ACCELERATOR FOR AI & MACHINE LEARNING STARTUPS
Our acceleration program ELEVATE helps you to validate your business idea, gain traction and gets you ready for your first customers and investors. ELEVATE combines the expertise of validating ideas with the execution power in the fields of IT-Development and Growth Marketing.
Deadline for applications: October 6th 2019
OUR OFFER:
The most critical resource for startups is often not only money, but talent.
This is why we provide our ELEVATE startups with a dedicated IT developer and a dedicated Growth Marketer from our team to create the product and work on getting traction together. We help you grow your network and gain first customers. Our goal is to create an environment that lets you focus on talking to customers and building a product reaching market fit.
Hands-on Execution
A dedicated IT Developer & a dedicated Growth Marketer embedded in your team. Design and CI support. 1:1 coaching & mentoring by international experts and entrepreneurs. Adding up to 350h of support for your start-up!
Network
Contacts to corporates in your field, first customers, investors, mentors & alumni. Plus, potential support by university research teams.
Bootcamps
5 bootcamps providing you with the most critical founder know-how on your way to product-market-fit. Our bootcamps are facilitated by internal and external experts in their fields.
Funding
5,000€ for initial expenses, so you don’t have to worry about travel costs or first experiments & a potential follow-up grant of 22.500€
Perks
Resource support by our partners – check them out in the section “Partner Perks” below.
Office Space
Office space @weXelerate, CEE’s biggest innovation hub.
PARTNER PERKS:
$3,000 in Cloud and Firebase Credits
$5,000 in Amazon Web Services Promotional Credit
$25.000 in infrastructure credit and all the benefits of the startup community
Up to $120.000 in IBM Cloud credits
soft landing partner in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area
WHAT OUR ALUMNI THINK:
David Coates, CEO, Chooter
“ELEVATE is structured to make sure that you progress through each of the stages, that you know where you are at each stage and that you come out of the program a much more complete business”
Pallavi Gupta, Co-Founder, Espresso Labs
“Understanding the people is very important and that’s where ELEVATE helped us the most. Understanding what our clients need and how to tweak the product, what is the perfect mixture we need to have in the product & how we can make it valuable, specifically for the European market”
David Turewicz, CEO, Eastcode
“It was great that you have so many different mentors you can rely on, who you can ask about different things, who help you in evaluating every little part about your business”
Work with amazing Mentors & Coaches like...
Susann Fischer
David Pichsenmeister
Eva Arh
Greg Leuch
Elevate Partners
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