Introduction

Kelvin Crosby 0:11

Welcome to Investing in Accessibility, a Samaritan Partners podcast. We're not waiting for change. We're investing in it. Join us As we speak with entrepreneurs and thought leaders who are focused on creating a more accessible world. Hey, hey, hey So good to see you even though I can't see you. It's another beautiful day in the neighborhood. And I'm so excited that you're here at Investing in Accessibility. I'm your host, Kelvin Crosby, and I got my co-host Chris Maher. How you doing, man?

Chris Maher 0:42

I'm good, Kelvin. Good to be with you and to see you, my friend, as always. How you doing?

Kelvin Crosby 0:46

I'm doing pretty good. You know, what is one thing being a completely girl dad? Even your dog is a girl dad. What is one thing that you take away and you're like, wow, this is a blessing to me.

Chris Maher 1:02

That's a great question. I mean, it's been awesome. I mean, I I gotta say that that I grew up in a family where it was mostly boys, so it was me and my brother, and then my cousins lived in the same town growing up, and there were two boys in that family. So it was very different for me, but I I can't really imagine anything else now. I will say there are times it's it's it's quite a bit of estrogen in the house, and and my wife will look at me and be like, you need to get out of the house and go for a run or get away from us, don't you? But that that doesn't happen that often, but it's you know, it's wonderful. But and they they do a good job of I wouldn't say they there's no teaming up on me, but they do like to make fun of me.

Kelvin Crosby 1:42

I mean, you make it too easy, you just make it too easy.

Chris Maher 1:45

I do, especially especially now at my age. I I get I do get the kind of like, oh my gosh, dad, that's like the old dad bad joke type stuff. And I love, although what I do love doing is I love embarrassing my daughters. I will I will I will break that out and and and they just they you know we'll be going down the street and I'll do something to embarrass and they just walk in the other direction if they just want to get away from me you know.

Kelvin Crosby 2:11

well I I think uh I feel like I'll ask you a question rather than talking about your hair and the way you smell or just other things like that, you know.

Introducing The Accelerator Series Guest

Chris Maher 2:19

You know, Kelvin, it's and and I love it becausey we've become such good friends and you're very comfortable around me, but you're pretty good at busting my chops, my friend. But that's okay. I like it.

Kelvin Crosby 2:33

I can't read this. It just it makes it it makes it for good humor. But anyway, we got a cool guest. We're continuing our Accelerator Series, and this guy, if you listen to Diego's interview, came from one of his accelerators. So I'm excited to kind of dive into this today.

Chris Maher 2:52

Yeah, me too. So yeah, for the next installment of the Accelerator Series, our guest today is Keevan. That's K-E-E-V-I-N, O'Rourke, and he's the CEO of the Multiple accelerator. Keevan, welcome, my friend.

Keevin O'Rourke 3:06

Thank you guys for having me. I'm excited to be here.

Early Entrepreneurship And Family Influence

Chris Maher 3:08

Oh, super great to have you. And and we're gonna get into a bunch of stuff today. And yeah, you you're pretty well connected within the disability world and especially within the accelerators, and we're gonna get into that in a little bit. But I think what would be great is before we get into Multiple and your work there and everything Multiple is about, I think it'd be great for our listeners to hear about your background because it is this wonderful combination of startups and accelerators and venture, etc. And it really feels like everything has kind of coalesced with your CEO job at Multiple, but let's get into your background first that leads up to Multiple, and then we'll get into the work that you're doing at Multiple.

Keevin O'Rourke 3:48

Yeah, happy to. And I can sometimes ramble on this part. I'll try to hit my marks and give you kind of the truncated version and the interesting parts, but it really started back in college. I got into entrepreneurship in sophomore year, did the classic college thing where we're gonna make websites for people, way undercharge. But you know, it really ended up working out quite well for us. I think we employed like seven other college students and for a small business had some success. So I had a taste of it.

Chris Maher 4:16

And Keevin, quick, Keevin, quick question on that. Where did that entrepreneurial spirit come from? Like, was that just like something that like a light turned on in college, or was that something with your family as a kid? Like, where does that spirit come from?

Keevin O'Rourke 4:29

Yeah, my dad for sure. My dad is a tinkerer at heart and always was working on something new. So growing up, we had a video store like Blockbuster. It wasn't a Blockbuster, it was its own kind of thing called Take Two Video. And I really grew up in the video store. My mom managed it, and it was a really dope situation for me as a kid because I got to see all the cool movies, I got to play video games like endlessly. It was amazing.

