Autumn ACCELERATOR

Become part of the next batch at accelerator for European founders. AceON Accelerator organizes the 5 th program for early-stage start-ups in idea or pre-seed stage providing them with practical know-how, international founders´ community and investment opportunities.
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About the Program

Autumn Accelerator is a program tailored to help idea and pre-seed start-ups by providing investment and support in understanding the entrepreneurship and VC landscapes. The program provides know-how through lectures, discussions and mentoring on various topics such as Go-To-Market, finance, fundraising, sales, and more.

Our program welcomes tech start-ups developing products that address significant customer problems. We place strong emphasis on the scalability of the solution and the strength of the team.

Benefits of the Program

Relevant knowledge

Our acceleration program provides you with relevant and practical knowledge through expert-led lectures delivered mostly by in-house experts from ZAKA VC and Accace, ensuring you gain the tailored content to equip your start-up for success.

Investment

AceON provides funding for early-stage start-ups. At least one start-up will receive €40K in funding at the end of the program in the form of a CLA (Convertible Loan Agreement).

Mentoring

Individual and group mentoring can be essential for the growth and success of your start-up. The right mentor can teach you how to avoid unneccessary mistakes, advise what to do and answer crucial questions.

Community

We engage in-house professionals, industry experts, entrepreneurs and people who purely want to help. By taking part in our program, you can meet other founders or strategic partners.
Online
Approx. 2 months
Early-stage

Key dates

Applications

July 12 - Sept 8
Complete the online application to be considered for the program.

Selection

Sept 9 - Sept 12
You'll receive an email with confirmation and an accelerator participant agreement to sign.

Program

Oct 2 - Dec 11
Fully online, with evening lectures to share practical know-how with you.

Demo Day

December 11
The final step, where the investment committee selects start-ups for funding.

Investment

after Demo Day
Selected start-up(s) receives an investment of €40K from AceON.

WHAT SOLUTIONS ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Autumn Accelerator runs an industry-agnostic program. What does it mean? We warmly welcome start-ups from all industries, such as fintech, enterprise tech, edtech biotech, healthtech, hospitality, and more.

The acceleration program is suitable for start-up teams developing their PoC, working on their MVP, or those who have just launched their product and acquired their first customers.
Our main criteria when selecting a start-up are:‍
  • Addressing a significant customer problem
  • Scalability of the solution
  • Strength of the team

What is expected of start-ups entering the program?

Acceleration programs are provided by AceON Accelerator for free. It is our mission to help succeed start-ups across Europe, thus we offer the best possible know-how and expertise from our in-house and external experts and C-levels.

During the program we expect high level of proactivity and cooperation with our team as we want you to get the best experience and support.
Our goal is to invest in the solutions with the highest potential for success and growth. Therefore, we require you to sign an Accelerator Participant Agreement at the start of the program.

This agreement demonstrates our interest in investing in your start-up and guarantess that AceON Accelerator has the opportunity to invest when you are ready to fundraise or to co-invest if your secure another investor.

Mentors and speakers in Autumn Batch

Ján Kasper

Ján Kasper

Co-founder AceON | Co-founder & Managing Partner ZAKA

Ján Kasper

Experienced entrepreneur operating in 50 companies across 9 different industries, generating a total revenue of 700 million EUR. His primary interests lie in the communication, energy, leisure & hospitality, and real estate and development sectors. Obtained his MBA at Webster and PHD at Comenius University.
Peter Pašek

Peter Pašek

Managing Director & Partner Accace Slovakia

Peter Pašek

Since 2013, Peter has managed Accace, one of the largest consulting companies on the Slovak market. Recognized as specialist in transaction and tax consulting, he participated in several sales of companies, set up the structure of the transaction and represented companies in negotiations with investors.
Ján Búza

Ján Búza

Partner ZAKA

Ján Búza

Jan has spent 10+ years in startup ecosystem. He started at LRJ Capital, where he assessed investment opportunities and worked closely with portfolio firms, such as Bloomreach. He then joined HubHub, a co-work focused on tech companies, which he scaled to over 2500 members in 5 countries and co-founded two legal tech companies: CourtQuant, a saas platform predicting court case outcomes, and Trama, a global leader in brand protection.
Andrej Petrus

Andrej Petrus

Partner & Head of Investment Committee | ZAKA

Andrej Petrus

From working in AI venture builder and in consulting, Andrej is now leading ZAKA's investment committee. He holds a finance degree from Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Economics in Prague.
Mihaela Pašek-Virlan

Mihaela Pašek-Virlan

CEO & Partner Accace

Mihaela Pašek-Virlan

Mihaela became a part of Accace in 2007, since navigated through various positions across different countries, in 2020 became the CEO. Mihaela is also a member of YPO, a global community of leaders and CEOs, actively participating in socially responsible activities organized under the civic association #accacelife.
Natalia Sachova

Natalia Sachova

Head of Portfolio & Communication ZAKA

Natalia Sachova

After years of marketing experience in leading positions, Natalia is now a member of ZAKA VC. She is in charge of portfolio management and communication, but is also active in deal sourcing, partner network and operations.
Adam Hamšík

Adam Hamšík

Co-founder & CEO Labyrinth Labs

Adam Hamšík

CEO of Labyrinth Labs, a company born from the belief that tech firms should deliver real value, not just sell manhours. With roots in engineering and DevOps, Adam’s approach is practical and people-first, with a #nobullshit culture at the core. Labyrinth Labs is now a successful cloud-native company & AWS Consulting Partner of the Year 2024. Adam helps startups stay focused, make smart decisions, and grow in meaningful ways.
Martin Hauskrecht

