Fintech Accelerator Targeted Trainings to reach your goal(s)
Fundraising
In this cohort, you will identify the funding source best suited to you. Define and refine your fundraising strategy. Build target lists, approaches and drive engagement for your capital requirements. Set up a fundraising structure based on the stage of your business and the sector you operate in. This cohort will get you going on investor research, identification, marketing, and moving towards your funding goal.
Product and Development
This cohort is designed to help you tap into the power of your product. It begins with a product roadmap audit and product review. Helping you build further with tools live customer and market discovery. Ready-made and third-party tools for faster development and deployment of MVP and tests. Problem and prioritization, deciding what, why, and when to build. Sprint planning and execution. Forming a hypothesis and testing it, circling back, and making updates to roadmap and plans.
Marketing and Growth
This cohort is designed to help you launch and grow. It is about sales enablement and lead generation. Learn what marketing tactics work for fintech products, tools, and tactics to identify target customers. Creating compelling content and messaging. How to create PR buzz around your brand. And through it all how to keep moving along the LTV curve. After this cohort, you will go to market more informed and prepared.
Sale & Business Development
This cohort is designed to get you focused on a clear sales strategy. It starts with identifying your target customer that offers revenue generation opportunities. Goes into a study of the competitive landscape, product value prop, pricing, and sales tactics and strategies.
It is designed to help you sell in a competitive market via differentiation and value add. Sale is key to revenue generation and this training helps you designed a path that gets you there.
Legal and Compliance
Fintech is a regulated industry, where prevention is better and cure. The best way to do that is to be informed and proactive. This cohort familiarizes you with rules and regulations that pertain to your startup. This cohort is designed to acquaint you with agencies and their role, potential enforcement actions, and routes to compliance. It will also touch upon licensing requirements and laws for your financial sector. This overview is to help you design compliant products and marketing.
Female Founders
This cohort is designed to get female founders connected with funds focused on female founders. Every week expect to meet and pitch a new venture fund. Gather feedback, refine and pitch again the following week. To be part of this cohort you need to have a well-put-together pitch and business. It is best to first attend other cohorts listed here, especially the fundraising cohort, and then sign up to pitch directly to VCs for six weeks straight. But if you think you are ready to get in front of investors and pitch by all means sign up and let us know.
Strategic Partnerships
This cohort offers you the opportunity to meet and discuss partnerships with payment networks like Visa, MasterCard, American Express. Large banks like Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase. It offers you meetings directly with leaders at the incumbent financial services companies without having to go through the tedious process of reaching out. If you are keen on business partnerships then this cohort offers you the best chance to get in front of decision-makers. Partnership companies will be chosen based on the composition of the cohort, to ensure a good match and outcomes.
Based on your immediate business goals choose a cohort from the list above. Read program details.