Portfolio visibility for technology transfer

See every technology,
every inventor,
every hidden connection.

Founded turns a TTO’s existing portfolio into a working map. Visualize your full catalog, surface the inventor and cluster relationships buried inside it, and triage what to commercialize next — without leaving the spreadsheets and legacy databases behind until you’re ready.

Sits on top of
Inteum, Wellspring,
or your CSV.
Read-only at first. No migration required.
Built for
R1 universities
& institutes.
Designed at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth.
Security
Encrypted at rest.
Audit-logged.
Institution-owned data.
Role-based access by school and role.
Illustrative portfolio · Tuck pilot
Technology Isothermal PFAS assay
Cross-cluster bundle 3 techs · 2 inventors
Built for the offices that run technology transfer at research institutions.
Who it's for

Built for the people who actually move research to market.

Founded is one platform with three views into the same portfolio — tailored to how TTO directors, inventing faculty, and industry partners each need to see it. No more chasing the same answer across email, Excel, and a 2009-era database.
Primary — TTO Directors & Analysts

See your whole portfolio for the first time.

The catalog you already have, made legible. Pipeline at a glance, an inventor network you can read at a glance, and a working table that lets you triage what to push next.

  • Pipeline funnel, in-flight timeline, and aging technologies on one screen
  • Force-directed knowledge graph of inventors, technologies, and clusters
  • Filterable catalog table with TRL, stage, and commercial-fit scoring
  • Cross-cluster bundle suggestions surfaced from the graph
See the TTO dashboard → Admin · Analyst
For Faculty & Inventors

Find out where your work actually sits.

A read-only view of how your technologies are categorized, who you're connected to in the graph, and what the office is doing with them — so you don't have to email the analyst to find out.

  • Your technologies, with current stage and commercial-fit score
  • Co-inventor map drawn from the same portfolio graph
  • Adjacent work in your cluster you may not have seen
  • Permissioned view — only your lab's records
For Industry & Licensees

A serious catalog, searchable the way you work.

Browse a university's published technologies by cluster, TRL, or patent stage. See the inventor network behind a technology before you ask for an intro.

  • Filter by sector, TRL, patent status, and commercial stage
  • See the cluster and co-inventor context around any technology
  • Request intros routed through the TTO, not cold
  • Save searches and get notified when the catalog updates
Industry portal → Licensee · Partner
Product · Three dashboards

One workspace. Every view a TTO needs.

Overview, Knowledge Graph, and Technologies aren't three tools stitched together — they share the same data, the same categories, and the same terminology your office already uses.
founded.app/tto/overview
Open live view
Pipeline funnel
last 90d
50Catalog
43Triaged
37Analyzed
37Pub.
Analyzed
7
this week +2
Bundles
3
cross-cluster
Avg. triage
2.1d
was 3.4d −38%

Portfolio network

50 technologies · 25 faculty · 8 clusters
Open graph →

By industry

Catalog distribution
Life Sciences
12
Physical Sci.
9
Medical Dev.
8
Materials
6
Telecom
5
CleanTech
4
Diagnostics
3
All
Life Sciences
Physical Sci.
Medical Dev.
Telecom
CleanTech
MedTech
Life Sciences Materials Science Telecommunications CleanTech Medical Devices Diagnostics
Faculty Technology Co-inventor 6 clusters · 24 technologies · 8 inventors shown
Catalog
37 published technologies
All sectors TRL 3+ Patent: pending / issued
TechnologyInventorTRLStageCommercial fit
Isothermal Amplification POC Diagnostic Life Sciences · Diagnostics & Biosensing
Sofía Vásquez
TRL 4
Listed
84
Flexible Peripheral Nerve Interface Medical Devices & Wearables
Raj Patel
TRL 5
Drafting
78
Catalytic Destruction of PFAS in Groundwater Environmental & Water Tech
Anika Rao
TRL 3
Analyzing
71
Dry-Electrode ECG Patch Medical Devices & Wearables
Marcus Brenner
TRL 6
Listed
91
Sub-THz Beamforming Array Telecommunications · 6G
Chen Liu
TRL 4
Drafting
66
Non-Invasive Glucose Sensing Polymer Biotech · Diagnostics
Priya Shah
TRL 3
Triaged
62
How it works · Today

From a spreadsheet of technologies to a working map.

Founded works on the catalog you already have. Five steps to turn a static export into something your office can actually act on — with no migration off your existing system of record.
01 · Connect

Bring in your catalog.

Drop in a CSV export from your TTO database — Inteum, Wellspring, or internal spreadsheets. Read-only by default, your existing system stays the source of truth.

CSV · Any TTO database
02 · Visualize

See it as one portfolio.

Pipeline funnel, KPIs, and an in-flight timeline that finally let you answer “what are we working on right now” without three queries.

Portfolio Overview
03 · Cluster

Read the network.

Force-directed graph of inventors, technologies, and clusters. Hulls show research groups; cross-cluster links show the connections you didn’t know you had.

Knowledge Graph
04 · Triage

Decide what to push next.

Filter the catalog by TRL, stage, and commercial fit. Sort by what’s aging, what’s closest to license, what your office should pick up this week.

Technologies
05 · Bundle

Spot what to package.

Cross-cluster pairings surfaced from the graph — adjacent technologies, shared inventors, complementary IP — ready for a single licensee conversation.

Surfaced from graph
Capabilities · Shipping today

What’s built, what’s next.

Founded today is a portfolio-visibility layer that sits on top of your existing system. Inventor surfaces, licensee outreach, and outcomes reporting come later — by design, so we earn each one.
Live · 01

Portfolio overview.

Pipeline funnel, KPI band, in-flight timeline, activity stream, and industry split — one screen for a director’s morning standup.

Live · 02

Knowledge graph.

Force-directed network of inventors, technologies, and clusters. Convex hulls per research group; cross-cluster edges call out the bundles hiding in your catalog.

Live · 03

Technologies catalog.

Filterable, sortable table view with TRL, stage, patent status, and a commercial-fit score per record. Saved views for the queries you run every week.

Live · 04

Cluster & bundle suggestions.

Adjacency surfaced directly from the graph — cross-cluster, shared-inventor, and complementary-IP pairings ready for a single conversation.

Live · 05

CSV & spreadsheet import.

Drop in a CSV export from any TTO database. Column mapping, type inference, and a dry-run preview before anything writes.

Live · 06

Security & access.

Session-based auth with role-based permissions by school and role. Audit log on every record. Institution-owned data. Encrypted at rest.

The problem, in two numbers
US universities spend $110 billion a year on research — and just 775 products a year reach the market from their technology transfer offices.
Source — AUTM STATT FY2023 (products reaching the market) & NSF HERD FY2023 (academic R&D expenditures) Founded exists to widen that gap.
Time to first map
< 1 day
CSV in, working graph out
Cross-cluster pairs surfaced
vs. manual portfolio review
Catalog read time
−5×
Director’s standup, before/after
Migration required
None
Sits on top of your system of record
Book a walkthrough

See your portfolio inside Founded.

We’ll load your published catalog into a demo workspace before the call — so you’re not looking at Acme University’s data, you’re looking at yours.