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Transform sales activity
into systematic revenue.

We help tech founders in Alberta turn product momentum into revenue growth through expert coaching programs and a proprietary AI platform.

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THE NEW GTM REALITY

AI made it easier for every founder to build, write, and automate. That means more competitors, more outreach, and more noise reaching the same buyers.

Now more than ever, founders need sharper judgment, better execution, and a disciplined path from buyer interest to revenue.

THE GROWTHX SYSTEM

Human coaching and AI execution, working as one system.

GrowthX combines expert sales coaching with GrowthX Go, our AI platform purpose-built to help B2B teams systematically convert activity into revenue.

Human coaching

Expert coaches help founders make better revenue decisions.

GrowthX coaches work directly with founders to clarify where to focus, pressure-test assumptions, interpret buyer feedback, and turn scattered GTM activity into a more disciplined path toward revenue.

Sales signals are not always obvious. Your coach helps you understand what the market is telling you, what matters, and what to do next.

AI Platform

GrowthX Go keeps the work of sales moving forward.

During the program, GrowthX Go makes every coaching session more productive and execution-focused because founders are working with AI trained by B2B sales experts and aligned with the same GrowthX methodology their coach uses.

After the program, GrowthX Go helps your team keep revenue growth moving without interruption. Its memory carries forward the context built with your coach. GrowthX Go is your agile sales playbook that helps new hires ramp faster, supports expansion into new markets, and keeps your GTM work evolving.

GrowthX Go
Partner

"Since 2021. GrowthX has produced measurable and repeatable outcomes across Alberta’s innovation ecosystem. Participating Alberta founders have grown revenue by over $100M, and most have gone on to attract investment. GrowthX becomes an embedded partner, integrating seamlessly with local ecosystems - something few national or international providers manage to do as effectively."

Lan TanAlberta Innovates
Investor

“GrowthX founders are better prepared to sell, and to explain exactly how our investment would accelerate that process. That level of clarity changes the investor-founder conversation entirely. It turns capital raising from an act of persuasion into an act of partnership."

Omi VelascoGraphite Ventures
Founder

"The GrowthX team’s ability to deeply understand and enhance our go-to-market strategy was invaluable. It’s a program that delivers transformational results. Thanks to GrowthX, we could provide our Seed investor with a well-defined revenue model and growth strategy. This level of detail and professionalism played a significant role in securing their investment."

Susan GroeneveldSylvestr
Founder

"We grew our average customer size by 6X!"

Al-Karim KhimjiPropra
Founder

"Thanks to GrowthX, we are confidently and systematically approaching GTM. There is so much amazing, truly valuable insight in the program. This program should be required for any business!"

Brandon BlanckHealthquest (acq’d by WELLSTAR)
Founder

“We capitalized on the program’s insights and had a strong year, achieving 600% ARR growth and 450% customer growth. We're on pace to hit and exceed our first $1MM ARR this year.”

Leighton HealeyKnowHow
Partner

"Over the past several years, GrowthX has become a trusted contributor helping to support our founders at critical commercialization stages."

Karam-Ali TalakshiPlatform Calgary
Founder

"The month following the GrowthX sales program, we've landed 8 new customers and grew 45% month-over-month!"

Louis KollaRUNNR
Founder

“With GrowthX's help, we had the revenue traction and a tangible GTM strategy to help us close our Seed round!”

Kelsey HahnMonark
Founder

"Since working with GrowthX and implementing their methods, we've increased our revenue by 300% in a 18 months!"

Jeff WoodsNeobi
Founder

"GrowthX played a crucial role in driving our revenue growth and go-to-market strategy. The experience has been transformative! We highly recommend it to any founder looking to elevate their business."

Christopher PeelRankus.ai
Founder

"In the last few weeks alone, we’ve experienced over 100% growth! Not only are we generating way more revenue, we’re doing it in much less time by applying the sales coaching from our GrowthX coach.”

Akinwale AjayiLaundryWell
Investor

“As an early-stage investor, the GTM insights I get from GrowthX are invaluable! I send companies in my pipeline because the customer and team insights are unlike anything a traditional due diligence process uncovers, and I also send my portfolio companies because nothing increases valuation like customer and revenue growth!”

Bryan SlaukoMetiquity Ventures
Founder

"With the help of GrowthX, we focused our GTM efforts and that led to predictable customer and revenue growth. That helped us close our $2.6M round."

Amreesh KhannaOraQ
Founder

“GrowthX has been instrumental in sharpening our sales and GTM approach, which contributed to the momentum that helped us close our $800K pre-seed round."

Lourdes JuanKnead
THE FOUR PILLARS

The structure supporting sales.

