Most founders apply to the three accelerators they have heard of.
YC, Techstars, maybe a local one. Then they wait a year on programs that accept 1% of applicants, while forty others in their sector and their city would have said yes.
Accelerators were never scarce. Nobody had them in one place.
So we built the map with VC Pitch Conf.
613 accelerators, 310 cities, seven regions.
How It Works
Spin the map, tap a hub, star what you would actually apply to.
▫️ Filter by city to see what runs near you, or by sector to find the programs built for what you are building
▫️ Every listing shows the funding on offer, the equity it costs, how long the program runs, and a link straight to the application
▫️ Star the ones worth applying to and export the shortlist as a CSV for your CRM
Ten minutes for a list that used to take a week.
What to Compare
▫️ Equity for cash. 7% for $125K prices you at $1.8M. 5% for $500K prices you at $10M. Same word, very different deal. The SAFE calculator shows what each does at the next round.
▫️ The network. The money is rarely the point. Demo day and investor intros are. The 100 best-performing VC firms shows who a program can realistically put you in front of.
▫️ Duration against runway. Three months in a program is three months building slower. The 13-week runway system tells you if you can afford it.
Or Skip It, September 17
An accelerator is one route to investors. VC Pitch Conf is the shorter one, virtual, on September 17.
▫️ 20 guaranteed 1:1 pitches, 7 minutes each, matched by industry, stage, and geo
▫️ 2.5 hours, replacing months of cold outreach
▫️ 200+ VCs, angels, and family offices, all deploying
Keynotes are free. Investors attend free.
👉 Join VC Pitch Conf — code RUBEN10 for 10% off pitch tickets
The Accelerator Atlas
613 programs across 310 cities, each one showing what it pays, what it takes, and how to apply. Star the ones that fit and export the shortlist:
Free for premium subscribers, with the rest of the stack we built with VC Pitch Conf:
▫️ 180 emerging VC funds actively investing, for the round after the program
▫️ 260+ institutional LPs that back VC funds, if you are raising a fund
▫️ 2,000+ European family offices, named decision-makers, direct emails
▫️ 95 compute credit programs, where one intro turns $1K into $300K
▫️ The 100 best-performing VC firms, ranked
Plus 10,000+ investors, 300+ decks that raised, every model, and every playbook 👇
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