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The Colorintech Founders Programme
Europe’s first startup accelerator for underrepresented founders, now new and improved!
Europe’s first startup accelerator for underrepresented founders, now new and improved!
Taking place over 2 days on the 8th and 9th March, we'll develop your leadership skills and character.
We'll be covering:
- What makes an incredible startup leader?
- Putting yourself forward into a position of trust as a startup leader.
- Your communication and the psychology behind building incredible relationships.
- How your leadership impacts your "personal brand" and how your personal brand impacts your startup.
- Practical presenting, public speaking, and networking.
- AI and the future of business: How to utilise it to focus on what you're good at.
- Talks from inspirational underrepresented founders and speakers.
Taking place over 2 days on the 15th and 16th March, we'll develop your sales and marketing pipeline practically to build your revenue, tailored to each individual and types of business.
We'll be covering:
- Mapping out stakeholders and positioning your product to them.
- Getting the narrative right and making it as useful as possible to improve leads and conversions.
- Building your funnel (practically).
- Practical B2B and B2C focused workshops (where relevant for you) - everything from scraping lists, to doing the selling, or building the brand.
- Leveraging AI tools to reduce time and improve impact in your customer development process.
- The numbers: What do "healthy" financial numbers, that are at the level investors needs to see, actually mean and look like. How do you conduct your planning and early customer acquisition to reflect this?
- Talks from inspirational underrepresented founders and speakers.
Taking place over 2 days on the 22nd and 23rd March, we'll develop your investment knowledge and investor relations skills.
We'll be covering:
- An introduction to all things “Startup Investor”: What investors care about at this stage.
- How raising from Angels actually works; how raising from VCs actually works (in their own words).
- The different kinds of pitch decks you need, when, why, and how they differ.
- The UK's landscape currently and how this impacts your fundraise. How to use this as an opportunity and overcome the challenges this poses.
- LOTS of pitching practice and feedback.
- Talks from inspirational underrepresented founders and speakers.
Over the next few weeks, we'll have 2 online sessions per week, in the evenings, to expand on what we learned during our in-person days.
This will include:
- Online sessions on greater pitching, fundraising logistics, the operational elements behind fundraising and preparing for investment, some team building, more skills building, and more.
- Talks from inspiring successful underrepresented founders.
- 1:1 Coaching sessions.
- Legal and Investor Office Hours.
- Support while you do your own work, focusing on building your income and investor network on your own during the course of the programme.
- A pitching practice day to prepare for the showcase.
Experts who advise our founder network and who coach our accelerator startups
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Founder of TractionPad
Author and Sales Expert
Co-founder and CEO of MOONHUB
Founder of The L Factor
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General Partner & Co-founder, 10x10
Founder of In Search of Leaders
Coach at Relyte
Co-founder of ZIM
Branding Specialist at 478Studios
Head of Startup Marketing at AWS
Investor at Backfuture VC
Investor at Cooper Family Office
Co-founder at Maji.io
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CEO & Founder at Sprive
Principle at PROFounders Capital
Investor at 1818VC
Co-Founder at Loud Parade
Advisor and Angel Investor
Head of Marketing and Business Development at Extend Ventures
Co-founder at IfWeRaise
CEO at navreo.ai
Investor at Greenhouse Capital
Mountside Ventures
VC Investor at AlbionVC
CEO & Founder of Niyo Group
Sprintdoctor.io
Founder at Slinger
The Colorintech Founders Accelerator Programme is a 12-week programme that focuses on 3 core themes:
1. Leadership
2. Revenue
3. Investment
Our updated programme is a practical, workshop-focused, growth oriented solution for dedicated underrepresented founders who have proven there is a real need for their solution. Culminating in a showcase to investors, experienced founders, and other key players, we have the perfect opportunity to help an early-stage startup succeed. And, our programme is free!
The 2024 edition is our 6th accelerator program, preparing pre-seed and seed-stage tech startups with the tools for investment, the customer acquisition strategy, and the improved network they need to increase their chances of success.
You identify as belonging to an ethnic minority background and are in any co-founding role in your startup.
You have at least an MVP-stage product that has demonstrable traction, even if it is unpaid traction, that uses technology to solve a real problem.
You have an MVP and your startup is at Pre-Seed or Seed stage, and you have raised no more than $300K (or equivalent) in funding, and feel ready to raise more soon.
You have proven commitment to your startup that shows your enthusiasm and work ethic.
You can commit to the 12-week programme and building your business while on the programme (6 hours a week minimum) including 6 full days in-person in London.
You are based in the UK and speak English.
This programme is not for you if:
You have raised more than £300k
You are not ready to dedicate to being full-time on your business (you don’t need to have done this by the time of the programme or during, but should plan to soon).
You have not finished an MVP with some traction.
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