Chris Maher 4:51

That's incredible, like heaven for a young kid, right?

Keevin O'Rourke 4:54

It was. I was blessed. He also, this is he'd hate that I'm telling you this, but he had a peanut brittle business, terrible name. It was called Mr. Diddle's Peanut Brittle. And I was like, dude, you gotta, you know, new name, new name. But he makes really great peanut brittle.

Chris Maher 5:09

We need we need to exchange recipes there because my wife, and she usually does it this time of year around the holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas, she makes a mean peanut brittle herself. So let's let's trade recipes offline.

Keevin O'Rourke 5:23

Again, I will uh I'll find it and send it to you. He's got he had a whole menu and everything. It was it's a whole thing. His logo was crazy too. But yeah, that's where it all came from.

Chris Maher 5:31

Love it, love it.

Keevin O'Rourke 5:32

Yeah. So very quickly, after doing the small business thing, as every you know, 20, 21-year-old does, they're like, I want to go bigger, I want to do a startup, right? High growth, all the things. And so then me and my college roommate teamed up, and over the course of about a year, we started working on a business called Streamweaver, which was all around influencer marketing in the esports space. So this was in 2015, and that's when esports was really kind of taking off, or at least becoming something.

Chris Maher 6:04

Yeah, and and influencer marketing was really starting to go mainstream.

Lessons From A Startup That Pivoted

Keevin O'Rourke 6:09

Exactly, exactly. And so we found this kind of intersection, and we ended up getting into another startup accelerator called the Iowa Startup Accelerator, and really had a chance to test that business idea. It ultimately didn't work, right? We we raised some money, but we didn't have the outcome that we wanted. We made money, we did, we built a good product, but really what it came down to was timing. Um, I remember we went to TwitchCon, this was during our accelerator experience, and during one of their like keynotes, they unveiled that they were doing their own influencer marketing play, and that just scared the shit out of us so bad that we're just like, I think we have to pivot out of this. In retrospect, I think we could have made it work. I don't think I had the recognition that competition is a good thing at the time, and I was just like, we can't compete with the big dogs, and that just really derailed us. But you know, that that was the story of Streamweaver. After that, I had the opportunity to go work at a couple other startup accelerators that had venture funds attached to them and really understand the other side of the table where we were helping founders, making some small investments, and wow, it was so fun. It was like a dream job because I was already super into startups, and you got to just be around this really intense energy. It was it was great. So got even deeper in that way. After that, I sat on like yet another side of this maybe triangle table where it was all around kind of corporate innovation and not really mergers and acquisitions like MA. It was more around helping corporate innovation teams like from Sprint, Comcast, Allstate, find startups to shepherd through their programs, sometimes for acquisitions, but often to be customers of these products. And it was a really hot space then. Hated that. It was not fun. As you can imagine, just a lot of red tape, bureaucracy, things moved so slow, and it was a real 180 from what I was doing, where it was like, move fast, break things,

Chris Maher 8:07

It was probably it's it's interesting because I during my career as an operator spent time working at times, usually post-acquisition, working for larger corporates. And I'm I'm very grateful for those experiences. I'll admit I didn't love working in those big environments either. And so, but I'm guessing it has in for it has made you more informed and smarter about the work you do today.

Keevin O'Rourke 8:34

Yes, yeah, good perspective. And I feel like it rounds me out a little bit. Far, far, far from an expert in that space, but even getting a glimpse of how it operates, yeah, it it does. It really helps think about the whole picture. So after doing that, and I I I will try to speed up this next piece because uh I want to get to Multiple and all the things, ended up being a co-founder at a company that was doing due diligence as a service for venture funds. So kind of learned an even deeper piece of this puzzle. Essentially, what we were trying to build was the FICO score for startups. So it's like a risk assessment tool, wasn't meant to replace due diligence, but rather augment it. Had a lot of success there, ended up going off and doing consulting with a lot of the groups that we were working with, many of whom were accelerators. And that's how I found my way over to Diego and 2GI. So doing consulting for these groups, and at the time

Chris Maher 9:33

and for our listeners, 2GI being 2Gether International, which is another disability accelerator.

