About program
It’s a 3 months long on-site mentors driven program taking place in either Tallinn (Estonia), Riga (Latvia) or Vilnius (Lithuania). Accelerator is primarily sales and scaling focused with a fundraising component helping teams be in a position to raise the next funding round within 6 months. As of this year we have four verticals – B2B SaaS, Fintech, Cyber, and Sustainability.
Coaches & mentors
Funding
B2B Sales Curriculum
Co-working space
Fundraising
Family
Awesome Mentors
Ginny Radmall
Fil Guijarro
Dan Toma
Patrick Campbell
Partners
Amazon Web Services
SendGrid
EIT Digital
What are we looking for
Large market ambition
Your team is ready to disrupt a market usually no smaller than 1 Billion USD, so reaching 10% market share will allow your team to be a 100 Million USD company.
Product Tech scalability
Your product has the capability and vision to keep growing as customers leverage your product functionalities and it has been designed and built in a way that it can scale.
Working prototype and dedication
Commitment is more than words, it is not waiting for that monthly salary out of investors. You and your team have already been working full time and committed to make this happen, and have already an MVP in place.
An ambitious team that has what it takes
A full time dedicated team, with a vision in mind, the passion to survive the hard entrepreneurship life and a balanced skill-set among co-founders. We avoid to take single-founder teams in accelerator with very few exceptions.
Early traction
There are way too many solutions out there looking for a problem. There is no better proof of product-market fit than your solution having customers (pilots, free, paid) and providing your team with valuable feedback.
Investable cap table
We believe no early investor should own more than 10% of the company. Not only that but we believe this is the only way for future investors to invest in your company. Unfortunately we see many teams with non-investable cap tables and have provided help to many managing that upon entering the accelerator.
As they say: If you want to go fast - go alone; if you want to go far - go with team. With SWG team you go far and fast! Within three months you get so much knowledge, grow your network and find friends for life. Best place to grow your company!
Once entering a Startup Wise Guys accelerator, you literally feel that there is another person in your team. A teammate with various skills having many years of experience in sales, marketing, and fundraising. Joining the 3-months program was one of the smartest decisions we've ever done!
Biggest take-away from the program was the discipline and making progress structurally. I would definitely recommend Startup Wise Guys as they are to-date the most experienced B2B accelerator in the Baltics, Scandinavia & the CIS region for sure.
We learnt, how to really lead the business, build the tech-side, and build the team. Accelerator is a great way to learn something new both from mentors and other startups. It’s a fun period in life to go through and you don’t learn these things in school.
I’ve seen too many startup founders, who are smart people with great product, but have no idea, how to turn that into business. This is where Startup Wise Guys can really help you!
The network of investors & businesses we were connected to, it’s amazing, we are still driving on that. And access to capital.. It’s all there. If you wanna scale, this is the place!