gBETA Grand Forks Program – United States

gBETA runs multiple times every year in cities across the United States. Up to five companies from a range of verticals are selected from a competitive applicant pool to participate in the free seven-week program. Participating companies receive:

• Individualized coaching and mentorship from the team of nationally ranked accelerator gener8tor on company growth and investor readiness
• Weekly “Lunch & Learns” and “Mentor Swarms”
• Investor and accelerator pitches
• $1M+ in deals and perks from vendors like IBM Cloud, Rackspace, Amazon, Paypal, Zendesk, Hubspot and Microsoft
• Ongoing post-program support and gener8tor community involvement and offerings

gBETA’s goal is that graduates will go on to participate in an investment accelerator or raise a seed round.

Benefits

• Through one-on-one interaction with their program director, mentors and investors, program participants gain valuable personalized insights that can be applied to their business strategy. Program focus areas include gaining an entrepreneurial mindset, validating the company, growing customer traction, and preparing for investor pitches.
• Benefits include:
  • Additional media attention, which leads to additional support from community and business leaders
  • Access to gener8tor’s robust national network of thousands of fellow entrepreneurs, mentors and investors, and warm introductions to those most relevant to your business
  • Lifetime membership access to GAN (Global Accelerator Network)
  • $1M + in deals and perks from vendors like IBM Cloud, Rackspace, Amazon, PayPal, Zendesk and Microsoft
  • Membership in gener8tor’s startup community of thousands of startup founders, with access to gener8tor’s network, events and resources for the lifetime of your business

Eligibility Criteria for gBETA Grand Forks

• You’re based in North Dakota
  • gBETA Grand Forks is an accelerator for early-stage companies with local roots in North Dakota.
• You’re Committed
  • While they don’t expect you to be full-time on your business yet, programming is about a five-hour commitment each week, and they expect that you will be spending additional time working on your business each week outside of the program.
• You’re Ready to Grow
  • gBETA companies range from “I have an idea” to “I have significant revenue.” Although most gBETA companies are post-product, pre-scale, as long as you are ready to make use of coaching on customer growth and investor readiness, mentor meetings, and investor and accelerator pitches, they’re ready for you!

For more information, visit gener8tor.