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CASE STUDY: EKSTERA
Changing sustainable energy for the planet.
Brendan MacDonald, the founder of Ekstera and professor at Ontario Tech University, has developed a groundbreaking new design for a Stirling engine that presents a massive opportunity to rethink energy generation and heat recapture to make it more carbon-free, reliable, and inexpensive.
Going from the lab to the market.
With multiple peer reviewed scientific papers and patented technology in the US (pending in Canada), Brendan needs to figure out what market to address and how to generate funding to go from prototype to demonstration project to fully commercialized product.
Finding the hum
Mighty Hum is working with Brendan to create a strategy and path to funding that validates market interest across a series of different industries and applications.
1
INDUSTRY IDENTIFIED AS FIRST TO MARKET
3
GROUPS IN PROGRESS TO BECOME INDUSTRY PARTNERS
360
FUNDING ROADMAP IN DEVELOPMENT
"We’re engineers and we didn’t know the best approach for getting our product to market and finding funding. Russ and Mighty Hum were instrumental in moving our business forward and helped us to develop a powerful strategy and build partnerships that will put us in a very competitive position.”
Brandan MacDonald, Founder, Ekstera
CASE STUDY:FRONT LOBBY
Improving renting for everyone.
FrontLobby works with housing providers and renters to make reporting and screening accessible and affordable for everyone.
Build the foundations to support growth.
Currently with 15+ employees, FrontLobby is positioned for growth as a well funded start-up that is trusted by 35,000+ housing providers, with 1,000,000 rental units. They want to ensure they minimize organizational chaos through growth.
Finding the hum
Mighty Hum is working with FrontLobby to find their organizational heartbeat by developing the systems and rituals that will increase organization alignment, connect employees day-to-day to a common vision and increase leadership accountability.
2x
REVENUE
YEAR OVER YEAR
4 to 1.6%
REDUCED CHURN
85%
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RENEWAL RATE
“Mighty Hum leaned into challenging areas of our business and helped us lay the foundation for the future. We gained more accountability with our leadership team and honestly, it was incredible how much it focused us on the most important work.”
Zac Killiam, CEO FrontLobby
CASE STUDY:BREEDLOVE
Empowering a more equitable tomorrow.
Breedlove Entrepreneurship Center is an accelerator program developed by the YWCA based out of Chicago and is dedicated to empowering black business, closing the resource and wealth gap to transform communities.
Create access, educate & inspire a community.
42% of all women led businesses are black owned, yet they are still under resourced and under funded. Breedlove’s accelerator partner pulled out of the program 1 week before launching their second cohort–leaving the YWCA without curriculum, facilitators and speakers.
Finding the hum
Mighty Hum partnered with Below the Line to define the vision for the Breedlove accelerator, develop the strategy, a 10 week curriculum with speakers, and facilitate the program.
30+
INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE WORKS
35+
PROGRAM
GRADUATES
100%
OF PARTICIPANTS STRONGLY AGREED THAT 'BREEDLOVE WAS RELEVANT TO MY BUSINESS'
CASE STUDY:LUNUM
Expand DEI measurements to create workforce impact.
Lunum product & services work best with organizations that manage complex supply chains and who want to embark on a transformation to create impact. Leveraging the Harvard Business School's Impact-Weighted Accounting Initiative, Lunum measures the total value of your business activities with 12 new KPIs focused on diversity, equity and inclusion impact for all of the workforces on your P&L.
Mechanizing the building blocks that drive revenue.
The journey from ideation to generating initial revenue can be intimidating and overwhelming. There are a multitude of factors that need to align within the business in order to gain momentum. Lunum needed guidance and support to transform a mere vision and idea into a fully operational and successful revenue driving business.
Finding the hum
Mighty Hum partnered with Lunum to translate concepts into working strategies and plans focusing on core business functions including: Partner management, Operational cadence, Pitch development, Product development, Customer development, Resourcing key functions.
Pre-Revenue
TO SEVEN FIGURE REVENUE
500k
SECURED IN PRE-SEED ROUND OF FUNDING
Capacity
building
FIRST EMPLOYEES HIRED, OFFICE SPACE
“I was able to lean on and trust Russ as much as I would have a cofounder. The dedication to the business from the Mighty Hum team has been incredible–they go above and beyond.”
Jill Miller, CEO, Lunum
