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Spring ACCELERATOR

Fuel for your start-up served here. Build up on your idea or MVP and move your early-stage start-up to a next level business with lectures, mentoring and investment opportunity.
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About the Program

Spring Accelerator is a 2-month program tailored to help pre-seed start-ups by providing investment and support, further developing their solutions, and their potential of success on the market. The program provides:
  • know-how through lectures focused on understanding VC, market dynamics, the importance of scaling, start-up finance, Go-To-Market strategies, etc.,
  • online discussions with experts, specifically addressing the start-ups´ solutions, their proper validation and challenges founders face at that moment,
  • mentoring to answer the questions and offer new perspectives on how to grow further with a start-up.
Online/Hybrid
Approx. 2 months
Early-stage

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.

Funding

AceON provides its own funding for early-stage start-ups. Stay tuned for more information about the investment when applications open.

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.

WHAT SOLUTIONS ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Spring Accelerator 2025 is an industry-agnostic program. What does it mean? We warmly welcome start-ups from all industries, such as Enterprise tech, biotech, healthtech, fintech, hospitality, edtech, and more.

AceON looks for start-ups developing applications, platforms, software, marketplaces, online tools, but not hardware solutions. During the selection process for the program, we place strong emphasis on addressing significant customer problems, the scalability of the solution, and the strength of the team.

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. We also accept start-ups in idea stage if we see a big potential in the solution.

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.

APPLY Today

Get your business off the ground. Join AceON Spring Accelerator and get hands-on support from community of industry experts, entrepreneurs, and partners.
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Spring Accelerator 2024
Participating in the AceON Spring Accelerator was a game-changer for our startup Jusi. The program's intensive webinars and personalized mentorship helped us refine our business model and accelerate our growth. The support from experienced mentors and access to a vast network of industry professionals were invaluable. By the end of the program, we had a solid MVP and were ready to enter the market with confidence. Ready to investment stage!

Konstantin Doronin

CEO
Jusi
Spring Accelerator 2024
As a startup that recently participated in the AceON Accelerator program, I can confidently say that our experience was exceptional! AceON provided an incredible ecosystem of knowledge and support. The speaker sessions were truly invaluable, covering a wide range of topics from fundraising to growing the startup! The practical advice from mentors was actionable and tailored to our specific needs. Moreover, the networking opportunities were abundant, allowing us to connect with other startups and industry experts. From day one until the Demo Day, AceON fostered an environment of growth, learning, and collaboration!

Phi Long Bui

Co-CEO
Swayme
Spring Accelerator 2024
AceON start-up accelerator was perfect for Flyer’s Guard. The remote evening sessions fit my schedule, and I learned a lot without feeling overwhelmed. The contacts I made turned into valuable business partnerships. Plus, their free consultations after the program are a great bonus. Highly recommend!

Michal Roth

CEO
Flyer´s Guard

The Program

We are currently preparing the program for Spring Accelerator 2025. In the meantime, take a look at the lectures we held with start ups during Autumn Accelerator 2024. We’re excited to bring you even better experience in our upcoming batch.

What is venture capital?

The lecture answers questions like: What is VC? How does investor think about the investment? What are the criteria investors use to evaluate a start-up team? How can a start-up showcase traction in pre-seed and how to have fast and steady growth?

How to build your pre-seed round pitch deck & how to succeed with your start-up?

Listen to the ultimate tips for a pitch deck that will increase the interest of investors, and learn what to do to succeed with your start-up.

Basics of fundraising

Prepare yourself for fundraising, get to know the types of investors, learn how to approach them, and find out what due diligence, equity, debt/SAFE, and more are.

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

All the essential know-how and metrics every start-up founder needs to understand.

Validation

Confirm that a business idea, product, or service meets the needs and expectations of the target market, and learn key aspects of validation.

Market

Market, its size and growth, competition and defendable factors.

Go-To-Market

Key aspects of Go-To-Market strategy and what you shouldn´t overlook when entering the market. Discover more about MVP development, GTM budget and when to set the launch date. Discussion with successful founders who share their experience with going to the market.

Business model

Study the customer and value proposition to develop a product that will bring real value. Plan and develop a business model to achieve product-market fit.

Sales tips & techniques

Learn how to sell your product efficiently and create a repeatable sales process to grow your business quickly and steadily.

Mid-Demo Day: pitch training

Selected teams get an opportunity to try to pitch their solutions in front of an online jury and receive feedback on their pitch deck.

The finale: Demo Day

Approximately 10 of the best teams from the program will have the opportunity to pitch their startups to an audience and compete for one of two €40K investments from AceON. Demo Day will take place in Bratislava, Slovakia, on November 28th.

Partners

AccaceZAKAwiboCloudtalkBlockwise labsProneaITKey MediaBiometrics VenturesStorytelling Studio by The Recursiveproduct way

FAQ

What is the difference between Spring and Autumn Accelerator programs?
My start-up is just an idea. Am I too early to apply in Spring or Autumn Accelerator?
Where do the AceON programs happen? Is it online?
Do you invest in start-ups?
What type of start- up can apply?
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