The Startup Wise Guys has unveiled applications for the second Wise Guys XR acceleration program for startups building the meta world. It’s a great opportunity to get your first investment and accelerate your startup through a hands-on, 5 months long intensive mentoring program.
Benefits
- 12+ Focus Areas
- 4 Blueprints
- Tailored Approach.
- Fast-paced intensive setup
- One-on-one mentorship by expert
Areas of Training
- Sales & traction Building
- Refining your sales strategy
- Finding the right target markets
- Assessing your audience potential
- Creating a futureproof marketing strategy
Pitch Training
- Learning how to pitch to various investors—from business angels to VCs
- Perfecting your pitch deck and pitch delivery
- Learning how to develop a data-driven pitch and handle the Q&A
Company building
- Building a strong dedicated team
- Setting KPIs and goals: various frameworks, tracking, company-wide onboarding
- Customer discovery: how to find the right target market & audience
- Determining your startup’s key strengths and unique value proposition
Future-proofing for success
- Defining a 12-month development roadmap across tech, sales, and overall business strategy
- Ins and out of fundraising: strategy, determining your needs, networking, and investor management
- Unique exposure to SWG’s wide network of VCs, investors, commercial partners, and alumni
Eligibility Criteria
Here’s what you should have in place if you want to be a part of this amazing acceleration journey:
Startups meeting these selection criteria:
- B2B focus;
- A team of at least two founders;
- A working MVP (minimum viable product);
- Initial traction (can be shown through MRR, paid pilots, one-time payments for product test/usage, etc);
- Global ambition;
- Free spoken English as the entire program will be run in English.
Startups representing these sub-verticals:
- Augmented Reality
- Virtual Reality
- Mixed Reality
- 3D and graphics tools and marketplaces
- Metaverse
- Spatial Compute
- Phygital
- Visualisation and interfaces for Web3
- Machine vision and learning within the XR field of implementation
Program Date – Feb 13 – June 30, 2023
Application Deadline – January 12, 2023