Our Method

Innovations in this sector depend on great minds coming up with original ideas about propulsion, sail design, foil design, flight control, autonomous operations, fabrication, and sustainability.  Those imaginations are actuated by designers, engineers and architects and are executed by entrepreneurs that take innovation to market.  How can Foil Forward create an acceleration ecosystem that supports imagination, prototyping, and business development?

The Marine Technology Accelerator!  This program is designed to give new businesses a scalable footprint in the North American maritime ecosystem, beginning with product presentations with social media reach, advancing to on-water demos, building to on-site ambassador support, and culminating in a physical business footprint in the Pensacola maritime technology cluster.  This program helps new businesses start-up in an scalable and economical way while putting their technology on the ground in Pensacola, the future high-performance epicenter of marine technology in North America!

Pensacola Bay is already home to a host of entrepreneurs, companies, academic centers, and non-profits offering marine technology and consumer experiences.  In addition, there is a vibrant layer of merchants surrounding the marine community with hospitality, entertainment, dining, and artistic inspiration.  These businesses collectively define the sailing and marine experience in Pensacola.  This ecosystem is set to experience a vigorous expansion as our 20-year vision is actuated.  Ensuring that these businesses have the most current business assistance to support profitability, expansion and succession is a top priority of Foil Forward and we will orchestrate activities that create shared value throughout, triggering exponential growth and new opportunities.  Connecting our business partners with business assistance assets is essential.  Inspiring them and energizing their operations with our 20-year vision will guide them to visualize collaborations that create additional value throughout the business ecosystem, initiating an economic tidal wave of prosperity for all!

The Pensacola Bay ecosystem is confronted with a historic opportunity to latch onto its core value – the Bay, for a multi-generational economic opportunity centered on marine technology, industry, and recreation.  The Pensacola Marine Technology Cluster is the primary manifestation of this vision and will be achieved by steady orchestration of a development plan that encompasses all of the ecosystem stakeholders.  Understanding this plan will be key for business expansion and execution and Foil Forward delivers insight and involvement in a way that supports a clear-cut integration strategy for your business.  Let’s get started!