In partnership with Alberta Innovates, Alberta’s pre-accelerator is being developed and delivered by Platform Calgary and Innovate Edmonton, with support from partners and organizations in all eight regions across the Alberta Innovation Network.
Alberta’s pre-accelerator is a merit-based program series supporting founders and their start-ups anywhere in Alberta. Divided into three phases, the program will launch later this year and is an unprecedented realignment, harmonization and expansion of start-up support in the province.
Requirements
- Your product/business model is tech-enabled, meaning through technology it’s highly scalable and can grow beyond your own personal expertise, availability and geographic location.
- You’ve started your customer discovery process - be it through interviews, surveys or other tools.
- You can demonstrate value and desirability of the solution from customer discovery data.
- You are committed to learning, being coached, and sharing your progress with peers.
- You want to do business in Alberta and scale your startup.
The Approach
Alberta’s pre-accelerator will deliver business supports and advice to qualified founders, entrepreneurs and start-ups in the early stages of development, preparing them to advance to the scale-up and acceleration stages. With a focus on equity, diversity and inclusion, Alberta’s pre-accelerator will feature coaches and mentors who reflect the diversity of Alberta’s population, and will ensure advocacy and support for previously underserved tech-founder communities
You will learn how to…
- Develop a solution based on customer input.
- Identify high potential customer segments.
- Create an initial MVP to test the market.
- Validate your business model assumptions: customer segment, value proposition, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, etc.
- Identify impact metrics to track your progress.
- Hit the ground running or pivot your idea into something greater.
Dates.
First cohort run January 10 – February 11, 2022, Wednesdays 6-8 PM (Online sessions).
Submit your application by December 1, 2021.
PHASE ONE
Solution prototyping, ideal customer profiling, MVP creation and validating business models.
PHASE TWO
Pitch development to get to first sale, and forming teams to execute.
PHASE THREE
Establishing testing methodology for product-market fit, polishing the pitch, investment readiness basics, developing intellectual property strategy and qualifying for scale-up accelerators.
For More Information: Alberta’s Pre-accelerator Program