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Why us

What makes us the best accelerator to

support corporate innovation ?

With the Berlin Chapter, intrapreneurs and Founders you sponsor will be supported by a structured growth process that has proven to help move quickly and efficiently, and reduce the time and cost to building a startup.

Our program is notoriously hard because growing and sustaining a business is much harder. This is especially true for ideas in the innovation and impact space.

We ask our Founders to commit 25 hours to the program on a weekly basis, minimum.

They will be challenged and supported every step of the way, to ensure their solution stands on solid ground and they are equipped for what comes next.

We have reach you can use

• We have a local Meetup community of aspiring Founders of 10 000+ members
• We have an active LinkedIn community of 1800+ existing and aspiring Founders
• We hold public events with 1000+ aspiring entrepreneurs yearly – just in Berlin
• Globally, FI supports the launch of 1000+ businesses every year

We are an ecosystem of positive change

• 40% are female-led companies
• 40% are Climate Impact entrepreneurs, and all Founders integrate a SDG into their solution

It’s a low-risk environment to test new ideas

Can your team turn their idea into a scalable business? That’s what we will help them figure out.

We provide invaluable knowledge from top Mentors and deliver decades of startup and entrepreneurship experience in an intensive 14-week offline format. And now since Covid19 hit, in an online format too.

FI spans worldwide across chapters in 200+ cities and 6 continents, with a global community of 25,000+ Mentors, Grads and CEOs of many successful companies.

In Berlin specifically, Founders will have the direct support of 50+ high-profile Mentors during the semester, and access to an extended network of 400+ local Mentors. Among them: Lubomila Jordanova, Stefan Jørgensen, Fabian Geyrhalter, Laura Kohler, Javier Rincon, Kyrill Zlobenko, Natacha Neumann, Antony Tikhonov, Regine Harr, Patrick Knodel, Dr. Fabian Heilemann, Felix Krause, Fabian Kofler… and many more.

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You’ll get to shape the future by supporting ideas that matter

We are the first FI chapter in the world with a dedicated Climate Impact track alongside the regular curriculum, running since 2019. We are supported in our ambition to make sustainability and industry standard by star Mentors from Earlybird, Vireo Ventures, Future Energy Ventures and Innovation for Impact to name a few.

We support entrepreneurs that focus their creativity and will on building “Impact Companies”. To help them be successful, we sign-on to support actionable metrics that guide entrepreneurs of all kinds on their quests to create Impact Companies that address UN SDGs, and have created a definition for “Impact Companies” that includes:

• The mission to align with one or more UN Sustainable Development Goals
• The offering directly influences a measurement of impact, an Impact Key Performance Indicator (iKPI)
• iKPIs publicly displayed and updated on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis

Now, facing perhaps the biggest test to humankind and the future of the planet, it will be up to entrepreneurs to work together with governments and large companies to create Impact Companies to solve humanity’s most pressing issues.

Read next: Our Invitation to Entrepreneurs and Startup Organizations Worldwide : A Joint Pledge for Responsible Innovation

You’ll be “the first”

Contrary to other early-stage accelerators, we welcome anyone with just an idea for a Startup — and a bright entrepreneurial mind. This uniquely positions us first row to spot the best and most disruptive solutions early on, for any given industry.

We actively contribute to Berlin’s diverse and fastest-growing early-stage entrepreneurial ecosystems: close to 500 startups are created every year in this city; since 2019 the Berlin Chapter alone created more than 50 startups.

Since 2010, we have trained 500+ people and helped create 100+ companies with a survival rate of 60% by year 3.

By leveraging this unique access to early-stage Founders, you will get the rare opportunity to spot innovation and world-changing solutions first.

We will be your “ready-made innovation lab”, for a fraction of the cost

We bring the experience, the structure and the resources. Enroll your teams or sponsor external Founders for a fraction of the cost of creating your own innolab — and zero risk.

You will leave your mark on the local scene

• Be our exclusive sponsor for the Climate Impact Track and help build a better tomorrow with world-changing businesses
• Or let us work together on creating your own Innovation Track
• And if you would like to ease your way into being part of our mission, you can just start with a single entrepreneur or intrapreneur to sponsor in our existing tracks