Accelerator – General Accelerator

Founders Foundation Accelerator

We empower the next generation of B2B Tech Founders.

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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Intake: Batch

Duration: 20 weeks

Format: Hybrid

Operated by: private company

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Time spent

Access to

Primarily provides

Office Space

Coaching

Mentors

friendly Intros

Also provides

Partner Deals

Events

Community

Investor Network

About the startup

team

seed

mid-stage

scaleup

pre-seed

early-stage

growth

Founded: No

Financial Support: No financial support

Innovation strategy: push internal

After graduation: larger network/ 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.

Keywords

Productivity, Sustainability, Industrial Tech, AI, SaaS

Technology

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics,
Processing Technologies, Sensors,
Data Analytics, Software

Use cases

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“.

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