Keevin O'Rourke 9:38

Yes, thank you. At the time, I think he had just got his first check from Google and was really ready to do the thing. He had like a meetup group and some other programming, but this was the first tech accelerator that he wanted to run. I had some experience there. We teamed up, um, and it was great. You know, this was now five-ish years ago, and whenever these kind of come out, Diego was crushing it. And I'm sure you'll hear all about it if you haven't already. It worked out quite well. But as you can imagine, small circles, Dan Feshback, who's the founder of Multiple, now the board chair, his CEO had just left. And I was about three-ish years into 2GI, and we were on a call together, and he was like, Hey, I'm looking for kind of the next person to take the reins and do the thing. And we got to talking over the course of six months. I helped him out. I was like, look, you're kind of where 2GI was just three years earlier. I think we can make this equally as successful. And as we were talking eventually, it just made sense for me to take over.

Chris Maher 10:39

Awesome. That's such a great backstory. I it it really is amazing how all those experiences really are coalescing for I think the work that you're doing at Multiple. And so, so let's get into multiple now. So you're so what is it about a year ago, a little over a year ago?

Inside Accelerators And Corporate Innovation

Keevin O'Rourke 10:54

A little over a year,

Chris Maher 10:55

yeah. Right? You take the reins, you become CEO at Multiple. So tell us about what is what is Multiple and and and how do you folks support startups in the disability ecosystem?

Keevin O'Rourke 11:05

Absolutely. So Multiple is a startup accelerator. You know, just as a quick background, uh, you know, I don't know where this will fall in the series, but really what that means is a boot camp. You know, we operate on like a 10 to 12 week model where we're taking our companies through everything from sales, marketing, growth, really investment ready stuff to make sure that either in program or post-program, they can go out and raise. Our program and our accelerator specifically focused on what we say autism tech. It's sometimes a little bit broader around neurodiversity tech, but that's really our lane. So we're in that assistive technology space, but even within there, we've got our own kind of vertical.

Chris Maher 11:44

Yeah. And how many cohorts will you do a year and how many companies on average in each cohort? Y

Keevin O'Rourke 11:49

So we do two per year and anywhere from five to 10. It kind of depends on the batch, depends on our bandwidth. So, you know, we support 10 to 20 companies a year.

Chris Maher 11:58

Gotcha. And what would kind of a typical experience be like for a company that's going through one of your one of your cohorts for your 10 to 12 week programs?

Due Diligence Work And Disability Tech

Keevin O'Rourke 12:07

Yeah, yeah. So to answer that, I'll give a little bit more context on the types of companies we support. Of course, they're autism tech, but like more granularly, these are companies that almost always have some working product, even if it's an MVP. We don't really support, at least through the program, kind of like idea stage companies. It just doesn't, it's not a good fit. They can't make the most use of it. And they typically have some customers, right? It may be five, it might be a hundred, but there's some batch of customers that have validated, hey, there's a real business here. And sometimes they've raised a small friends and family around, but that's kind of the cherry on top. That's great if they have, not a not a deal breaker if they haven't. So what the program looks like, right, now that we know the type of company, we are super focused on growth, sales, and marketing. The idea is we want to like 10x your revenue going through the program. So more tactically, we're going through things like go to market, right? Like just think through a strategy of how you're going to go from this milestone to the next. We go deeper then. What does it look like to do influencer marketing, paid marketing? What does it look like to do cold outreach? And we're going very, very granular on all these things. So leaving that, they feel like, wow, I wish I would have known this like yesterday, because I can go implement this in my business right now and ideally see some revenue shift and have at least new ideas on how to market my product. That's the sales and marketing piece. And then a lot of it is meeting with investors, preparing their decks, helping them with pitching, helping them understand what it looks like to even start doing fundraising and building kind of an investor pipeline because a lot of them they may have raised a little bit of money, but they haven't gone out and done like an institutional raise in any way.

Chris Maher 13:48

Yeah. And is I would imagine storytelling is part of what you're coaching them on. And you know, it it's interesting that it makes sense that you're not necessarily accepting company or you're not accepting companies that are pre-product pre-revenue. You'd like them to have at least an MVP. You want to have see a little bit of demonstration of product market fit with these at least uh some initial customers. And then how how are you then coaching them on that storytelling part or or let me reframe it things that they typically

Keevin O'Rourke 14:21

so I actually give a whole session on kind of how to pitch your startup. So I've got so much content on this, and I'll try to distill it down to like a quick nugget. The one thing that is unique about this space is often the investors or even the customers or the partners, the people that they're pitching, care deeply about the space. And so that's a real unique advantage. It isn't just you know, it can come down to dollars and cents, but there's also a real deep affinity that people have for this. And so it's really important for these companies to recognize that and and use that, right? That's a piece of why everyone's in this space. But on the other end, there is still some frameworks that they should steal from companies who are maybe more traditional or you know, going after a financial return primarily. And a lot of it comes down to startups in general think about their pitches like a checklist. Like, oh, I need to have a problem slide, I need to have a solution slide, I need to have a market slide. And all of those things are good ingredients to have in your pitch. But if you're just showing somebody ingredients, I make an analogy about baking bread, right? If you just give somebody a plate of yeast and flour and water, they're like, What is this? This tastes like shit. I don't want to eat this. And pitches are similar, you've got to bake it. And the story is how you bake in all of those key pieces. So that's probably the biggest place where founders need to be thinking about their pitch a little bit differently.

