Case Study: Notre Dame IDEA Center achieves 40–50% more customer discovery contacts and 10,000+ interviews with RocketReach

How Notre Dame supports entrepreneurship with RocketReach

IDEA Center at Notre Dame, which fosters entrepreneurship and spins out startups from faculty research, faced challenges scaling outreach for customer discovery, investor and board recruitment. They needed accurate, comprehensive contact data, an easy-to-use prospecting tool for a largely student team, and straightforward pricing — and chose RocketReach for its contact database and unlimited lookup capabilities to address those needs.

RocketReach provided a centralized platform and a custom pricing plan, simplifying the Center’s discovery workflow to RocketReach plus their research platform; this delivered a 40–50% increase in contacts for customer discovery, enabled over 10,000 customer interviews in five years, improved response rates with fewer rejections, and streamlined alumni outreach for market research, board membership and investor requests.

IDEA Center

Benjamin Hoggan

Director of De-Risking and Venture Acceleration