Now, let’s be honest, we talk a lot about being an award-winning accelerator VC and how we have a track record of supporting startups to raise capital and access investors. But what is that track record? While we can’t give away all of our secrets about how we do it, we can tell you our results in numbers and let you know a few of the ways we help connect investors and startups.
Read MoreAccelerating Asia, a leading early-stage accelerator VC fund, announced it is increasing its overall investment amount, with startups now eligible to receive up to US$250,000 up from US$150,000. Since 2019, the VC has accelerated 36 high growth, pre-series A startups in the region’s fastest-growing digital economies.
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It seems like every week a new accelerator program is opening, yet if you ask around just as many seem to be closing their doors. Considering all of this and contemplating our career moves after muru-D, Amra Naidoo (who ran Operations and Marketing for muru-D) and I realized that there is a “third way” to operate a startup accelerator, and together we decided that we’re going to run with it…
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Do you have previous marketing, communications and PR experience? Are you a creative and out-of-the-box thinker? Comfortable working on big picture strategies and ideas, but also prepared to get your hands dirty? Sounds like you're the one for us! We're hiring for a Marketing Manager!
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As we go through the regional Roadshow for Accelerating Asia, promoting the program, I thought it would be useful to provide a few tips on pitching.
At each of our Roadshow events we have a pitch competition, with the winner gaining automatic entry to the second round of the application process. Since our program typically receives well over 200 applications this can mean the startup gets a pass to leap past at least 150 other applications!
The pitch format is really basic: A 1-minute pitch with no slides. Here’s some tips on how to ace your pitch.
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Accelerating Asia is unique in the region. As the only independent accelerator program we have the freedom to design a program tailored to maximizing the chances that our startups will succeed. How? This is how we do it.
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As we gear up for cohort 1 of Accelerating Asia, I am getting asked “What profile of startups are you looking for?”. It’s a good question since we don’t have a vertical focus and our investment terms are very flexible in term of valuation (we use a SAFE). At a top level we are open to any awesome founders solving big problems, but here are the 7 main things that we look for.
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