What is the SigmaLabs accelerator all about?
SigmaLabs is a For Founders, By Founders accelerator program, which runs three times a year, each wave is 3-month long. Per wave, we choose 6-8 early-stage startups that will be accelerated towards initial success.
Our ‘Deep Mentoring’ model is a major part of our secret sauce. We partner with successful entrepreneurs who were or are CEOs & founders of startup companies, in Israel and abroad, that either sold their company or IPO’d. These founders work exclusively with each team during the program to lead them to fast success. Added to a personal Guru the accelerator’s CGO to CFO in residence are available to our teams using their various expertise. SigmaLabs methodology is based on a deep, personal, continuous and proven experience mentorship where we focus on core knowledge that early-stage startups need to obtain.
The Result: product and market fit, early success and a greater probability of closing a financing round.
What do we look for?
- Early stage startups
- Full-Timers
- Teams, not individual entrepreneurs
- Committed and hard workers
- Talented entrepreneurs
- Innovative technologies in all verticals
What do we give?
- 3-month and beyond of high end, personal, and deep ongoing mentorship
- CTO, CPO, CMO & CFO in residence
- Office hours with various experts
- A close relationship with Sarona Partners, Entrée Capital, AWS, GKH, MAX, Google, and others
- 3 months Program
- Offices in Tel Aviv/Haifa for 4 months
What do we ask for?
A program fee of 2% Warrants exercisable into shares of the company according to the recent company valuation. And, the right to invest up to $400K in your next round of funding at a 20% discount to the terms set by your lead investor.
We believe in helping startups and so does our entire network, we have one goal and it’s to move the odds in your favor!
“SigmaLabs accelerated our startup in many ways, helping us make faster decisions and choosing on the right areas to focus on towards the growth of our business. SigmaLabs mentoring program was so sharp and unique that it is part of our strategic framework that we keep using until today. Some of our key milestones were never have been achieved if it wasn’t for SigmaLabs.”
Benefits for the SigmaLabs community
During the time spent with us, you will be granted every tool at our disposal to help you accelerate your business, this includes but is not limited to:
- A professional team of engaged mentors
- Legal & Financial consultation
- An additional month of free office space at the end of the program
- Access to top-tier Seed funds in Israel, Europe, and the US
- Lectures and workshops from the best of the best to help you with building your product
- A close relationship with Sarona Partners, Entrée Capital, AWS, GKH & MAX.
Some of the benefits our partners provide
- IDC Herzliya, MASA, Shenkar, and others who provide Interns from various of programs, with different specialties to the SigmaLabs startups
- AWS (Amazon Web Service) – Up to $15,000 of cloud credits including premium support and training
- Monday.com – 50% off 1-year licenses for the fastest project management tool
- HubSpot – 90% scholarship on all paid HubSpot software for 12 months