The Innovation Space
innovationspace.org Direct investor
The Innovation Space is a 501(c)3 nonprofit innovation ecosystem in Delaware offering lab space, equipment and programs to science-based startups. Through its First Fund it makes pre-seed and seed convertible-loan investments in deep tech companies, requiring residency at its facility.
The Innovation Space is an accelerator headquartered in Alapocas, United States. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in life sciences, clean tech and advanced materials. Its stated cheque size is up to $240,000.
“The First Fund™ provides up to $240,000 of pre-seed and seed capital to deep tech companies developing solutions primarily in life sciences, clean tech and advanced materials.”
— The Innovation Space, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Headquarters
- Alapocas, United States
- Invests in
- United States
- Sectors
- life sciences, clean tech, advanced materials
- Cheque size
- up to $240,000
Team, as The Innovation Space publishes it
- William D. Provine, Ph.D. President & CEO
- RoseAnn Rosenthal Managing Director, First Fund
- Marcie Reilly, MS Chief Growth Officer
- Alex Dulin Chief Operating Officer
- Mike Braun Assistant Dir, Research Facilities Operations
- Nyheir Hayes Client Experience Manager
- Hattie Duplechain, M.Ed. Principal Consultant, Operations and Impact Measurement
- Dario Vasquez Program Manager
- Emanuel Ortiz Facilities Coordinator
- Natalie Ephraim Program Manager – Mentorship & Partnerships
Names and roles exactly as listed on innovationspace.org. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page The Innovation Space publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://innovationspace.org/name, status
- https://innovationspace.org/the-first-fund/is_investor, layer, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote
- https://innovationspace.org/about/type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, description
- https://innovationspace.org/our-team/people
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Record 16086 · added 2026-10-21 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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