BUILDING VALUE FOR CORPORATIONS AND PRIVATE EQUITY
EXPERIENCE, CREATIVITY AND VISION
DRIVING SUCCESS FOR
OUR CLIENT COMPANIES
Innovation Transformers works with its corporate clients and private equity firms to increase the value of their portfolio companies.
Leveraging our history in product development and business, we use breakthrough innovation to create not only new products, but the business models and support structures needed to commercialize and sustain them.
About us
Innovation Transformers consults with corporations and private equity firms to bring transformational value to target companies and fund portfolios.
We create a profitable tailwind for acquisitions by discerning and determining how to maximize hidden potential of the clients’ assets.
We have deep expertise in invention, commercialization, and management, all of which drive our Innovative Acquisition Technique, which combines technical innovations with small add-on acquisitions. Those add-ons become launch vehicles for adjacent businesses, and the process helps managers get the higher returns they seek.
We understand the idiosyncrasies of each situation and understand that in every case, gaps need to be filled and issues of timing and technique are sensitive. Our team tailors its deliverables to ensure clients engage in the market with confidence and conviction.
Our Team
Innovation Transformers is a group of specialized professionals with years of experience working together. The group composition may vary slightly for different projects, depending on client needs, but draws from this pool and from an extensive network of other experts that can be tapped as needed.
Innovation Transformers LLC
The Sperry Group Inc.
Kroll Associates
Chasework LLC
Founder –
MicroFlot Technologies
Business Strategy
CORE CAPABILITIES
pRODUCT and service development
Hardware and Software Integration
Rapid Prototyping
Industrial Design
Alpha and Beta Testing
operations
Reorganization and Integration
R&D Pipeline Optimization
Resource Optimization
Risk Exposure Management
Supply Chain Efficiency
Change Management
intellectual property
Analysis
Mapping
Strategy
Creation
Protection
communication
Reports and Collateral Materials
Opportunity Visualization
Marketing & Branding
Business analysis and modeling
sanitation and
waste water management
Antimicrobials / Filtration / Efficiency
Chemistry / Fluid Mechanics
Renewables and Sustainability
food chain
Food Processing and Packaging
Food Retail
Process Management
Sanitation
EXPERTISE
INDUSTRIAL
Polyurethane Foams
Plastics: Injection Molding / Large Part Blow Molding
Hand and Power Tools
Dosing and Dispensing
Sensors and Controls
health care
Infection Control
Drug Delivery: Insulin IV
Medical Equipment: Beds / Stretchers / Orthopedics
Wound Cleaning
services
Transitioning from product business models to service business models
Smart Services: Technology Enabled, low-labor content
packaging
PROTECTIVE: Cushioning / Void Fill
Foams
EQUIPMENT: Remote Data / Diagnostics
CORPORATIONS
– Understanding the core corporate culture
– Targeting adjacent market segments for development
– Applying our Innovative Acquisition Technique
For a detailed look at the innovation techniques that we apply to both private equity portfolios and to corporate clients, click below.
– Creating minimum viable prototypes and product concepts
– Up-front validation work
CLIENTS – CURRENT AND PAST PROJECTS
We develop products and services that can transform industries, bringing new revenue and new profits.
3D Systems Corporation
For more than 10 years, we have been developing 3D printing technology for the leader in the industry.
Our CubifyTM system brought affordable 3D-printing of physical objects to home and desktop users.
Sealed Air / Instapak
Instapak® changed the packaging industry by providing for onsite production of polyurethane packaging materials.
The development moved truckloads of packaging materials to a single set of drums.
The company’s revenues doubled and historically high margins have remained strong and sustainable for the company.
I-Pack® Automated Void-fill Reduction System
The I-Pack® system disrupted the packaging industry by making a number of existing products obsolete; the system reduces void space in packages, making them smaller. Its new to the company pay-per-use business model drove profits, delivering significantly higher margins.
PRIVATE EQUITY
Private equity fund managers increasingly look to innovation to increase portfolio value.
But incremental innovation in an existing market will not generate an increase in valuation for portfolio companies.
Furthermore, organizational obstacles can impede the launch of innovations from within a company, where business is managed very tightly.
Instead, Innovation Transformers uses its Breakthrough Innovation strategy to improve earnings within private equity time frames and increase the multiple of earnings an acquirer will pay on exit.
This technique, in which not only a new product or service is developed, but also the necessary business models and support structures to implement and maintain it, is critical for increasing a company’s competitive profile, thereby attracting more suitors and extending all the hard work on EBITDA performance by applying a higher multiple to the exit transaction.
For a detailed look at Innovation Transformers’ technique, click below.
Start-Ups
Corporate and Entrepreneurial
CORPORATE
It can be difficult to execute new ideas from within a company. Cultural resistance, competition for budgets, and project distractions are often limiting factors. The seasoned team at Innovation Transformers knows how to take ideas from concept to commercialization and will drive development and strategy to ensure success.
– Prototype iteration
– Market research and development
– Testing and planning
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship can be a lonely, confusing process; Innovation Transformers brings years of experience and insight to inventors in need of help and mentoring.
We can:
– Find funding
– Refine concepts
– Iterate prototypes
– Develop commercialization strategy