurs bring capital into their business, solve problems, answer questions and help them move their business forward.
The startup coaches and creators of the VentureWrench Startup Community, the team at Enclavix, LLC, are experienced entrepreneurs who have started multiple businesses, raised millions of dollars in investment from investors and the SBIR program, and sold their prior company to a public firm. Our CEO has also mentored and provided grant funding for dozens of emerging technology companies through her public service running a State funding program. The team is passionate about entrepreneurship and its potential for entrepreneurs and for the economy.
The VentureWrench Startup Community builds on the AI-powered VentureWrench Library at Library.VentureWrench.com, also free for entrepreneurs, and adds rich content including E-books, checklists, guides, the teams StartupNotes blog, online courses and workshops to help entrepreneurs get to success more quickly. Entrepreneurs can access all of this and more at VentureWrench.com.
Enclavix designed the VentureWrench Library to help entrepreneurs find the information they need – from the best resources – as quickly as possible. Enclavix appreciates the support of the National Science Foundation which provided funding for a portion of this work.
Learn more at https://venturewrench.com/ or https://venturewrench.com/about/.
