The Georgetown Startup Accelerator

——— Apply Today For Our Fall ’21 Cohort ———

About the Georgetown Startup Accelerator

The Georgetown Startup Accelerator (GSA) will bring together Georgetown alumni entrepreneurs in early stage startup companies with experienced mentors, peers, and top subject matter experts to help accelerate their business progress. Participating companies will have the opportunity to:

Work 1:1 with experienced mentors
Set short and long-term company growth metrics
Attend weekly workshops with exciting guest speakers
Learn alongside a community of peer entrepreneurs
Showcase your company to the Georgetown community

Our program is entirely remote, so companies can apply no matter where they are based!

Please note that we do not take equity nor provide cash funding for participating companies.

Programming Overview

Each weekly workshop will be led by a different expert in GU’s network of mentors, established alumni, and faculty. Our programming focuses on the key areas to building a successful business, such as:

Baselining and Goal Setting

Product Market Fit and Customer Feedback

Leading and Building Successful Teams

Sales and Generating Demand

The Business of Running A Business

Fundraising and Investing

Spring Cohort

Appdrop

Founders: Kamar Mack (C’19) and Adrian Abrams C’18
Appdrop empowers teams to get their app to market quickly by providing a no code app solution designed with 3 core elements: Ease, Speed, and Quality.

Content Rooms

Founder: Chris Cacace (C’17)

Content Rooms is an entertainment platform that enables individual creators and groups of creators to build a connected community with their most passionate fans.

Globally Unified Air Quality (GUAQ)

Founders: Anna Giaquinto (B’21) and Neal Singal (B’22)

A uniquely designed environmental monitoring device with cutting-edge proprietary technology that provides real-time actionable data & automatic software updates for sustained device support.

Hi-RX

Founders: Russell Bar (MBA’20) and Kaye Macabuag

Hi-Rx is a mobile healthcare company; we send a trained medical professional to the patient’s preferred location to perform a variety of services, including sample collection and delivery, immunizations and concierge patient education services.

Home Base Spirits

Founders: Samantha Blatteis (SFS’08) and Alexandra Blatteis

Home Base Spirits produces unique spirits and liqueurs highlighting sustainably farmed grains and California botanicals.

Hydrova

Founders: Julian Davis (B’20 and, Rostam Reifschneider

The production of hydrogen gas is responsible for 2% of all global CO2 emissions. Hydrova is fighting climate change by producing low-cost, zero-emissions hydrogen from aluminum and water.

Joint Homes

Founders: Rich Halverson (MBA’17), Mel Levey (MBA’17)

Joint Homes offers a modern housing solution for military service members that delivers the benefits of ownership with the flexibility of renting. Through our collective impact model, Joint unlocks trapped value in the housing market.

Little Red Box Grocery

Founder: Samuel Newman (MBA’08)

We are democratizing access to good food. We are a tech-enabled & community-driven platform that brings the benefits of healthy food & pantry solutions, located conveniently & priced affordably, to the base of the pyramid.

Patri

Founder: Josh Ellars (MBA’15)

Patri is a software and consulting firm dedicated to helping companies win more business through data-powered solutions. Patri’s Bid Score™ is an innovative SaaS solution powering opportunity analytics, data-backed qualification, intelligent resource investments, & improved win rates.

VFC Inc.

Founders: Gaetano Razzieri (MBA’11)

VFC creates delivery-native, on-demand, food delivery brands whose menu items are prepared in ghost kitchens in LatAm’s largest cities.

Pratt Standard

Founder: Victoria Pratt (SFS’11)

Pratt Standard Cocktail Company enables and equips consumers to share the joy of home cocktailing. Their DC-based company makes craft cocktail ingredients inspired by pre-prohibition recipes designed to help the home bartender up their game.

Promotable

Founder: Aaron Filous (G’15)

Promotable is a professional development platform that teaches the data analytics skills required to do their best work now and become more promotable in the future through industry created, expert led, and mentor driven hands on training.

Testimonials

My business will absolutely grow directly as a result of the connections the GSA made for me. I have gained advisors I would never have had access to otherwise, we likely will land a big chain retailer, and I likely secured investment for my business.
Tory PrattFounder of Pratt Standard
Not only did my co-founder and I gain valuable and actionable insights from the workshops and programming, but the GSA also did an excellent job of pairing us with our mentor, an industry expert who opened doors and made an immediate impact on our strategy.
Russell BarCEO of Hi-RX
We enrolled in the accelerator with clear goals, and we were able to meet them. We made invaluable connections, honed a growth strategy for our business with the help of our mentor, and were able to position ourselves for a fundraise through the sessions and Demo Day.
Sam BlatteisCo-Founder of Home Base Spirits
I thought the most valuable aspect was preparing for a Demo Day because it required us to prepare financials, develop an exit strategy, and also improve my pitch skills.
Neal Singal and Anna GiaquintoCo-Founders of Globally Unified Air Quality
GSA allowed my co-founder and I to stress-test our business model, refine our thesis, and grow from an idea to a company with clients during the span of the program. Meeting other founders and working with the GSA team proved invaluable to our growth.
Mel LeveyCo-founder of Joint Homes
Going forward, the biggest impact will probably be from the connections we made with both investors, mentors, and the cohort.
Rostam ReifscheiderCo-Founder of Hydrova
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Spring Accelerator Guest Speakers

Leon Keshishian (C’92)

Vice-President, SolarCity

Luke Cooper

Vice President, Global Growth, Alternative Service Delivery

Marc Steren

Founding Director of Entrepreneurship at The Universities at Shady Grove

Mike Malloy

Program Director,
Halcyon Incubator

Nitya Rajendran (C’14)

Senior Associate,
Tribeca Venture Partners

Peter Mellen (MBA’98)

Founder, Netcito

Ryan Croft

Entrepreneur in Residence, Georgetown University

Ryan Kuder
(B’96)

Managing Director, Techstars Anywhere at Techstars

Ted Leonsis (C’77)

CEO of Monumental Sports
and Entertainment

Zach Leonsis
(MBA’15)

Senior VP of Strategic Initiatives
for Monumental Sports and Entertainment

Program Information

Important Dates

August 1, 2021: Accelerator applications close.
August 1 – September 1, 2021: Select founders are invited to move forward to interview.
September 3, 2020: Cohort is selected and notified of acceptance.
September 21, 2021: Accelerator kicks off.
November 16, 2021: Final Showcase.
November 18, 2021: Accelerator programming concludes.

Eligibility

Applying teams should meet the following eligibility criteria:

• At least one founder must be an alumni of Georgetown University.

• If your startup is not your full-time job, applicants should be prepared to dedicate at least 20 hours a week to growing their business over the course of the program.

• Ventures can be of any industry but must be for-profit companies.
• Companies can be located anywhere in the country or across the globe.

Cost

Companies that are accepted into the program will pay a one time fee of $500 to participate.

Georgetown Startup Accelerator Partners

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