Accelerace in the press

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Accelerace is the only pre-traction VC in Denmark and has a long history as one of the world’s top seed accelerators. Accelerace has scouted, trained, and invested in more than 1000 of the most promising Danish and international startups. Since 2012, Accelerace has raised and managed two funds, investing in 120 startups and subsequently guiding them toward the next round. The current fund is financed by Færchfonden, Vækstfonden and Symbion.

Accelerace was nominated as the best startup accelerator in the Nordics in 2017 and 2018 by the Nordic Startup Awards. The accelerator invested in its lifetime more than 260 million DKK in promising startups and has launched partnerships with the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Arla, COOP, Nordea, Danske Bank, Bang & Olufsen, Sound Hub Denmark, Arbejdernes Landsbank, Ørsted og Elia among others.

The knowledge from accelerator programme, partnerships and investments is now used to drive the Allstars programme for portfolio companies and to build the platform Tools, which is a gathering of all the knowledge accumulated over the years. Knowledge and tools on how to get product-market-fit and raise money.

Accelerace is also managing the Nordic Mentor Network for Entrepreneurship, NOME, focused on life science, and is partner in the Baltic accelerator Overkill Ventures.

Achievements and Awards

As we have been around since 2008, we have been acknowledged a lot over the years. Below is a few of the features.

Since 2010, Accelerace has helped more than 250 startups raise over 269.5 million US dollars in funding and investment.

Gust named Accelerace among the top 10 seed accelerators in Europe

Many of the top accelerator programs can be found in regions all over the world. […] the top Seed Accelerators are Start-Up Chile, Latin America’s NXTP Labs, Europe’s Accelerace, and Canada’s Alacrity Foundation.