Leverage our deep technology expertise, processes tailored to startup specifics, and wide contact network to turn your idea into an established product and support your startup growth
Startup business dynamics is high – needs, goals & expectations evolve rapidly.
Our processes are tailored to it, so we always keep focus on your business goals.
We offer 20+ value-added services to support startups at different stages.
Those vary from product discovery & tech debt reduction to customer onboarding.
Rely on our lean MVP-based approaches to launch your product & experiment faster.
We shorten TTM through battle-tested processes, reusable components & know-hows.
It is important to mind growth plans and potential changes even at the MVP stage.
We design & build solutions with a special focus on scalability and cost of change.
We help our clients both validate product or app ideas (from product management & tech point of view) and create clickable prototypes for potential investors as well as scope, develop, and launch the MVP. All this done with special focus on establishing a good market feedback loop and laying a secure foundation for further product adjustments & tailoring.
We act as a core technology partner to 50+ startups, helping them build successful platforms from scratch or enhance & re-engineer existing products. We take over full responsibility for UI/UX, development, testing, infrastructure, support & maintenance to enable our clients to focus more on business strategy and growth.
Our architects, data engineers, and cloud engineers will create a technology roadmap and software architecture design based on our ready-to-use partner solutions and market-leading platforms to minimize time-to-market & cut costs. Sigma Software experts will help you introduce technical excellence programs and make sure you get an optimized architecture, processes, control, and talent to gain a competitive edge.
Leverage our knowledge and experience to optimize business & SDLC processes as well as establish efficient project & product management practices. We assist in introducing data governance and regulations compliance (GDPR and industry standards); getting certifications (ISO/IEC 27001 and others); adopting a necessary and sufficient level of cybersecurity and data management.
Get access to the world’s Angel & Venture Capital funds, which cooperate with Sigma Software on diverse innovative projects. Leverage tech and business expert network of a large IT company to find partners, clients, and synergies. We created Sigma Software Labs as a business incubator that helps startups, innovative businesses, and small product houses to enter the new orbit.
With over 50 startups that reached success relying on our tech expertise, business experience, and network, we have defined our own strategy of working with startups. We help companies polish their pitch deck, validate concepts, fine-tune business models and monetization strategies, optimize product roadmaps, etc. Whether you need a specific skill or a dedicated tech team, you will find committed and engaged support for your business from the seed level to a unicorn.
When your startup idea evolves into an early-stage product, finding the most viable features and market traction becomes a top challenge.
At this stage, we support you with:
Once the product has found its market fit, it should be further optimized, stabilized, and adopted for the growing number of users.
At this stage, we support you with:
Once your startup achieved success, it’s time to reap the fruit and further optimize the processes for maximum ROI.
At this stage, we support you with:
A great product starts with an idea that needs to be validated, turned into a business case, verified for potential market fit & scoped into an MVP. Our product managers can increase your product success chances by turning the idea into a solid roadmap and product strategy.
Well thought-out UX safeguards that a user seamlessly interacts with your app or service. Our experts make sure your product UI is not only visually appealing, but also functional, intuitive, and easily adjustable to the new trends, changing market & user expectations.
Effective tech stack choice and sensible architecture design are essential both for initial product success and sustainable growth in future. We focus on finding the balance between time-to-market, existing budget limitations, the product’s future scalability & cost of change.
Efficient delivery and support processes are vital for safeguarding fast launch, product quality, and smooth operations. Our experts not only set up all necessary processes, but also fine-tune and optimize those to make your delivery organization work like clockwork.
We helped DanAds develop a white-label PaaS that is now used by Bloomberg Media, TripAdvisor, Sound Cloud, Philips, etc.
As the core tech partner, we develop the platform, manage its infrastructure, support & onboard new clients, and more.
We co-invested and developed a novel anti-malvertising platform trusted by Xandr, Imgur, Whisper & The Boston Globe.
It performs behavioral analysis on 7 M sites and processes thousands of ads per second to detect & eliminate threats.
Our team extended the Client’s delivery management MVP into a mature collaborative platform & added mobile apps.
The platform connects retailers, drivers & fleet owners and is already integrated with 15 retailers (incl. IKEA).
Sigma Software has delivered the first version of the platform & apps in 6 months and then added the premium version.
The platform helps thousands of riders from base to Olympic level to connect with 900+ coaches and train remotely.
Our AR experts helped to create a game replicating the immersion effect of holographic goggles on a regular smartphone.
The game is now launched for 18 countries and we continue extending both the AR engine and the game itself.
MVP is a great way to get your product up and running quickly because it only includes the core functionality and killer features. If you need to start receiving market feedback asap to adjust the product to actual market needs, then MVP is go-to solution for your start-up. It will allow you to minimize the cost of change to be able to adapt your product to the market feedback with less effort.
Based on your idea and vision, our product management specialists will help you shape the MVP in such a way as to include the major features and form the correct feedback loop. Our technical experts and architects will design a solution architecture that will give you the possibility to easily scale in the future. It also will allow you to minimize the cost of change to be able to adapt your product to the market feedback with less effort.
In our experience, it takes about 2-4 months on average to launch a startup product, but the actual time frame can be quite different, both up and down. It all depends on the complexity and scale of the product. That’s why it is important to run a discovery phase (forming a product vision, creating the roadmap and backlog, selecting the technology stack, and drafting solution architecture) to get the full understanding of the solution-to-be. Based on this understanding your supplier will be able to estimate the efforts and plan the timeline. The development timeline depends on the product scope a lot, so it is important to find the right balance between quality expectations, functional requirements, and target time-to-market.
There is a number of different packages available for a startup project, it all depends on your business needs. Sigma Software offers top-tier SLA-based support for different workloads, processes setup & full-cycle support. We provide adaptive, corrective, perfective, and preventive maintenance as well as systems upgrades, migration, enhancement, etc. to make sure your IT ecosystem runs smoothly. In addition to providing managed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd line support and ongoing maintenance, we also help our clients extend their existing IT support teams on a long-term basis or as peak resources.
Here are some steps we recommend you follow if you need to hire developers for your startup project:
Step 1 – List your business requirements as well as determine the type of experts you need to successfully kick off the project.
Step 2 – Decide whether to outsource or develop your product in-house.
Step 3 – Find the right people. You can hire an outsourcing company or search on your own using marketplaces like Upwork, Freelancer, and Guru. Outsourcing agencies usually have a wide range of specializations, a broad technology stack, and enough recruiting specialists to interview, evaluate, and select the right candidates even when it goes to some niche expertise or rare technologies.
Step 4 – Check technical expertise, reputation, and track record. Whether you’re hiring freelancers or an IT development agency, you need to make sure they have the experience they claim to manage your project.
Step 5: Conduct an interview to talk about the candidate’s work experience on previous projects.