Chris Maher 15:41

Yeah, I think it's a real I think it raises a really good point.

Taking The Reins At Multiple

Kelvin Crosby 15:44

You make a really good point on the storytelling. I mean, I remember one of the pitch competition competitions that I've ever I've done is the reason why I won it was because of my storytelling ability. And really taking away like yeah, you saw the solutions on the slides, but I took you through like a theatric experience. Like, why is this technology important? And you walked away like, oh, yeah, this is important. And so, yeah, I completely agree with you agree with you on that. Yeah, I'm I'm just I'm just fa all the I honestly I'm just in awe like just enjoying listening to how you kind of have really crafted this into the the model with I mean I'm working on this on the Seaming King side and also my other company and it's like all right, this this is all good stuff.

Chris Maher 16:38

I I think that you raise a really good point, and I'd I'd love for you to maybe dig into it a little bit deeper, but as you're talking about the storytelling part and the pitch, when you're when you're pitching to prospective investors, you're typically targeting people who have either a connection or an affinity with autism, neurodiversity. So they're coming from a place where there's some resonance already. And and I think that with the storytelling, if that is the case, I think great storytelling does what? It creates an emotional connection, and that's when you start to to capture hearts and minds or change hearts and minds. And so I think that that is a really important piece to what you folks teach these organizations. But as you're digging into the fundraising side of things, are you telling them, hey, just focus on people who are interested in social impact in addition to financial returns? Or are you pushing them towards targeting people who haven't really thought about disability or specifically autism or neurodiversity as an investment opportunity within the market? How do you help them navigate that?

Multiple’s Program And Ideal Startups

Keevin O'Rourke 17:55

Yeah, so it's it's really both, right? We we recommend, hey, there's gonna be a short list of people who are just so aligned with what you do that you should be reaching out to those people first. And oftentimes they're in our network, so we'll make warm intros. Think of them as like the friendlies. They may not invest because of stage or you know, timing, all sorts of things, but these are people who are already gonna get it, right? They they have some knowledge of the space, but often what we're seeing from a lot of our alumni is that they do raise money from outsiders. That might not even be the right word, but those who don't make a ton of assistive technology bets, even autism tech bets, who maybe are more in like healthcare and they find a different intersection that this fits. So we definitely don't recommend people limit themselves because if you've ever done fundraising, it's like you've got to have a hundred or more conversations before you even get some traction. And it is, it's kind of a numbers game.

Chris Maher 18:50

Yeah, for sure. Can you give us some examples of some of the types of autism tech companies that have gone through your cohort just to provide a little bit of you know context for our listeners?

Keevin O'Rourke 19:00

Yeah, happy to. So the way we think about it, autism tech is we've defined like 15 challenge areas within autism. So you can think about it like verticals within this one vertical, but it really is pretty comprehensive. So if you're working on something that serves the autism community, we're interested. These are things like diagnostics, care navigation, ed tech, workforce, all sorts of things. We had our demo day last month, so I'll talk a bit about the alumni who showcased there. So one super interesting company is a company called uh Percy. And what they're doing is they've got a hardware that uses the same technology that's in self-driving cars to monitor sleep. And they're selling this to ABA clinics because the problem that they've seen is that sleep is a huge challenge with a lot of people with autism. They and that leads to all sorts of other symptoms. So if we can solve the sleep problem, that has kind of a ripple effect on a lot of things, and they're crushing it, right? And they're very interesting because they have a hardware. Another company that's doing incredibly well is one that's a kind of business in the box for clinicians. So they go out and work with you know, speech therapists, OT, you know, ABA therapists who are at a clinic right now and want to go off on their own. And they handle everything from finding patients to invoicing to note-taking, all with their kind of AI-powered business in a box, and they're growing like a weed. We have another couple companies that are doing like AI visuals and storytelling. One is called Unique Minds, and they're doing like digital support animals for children with neurodiversities or who need a little extra support on like the social emotional learning side. Ella Kids is another one who's slightly different. They're doing it all through um stories. You kind of take a picture of yourself, you get transported into this story, and then they build narratives around tough situations, like maybe going to the dentist or maybe a death in the family, things like that. So that gives you a little bit of a sense of kind of the gamut, but a lot of these, this is I I could ramble on and on about this. A lot of things that we're seeing right now are like AI powered. So there's intersections of other technologies that get mixed in with autism tech that can really amplify uh the reach and just capabilities, a lot of these solutions.

