Whether you are bootstrapping your company or seeking venture capital, our accelerator program is designed to give your startup an unfair advantage in the region by providing you with accelerated access to capital, connections, and customers.
STARTUP RECEIVEs
$20,000 IN SEED CAPITAL
0% equity taken.
UP TO $15,000 IN CASH PRIZES
at our grand finale pitch event, Capital One presents $15,000 in cash awards to the startups.
3 OF THE MOST PRODUCTIVE MONTHS OF YOUR LIFE
filled with guided workshops led by industry experts in leadership, search engine optimization, branding, lead generation, investment thesis, etc.
LAUNCH DAYS IN RICHMOND, NORFOLK, CHARLOTTESVILLE, AND RALEIGH
designed to demonstrate your startup to local investors, potential customers and peers.
FREE COWORKING SPACE
3 months during the program and 3 months after the program so you can continue to be surrounded by fellow startups.
0% equity taken.
UP TO $15,000 IN CASH PRIZES
at our grand finale pitch event, Capital One presents $15,000 in cash awards to the startups.
3 OF THE MOST PRODUCTIVE MONTHS OF YOUR LIFE
filled with guided workshops led by industry experts in leadership, search engine optimization, branding, lead generation, investment thesis, etc.
LAUNCH DAYS IN RICHMOND, NORFOLK, CHARLOTTESVILLE, AND RALEIGH
designed to demonstrate your startup to local investors, potential customers and peers.
FREE COWORKING SPACE
3 months during the program and 3 months after the program so you can continue to be surrounded by fellow startups.
STARTUP REQUIREMENTS
We'll provide you with the best resources our region can offer, but if you are chosen as one of our companies, we have a few guidelines that will help us grow the strongest companies:
- Your company will consist of 2 or more people.
- Your company should be a technology driven service or product in the innovative web, mobile application, service, SaaS and product solution companies with particular interest in consumer marketing and analysis, education, enterprise, healthcare, security and manufacturing sectors, but we are open to considering teams in other industries if you have a really excellent idea.
- Your team must be willing to have at least 2 founders relocate or currently live in Richmond for the duration of the 13 week session. We do not require that you stay in Richmond once you complete the program, but you might be surprised by how easy it is to fall in love with our city.
- Our focus is on scalable technology driven corporations (we are not currently accepting non profit organizations for acceleration, but we will consider B corporations)
