Deadline: October 15, 2025
Applications are open for the m+a Accelerator Program 2025. The eight-week schedule of lectures, workshops and mentoring sessions is designed to help founders raise their first external funding.
Women, minorities, and other overlooked groups receive disproportionately less funding. As a group of angel investors, mentors + angels is committed to changing this sad fact. After years of informally mentoring founders, they realized that the best way to correct this injustice, was to give traditionally overlooked founders the tools that they needed to raise the funds that their businesses deserve. In 2023, they launched the m+a Accelerator Program to help founders in this way.
Lectures, workshops, networking and 1:1 mentoring sessions will move your team along the path to successful funding. Weekly sessions will cover topics including:
- The Entrepreneurial Journey
- Business Model Creation
- Leadershp & Team Building
- Understanding Investors
- Financial Planning
- Valuations & Cap Tables
- Go To Market & Selling
- Legal Considerations (incl. IP)
- Using Technology In Your Business
- Corporate Governance and Boards
- The Fund Raising Process
- Creating the Perfect Pitch Deck
Benefits
- Learn from successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives and experienced angel investors
- Comprehensive curriculum covering all aspects of fundraising, from pitch deck to term sheet
- Gain advice, encouragement and moral support from mentors as well as your fellow founders
- Put your company in the best possible position to get funded
Eligibility
- Open to all overlooked or under-represented founders.
- Priority will be given to teams featuring females, minorities, veterans, economically disadvantaged or other overlooked groups.
Application
Cohort 3 will start in January 2026 (but with some initial sessions in December). The final day that you can apply is October 15, 2025, and successful companies will be notified by November 17, 2025. They anticipate the end date of the program will end with Demo Day on February 27, 2025.
For more information, visit m+a Accelerator Program.
