Accelerator – Vertical Accelerator

CONTENTshift-Accelerator

Pushing the boundaries of publishing

The CONTENTshift accelerator is an international funding programme geared towards startups active in the content industry. Our goal is to make use of the synergies between startups and established companies by bringing them together and firmly anchoring innovations in the industry.

We are looking for startups with business models that are related to the content and book industry and/or can be applied to the content and book industry. Our former participants‘
business models range from AI-based manuscript software, scientific collaboration tools, interactive colouring books for children, eLearning apps and much more.

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Intake: Batch

Duration: 3 months

Format: Hybrid

Operated by: non-profit association

Time spent

Access to

Primarily provides

Coaching

Mentors

Co-Creation

Funding Prize to Winner

Also provides

Events

Investor Network

About the startup

team

seed

mid-stage

scaleup

pre-seed

early-stage

growth

Founded: Yes

Financial Support: Zuschüsse/

Financial support size: individual

Innovation strategy: pull external

After graduation: larger network/ better Product/ Investment-Readiness/

Participation criteria:
1) Your business model can
be applied to the content industry
2) You and your team have a
solid product concept, already
founded
3) The financing of your company
is under €1 million and
your current turnover less
than €500,000

Keywords

Media Technology, Automatisation,
Value Chains,
Content Innovation, E-Commerce,
E-Learning, Publishing
Workflows, CRM,
Process Optimisation, Social
Enterprises

Technology

Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Blockchain, Automatisation,
Predictive Analytics,
Interactive Media, Social,
VR, Audio and other Media
Technologies

Use cases

Customer Relations between
publishing houses and readers,
Publishing Workflows,
E-Commerce, E-Reading and
Digitisation, E-Learning, User
Experience, Cross Media,
Metadata

TEAM

Stefanie Perk

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