GrowthX helps founders improve the work that turns sales effort into revenue: choosing the right buyers, saying something that earns attention, creating better conversations, and moving the right opportunities forward.

The goal is not more activity. It’s a clearer, more repeatable path from buyer interest to revenue.

01

Focus on the right buyers

ICP is no longer enough. We help founders find their Ready Now Buyer™: the segment with real urgency, clear fit, and a reason to move now.

02

Earn the right meetings

Most messaging gets ignored. We help founders turn Ready Now Buyer™ signals into clear, buyer-centered language that wins meetings.

03

Create the right conversations

Positive conversations are not pipeline. We help founders turn buyer interest into structured meetings, clear next steps, and revenue.

04

Manage revenue with discipline

Revenue should not be accidental. We help founders turn buyer insight into pipeline discipline, forecast clarity, and repeatable growth.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Built for founders ready to sell.

Length

16 weeks

A remote coaching program built around practical GTM work, founder execution, and revenue progress.

Cost

Cost-free

Alberta Innovates sponsors the full cost of participation for companies selected into the cohort.

Equity

Equity-free

We believe founder ownership should be protected, and that shares should be bought, not given.

Application Deadline

September 28, 2026

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. When the cohort fills, selection closes, which may happen before the date shown.

Cohort Start Date

October 5, 2026

Join a cohort of Alberta tech founders ready to make sales more focused, disciplined, and repeatable.

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Frequently Asked Questions

All of your questions answered.

Is GrowthX an accelerator?

No. While we sometime use the term “accelerator” to describe portions of our work, we are structurally and operationally distinct from traditional startup accelerators.

We operate a professionally developed sales curriculum specifically focused on B2B go-to-market execution. Rather than relying primarily on ad hoc mentorship models, we deliver structured, execution-focused sales coaching led by expert sales professionals who are assigned specifically to work directly alongside founding teams throughout the 16-week program.

Why is the program cohort-based?

The core of the GrowthX experience is 1:1 coaching. We run the program in cohorts because outcomes improve when founders also work in small pods. This is because founders often learn most when they are listening to someone else work through a challenge.

When a founder is deep inside their own company, they are an expert in the facts, but that expertise can make it easy to miss important details, skip over assumptions, or avoid asking the question that feels too obvious. In a pod, founders can see patterns more clearly because they are not emotionally attached to every fact.

They notice what others miss. They ask the “basic” question that unlocks the real issue. And when one founder has an aha moment, others often recognize the same pattern in their own business. That shared learning is not a substitute for individual coaching. It makes the individual coaching sharper, richer, and more useful.

Is the program virtual or in-person?

The program is entirely virtual, so founding teams can participate without relocating or disrupting the day-to-day work of building their companies.

Every masterclass is recorded and available on-demand via the GrowthX platform immediately after the session. Founders receive access to both the video and the transcript, so they can revisit the content and use the transcript with their own LLMs to support the work they are doing in the program.

Coaching sessions are also recorded, with privacy carefully respected. Recordings and transcripts from 1:1 coaching sessions are shared only with that company.

Small-group coaching sessions are recorded as well, and those videos and transcripts are shared only with the participating teams in that group.

Is GrowthX a good fit for my stage?

Fit is less about your company’s age, stage, or funding status and more about whether you already have a repeatable sales motion.

GrowthX is built for founders who have something to sell, and need help turning sales work into a more focused, repeatable path to revenue growth.

GrowthX is especially useful when you are asking questions like:

  • Are we pursuing the right buyers?
  • Is our messaging earning enough attention?
  • Why aren’t we converting more outbound to meetings and/or more meetings to sales?
  • Is our pipeline disciplined enough to support growth?
  • Can we make revenue more repeatable?

You’re a good fit if you’re trying to move from scattered sales activity to repeatable revenue.

You’re not a good fit if you just want more leads, want GrowthX to sell for you, or you’re just looking for help with your investor deck and investor intros.

How do you use AI?

AI is a powerful accelerator, but it is not a replacement for sales judgment.

Most large language models were trained on broad internet content, not on a coherent profession of early-stage B2B sales. That's why they often produce polished but generic sales output: better-sounding emails, longer target lists, and more activity that still misses the real buyer, the real urgency, and the real reason someone would take a meeting now.

GrowthX helps you use AI differently.

GrowthX Go is our AI platform founders use to put the GrowthX methodology into practice during and after the program.

It helps founders stay organized around the core GTM work. Founders use it to prepare for coaching, sharpen outreach, think through sales conversations, and keep track of the decisions they are making as their market understanding improves.

GrowthX Go is not a replacement for human coaching. It's a way to make the coaching more useful, the work more consistent, and the founder’s GTM system easier to carry forward.

