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How To Apply For Our Seed Accelerator™ Programs

 

Before you continue to read about how to apply for our Seed Accelerator™ programs:

1. Have you read the webpage 'What We Look For'? This page explains the pre-selection and selection criteria.

2. Have you read the webpage 'Before You Apply'? This page explains if and how to use a non-disclosure agreement to protect your IP before you contact us.

 

Seed Accelerator™ Program Application

Startup Seed Program - Application & Selection Process

Applying for funding and taking part in our Seed Accelerator™ program is a bit different to help us select the best-of-the-best:

  1. Instead of submitting a business plan or making a slide presentation, candidates just fill out an online application form on our website in which they will have to answer many questions, provide a link to their introduction video and provide us with references. You’ll have to answer over 30 questions which will give us the information to perform our first due diligence and selection;
  2. Our Selection Board will select up to 30 teams to participate in the next round of our selection process to select the best-of-the-best;
  3. The selected teams will be invited to have a face-to-face or video conference interview in which we will ask them to pitch their idea within 5 minutes and we will fire many selection questions at them. With each team we will spend at least 60 minutes;
  4. Our Selection Board assisted by various vertical industry experts will then select the best 10 to 15 teams, based on the results of the interviews and based on our initial due diligence, which typically will involve: technology/idea assessment, market and competitive analysis (discussions with our industry experts and proprietary investigations), management reference checks, intellectual property review, financial due diligence;
  5. We will then ask the selected teams to take individual assessments and test to assess their IQ, EQ, Leadership Skills, Cultural and Motivational skills and potential;
  6. Our Selection Board will make a final down select based on the results of the assessments;
  7. Our Leadership Team will negotiate a contract and Term Sheet with the selected teams, supported by our legal counsel.

The application process for our first 2010 Startup Seed Accelerator Program in Sydney will open in Q1 2010.

Business Seed Program - Application & Selection Process

If you, your team and your idea meet the criteria described on our website, you are based in Australia and you have global growth ambitions: please send us an email in which you briefly describe:

  • Your idea and what is unique about it;
  • How and why you meet our pre-selection criteria;
  • Your team and why you have the best team players and form an A-team;
  • Your startup challenges & needs;
  • Why we should love your idea;
  • Why we should select you and your team.

Idea Seed Program - Application & Selection Process

Looking for a great & unique new startup idea? If you have an exceptional team who really understand technology, can startup and grow a global business, can lead a fast growing team of people, are full of passion and ambition and meet the criteria on our website: please send us an email in which you briefly describe:

  • Your skills, strength and experience;
  • What's unique about your team members;
  • What makes you an exceptional team;
  • How you are going to conquer the world;
  • Your startup preferences: e.g. business model, industry, product, service, etc.
  • Why we should select you and your team.

We look forward to hearing from you soon!

For more information and details, please see our FAQ or our program overview.

 

How could you be better prepared to succeed in your application?

  1. Have clear and well defined answers to our selection criteria.
  2. Create a unique value proposition for you, your team and your idea.
  3. Learn about your target audience: read this website, Google us, ask entrepreneurs who are being supported by Seed Accelerator™. Learn about the great people involved with the Seed Accelerator programs.
  4. KISS - Keep It Short and Simple: complete our online application form using the KISS principle.
  5. Be prepared for interviews: invite to the meeting people who can answer our questions on all facets of your new venture.
  6. References: prepare a contact list of people who can provide references for the technology you plan to use or the needs your invention addresses. A technology guru or a potential customer could make a difference.
  7. Prepare and include a short video: pitch your idea in a video. As potential business partners and investors, we are not only interested to learn about your unique idea, more so about the people behind the idea.
  8. Be different, be creative, be innovative and dare to stand out!

 

For more detailed information and answers to most of your Seed Accelerator™ related questions, please see our FAQ page, or click here.