- Scandinav ia ’s l a rgest bus iness acce le ra tor

ACCELERACE

Business start up

Unlimited ways to go

Limited time and resources

The challenge

Luckily there’s a solution

Funding, “co-founder” and structure

Unlimited ways to go Guidance and focus

Limited time and resources

Accelerace: Your company:

Across the Valley of Death

Accelerace offers a process that is guaranteed to improve your start up

Our pledge

We spend +200 hours as your extra

employee or interim co-founder

We don’t do strategy in a meeting room,

but act together with you

We invest in the most promising

companies and we don’t take equity

What makes us different?

What you get (and what we invest)

Investment

DKK 125.000 in cash

The detailed program

Kick-Off

Lab II Lab III

Pitching For all Electives

Boot camps

Lab I

5 month program

The Accelerace Vision and how we work + networking

Key insights for all entrepreneurs to learn. Like Value Proposition and Co-Creation

Key insight relevant for most entrepreneurs. Like Sales, Raising capital and Digital Marketing

Learn to Pitch Your venture

Particiapte in Investor Day

“Co-founder” throughout the program

Funding and capital

Accelerace has an extensive funding network comprising the entire Danish investor system We manage investment funds totaling 230 million DKK The most promising companies in the Accelerace program are offered funding

Who are you?

Scalable business model with international potential CVR registered company

Less than 15 employees

Less than 5 mill. DKK turnover

In market or less than 12 months from market

Company younger than 5 years

Industries: IT, Bio, MedTech, Consumer goods & Industry

Application proces

800+

300

100

30 Program starts January 2014

We select 30 participants for each round

From this we receive about 100 applications

We engage with more than 300 companies every year in regards to Accelerace participation

We talk to more than 800 companies every year

1. Are they on to something? • Is there a strong and unique value proposition for clearly defined customer segments (or

is there potential for one) • Is the business model realistic, scalable and strong both in setup and revenue streams

(or is there potential for making it) • Is there a favorable market situation (growth/decline, barriers, patentability, disruption

potential, attractive competitive situation)

2. Can they do it? • Do the teams competences match the company’s situation the coming 6-12 months • Are they coachable for Accelerace • Are they focused on this case (not other major engagements/jobs, not 1000 other ideas) • Do they have the required capital for the coming 6-12 months and/or to reach ”the next

level”

3. Can it become big? • Do you believe that THIS case can scale sufficiently to become a growth entrepreneur • Do you believe that THIS is a potential investment case for Accelerace? • Do you believe THIS case can become attractive for venture capital? • Would YOU invest?

How we evaluate applicants

We have worked with +200 companies

…where 30% raised capital during og immediately after Accelerace

…and in total has claimed 12% of all early stage investments in DK

…whose total value has increased with DKK 1 bn after Accelerace

And 93,4% are still alive and kicking

So does it work?

The Accelerace Team

Mads Rasmussen Erik Plauborg John Sohn Poul Bernd Kim Møller-Rasmussen

Søren Lottrup Jesper Knudsen Christian Hoffmann Claus Strand Kristensen Søren Christiansen David Ventzel Christian Hvashøj Torben Munkholm Leo Hansen Jonathan Løw

Morten Albrechtsen Morten Heide Mai-Britt Zocca Lone Gammelgaard Schwartz Pia Bruun Madsen Carl Brandt Lars Svane

Peter Torstensen Morten Mølgaard Jensen Mikkel Toft-Olsen Nana Christiansen Lene Schakinger-Juhl Niels Henrik Olsen Karsten Rasmussen Rasmus Toft Christine Henriques

IT Industry Life Sciences Staff & Management

Offices all over Denmark

Let’s talk!

www.accelerace.dk

(45) 39 17 94 04