Every conversation has mattered more than we can describe. We will hold your support with us in all our future endeavors, and especially as we enter this new chapter. Thank you for pushing us, believing in us, and sharing your contagious optimism to build something great. The amount of support over the years from partners, advisors, employees, professors, alumni, friends and family has been humbling and overflows our hearts with gratitude. With Checkmate’s design process achieving better results faster, and MindTrust’s development of the first Team as a Service (TaaS) platform, we knew that this was the right move at the right time. Chris and his team have been working to solve the issues inherent to scaling and accelerating innovation. Over the years, we’ve worked closely together on a number of exciting projects and joining forces was a natural progression. MindTrust invents products, platforms, and next generation technologies for clients spanning Fortune 10 companies, top tech startups, governments, universities, and just about everybody in between. MindTrust is a global innovation company with roots in software development and digital marketing. That’s where one of our partners, MindTrust, came into the picture. As our services matured, so did the operations of our business. The Design Sprint process grew into our flagship service offering, helping companies save months of time and effort. In 2019 we started the year focusing on making our process repeatable, impactful, and digestible for large enterprises and young startups. On a fundamental level, these organizations brought people together, an essential ingredient for the ecosystem that helped us to grow and flourish. We’d like to give a state-wide thank you to CT Innovations and CT Next too. We’ve been delighted to actively participate in these programs, events, and communities over the years, giving us a front row seat to watching our state evolve and embrace the ‘startup world’. We continue to see the Stamford entrepreneurship community grow as well, with programs like Stamford Innovation week. We continue to see New Haven blossom with District, Collab, Health Haven Hub, and IMPACT moving to town, while the Hartford community poured their hard work into spaces like Upward Hartford, and programs like Startup Bootcamp and Techstars lay roots into the city. We watched as the Connecticut ecosystem continued to grow and started working with amazing local companies like Green Check Verified and Odin Answers. As years passed, we found ourselves on the train to NYC more often every month. One thing led to another, we found incredible local talent and started taking on bigger projects. But the journey we took and people we’ve met since opening our doors have been anything but ordinary. It’s a common origin story - one that many entrepreneurs and startups share. There was no portfolio of work, no reputation or demonstration of digital skills we survived because of odd jobs on Upwork and making phone calls to every contact we had, looking for a chance. When we started Checkmate about 5 years ago, we had no more than some computers, a whiteboard, and a small office at 1253 Whitney Ave overlooking a graveyard.
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