ABC Accelerator (ABC) is a 4-month seed stage accelerator program backed by a number of private and institutional investors from Slovenia and the Balkans. Since its launch in 2015, ABC graduated 200+ startups and scaleups in dozens of batches.
ABC Accelerator understood that Slovenia and the Balkans, being an emerging startup ecosystem, lacked certain skills and experience related to international growth (typical of a pre-Series A scaleup) that were the main challenge for the further development of startups once they left the accelerator.
Fast Forward Advisors supported ABC Accelerator on all topics regarding growth (from go-to-market, to growth system engineering) via our Portfolio Development & Growth Service, delivering both 1-many workshops and 1-1 mentoring and consulting to all active batches and highly tailored operational support to selected graduated high potential startups and scaleups.
“ 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. “
“ 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. “
ABC Accelerator (ABC) is a 4-month seed stage accelerator program backed by a number of private and institutional investors from Slovenia and the Balkans. Since its launch in 2015, ABC graduated 200+ startups and scaleups in dozens of batches. Some notable alumni from this program are Viberate (successful ICO of USD 10M+ in 5 minutes, read here for more infos) and FruttaWeb (competing with Amazon Fresh in Europe, growing at double digits) to name a few.
They opened two new locations in Germany and Silicon Valley to further support the graduated companies.
ABC Accelerator understood that Slovenia and the Balkans, being an emerging startup ecosystem, lacked certain skills and experience related to international growth (typical of a pre-Series A scaleup) that were the main challenge for the further development of startups once they left the accelerator.
“The Series A Crunch” in Europe is also reflecting this fact and not many startups reach scaleup status and produce the required unit economics to solidly produce a venture-worthy VC-backable investment case.
ABC Accelerator was looking to create a partnership with a potential partner that would be able to provide both educational, but also hands-on consulting and operational support services.
Fast Forward Advisors supported ABC Accelerator on all topics regarding growth (from go-to-market, to growth system engineering) via our Portfolio Development & Growth Service, including:
a) Onsite 1-many Growth Workshops (educational content + real startup/scaleup cases from our portfolio)
b) Onsite and Remote 1-1 Growth Mentoring and Consulting (lasting around 1-2 hours each going into 3 specific questions or challenges from each startup)
c) Remote 1-1 Growth Consulting and Operational Support (with selected startups to resolve specific questions, problems or challenges around growth)
The sectors of the batches included:
– Smart Cities
– Smart Living & HealthTech
– RetailTech
– IoT / IoE
– Intelligent Things (Hardware & Smart Devices)
– DeepTech
Our Impact
We worked with 200+ startups and scaleups, providing 1,000+ hours of support. You can find more information about the programs on the ABC website and about the alumni on the ABC Alumni website and here below.
Some notable names of startups include:
