Every incubator and accelerator is looking for the same thing: the signal that separates the companies that will genuinely scale from those that won't. Revenue projections can be optimistic. Founder charisma doesn't compound. Market size estimates are frequently wrong. But IP strength? IP strength is a proven, leading indicator of high-growth, scalable companies, and the IPRSCORE™ is a proven, data-backed benchmark, that can measure it across your entire portfolio.

Here's why it works as an early-detection tool for your next breakout companies.

IP is what separates companies that scale from those that stall.

Around 90% of the total assets in the S&P 500 are intangible - brand value, proprietary data, technology, and trade secrets. The most valuable companies in the world didn't just build great products. They built IP portfolios that made those products difficult to replicate, made their customers difficult to poach, and made their revenue increasingly defensible over time. That same dynamic plays out at the early stage. Companies with strong, well-managed IP build moats early. Those moats translate directly into pricing power, customer retention, competitive differentiation, and ultimately, the ability to achieve the forecasts they're promising investors.

The IPRSCORE™ is calibrated to identify exactly that: how well a company's IP contributes to building a competitive moat. Not just whether they have a patent or a registered trademark, but whether their IP is genuinely structured to protect and compound their competitive advantage as they grow.

A strong IPRSCORE™, especially across multiple asset classes, is a meaningful signal of scale-up potential.

The data from 300+ IPRSCORED companies is clear about what distinguishes high-scoring companies from low-scoring ones. High scorers don't rely on a single IP asset. They combine brand, patents, proprietary databases, software, and trade secrets to build a multi-layered, highly defensible competitive moat that is difficult for competitors to replicate. They operate with formal IP Playbooks that ensure innovation is systematically captured, protected, and commercialized — not left sitting in the heads of a few key people. They actively monitor the competitive landscape and enforce their rights.

In practical terms, this translates directly to scale-up indicators that matter to you as an accelerator or incubator. A company with strong software and critical database scores has technology and data that is difficult and costly for competitors to recreate - that's customer lock-in and margin protection. A company with a strong brand score has registered trademarks with international coverage and measurable customer loyalty - that's the foundation for expansion, licensing, and category leadership. A company with a strong trade secrets score has protected the algorithms, processes, and methodologies that give it its edge — meaning that edge doesn't walk out the door when a key employee does. These aren't abstract IP metrics. They are the building blocks of scalability.

The IPRSCORE™ is the modern equivalent of what techMARK did for tech companies on the London Stock Exchange.

When the LSE launched techMARK in 1999, the problem it solved was almost identical to the one accelerators face today: IP-rich, high-growth companies existed in abundance, but there was no structured, standardized way to identify and separate them. techMARK created that signal, and within a year, investor demand was so strong it spawned a dedicated FTSE index and ETFs. The IPRSCORE™ is the modern, data-driven equivalent for the broader IP-rich company universe: a proven benchmark that identifies and separates high-growth, scalable companies based on the strength, breadth, and defensibility of their IP assets, regardless of sector, stage, or geography.

For your program, this means you can apply that same structured lens, instantly and consistently, across every company in your cohort.

What the IPRSCORE™ reveals that a pitch deck doesn't.

Pitch decks show you the opportunity. The IPRSCORE™ shows you whether the company has genuinely built the IP infrastructure to capture and defend it. Specifically, the IP Insights that accompany every IPRSCORE™ show you where a company's IP is strong and defensible today, where it has gaps that could become vulnerabilities at scale, and what the company needs to do to address those gaps before they become material. That intelligence is as valuable to you as it is to the company — it tells you which of your cohort companies are already building like category winners, and which need to strengthen their IP foundations before they can sustain the growth trajectory they're projecting.

Lenders and investors are already using the IPRSCORE™ as a critical input in assessing a company's ability to scale and achieve forecasts. The IPRSCORE™ acts as a trusted signal that cuts through the noise — and for accelerators and incubators, it can serve the same function: a fast, data-driven filter that surfaces your highest-potential companies and gives you the evidence to back that conviction.

The bottom line for your program.

Most capital providers price the business. The best ones price the economic moat. The IPRSCORE™ gives you the tool to do exactly that, across your entire cohort, on a level playing field, from day one. The companies in your program that score well across multiple IP asset classes are the ones most likely to scale fast, lock in customers, command premium valuations, and raise their next round with momentum. The IPRSCORE™ doesn't guarantee outcomes — but it gives you the most reliable leading indicator available to identify who they are.