Global Incubator · Based in Arizona

Advancing Ideas,
Capital & Opportunity

We turn bold, teachable founders into real, scalable businesses.

AICO partners with entrepreneurs who are hopeful, coachable, and solving real problems with ideas that are genuinely different — from our home in Arizona to founders around the world.

Pitch Your Idea How We Work
Local roots in Arizona · National & global reach
Local + Global
Arizona-based, working with founders worldwide
3 Ways In
Workshops · Launch services · Revenue-share partnerships
Real Problems
We back ideas that solve and scale
Who We're Looking For

We bet on people and ideas — in that order.

Great businesses start with the right founder and a genuinely different idea. Here's what gets our attention.

01

Teachable & Hopeful Founders

We work with entrepreneurs who stay coachable, take feedback well, and bring optimism and grit to the hard parts of building.

02

Unique & Different Ideas

We're drawn to ideas that aren't just another copy — concepts that are innovative, original, and stand apart from what's already out there.

03

Real Problems That Scale

The best ideas solve a real, felt problem for real people — and have a clear path to grow well beyond where they started.

What We Do

Three ways to build with us.

Wherever you are in the journey, there's a way to work together — from learning the fundamentals to launching with us as your partner.

Learn

Workshops

Hands-on sessions that sharpen your idea, business model, and go-to-market thinking. Build the foundation before you build the business.

Best for: early founders & idea-stage
Launch

Launch Services

We work directly with you to take the idea to market — strategy, structure, and execution — delivered for a transparent fee.

Best for: ideas ready to go live
Partner

Revenue-Share Partnership

We partner with you and share in the upside — aligning our success with yours through a shared-revenue model.

Best for: high-potential, scalable ventures
How It Works

From idea to launch, step by step.

1

Apply

Tell us about you and your idea. We review every submission, local and global.

2

Conversation

If there's a fit, we talk — about the problem, the market, and you as a founder.

3

Choose a Path

Workshop, launch-for-a-fee, or a revenue-share partnership — whatever fits the idea.

4

Build & Launch

We roll up our sleeves with you and bring the idea to life.

Track Record

Just a few projects we have been a part of.

A selection of the companies and organizations our principals have been part of, led, and helped launch — the work behind the way we partner with founders today.

Resource Global logo

Resource Global

A worldwide network that teaches, mentors, and connects emerging marketplace leaders to transform their cities.

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LM

Lausanne Movement

A global movement connecting leaders and ideas to advance mission around the world.

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SkyReserve logo

SkyReserve

An AI-powered private aviation platform for empty-leg flights, on-demand charters, and co-flyer matching.

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RC

Rim Country AI

An AI-powered community portal connecting Payson & Star Valley residents to local news, events, and resources.

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Aetna logo

Aetna

One of the nation's leading health insurance and benefits companies, serving millions of members nationwide.

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Rock Top Coffee logo

Rock Top Coffee

A specialty coffee company built on craft roasting and a love for the outdoors.

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Create Possible logo

Create Possible

A creative studio helping founders and organizations turn bold ideas into reality.

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Family of Faith logo

Family of Faith

A caring community offering compassion and support through its Gift of Care ministry.

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US-ASEAN Business Council logo

US-ASEAN Business Council

The premier advocacy organization for U.S. corporations operating across the dynamic markets of Southeast Asia.

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Good News Partners logo

Good News Partners

A nonprofit providing affordable housing and community support to families in need.

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Local Roots, Global Reach

Born in Arizona. Building everywhere.

We're proud to champion local entrepreneurs and ideas in our own community — and just as committed to working with founders across the country and around the world. Great ideas can come from anywhere, and so can we.

Invest Gila

Our commitment to the place we call home.

Invest Gila is how we put our principles to work right where we live — in Gila County, Arizona. We sit down with entrepreneurs here in town and use the very same approach we bring to founders everywhere: back teachable people, sharpen genuinely different ideas, and help them grow real, sustainable businesses.

This is Rim Country — the communities beneath the Mogollon Rim, ringed by the ponderosa pine forests of the Tonto National Forest. It's a small, four-season corner of Arizona where local businesses are the backbone of the community, and where we're proud to invest our time, mentorship, and partnership.

PaysonThe hub of Rim Country, just below the Mogollon Rim.
Star ValleyA close-knit town just east of Payson.
PineA mountain community high in the pines to the north.
StrawberryHome to Arizona's oldest standing schoolhouse.
View from atop the Mogollon Rim in Rim Country, Gila County, Arizona — red sandstone ledges and ponderosa pines overlooking the forested valley below.
Rim Country · Payson, Star Valley, Pine & Strawberry — Gila County, Arizona
Where is Gila County? Right in the heart of Arizona — central highlands, just below the Mogollon Rim, between Phoenix and the White Mountains. Gila County
Apply

Pitch us your idea.

Whether you're across town or across the world, we'd love to hear what you're building. Tell us about you and your idea — there's no perfect stage to apply.

  • Open to local, national & international founders
  • Every application is read by our team
  • No idea too early if the problem is real
Thank you — your idea is in. Our team will review it and reach out if there's a fit. Keep building. ✦
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