We are a tithing team! Our mission from day one has been to make corporations rethink the way they give back. Every month we donate 10% of our top line revenue (not profit) to the community. We let each employee pick a non-profit, split the revenue evenly and then donate to that charity in their name. It is our goal to donate $100M+ to the non-profit organizations that mean the most to us as a C5BDI Team.

We thrive on educating and innovating both businesses and government customers. From meeting with NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL executives, to white boarding and laying groundwork for the first ever Open Topic SBIR with the AFWERX Team, to briefing Congress and DoD Secretary Level Leadership on how to streamline the federal acquisition process our team is seen as thought leaders in both the commercial and federal innovation ecosystems.

We have taken the broken traditional Business Development (BD) process and flipped it completely on its head. Instead of combing through websites and picking through traditional sources for opportunities like most BD professionals, we go direct to the customers. We call this “Backwards BD”. We talk to end users and key stakeholders to truly understand requirements, discover capability gaps and then take that back to the innovation ecosystem to find the right company (or companies) to meet the mission. We believe in continuous collaboration and that it takes an ecosystem of trusted partners to successfully connect industry and government.