Accelerate Cambridge

• Disciplined execution: Founders work to ambitious KPIs and milestones, set and reviewed with experienced coaches and mentors.
• Evidence‑led development: Progress is measured through experiments, validation and commercial signals, not just pitch decks.
• Structured capability‑building: The curriculum provides frameworks founders can return to throughout their journey, rather than one‑off “content days”.
• Research‑driven practice: The programme is informed by research from the Entrepreneurship Centre and Cambridge Judge Business School, and each cohort contributes back to this knowledge base.

• Early‑stage founders, with a clearly defined problem and strong commitment to execution.
• Deep‑tech, biotech and medtech teams, who need to build commercial maturity alongside technical and regulatory progress.
• Research‑based and spin‑out ventures from Cambridge and beyond looking to bridge lab and market.

We are looking for founders who are ready to:

• Engage fully with coaching, mentoring and peer learning,
• Test and refine their ideas in the real world,
• Build ventures capable of meaningful scale and impact.

• A dedicated coach and regular KPI reviews.
• Access to a broad network of mentors and specialists, including:
• Investors and venture capitalists,
• Technical and deep‑tech commercialisation experts,
• Legal and IP advisors,
• Corporate partners and entrepreneur alumni.
• Opportunities to work with Executive MBA and MBA students and alumni for global outlook and specialist skills.
• Access to Pitch & Judge and Entrepreneurship Centre events.
• Continued coaching and mentoring for up to 6 months post‑programme, subject to availability.