Pitch Storytelling That Wins Investors

Chris Maher 21:18

Yeah. No, those are some fantastic examples. Thank you. I think that you know, you said before, you know, we look at autism tech and the space as having I think you said like 15 different almost category areas that you folks have have or segments that you folks have created. That's a big number. Like I think, I mean, that in and of itself speaks to to I think the size of the market and the breadth and depth of the types of services. And so, you know, are are there do you have any like I've got the stats on the disability sector as a whole or disability community, right? The 1.5 billion, the $13 trillion in disposed disposable income, et cetera. You know. One in four adults in the US, one in six people globally. Do you have at your fingertips some of the stats around autism and neurodiversity specifically as a subset of the larger disability community?

Keevin O'Rourke 22:12

Yeah, I mean, we got numbers that get thrown around pretty often where it's like, I think it's like one in 36, you know, people have autism, and I've got some high levels on that. What I do have better data on, because it's been more useful in our this is maybe another part of this conversation. We're raising a financial vehicle, I'll call it. And it's not quite a fund, but it's something else. It's been around sectors and where we're seeing innovation happen. And so a lot of it, I don't have the numbers right off the top of my head, but a lot of it is in ed tech, it's in workforce and care navigation. Those are kind of the big three. Executive functioning is another one where, you know, navigating daily life, those are some of the stats I lean on more heavily because it's just more prevalent to our work. And and a lot of the people that I'm talking to have the big general. Yeah.

Chris Maher 22:57

I mean, listen, I think those three or four categories you just mentioned. So I've my one of my my youngest daughter has intellectual and developmental disabilities and and and special needs. And, you know, she's going, her version of college is a transition program where they focus on exactly those things that you said. So executive functioning, uh, workforce development and job job skills, uh, organizational skills. It's really about trying to prepare her with life skills and job skills so she can live. Should she will never be fully independent, but to try to get to a point where she can be more independent and autonomous than she is today, and not to have you know 24-7 support. So I think those areas that you identify there, as a person with the lived experience of raising a child with you know neurodiversity, I think you're hitting the nail on the head focusing on those areas for sure. Yeah. Let's talk a little bit about the financial vehicle. So, one thing that we haven't gotten into is when companies go through your cohort, is it like a Techstars or Y Combinator where if they accept the invitation, you give them a certain amount of money, you take a certain chunk of equity. Like how does the funding part of that go? And then would love to hear more about this new financial vehicle you folks are working on.

Keevin O'Rourke 24:13

Yeah, absolutely. So when I say startup accelerator, those who are in the space often do liken it to a YC, Tech Stars 500, whatever. And it is slightly different, right? So we don't do any equity investment at all, actually, on either end of the program. This is good and bad. So the good thing is that we don't take any piece of the company and it makes it very easy for somebody to participate. The bad thing is that a lot of companies are looking for investment. And so, you know, my personal opinion on it is it creates an ease of entry, but sometimes we miss out on some of the best deals because they do have an opportunity to go to TechStars, YC, all these other places who do offer equity or rather cash. I could make the argument that it's really expensive cash, but

Real Autism Tech Examples From Alumni

Chris Maher 25:01

by the way, I would agree with you that some of those programs, it is very expensive capital.

Keevin O'Rourke 25:06

But when you're a founder who needs money, that argument doesn't hold water off. And they're like, Yeah, but it's 150k. So, you know, that's some of the challenges that we face. What we're building right now is on the back end. So after somebody has gone through the program, we think of this like our due diligence engine. We get to know you a little bit more, see how you operate over you know three months. We want to start making those investments in companies who show up really well. And so it doesn't exist today, but I believe in 2026, we're gonna have something stood up to where we can start making those investments. It's not required. If somebody's like, nope, I'm good, I want to go bootstrap this or not interested, totally fine. But we do want to have the opportunity to make those financial pathways happen.

Chris Maher 25:50

Nice. And so they'll uh post graduating or after graduating the cohort, you folks will actually determine whether or not you want to offer capital and take equity in companies, and you may offer it to all of them or none of them, dependent on the cohort.