Is the coaching personalized?

Yes, it’s highly personalized, but not in the way most programs claim.

Most “customization” means light-touch advice layered on top of a fixed curriculum. That tends to break down for B2B sales because the real work is messy, situational, and happens inside live deals. Here’s how ours actually works:

1) 1:1 coaching is the core. Each company is paired with a dedicated sales coach. That’s where the real personalization happens, in the context of your actual pipeline, your deals, your buyers, your constraints. Not hypotheticals.

2) Your live deals drive the work. We’re not asking you to step out of your business to learn. You bring real conversations, stuck deals, pricing decisions, messaging challenges, and we work them in real time. The output is forward motion in your pipeline, not just insight.

3) The “curriculum” is a forcing function, not a script. We do have a structured progression because early-stage B2B sales problems are more similar than founders think. But it’s applied differently depending on your stage, motion, and market. A pre-revenue founder and a $3M ARR founder will both work on pipeline, but in very different ways.

4) Small group pods create additional signal. You get pattern recognition and pressure-testing of your thinking without the echo chamber of your own market.

Where it’s not personalized (by design): We don’t customize around avoiding the hard parts of founder-led sales. If you’re looking to outsource or shortcut the work of building a repeatable motion, we’re not a good fit.

What is the time commitment?

You should plan on 3 to 5 hours per week for the program itself. That includes roughly 1 to 2 hours of scheduled coaching sessions, plus structured work connected to the GrowthX experience.

The larger commitment is the actual work of sales. Founders see real revenue results by applying the work in the market: researching buyers, testing messaging, earning meetings, running sales conversations, following up, and managing pipeline. That part is harder to quantify because it depends on your company, your market, and how aggressively you are working to grow revenue.

You can also request additional time with your coach when it would be useful. We ask that you use that access thoughtfully: come prepared, share context in advance, and make sure the time is focused on work where your coach can add real value.

Click here to access our Program Guide to see how the program time is structured each week, and the outcomes you can expect.

Can multiple team members participate?

Yes. If accepted into the program, it’s not any one person, it’s anyone on your team (including advisors and Board members) that you would like to include.

What can I expect to achieve?

The goal of sales is more customers, higher revenue, and efficient sales cycles.

The specific outcomes vary based on your growth objectives, your level of maturity when you enter the program, and the variables in your sales process (e.g. are you selling into an enterprise with 12-18 month sales cycles).

Click here to see examples of what our alumni have achieved.

Does GrowthX have an industry or sector focus?

No. We have helped 650+ B2B founders across 25+ industries, because while your product and market may be unique, the path to product market fit is not.

Industry background has never been a barrier to revenue growth. What matters most is your willingness to do the work and apply a systematic approach to learning and selling.

Do you replace our sales team or advisor?

No. We make them better. Your coach supports you and your team with practical tools, guided practice, and weekly accountability.

We complement whatever talent you have in place by helping everyone use the same frameworks, language, and process.

Can we join if we are pre-revenue?

Yes. Many founders join before they have revenue (but you must have a sellable product). Early revenue is often a false positive of product market fit, so we care more about your willingness to learn, talk to customers, and do the work required to build repeatable sales.

Does GrowthX take equity?

No. GrowthX does not take equity. You keep full ownership of your company (and protect your cap table).

Our work is focused on helping you grow revenue in a capital efficient way so you can fund your business on your terms.

Will GrowthX help me find investors?

GrowthX is not a fundraising program, and we do not run performative demo days. We help founders become more investor-ready by sharpening their market focus, improving sales execution, and creating stronger evidence of revenue progress.

Investors know GrowthX and often pay close attention to companies going through the program, but the primary work is building the traction and judgment that make investor conversations stronger.

With your permission, our investors can join coaching calls, receive updates, and stay close to your journey. We also help you translate your traction into a compelling fundraising narrative, including how to use the playbooks we build together inside your data room. We’re also happy to make investor introductions.

Can potential or current investors join the program with us?

Yes. With your permission, investors are welcome to join coaching calls, receive updates, and watch your progress throughout the program. Many do.

They know our focus on systematic revenue growth helps them de risk their decisions and support stronger portfolio companies.

Will I need to increase marketing or sales spend?

Just the opposite! The first thing we usually do is save you money. Many founders overspend on stage irrelevant tools that are built for companies with product market fit and a repeatable sales playbook. Buying those tools too early is almost always a waste of time and budget.

We have never asked a founder to spend money on website updates, sales automation tools, or digital ads, and it has never stood in the way of real revenue progress.

LET’S GROW REVENUE

Ready to turn product momentum
into revenue growth?

Work with GrowthX to build the buyer focus, coaching cadence, and revenue execution system your company needs.

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