Apply for FZ Accelerator Program

Here you’ll build traction through consistency in one channel, and get your ducks in a row for your seed round.

• Traction: Get to one consistent channel for customer acquisition
• Storytelling: Clearly and succinctly convey trust, credibility, and data
• Funding Prep: Get your materials, pipeline, and processes in line for funding

What to Expect?

• Virtual ASYNC Learning
  • Initiate the activities on your own
• Results Tracking
  • You’ll be pushed to produce results
• Synchronous Office Hours
  • Focused mentor sessions to course correct
• Bootcamps/ Workshops
  • Deep dives for traction, and funding outcomes
• VC / Angel Meetings
  • Get coached in landing investors.
• Community Collaborations
  • Tap the community to stay motivated
• 6 weeks of high tempo momentum building
  • Traction
    • Goal setting
    • Channel testing
    • Success tracking
    • Projecting financials
  • Storytelling
    • Describing the problem
    • Articulating the opportunity
    • Sharing your why
    • Bridging trust
  • Funding
    • Finding Investors
    • Finding Connectors
    • Valuation & investment vehicles
    • Dataroom prep
    • Pitch deck development
    • Communication templates
    • Pitching Investors
    • Investor CRM

Criteria

• They don’t promise funding to the teams participating, but they invite startups that show momentum, a strong business model, and buy-in from their ICP to apply for funding, and they teach all teams on how to be fundable, and how to approach VCs.
• They do group mentoring, and they also do weekly 1-on-1s.
• They will accept up to 75 teams a year, and they take in cohorts in rolling batches of 3-5 teams.
• They look for teams who have validated the market, are talking to their ideal customer, and are looking to gain traction, momentum, and prep for funding. Pretty hard to do without an idea.

For more information, visit FounderZero.