Keevin O'Rourke 26:06

That's right, that's exactly right.

Kelvin Crosby 26:07

Yeah, I think I like that. That's uh that's a really can you get to see how how serious yeah they are gonna buy your principles.

Keevin O'Rourke 26:15

I think totally. I don't know that many. There are probably are, but I don't know many that operate this way, many being uh startup accelerators, because it usually is on the front end, but it's always made sense to me, at least as somebody who's making the investment, of like, I want to see how this pans out, right? It's really easy for somebody to show up to an interview or on an application one or two times and knock your socks off. But when you sit in an office hour with them every week and see how they're really operating, it changes things. And hopefully we can add a ton of help in that three months and get them where they need to be. That's the value add that's like free. It's our kind of nonprofit service. But if somebody making an investment, it's it's also incredibly useful to have that time to see how things kind of pan out.

Chris Maher 27:04

Yeah, no, I think that's that's a super unique model. And I, you know, great that you folks are creating a vehicle that that can offer capital to to startups that are worthy of it, which is fantastic. The so I think we've talked about a number of things that really make Multiple unique. I mean, uh obviously the big one being that you folks are exclusively focused on autism tech and and and maybe a little bit more broadly neurodiversity. But anything else about Multiple that we haven't talked about that you'd want to highlight that you think is either unique to Multiple or something that you've you believe that you folks really stand out in terms of how you're supporting startups?

Rethinking Equity And A Future Fund

Keevin O'Rourke 27:43

Yeah, and I'm gonna say this, and it's gonna sound maybe cliche, but I feel like I have to do it. Our program really is world-class. Every company that has gone through it has just had such good things to say about it. We've got just a pile of good testimonials, and we have a really good track record of connecting people to funding post-program, even if it's not, it hasn't been through our own vehicle, but our network of angels, VCs, I think it's something like 50% of the companies that have gone through have raised either during program or post-program. And so that's a pretty good track record in the world of accelerators who aren't, you know, YC or some of these others that get all the gravity pulled to them. And and yeah, so if anybody's considering it, I would love to at least have a conversation and and you know, take a look at your application and all of the things because it's it's a really good experience.

Chris Maher 28:35

Yeah, no, that's awesome. So, what would your advice be to anyone looking at Multiple or Y Combinator or some of the other accelerators? Like what should they be thinking about, and or what's the diligence they should be doing to figure out which one's the best fit for them? Any advice on that front?

Keevin O'Rourke 28:52

Yeah, absolutely. Think about the think about what you want to get out of the program. So, you know, on the front end, everyone's gonna promise you an incredibly good experience. I just did it, right? So I get that that's kind of dime a dozen. But what kind of communities do you want to be tapped into? Because I really do think that's a huge piece of choosing between all the different ones. If you want the YC label and you want to get connected to their networks and you can get in, like, yeah, it might be a good fit. But if you're building in the autism space, I don't think there's anyone who has a better network and can give you better inroads to the people that you need to know than we do. So that is how we're building our competitive advantage. It's kind of like, what is it, an inch wide, mile deep versus the inverse? Yeah.

Chris Maher 29:40

Yeah. I mean, that that you're you're a, although I wouldn't call disability a niche market because it's massive, but but you are a a focused area within disability, which I think is is super unique for sure. All right. So as as we wrap up here, how can people connect with you, Keevin, and and learn more about multiple and and your accelerator program?

Choosing Accelerators And How To Reach Out

Keevin O'Rourke 30:01

Yeah. Well, lucky for you, I'm very accessible. Just shoot me an email. It's just my first name, which is K-E-E-V-I-N at multiplehub.org. And somebody on our team, me, Kate, we'll connect you. We meet almost every single company that reaches out to us, even if they're at the idea stage and not a good fit for the program right now. Part of what we want to do is foster a really great ecosystem of companies. And that means working with companies who are even earlier than what we support. So always down to have a conversation with somebody who is building in the space.

Chris Maher 30:31

Fantastic. And the and the Multiple website again, which we'll and we'll put all this in the show notes. We'll put links, but the Multiple website.

Keevin O'Rourke 30:37

Yep, it's just multiplehub.org.

Chris Maher 30:40

Perfect. All right. Well, Keevin, such a pleasure, my friend. Great to have you on the show. And and we're so excited to have Multiple as a part of our Accelerator Series, and looking forward to seeing you in person in the near future. But thank you for coming on.

Keevin O'Rourke 30:54

Yeah, thanks for having me, guys. This was great.

Kelvin Crosby 30:56

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