Graphite Group focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, and transformation.

Graphite Group is a student-run consulting group based out of the Claremont Colleges. Since our founding, we have completed 37 projects across nine different sectors, helping businesses in areas ranging from fintechs, healthcare, cloud computing  to real estate reach their strategic goals. Our consultants come from five liberal arts colleges, each with diverse expertise including economics, data science, engineering, public policy, and more.

We believe that entrepreneurship drives innovation and addresses critical societal challenges, fostering economic growth and equity. By partnering with businesses and institutions, we support the next generation of visionary leaders in developing sustainable, impactful solutions for our communities.

Our objective is to provide our clients and the greater community with positive progress and long-lasting results.

37

Completed Projects

9

Different Sectors

5

Colleges Spanned

Our Focus

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Startup Focused

We believe that entrepreneurship drives innovation and addresses critical societal challenges, fostering economic growth and promoting equity. By collaborating with leading startups across diverse industries, we strive to engage and work with founders and entrepreneurs to achieve their strategic goals and accelerate their pathways to future growth.

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Student Run

Since our founding, we have assisted businesses in reaching their strategic goals in a wide range of sectors, from fintech and healthcare to cloud computing and real estate. Our consultants come from five liberal arts colleges, each with diverse expertise including economics, data science, engineering, public policy, and more. We value the outcome of any task more than the method used to achieve it.

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Our Areas of Practice

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Strategy

Our strategy consulting practice, tailored for businesses with needs covering market entry and positioning, pricing and GTM, and cost optimization.

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Digital

Our digital consulting and implementation practice, tailored for businesses with needs covering software development, engineering, data analytics, and product design.

About Digital

What our clients say

“Our team’s experience with Graphite has been absolutely impactful. Their innovative approach to bringing in subject matter experts looking to make a genuine contribution has added a continually evolving dimension to our product development process and we thank all involved for our continued collaboration!”

Dan Bejmuk

CEO of Dreambox

“Graphite Group was able to accomplish significant research with physicians — a group that is very hard to contact and whose time is precious. We really benefited from their insights regarding the severity of physicians’ perceived pain points, and they corrected some of our assumptions.”

President and CTO

Healthcare software company

“It was incredibly beneficial to have many smart minds helping me over the semester. The conversations I had with Graphite Group were topnotch and the work produced was quality. Thanks for all the help and support!”

Founder

Financial services startup

“This is a big step forwards from what we’ve been doing in the past — a large improvement!"

Backend SWE

IBM

“The team at Graphite Group conduced a thorough market research among student, employing both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to gather insights. Their research enabled us to better understand trends and patterns within our target demographic and refine our strategy to better understand customer needs.”

Matthias Memminger

Head of Paulaner Sunset USA

“Working with Graphite Group over the past few months has been a true pleasure. The team is communicative, thoughtful, and analytical, and truly took every piece of feedback or instruction we gave them in stride. I would happily work with the team again and encourage anyone looking to gain student perspective to work with them as well.”

Teddy Solomon

Co-Founder & CEO of Fizz

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