YOUR BRIDGE TO THE BIG LEAGUE: ACCELERATE 🏍️ TO FOLLOW-ON INVESTORS
StudioAlpha produces high-growth software start-ups, just like a music producer supports bands. The accelerator production program unleashes the startups’ potential and prepares them for the upcoming funding rounds.
Benefit from tailored weekly sprints, hands-on tech and entrepreneur coaching, and a proven strategy to escalate your success. The journey culminates in a demo day in San Francisco, connecting you to follow-on investors eager to discover innovative startups like yours. It’s intense, personalized, and designed for tangible results. Your global ascent starts here.
Silicon Valley VC-readyness
Our joint mission is to get your startups Silicon Valley VC-ready. To achieve this, StudioAlpha offers startups various kinds of support.Â
- Coaching: Tailored advice for your startup’s unique needs.
- Network Access: Connect with a vast professional network
- Proven Frameworks: Implement tested, effective scaling methodologies.
- Investor Readiness: Appropriate validation, funding strategy
- Peer: Thrive in a dynamic, innovative ecosystem with other founders.
- Benefit Credits from our partners AWS, NVIDIA, Google etc.
Secret sauce revealed
Immerse yourself in our production program, developed and refined by StudioAlpha co-founder Prof. Dr. Andreas Ziltener over 15 years. Implemented in top-tier universities, it’s a blend of academic rigor and entrepreneurial zest. This methodology isn’t just taught—it’s lived. It fuels our ventures and turns startup visions into tangible successes.
production program
Every week is a personalized journey, tailored for each startup. Engage in focused 1:1 sessions with our coaches, showcasing progress, addressing queries, absorbing insights, and setting new milestones.
In large group meetings, we intensify the learning. Renowned guest speakers illuminate the path, followed by interactive Q&A and optional cross-case discussions to broaden perspectives.
We dedicate 90% of the production program to your startup’s unique needs, curating tools, methods, and expert consultations for growth.
Below is a snapshot of the modules of the StudioAlpha accelerator production program that we put together for the individual paths of our startups. With continual code releases and user behavior analytics, every step is informed, intentional, and aimed at amplifying your startup’s impact. There are remote sessions and live events.
mIssion
Set up your team to sprint mode: The hacker, the hustler and the hipster. Re-define engineering stack and optimize process model. Keep going.
Kick-Off
Kickstart Session: Pitch your business model and dive into tools and methods essential for entrepreneurs. Embrace the intensive production program ahead.
Weekly Coaching
Focused 1:1: sessions for a deeper dive into each startup’s distinct landscape. Coaches and teams collaborate, scrutinizing results, setting tailored goals, and unlocking bespoke insights.
Speakers
Learn from experienced guest speakers and take advantage of the helpful advice they give you along the way.
Pitch Training
As soon as your startup is VC-ready, we work on the pitch and the software demo until it fits. You will present your investor pitch to the other founder teams and coaches. Benefit from the feedback.
Demo Day
The release takes place twice a year in February and June. Hit the stage live in San Francisco! After intensive pitch training and demo iterations, showcase your hard work and passion to potential investors. The spotlight’s on you!
Meet Investors
Organize 1:1 meetings with potential investors before, during and after the demo day. Close your next funding round.
Summer Event
Meet StudioAlpha partners, investors, peers and bond at streetparade – the biggest Techno-Party worldwide – in Zurich!
Winter Event
For all snow lovers, StudioAlpha organize an event in the Swiss Alps once a winter – exciting talks, skiing, sledging, fondue and party.
Persevere
After the release is before the release. Celebrate your success and work on your vision the same day. StudioAlpha will stay by your side.
YOUR GATEWAY TO GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES
Twice a year, a demo day is held in San Francisco, where startups pitch their product-market fit to U.S.-based investors from our network.
After the completion of production and successful VC financing after the demo day, StudioAlpha will mentor and support the startups for as long as they need it. For this, we continue to rely on our network.
The Serial Entrepreneurs Behind StudioAlpha
Our Legacy: In the budding days of the 90s and early 2000s, the technological landscape was largely uncharted. It was during these formative years that a group of visionaries emerged, each laying the groundwork for what would eventually become successful tech enterprises.Â
Among these pioneers were our esteemed partners of StudioAlpha. In an era when venture capital was sparse, these entrepreneurs were characterized by their grit, bootstrapping their ventures from the ground up. Without the safety net of external funding, they were conditioned to drive profit and fund their own growth, instilling in them a unique blend of tenacity and self-sufficiency.
