Company Unveils Proprietary Approach for Rescuing Underleveraged Assets from the IP Graveyard
NEW YORK—August 8, 2011—Ingk Labs has announced the strategic re-positioning of the firm to capitalize on opportunities for growth within the social graph. A natural step in the firm’s journey to remain at the forefront of technology-based investment and development, the company has evolved to reflect the unique opportunity to bring diverse, rescued IP back from the brink of oblivion and transform it into powerful game-changing solutions.
“Like no other time in history, the caustic environment surrounding intellectual property demands a new approach to save the best and the brightest from non-practicing entities,” said Craig Alberino, CEO and founding partner of Ingk Labs. “We have identified a powerful opportunity to rescue IP from the graveyard and breathe new life into valuable technologies, transforming them into sustainable, high-growth companies.”
Originally conceived as a holding firm for technology development projects and select seed investment, Ingk Labs has retained ownership of its most attractive portfolio assets for the renovation and expansion of these legacy properties including technology solutions focused on commerce, customer service, natural language and machine intelligence, analytics and tracking, reputation management, social data aggregation, and social noise reduction.
Employing a unique IP acceleration model that lays the foundation for taking promising IP from concept to fully functioning products and services, the company follows a rapid, 90-day program to design a product, define its market position, and launch it with a sustainable business model. The cycle culminates with a high-growth-potential portfolio venture that is ready to attract follow-on funding, an acquisition partner, or operate as a standalone company.
Startup teams at Ingk Labs draw on this well-defined model for business process automation to rapidly refine an IP prototype, and blaze a path to profitability. The intensive cycle is meant to fast-track the development of foundational, technology-based solutions specifically designed to help high-growth companies unlock the potential of the social Web in new, product-centric ways while solving the challenges of today’s social enterprise.
Phase 1—The first 30 days are focused on ideation, prototyping, IP protection, and due diligence.
Phase 2—The next 30 days are focused on funding, building a core team, developing the portfolio venture, and partnering with customer-innovation teams.
Phase 3—The final 30 days are focused on hiring operational teams, launch, and deployment.
“Building portfolio ventures based on a common infrastructure, we can more effectively and cost-efficiently develop underleveraged IP into assets that yield big returns for investors,” said Damion Hankejh, CTO and founding partner of Ingk Labs. “The Ingk Labs acceleration process is the ultimate expression of our team’s technological prowess. It is a rapid, repeatable cycle and business model for assured success.”
About Ingk Labs
Ingk Labs is a privately held IP Accelerator based in New York City. Founded on a fundamentally different approach to IP acquisition and development, the company is led by a cadre of industry luminaries and business experts who rescue hand-selected IP from the intellectual graveyard, taking it from concept to company and transforming it into fully functioning, capitalized portfolio ventures that demonstrate big potential for social media innovation. Ingk Labs invests in, builds, and deploys early-stage, disruptive technologies employing a unique IP acceleration model that allows for rapid innovation of technologies that share a common infrastructure with a distributed investment risk for investors. More information can be found at ingk.com.
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