Do You Have a Vision to Change the World?

Superpowers Accelerator
Applications Open October 1st, 2024
Next Program: June 2025 > May 2026
Global Program
Online & In-Person
1:1 Team Mentor
Small Cohort Size
Experiential Learning
$100k in Funding

What You Get

Our one-year accelerator is designed for university startups using technology for a better future. Get funding, company-building experience, and world-class mentoring.

How It Works

Our program is designed to give you and your company superpowers, through a business creation challenges with personal growth experiences. After 6 months, we take teams through a fundraising co-pilot to raise your seed-round or additional financing with our VC network.

Business Creation Challenges

Our team of accomplished founders has distilled the practices and insights from building their own multi-billion-dollar companies into a series of transformative business creation challenges. Each month, your team will take on a new challenge, specifically designed to drive tangible achievements and amplify your growth. These challenges are organized around six essential dimensions of business success: idea, team, customer, product, operations, and fundraising.

Personal Development Experiences

In parallel to business challenge, we provide a complementary series of experiences designed to foster personal growth, well-being, resilience, and leadership. Delivered by world-class business leaders and experienced founders, these facilitators guide you in adopting transformative practices that empower you to build both the company and the life you’ve envisioned.

World-Class Mentoring

Yope mentors are alumni of our program and successful founders from our community. They’ve been in your shoes and offer personal guidance, industry insights, and strategic support to help you navigate growth and scale your company. Their experience becomes your advantage as you build and evolve your venture.

Fundraising Co-Pilot

After spending the first half of the year building your vision and the core of your company, we dedicate the next six months to helping you fundraise. From preparing for investor meetings to making key introductions, our goal is to help you secure seed or additional funding for your company. Additionally, we offer further investment to a select number of teams.
“It’s much more than just 12 months at Yope, it’s a relationship. It continues on after that one year as you continue to learn, grow and get mentored by the people who supported you from the very beginning. They were our first believers, and deeply understand the whole life cycle of the company, all the challenges and triumphs.”
Connor Landgraf
CEO & Founder of Eko Health
"In a world full of people claiming to help startups, Yope is the real deal. The team truly delivers. They've been through the trials of building ventures themselves and have helped me apply those lessons directly to my journey as a founder. Whenever I face a problem, challenge, or opportunity, they’re always my first call for guidance and support."
Lindsay Stewart
Founder & CEO Stringr

Frequently Asked Questions

Eligibility

We work with university student (undergraduate, masters, and PhDs) and recent graduate teams. We accept applications from any accredited university in the world.

Team Size and Stage

We work with teams of two or more founders in our accelerator. Our program  is for companies that have an idea and can think big about their product to build a scalable company. You don't need to have it all figured out though, that's what we're here to do together.

Technology, Product, and Market

We don't look for a particular kind of technology, product, or market but instead look for a team's ability to formulate their company as a vehicle for delivering a better future to people and the planet. Typically, these are emerging or breakthrough technologies that have a swift go to market time and are highly scalable.  

Program Time Commitment and Structure

The time commitment varies per week and on the phase of the program. The first 6-months are spent amplifying the core of your company. You'll normally have a weekly activity or "experience" that fits into focus of the month.

These activities optimize your existing efforts. We aim to save you time, instead of adding superfluous busy-work for you.

In the second-half of the program, we focus on fundraising, by introducing you to investors and preparing you for pitches.

Funding and Investment Terms

Our $100K funding when you join the program is a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) convertible note that is founder-friendly with no cap and no discount.

We don't take upfront equity. If the note converts into equity, the equity is owned by and all proceeds are returned to our non-profit, a USA 501c3 Yope Foundation Inc. registered in the state of Delaware.

Yope also provides additional investments of $1M to $5M to selective alumni companies. These investments are owned by the non-profit and any proceeds go to support more next-generation innovators and consious innovation activities.

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