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Accelerators, Incubators & STPs

We support Accelerators, Incubators & STPs to accelerate the global growth and fundraising of their Portfolio Companies and Entrepreneurs

Some of the Accelerators, Incubators & STPs we worked with:

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Your Problems & Challenges

Number #1 reason for startup failure comes from poor PMF and Low Product and Service Distribution and Slow Growth

With increased competition in the space having the strongest talents / mentors to support your portfolio will attract the best startups

Sometimes it’s difficult and expensive to find professionals in the market and have all the value creation team within the organization

Many professionals don’t have the processes or know-how to work with massive and heterogeneous startup portfolios with very diverse challenges

Our Focus & Approach

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We cover fundraising and growth topics with large groups of portfolio companies, prioritizing and working on highest-value opportunities
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We are trusted and vested advisors, trying to not only work as a service provider, but also partner up with you and your portfolio
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We work with accelerators, incubators and STPs with (mainly) B2B Tech focused companies and since we are industry-agnostic we can work with highly heterogeneous portfolios
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Although we love to do onsite work with clients, we excel in continuous online/remote support, making our services highly flexible, scaleable and keeping our prices competitive.

Product and Service Categories

Portfolio Development & Growth

Boost the Global Growth of your Startup and Scaleup Portfolio with tailor-made advisory and/or hands-on support in growth and fundraising from a seasoned team of professionals

We provide a set of services to develop startups and scaleups of your portfolio to reach their full potential and achieve their growth goals, by providing the Growth and IR & Fundraising services that we already provide to single startups and scaleups across the globe.

We can provide services via:

  • Trainings & Workshops
  • Checkups + Assessments
  • Advisory Board + Guidance
  • Strategic + High Level Consulting Support
  • Operational Hands-on Support
 You can find more information about specific venture services on:

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Growth & Go-To-Market

Develop your company’s global growth with us by implementing strategies and tactics across different audiences, traction channels and funnels

We partner up with mainly B2B tech startups and scaleups to tackle their growth challenges, by providing mentoring, advisory or operational support, by including our venture experience, tailored tools, tested best practices and processes.

We cover everything from growth engine setup, through experimentation and validation of new markets, to executing go-to-market and building growth cases to be used in scaling activities. We are full stack on all major martech and salestech tools and solutions on the market.

Educational & Support Programs

Educate and support your portfolio companies’ growth and investment-readiness & fundraising knowledge via frameworks, tools, best practices, case studies, and real-world examples from our direct experience

We provide a highly engaging mentoring, educational and advisory formats for startups and scaleups regarding Growth Engineering & Go-To-Market and Investment Readiness & Fundraising providing knowledge, insights, tools, best practices and cases developed in our consulting work.

We can provide formats like:

  • Keynotes and Workshops
  • AMA
  • 1-1 Q&A Sessions

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Investment Readiness & Fundraising

Develop all business metrics, support materials to reach investment-readiness, in order for you to raise funds from VCs and strategic investors

We partner up with startups and scaleups to assess their investment-readiness and to identify and close the gaps in both content and delivery of the investment case.

We furthermore support investment-ready companies end-to-end on the whole process to raise formal funding rounds from regional or international VC and strategic investors.

Global Ecosystem Partnerships

Get access to novel global tech and startup ecosystems and their respective markets and industries enabling softlanding opportunities for your portfolio companies or to strike strategic partnerships.

We provide access to global tech ecosystems (40+ countries) in which we have active network of collaborations, engagements, team members, and relationships, in order to accelerate your or your portfolio strategic market entry.

We can provide services like:

  • Softlanding / Hardlanding
  • Strategic Partnerships (Research, Scouting, Dealmaking)

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Growth & Go-To-Market

Develop your company’s global growth with us by implementing strategies and tactics across different audiences, traction channels and funnels

We partner up with mainly B2B tech startups and scaleups to tackle their growth challenges, by providing mentoring, advisory or operational support, by including our venture experience, tailored tools, tested best practices and processes.

We cover everything from growth engine setup, through experimentation and validation of new markets, to executing go-to-market and building growth cases to be used in scaling activities. We are full stack on all major martech and salestech tools and solutions on the market.

