Analysis

December 20, 2023

How not to get burned by an accelerator programme

Four tips that founders wished they knew before applying to an accelerator programme


Sadia Nowshin

5 min read

The Iris AI cofounders. Credit: Dan Taylor/MediaPunk.io.

When Marco Filippi, cofounder of shared vehicles app Volvero, was abruptly ejected from his accelerator’s Slack channel and denied the second tranche of the stipend he had been promised, his initial shock gave way to the realisation that he had missed a major red flag during the application process. 

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Björn Schimmöller, cofounder of iuvantium
Björn Schimmöller, cofounder and CEO of iuvantium
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Sadia Nowshin

Sadia Nowshin was a reporter at Sifted covering foodtech, biotech and startup life. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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