MITS
Accelerator

Y-Combinator style 15-week boot camp

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MITS and American University Kyiv Powered by Arizona State University (#1 for innovation in the US) developed a unique 15-week Program that can boost startups at any stage of business development

For startups

Our main goal

Is to scale the production capacity of companies that have developed an innovative product

Our priority

Is teams that already have an MVP

Team

Our focus is on the strength, experience and technical skills of the founding team.

Product

We prefer companies with a clear value proposition, a strong and innovative product vision and sufficient time to market

Sustainable competitive advantage

We evaluate a company's unique proposition, barriers to market entry, and potential for long-term market leadership.

Potential and Scalability

Our focus is on the strength, experience and technical skills of the founding team.

At the acceleration stage, we have the following expectations from the startups we work with

  1. Involvement of key team members for at least 20 hours per week
  2. Orientation to the result
  3. Responsiveness

MITS and American University Kyiv Powered by Arizona State University (No 1 for innovation in US) developed a unique Program that can boost startups at any stage of Business acceleration

6 months program is divided in 2 stages

Acceleration (3 months)

post-acceleration (3 months)

The program covers the following blocks

Business Efficiency

  • Personnel policy
  • Agile Metrics
  • Finances

Life cycle of defense development

  • Geopolitical factors
  • Peculiarities of investment attraction
  • Sources
  • Potential partners

Entrepreneurial thinking

  • Assessment of market opportunities
  • Business model development
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Provision of financing

Strategy

  • Market analysis
  • Evaluation of competitors
  • Product roadmap
  • Market entry strategy

The program covers the following blocks

The post-acceleration program provides access to the fast-track, we help to pass all the necessary tests and obtain a permit to operate to accelerate access to public procurement, and we also help in attracting further investments.

MITS ecosystem activity

The best way to ensure a favorable ecosystem for startups is to be a part of building it

  • Building the future of our country, developing reforms in the field of defense technologies
  • Awareness of changes occurring in the legal field and regulation of defense technology
  • Our startups are more likely to succeed and scale
  • Acceleration and minimization of bureaucratic obstacles for our startups, which will ensure faster release of products to the military
  • Thanks to the unique reputation of MITS as one of the centers of ecosystem development, we will be able to attract the most promising investors and have better conditions for cooperation with them
  • Simplifying the resolution of potential problems and difficulties that may arise within the framework of the activity

Form & Contacts

Kyiv

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New York

450 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, 10017

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