Boost your startup and get

investments up to $25k

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60+ hours of mentoring sessions, affiliate services up to $50k, pitch to investors from the US and Europe, non-equity investments up to $25k based on the results of the Demo Day, and the opportunity to pitch to investors at TechChill Riga. Is your startup ready to take off?

Individual mentoring, pitch to investors, and first investments

Up to $25k investment for the best startups based on the results of the Demo Day

Up to $50k in affiliate services for cast, product development, and marketing

Pitching at the Demo Day for VC funds from Europe + showcase of startups for US investors

Opportunity to pitch to investors at the startup conference TechChill Riga

Market & Competition

VC & Fundraising

UNIT Economics

Financial model

Mentors support

Investors feedback

Perks & Grants

Pitch training

Networking

The acceleration program is individualized for each startup - we plan the optimal combination of group bootcamps and workshops, individual mentoring sessions, and 1-1 meetings with investors.

The program consists of two phases:

The first phase (4 weeks): group bootcamps and individual mentoring sessions for product validation, product-market-fit, and building a sales and go-to-market strategy.
Second phase (8-10 weeks): individual mentoring sessions, 1-1 meetings with funders and investors, group Q&A sessions. Tracking, unit economy, financial model, fundraising strategy, pitching and pitchdeck, Demo Day for investors.

Important! Startups can get into the second phase only based on the results of the YEP expert board's evaluation after the first phase.

70+ mentors

from Ukraine, USA, Great Britain, Israel, Estonia

$ 2М+

grants and investments attracted by alumni

15 winners

of USF, TechStars, WebSummit, Slush, IT Arena competitions

Timeline

Product validation
Produc-market-fit
Go-to-market strategy
Sales strategy

12/04
First phase

11/07
Demo Day

10/05
Second phase

Unit economics

Traction & finmodel

Pitching & pitch deck

Fundraising strategy

25/07
Pitch to US investors

Pitching to Ukrainian and European investors, possibility to raise $25k investment

In partnership with MZP League, a community of founders and investors from Silicon Valley

Mentors

Андрій Заікін

Засновник та СЕО YEP

Serhii Martynchuk

Country Manager at Cisco

Alyona Kalibaba

Co-founder of SILab Ukraine and the accelerator for social entrepreneurs SELab

Denys Zernyshkin

Founder and CEO of Gravitec.net, Piar.io

Олена Мажуга

Investment Director at Flyer One Ventures

Oleksiy Yermolenko

Vice President at Flyer One Ventures

Anton Vashchuk

WNISEF Economic Leadership Program coordinator

Andriy Sorokhan

Venture director, U.Ventures (WNISEF)

Alina Bondarenko

CCO at Zeely

Ivanna Horobets

Head of Marketing at Heartify Inc.

Роман Севастьянов

Co-founder and CEO of Awesomic

Марія Тінтул

Head of Business Development at Startup Wise Guys

YEP Acceleration program is supported by the Western NIS Enterprise Fund, which supports initiatives to promote reforms in Ukraine and transformational projects.

Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF) is a $150 million regional fund, a pioneer in Ukraine and Moldova with 28 years of successful experience investing in small and medium-sized companies. WNISEF was funded by the U.S. government via the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Additional Opportunities

We are building a global network of partners to provide more opportunities for YEP resident startups to develop — investments, discounts, tools, and networking!

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Founders that chose YEP

We are engineers and aviators, but from the business side, we came to YEP with zero experience. Meetings with mentors and Andrii Zaikin gave us this knowledge. We think that in 2021 we scaled quickly because of the first Zoom session with YEP!