Martin Hauskrecht

Head of Engineering Labyrinth Labs

Martin Hauskrecht

His main focus is designing full-featured cloud infrastructures on AWS & Azure. Over the past 7 years, he gained experience building robust, auto-scaled, and highly-available cloud environments for many customers and early phase start-ups, utilising a large set of tools and technologies during the process, mainly revolving around Kubernetes and Serverless. He likes to work on challenging tasks and always wants to learn something new.
Peter Križan

Peter Križan

CEO - Chief Energy Officer PERSONALITY Group

Peter Križan

In 2006, he started PERSONALITY with the goal of helping companies have competent people. Later, he launched the TOP HEADS project, a fast-track manager leasing service. Together with the team of about 25 people, they fill key positions in domestic and international companies and have become one of the top 2 executive search firms in Slovakia. He has started acquiring medium-sized companies in the Czechoslovak region.
Martina Hanusová

Martina Hanusová

Chief Sales Officer Payout

Martina Hanusová

Martina is focused on business development, sales, and marketing. Her specialties include payment systems, FinTech, setting up sales plans, and marketing strategies. Additionally, she has a passion for entrepreneurship and contributes to the startup community as an organizer for Techstars Startup Weekend events.
Pavol Magic

Pavol Magic

CEO & Co-founder Zoniq

Pavol Magic

Pavol is the CEO & co-founder at Zoniq. He has 20+ years of experience in creating successful global projects & products and leading distributed teams & businesses.
Annabel Pemberton

Annabel Pemberton

Founder & CEO Assenteo

Annabel Pemberton

Founded Assenteo to help teams in health, fintech, AI, and other regulated industries navigate privacy and compliance from day one. With experience across the UK, EU, and US, Annabel has supported over 50 start-ups and scale-ups and has advised on EU policy for smart cities, and regularly helps transatlantic teams translate frameworks. She’s the Co-Founder of Law School 2.0, a community of 5,000+ future lawyers.
Slavo Tuleja

Slavo Tuleja

Fractional CPO / CIO

Slavo Tuleja

Slavo works as a fractional CPO/CIO with startups and non-tech companies, mainly in the topic of GTM, Channel partnerships and customer pain-points. Also, he authors the Sunday Non-Techpreneur Newsletter & can also help you as a super-connector.
Šimon Lackovič

Šimon Lackovič

CEO & Marketing Strategist rollingball.studio

Šimon Lackovič

Šimon is a digital strategist and growth hacker obsessed with helping start-ups scale smarter. He combines UX design, technical development, and data-driven marketing to transform websites into growth machines. As founder of rollingball.studio, Šimon has led SaaS and B2B brands from zero to traction with strategies that stick and solutions that perform.
Vojta Diatka

Vojta Diatka

CEO Biometric Ventures

Vojta Diatka

Vojta is a seasoned product manager with experience managing products for millions of users (Seznam.cz), leading product teams in startups and helping startups thrive with product consulting.
Veronika Kovácsová

Veronika Kovácsová

Group Marketing Lead Accace

Veronika Kovácsová

Veronika holds the role of Global Marketing Lead at Accace, where she shapes lead generation across markets. With a strong foundation in global B2B marketing, she brings a strategic mindset and creative edge to every project. Her experience spans marketing strategy, copywriting, and design, allowing her to guide start-ups across the key areas that drive growth, from brand positioning and messaging to visual identity and campaign execution.
Simona Klučiarová

Simona Klučiarová

Senior Associate Accace Slovakia

Simona Klučiarová

Simona is an attorney-at-law who has been gaining practical experience in law firms since 2009. During her work in advocacy, she gained experience in the field of civil, commercial, administrative and criminal law. Currently she specializes in commercial law and bankruptcy, labor law, data protection, IP&IT law, real-estate, as well as civil and criminal proceedings.
Richard Kakaš

Richard Kakaš

DevOps Specialist Raiffeisen Bank International

Richard Kakaš

Richard is DevOps Specialist at Raiffeisen Bank International and CTO at Silvergon. In addition to 5 years’ experience with cloud solutions and their automated deployments, he also has lots of experience with full-stack software development. At RBI he is a part of the team developing chatbot solutions for millions of clients.
Laura Ștefan

Laura Ștefan

Managing Director & Partner Accace Romania

Laura Ștefan

Laura has more than 20 years of experience. She has helped grow Accace's services for both new and established businesses in Romania. Laura´s a true finance storyteller and visionary mentor. Her skills are not just about numbers but about crafting narratives that guide businesses towards new horizons and greater success.
Petr Neškrábal

Petr Neškrábal

Partner & Managing Director - Advisory and Legal | Accace CZ

Petr Neškrábal

Petr joined Accace in 2010, after 10 years of experience at Deloitte. He manages teams providing tax and transaction advisory as well as legal advisory services provided through their law firm Accace Legal. Petr holds a LL.M. degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, is a registered tax advisor in the Czech Republic, and a member of the Association of Certified Accountants.
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The Program

Autumn Accelerator's lectures that can directly impact the future of your start-up.

How to evaluate your idea, succeed with your startup, and build (pre)seed pitch deck

Why now? How to build a team investors are looking for?

Basics of Fundraising & What is VC

Valuation, dilution, how much to ask from the investor, term sheet

How to reach the MVP/PMF

Market

Mid-Demo Day: a pitching training

Go-To-Market

Business model

AI in start-ups

Founders sharing the experience - a discussion

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