Accelerace is a pre-seed investor and startup accelerator operating in the Nordic region. Since 2008, Accelerace has supported over 1000 startups and scaleups, including university students, c-level executives, first-time entrepreneurs, and others.

Accelerace

Since 2008, Accelerace has supported 1000+ Danish and international startups, including Trustpilot and Templafy and have made 120+ pre-traction investments. 
Our aim to help as many startups succeed as possible - by investing, making our platform available for free and offer mentoring from other successful founders.

In Accelerace we stand on the shoulders of everyone we have had come through, and we use that knowledge to pass on to the next generation of startups.

Accelerace is also responsible for the management of NOME (Nordic Mentor Network for Entrepreneurship), an elite mentoring program for Nordic life science startups, and are partners on programmes: Beyond Beta, VITA and Beyond.

TeleSkin

Bownty

Coinify

Graduateland

Actimo

Seneco

Sorbisense

Sproom

Færch Foundation

Symbion

Vaekstfonden

People Ventures

inQvation

How close are you to an investment from us?

Make sure you take our investment readiness test (link in comments) - who knows, perhaps you will be the next portfolio company to be integrated into this crazy (and awesome) family of Accelerace.

Pre-seed funding, mentoring by successful founders, camps full of deep dives and socialising, investor days, fun and warmth - what's not to like? 🤷♂️ 

Come on, you know what to do ⬇️

We're back from our vacationing around Europe, ready to receive your pitch deck!

Are you in need of pre-seed investment, investors who have experience from more than 1000 early stage startups, and who are experts at propelling you towards the next round? Look no further than these people ⬇️

Get in touch and perhaps you'll be part of our portfolio community before long 🤞 https://lnkd.in/dq5ZNwxi

Our portfolio company, Bikekey, have never been afraid to listen, learn and change 🚲

Now, you should listen and learn from René Nørgård, who gives his best advice to new founders, beginning on the journey that they themselves began in 2021.

Is this something you can recognise?

#StartuptoStartup #Startuptips

Our undercover investor, "Lucy", has been hired as a design consultant for Tinyfarms. But, there might be some issue understanding the product 🫣

Do you like the original idea, or perhaps some of Lucy's suggestions? 😂

#UndercoverInvestor #startups

How do you attract awesome people to your #startup, even if you can't afford their wages?

Stine Kalmer Jørgensen from Dreamplan believe a little out of the box thinking can be the way to secure those critical skills from an early stage 🧠

Any other ideas that new founders could benefit from?

#StartuptoStartup #startuptips

Are Bikekey really doing as well as they are telling us? 😉 

We took an internship with the #startup to get a better understanding of how they were doing, and were really put to hard work by Anders Holm Nielsen 🥵

#UndercoverInvestor

You can't control the timing, but you can control your process.

myKin.ai and its founders had an uphill battle at the beginning of their journey. Yngvi Karlson has an advice to future founders, based on the most difficult time in the company's journey.

Have you gone through something similar, and what was your experience?

Thank you to Yngvi for sharing, so we can all improve together 👏

#startuptostartup #startuptips

How do you help people gain financial independence? 

That's what we're trying to learn, by going undercover at our portfolio company Dreamplan 🕵️♀️ 

Dreamplan helps people with their financial planning and gives advice to obtain their financial goals. But how do they get to be so good at it? Perhaps CEO, Stine Kalmer Jørgensen can help us figure it out.

#undercoverinvestor #startups

What is your number one advice for new founders? 🤔

We've asked many of the founders of our portfolio companies what they learned from their biggest challenges, and we're bringing that to you as a new series this summer.

What does founders with an ongoing journey say about the early process of #startups? First up is Pauli Minnaar from IDUN audio, about the everyday practicalities of running a company 👏

#startuptostartup #startuptips

We're going undercover! 🕵️♀️

We have been visited some of our portfolio companies, to gain some better insight to how they are doing. They usually say everything is fantastic, but can we believe that? 😳

The first company we're uncovering is myKin.ai with co-founder Kasper Juul welcoming "Becca", the new employee, to the company. Kin have allegedly created a personalised AI, that you can speak to and share your innermost thoughts with. Someone who will always be on your side and who knows who you are.

Sounds brilliant, right?

#investment #startups

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