Read our Client Stories & Case Studies

Accelerators & Incubators & STPs
Portfolio Development & Growth
We supported Wayra’s portfolio companies in LatAm on growth and investment readiness topics with tailored 1-1 mentoring sessions
#Agritech #Latin America
We supported Wayra, a global accelerator by Spain-HQed Telco giant Telefonica, and their portfolio companies in LatAm on growth and investment readiness topics with tailored 1-1 mentoring sessions. We were selected because of our capability of working with global ventures and in handling different business models and industries. 12 months after the program startups raised seed and Series A rounds
Accelerators & Incubators & STPs
Portfolio Development & Growth
We provided ABC Accelerator with multiple growth mentoring programs for all of their portfolio companies with a mix of onsite and remote activities.
#Europe
We provided Ljubljana-based ABC Accelerator with our highly interactive and high-octane Growth Days Program since 2015 by delivering a mix of onsite workshops, and onsite and remote 1-1 mentoring and follow up sessions. We worked with over 100+ startups and scaleups in 5 different batches on a wide range of industries and challenges.
Accelerators & Incubators & STPs
Educational & Support Programs
We supported VSV Capital and Accelerator during their startup selection processes and in the development of all their portfolio companies
#Agritech #Asia Pacific
We supported Vietnam-based VSV Accelerator, a top tier early stage startup accelerator in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, to filter and prioritize the most promising startups in their program selection processes. During the programs we advised their portfolio companies on growth and fundraising with a highly engaging and tailored 1-1 activity.
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These messages keep our motivation high and our team going strong

Jaime Sotomayor
Former Program Manager & Director | Wayra Hispam

” Frank from FFA helped our portfolio companies a lot and we are really thankful that he took the time and resources to support them on international growth & fundraising topics “

Ksenja Jaklic
Program Coordinator | ABC Accelerator

“ Frank from Fast Forward has been one of our best-rated mentors since 2015 and his knowledge and experiences on growth have been of great value to our startups. “

Linh Han
Founding Partner | VSV Capital

“FFA has been a key resource for our portfolio, providing plenty of valuable knowledge and hands-on support to our teams. And we value to still having them in our mentor roster to keep supporting companies moving forward.“

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Explore our Content & Resources

Government & Agencies
European Technology Ecosystems – Insights, Stakeholders and Success Cases
Europe has shown to be a leading technology ecosystem in the world. We created a white paper digging into the State of European Technology Report and providing some examples of interesting stakeholders and success cases in each of the national
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Growth & Go-To-Market
Accelerators & Incubators & STPs
Our First Experience with the Slovenian Startup Ecosystem (2015)
In 2015 I had the unique chance to visit Slovenia (for the first time), we were invited by ABC Accelerator in Ljubljana, and tell the story about the startup ecosystem there.
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Accelerators & Incubators & STPs
FinTech Accelerators in Southeast Asia (SEA) – Ultimate List (2016)
Accelerators play an important role within startup ecosystems, as they provide priceless access to mentors, allow founders to receive expert product feedback, provide funding and offer various opportunities to pitch to investors. In this piece we researched the FinTech Accelerators
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FAQ

Our programs and services are best designed and fit for mainly B2B tech companies with an existing product and ideally with PMF already and experiencing early, traction, aiming to raise a first formal investment round (Series A+). We are industry-agnostic, 80%+ of the IR & Fundraising challenges are common to every industry.

But we also worked with B2C, seed companies, or pre-PMF startups, especially in the low-touch services like chat and mentoring.

We don’t have a crystal ball and can’t predict the future of markets. We focus on having you 100% venture-worthy and investment-ready and maximize your reach to fit investors. We are looking to be more efficient and ideally more effective than if you would be doing fundraising yourselves.

As a side note, in the last 10+ years our portfolio and client companies raised $300M+ in formal and informal venture capital.

Usually we do “investment brokering” only in specific cases: when we have equity / vested interest in the company, or the company hired us for other high-value services like venture growth.

After you inquire / apply to any of the services or programs we’ll review the materials and come back to you with an answer.

 

We don’t have a fixed price list, because we work across different regions and ecosystems. –> Please inquire/apply to the specific service and we’ll come back to you with a tailored service proposal and pricing related to it.

In general lines we try to be aggressive on our business models, asking for a mix of retainer fees and success fees (which could include rev-share, commissions on the value created, stock options, or a mix of these), so we can align with our clients’ interests.

It depends on the situation.

We either:

  • Charge service fees which include some mix of retainer fees and success/performance fees, especially for the more complex services

or

  • Hold equity in your companies and therefore are providing the service at competitive prices to appreciate our equity holding

or

  • Are working with you on other services (e.g. venture growth) and therefore can provide IR & Fundraising services as a cheap add-on