$2000 for CustDev for each startup!

Get 60+ hours of mentoring sessions, networking with partners and investors, meetings with successful founders, additional services and benefits for the development of your startup — in YEP acceleration program.

Registration is closed. Next call for applications will start in August

Individual mentoring and pitch to investors

$2,000 grant for CustDev from YEP

Even more mentoring and expert support

Pitch to investors at Demo Day + partner network

Market & Competition

VC & Fundraising

UNIT Economics

Financial model

Mentors support

Investors feedback

Perks & Grants

Pitch training

Networking

The acceleration program is individual for each startup — we plan the optimal combination of training bootcamps, mentoring sessions and workshops. We save time and help you not to fail at an early stage.

Also, our residents can use various tools and services to develop their products ($10,000 credits from Amazon Web Services) and have access to promo opportunities and the YEP network.

The program is held twice a year after preliminary selection by the committee. Learn more about the program →

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70+ mentors

from Ukraine, USA, Great Britain, Israel, Estonia

$ 1М+

grants and investments attracted by alumni

15 winners

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

Timeline

04/04
Application deadline

14/04
Acceleration start

Boot camps
Mentor sessions
Feedback sessions

Peer-to-peer

Meet-ups

28/02
Selection start

10/04
Final list announcement

12 weeks

15/06
Final pitch prep start

13/07
Demo Day

Mentors

Andriy Zaikin

Founder and CEO of 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

Karina Lapina

Head of Scouting at Startup Wise Guys

Vadym Synzheretskyi

Співзасновник та CEO у BUKI

Vlad Tislenko

Partner at SMRK VC

Саймон Бічара

Startup mentor, investor

Vitaly Rozhevskyi

Co-founder at Numo ADHD, Mindist

Anastasia Smyk

CEO & Co-founder at INPUT SOFT

Andriy Smyk

COO & Co-founder at INPUT SOFT

Valentyn Zavadskyi

CTO & Co-founder at INPUT SOFT

Oksana Zadniprovska

Equity Partner at Axon Partners

Denys Berehovyi

Equity Partner у Axon Partners

Mykhailo Yudin

IP Lawyer, Senior Associate at Axon.Partners

Valeria Holierova

Head of PMO at Empath

Mykhailo Markevych

СТО Elomia Health

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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!

To play, press and hold the enter key. To stop, release the enter key.

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!