The SHE Accelerator is for women with micro-small sized businesses, and 5 or more paid employees. This program is designed to support women to enter the formal economy, by scaling up businesses and preparing them for future growth and financing.
The Accelerator Landscape
Accelerators share a set of program characteristics that distinguish them from other forms of capacity development services. Specifically, they are time-limited programs that work with cohorts or “classes” of ventures to provide mentorship and training, with a special emphasis on connecting early stage ventures with investment.
The global accelerator landscape is growing and changing at a rapid pace. We conducted this research to identify accelerators around the world and to provide insight into what acceleration looks like in various geographies and contexts.
Access the directory below to identify accelerators based in various regions and sectors, or review our visualizations to learn more about their structure and focus.
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This list of accelerators has been compiled through web research to verify organizations that meet the criteria for inclusion and to collect basic information about their operations. Search for any keyword or filter by geography to explore this list.
(403 Accelerators found)
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SHE Investments Phnom Penh, Cambodia
SHE Accelerator Program
- Cambodia
- Sector Agnostic
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She Leads Africa Lagos, Nigeria
The High Growth Coaching Program is an exclusive opportunity to develop an action plan for your business with support from your own personal business coach and a community of women to keep you accountable. This is a digital program open to women led businesses across Nigeria.
- Nigeria
- Sector Agnostic
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Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield, United Kingdom
The AWRC Wellbeing Accelerator
The AWRC Wellbeing Accelerator is an R&D-focused programme that supports pre-revenue and early-stage companies* developing products or services with health and wellbeing applications that align with the AWRCs impact themes. The programme provides the accepted cohort with a range of valuable support to help them get their innovation closer to market and/or enter new markets.
- United Kingdom
- Health
- Grants
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Shell Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Shell Iniciativa Jovem
Implemented in Brazil in 2000, Shell Iniciativa Jovem is the Brazilian version of Shell's global program to encourage entrepreneurship called LiveWIRE. Present in 17 other countries, this initiative supports young entrepreneurs to develop sustainable businesses, promoting local economic development.
- 17 other countries
- Sector Agnostic
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Shell GameChanger Accelerator Golden, CO, United States
The Shell GameChanger Accelerator™ Powered by NREL (GCxN) provides promising cleantech start-ups with access to financial resources, state-of-the-art facilities, and world-class technical experts.
- United States
- Agriculture and Food
- Energy
- Environment
- Information and Communication Technology
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ShelterTech Ahmedabad, India
ShelterTech Accelerator is aimed at identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with solutions that can significantly disrupt or catalyse the gaps in the affordable housing sector.
- India
- Energy
- Housing and Community Development
- Any
- Equity
- Grants
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SigmaLabs Tel Aviv, Israel
SigmaLabs is part of Sarona partners eco-system. Sarona Partners is today the leading startup Ecosystem in Israel. It includes 5 co-working spaces (saronaspace.com), a venture capital fund (sarona.vc), Scale Up program (365x.io), Acceleration programs (sigmalabs.co) and Israel's leading tech-media (geektime.co.il).
- Israel
- Sector Agnostic
- Any
- Equity
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Silicon Couloir & Central Wyoming College Jackson, WY, United States
Start-Up Intensive
10 WEEKS. 3 DAYS PER WEEKS. OFFERED EVERY SPRING. An intensive entrepreneurship program designed to provide you with proven tools, frameworks and skills that winning companies utilize to launch successful business ideas. Get business expertise and support to build your toolkit and drive your action plan. This is a hands-on, experiential, practical course dedicated to working on and launching your business idea.
- United States
- Sector Agnostic
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting five countries of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), in a strategy of regional integration based on the development of productive corridors, among which is the Jesuit tourist corridor, a legacy shared by the five countries that developed between 1569-1773 and is still alive today. This corridor has 55 Jesuit heritage sites, 19 of them declared World Heritage by UNESCO.
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Paraguay
- Uruguay
- Travel, Hospitality, and Tourism
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Smart Impact Accelerator Mexico City, Mexico
Smart Impact is a launching platform for hardware and circular economy startups that use technology and the internet to create meaningful change.
- Mexico
- Agriculture and Food
- Energy
- Health
- Housing and Community Development
- AI, Machine Learning, and Blockchain
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Transportation and Mobility
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Social Enterprise Greenhouse Providence, RI, United States
SEG Accelerator
The SEG Accelerator is a 12-week blended learning platform that provides social entrepreneurs the tools, networks and resources to validate their idea, understand their customer, and formalize growth strategies from fundraising to social impact measurement. SEG offers three Accelerator cohorts annually: Impact, Health & Wellness and Food.
- United States
- Agriculture and Food
- Health
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SOSV Shanghai, China
ChinaAccelerator
Chinaccelerator is a mentorship-driven program assisting internet startups from around the world cross borders – from the world into China, and from China to the world.
- China
- Information and Communication Technology
- Any
- Equity
- Quasi-equity
- Grants
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South IT Park Accelerator Sokolova, Russia
IT South Park is the largest accelerator in the South of Russia, created at the initiative of the state to support entrepreneurs in business development.
- Russia
- Sector Agnostic
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SP Jain Institute of Management Research Center, Mumbai Mumbai, India
Start Your Business (SYB) Programme
Start Your Business (SYB) Programme is an entrepreneurial education programme that serves the needs of budding entrepreneurs who are keen to start a sustainable business. This programme assists participants in acquiring the knowledge, skills and attitude for realising their dream of becoming successful entrepreneurs.
- India
- Sector Agnostic
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SPACE-F Accelerator Bangkok, Thailand
SPACE-F is the first global FoodTech startup incubator and accelerator in Thailand, bringing together leading FoodTech startups and corporates through an innovative mentorship, network connection, and co-working program (no equity taken) - established through the cooperation of Thai Union Group, the National Innovation Agency, Mahidol University, and supported by industry leading corporates.
- Thailand
- Environment
- Health
- Other
- Equity
- Grants
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SPARK Accelerator Thailand
SPARK Accelerator supports high-potential Thai startups in early-stage through intensive mentoring sessions with regional and international experts to guide and improve startups’ capabilities, products and solutions to reach the global market’s needs.
- Thailand
- Sector Agnostic
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SparkLabs Seoul, Republic of Korea
A 3-month accelerator program for seed to early-stage startups that have the potential to expand globally. The program is offered twice a year and has so far operated 8 batches.
- Republic of Korea
- Entertainment
- Health
- Information and Communication Technology
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Retail and Wholesale Trade
- Other
- Any
- Equity
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Speed@BDD Beirut, Lebanon
Speed@BDD is a collaborative effort between prominent regional investors and leading Lebanese entrepreneurship organizations. Their main mission is to boost the Lebanese ecosystem by investing in high potential technology startups at the idea and seed stage.
- Lebanon
- Information and Communication Technology
- Any
- Equity
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SpinLab - The HHL Accelerator Leipzig, Germany
We support the growth of entrepreneurial and innovative teams who want to scale up their businesses by providing access to infrastructure (co-working offices and technology access), coaching and mentoring, and by sharing our international network of successful business founders, established market players and leading investors. The program is limited to a maximum of 6 months, at no cost and with no equity holding.
- Germany
- Sector Agnostic
- Any
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Spring Vancouver, Canada
IMPACT Startup Visa (ISV) Accelerator
Spring’s IMPACT Startup Visa (ISV) Accelerator is a comprehensive 4-month program that combines a traditional acceleration program with the processes and support to help you settle into a new life in Canada.
- Canada
- Sector Agnostic