StudioAlpha Network
Rooted in our Worldwebforum legacy, StudioAlpha taps into a powerful network of tech visionaries and global trailblazers. Our history translates into your startup’s future success.
Suzanne DiBianca
EVP Corporate Relations & Chief Philanthropy Officer, Salesforce, San Francisco, USA
Meia Chita-Tegmark
Co-Founder, The Future of Life Institute, Boston, USA
Edward Tse
Founder & CEO, Gao Feng Advisory Company, Beijing, China
Andréa Maechler
Member, Governing Board, Swiss National Bank, Zurich, Switzerland
Glenn Gore
Chief Architect, Amazon Web Services, Seattle, USA
Roya Mahboob
Businesswoman, Entrepreneur & CEO, Afghan Citadel & Digital Citizen Fund, New York, USA
Lars Ulrich
Co-Founder & Drummer, Metallica, San Francisco, USA
Sam Rosenblum
Former Director of Business Development, Coinbase, San Francisco, USA
Steve Wozniak
Tech-Guru & Co-Founder, Apple, Cupertino, USA
Carissa Carter
Director of Teaching and Learning, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Bruce Dickinson
Businessman, Pilot, Lead Singer Iron Maiden, London, UK
Ray O’Farrell
EVP & CTO, VMware, San Francisco, USA
Kazuhiko Toyama
Managing Partner, IGPI, Industrial Growth Platform Inc, Tokyo, Japan
Rashik Parmar
IBM Fellow & Vice President Technology – Europe, London, UK
Ed Catmull
Co-Founder & President, Pixar, San Francisco, USA
Michael Chui
Partner, McKinsey & Company, San Francisco, USA
Terry von Bibra
General Manager Europe, Alibaba Group, Munich, Germany
Urs Hölzle
SVP Engineering, Google, Mountain View, USA
Nancy Pfund
Founder & Managing Partner, DBL Partners, San Francisco, USA
Fumbi Chima
Global CIO, adidas, Herzogenaurach Germany
Jeff Eggers
Former-Principal Advisor of President Barack Obama, Federal Government of the USA, Ex-Member, Navy Seals Team, Washington, D.C., USA
James Monsees
Co-Founder and CPO, Juul, San Francisco, USA
Zeeshan Feroz
CEO (UK), Coinbase, London, UK
Wilhelm Oehl
Partner & CXO, Eight Inc, San Francisco, USA
Brittany Kaiser
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower & subject of Netflix Documentary “The Great Hack”, New York, USA
Bill Wyman
Co-Founder & Former -Bassist, The Rolling Stones, London, UK
Claude Zellweger
Director, Design, Google, San Francisco, USA
John Sculley
Former-CEO, Pepsi, Coca-Cola & Apple, New York, USA
Marian Goodell
Founding Board Member & CEO, Burning Man Project, San Francisco, USA
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor, World Wide Web, Cambridge, USA
David Sable
Global CEO, Y&R, New York, USA
Kirsty Nathoo
CFO & Partner, Y Combinator, San Francisco, USA
Charles A. O’Reilly
Frank E. Buck Professor of Management Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Mark C. Thompson
CEO-Coach of Steve Jobs & Richard Branson
Bill Barnett
Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, & Organizations, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Klaus Hommels
Founder & CEO, Lakestar, Zurich, Switzerland
Jay Simons
President, Atlassian, San Francisco, USA
Sascha Zahnd
VP Global Supply Chain, Tesla, Palo Alto, USA
Backstage Pass: Unplugged
These moments, captured from previous sessions, showcase the energy, innovation, and collaboration that define our approach. Your entrepreneurial journey is not just about the destination but the transformative experiences with other founders along the way.
Empowerment Beyond Investment
- If the StudioAlpha partners are convinced of your problem-solution fit and your team, studioalpha will invest up to USD 20,000Â (at a 2m valuation post-money SAFE or at yout last higher valuation) in your startup so that the founders can fully concentrate on their product and the market while they are in the studio.
- During the production program we invite speakers from our network to talk remotely or live about their entrepreneurial experiences.
- StudioAlpha organizes regular virtual meetings for all startups that are in production at the same time. In these peer group meetings, the teams are supposed to exchange experiences, ask and answer questions or give each other advice.
- During and after the production program, we arrange necessary contacts from our network individually for each startup team.
- Optionally, you can gain access to our partners, who will provide you with benefit credits valued at an additional USD 20,000, applicable to a $2M post-money SAFE valuation or your most recent higher valuation.
