Startup Stack Acquired by Startup Science to Expand Founder Support

Startup Stack has officially been acquired by StartupScience.io. This is a huge value add to the founders we love and serve.

“Over the past five years, we’ve helped thousands of startups scale and save millions on essential solutions,” said Izabella Bray, Co-Founder of Startup Stack. “We’re thrilled to keep empowering founders as part of the Startup Science ecosystem.”

The Startup Stack was founded in 2020 as a resource to support founders through the COVID pandemic. This began as a scrappy Wix site with $180k in savings from 7 deals. We gradually evolved into a trusted platform used by thousands of startups to save millions of dollars. We painstakingly scrutinized every addition to the marketplace, putting the founder first every time.

It wasn’t easy, but we kept it free for founders through it all. We’ve seen competitors come and go. The problem is they always want to charge the founders for access to savings. It’s a simple business model, but it misses the point about why we do what we do.

We’re here to save you and your startup money. So we monetized in other ways. We developed a white label version of our platform. Tens of thousands of organizations support startups worldwide. Most of them have their perks programs in a spreadsheet or on other overpriced alternatives. Instead, we chose to be simple, efficient, affordable, and lean. We bootstrapped the entire way, knowing that investor money would pull us in directions not always in the founders’ best interest.

Startup Science is built around education, mentorship, and founder-first community. Together, we’re reducing friction, ending tool fatigue, and giving every founder the support they need to build something real.

“We started Startup Stack to increase the success rate for founders,” said Jonathan Engle, CEO of Startup Stack. “Joining Startup Science continues that mission—and I’m excited to show the world what we’ll build together.”

Jonathan now serves as Head of Marketplace at Startup Science, leading partnerships with software and service providers to drive even greater value for founders and for the accelerators, investors, and the organizations who back them.

What’s Changing (and What’s Not):

• ✅ Startup Stack is still free for founders
  
  
• ✅ 400+ deals are still live, with more on the way
  
  
• ✅ Providers can create free offer listings at startupstack.com/providers
  
  
• ✅ Startup Stack is now integrated directly into Startup Science at startupstack.com/founders
  
  
• ✅ ESOs can launch white-labeled marketplaces for their founders at startupstack.com/white-label
  
  
• ✅ Full API access available for complete white label customization
  
  

If you’ve been with us from the beginning, thank you.If you’re just joining us now, welcome.