START UP Founderships is an intensive six-month business pre-accelerator 1 for new and recent graduates with ambitious, early-stage business opportunities.
Adapted to your individual needs, this valuable programme offers exclusive benefits including coaching and mentoring, skills development, access to influential partnerships, a living stipend of £7,500 and equity-free grant funding up to £10,000 to drive business development. It will help you:
• solve big problems for big markets
• become a resilient leader
• develop a network of experienced and trusted connections
• gain market entry, investment and/or successful application to leading UK business accelerators2
Open to the Class of 2022 and recent graduates (up to 2 years) who are ready to start working on a business full-time, the next cohort will take place from September 2022 through to February 2023, with an initial round of online workshops and video pitches in June-July 2022.
Unique to Newcastle University, this fantastic opportunity does not come around often.
• Applications open on Monday 25 April 2022 at 09:00 GMT
• Applications close on Sunday 22 May at 23:45 GMT
To learn more or ask questions, visit: https://bit.ly/35Trp2x
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This will be the seventh START UP Founderships cohort. Through the six previous cohorts, 21 founders of 30 businesses have raised over £22M in funding, generated over £54M in turnover and created 199 jobs3. Many progressed onto competitive accelerator programmes, and one appeared on Dragon’s Den in both the UK and Germany. Read more about these businesses.
1 A business pre-accelerator is a programme for early-stage start-ups i.e., business opportunities that are in development or have just launched. They are designed to help you establish your business.
2A business accelerator is a programme for seed-stage start-ups i.e., established businesses. They are designed to help you raise investment and scale-up your business venture.
3HE-BCI Survey 2019-2020