Accelerator – General Accelerator
Founders Accelerator
Empower Entrepreneurs.
The Founders Foundation trains the
next generation of successful B2B tech
entrepreneurs and builds a sustainable
startup ecosystem in the heart of
the German Mittelstand. It was founded
2016 by the Bertelsmann Stiftung
as a non-profit org. and doesn’t take
equity from founders. The Accelerator
program is the spearhead of its modular-
based Education Model which
maps the entire startup lifecycle.
In the Accelerator program B2B tech
startup teams are supported in successfully
implementing their business
idea in the market. They profit from
serial entrepreneurs as their individual
mentors and enter into an extensive
network of alumni, Hidden Champions
and global market leaders from
the region. All these players come
together at the annual Hinterland of
Things tech conference.
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Office Space
Coaching
Mentors
friendly Intros
Bietet außerdem
Partner Deals
Events
Community
Investor Network
Über das Startup
team
seed
mid-stage
scaleup
pre-seed
early-stage
growth
Gegründet: No
Innovations-Strategie: push internal
Nach Abschluss: better Product/ more Customers/ Investment-Readiness/

The Accelerator is open to
complementary founding
teams that have achieved a
problem-solution fit with their
scalable B2B tech business
idea. Ideally, the teams already
have their own developer
on board and are preferably
connected to the OWL region.
Schlüsselbegriffe
Data, Mediatech,
Technologien
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics,
Processing Technologies, Sensors,
Data Analytics, Software
Anwendungsfälle
Backed by the strong players in
OWL, the Founders Foundation
Accelerator is the ideal environment
to develop ideas in all
possible use cases that are applicable
for the typical German
„Mittelstand“.
KONTAKTPERSON
Julia Gerner
Program Director
Julia.gerner@foundersfoundation.de
(+49) 177 3164039
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