The Startup Pre-accelerator

The pre-accelerator helps startups validate early-stage ideas, design a functioning business model and move towards having an MVP

Join the Startup pre-accelerator and turn your idea into an operating startup!

“Having an idea is 1% of the whole process, and the other 99% is executing that idea.” Sten Saar, founder and manager of Zego.

If you have an early-stage technology idea and want to take your first decisive steps towards making it your business, then the Tehnopol Startup pre-accelerator is intended for you.

The pre-accelerator will help you validate your idea, assess its commercial potential, and move with a mentor towards having an MVP or a prototype. The focus is on practical work, and taking clear and reasoned decisions, and not just on searching for inspiration.

You do not need to have previous experience of business or a product that is fully ready in order to join the programme, but you will need to have a technological idea and be ready for intensive and dedicated work.

At the end of the pre-accelerator your idea will have been validated and you will have a clear commercial focus, an understanding of the market and competition, and a first MVP or prototype concept, and you will be ready to move to the next stage of development.

The best team will get the chance to move straight to the selection panel for the main accelerator of the Tehnopol Startup Incubator.

The pre-accelerator is run in Estonian or English depending on the preferences of the group.

The pre-accelerator will run again in spring 2027. Register your interest and be among the first to know when registration opens.

When

Spring 2027

Duration

4-days accelerator

Cost

Free of charge

The Startup Pre-accelerator offers you

  • a four-day practical programme to validate your idea
  • support from a mentor in assessing its commercial potential
  • tools for deciding on a business model, marketing, finances and the pitch
  • a clear concept of an MVP or prototype
  • feedback and the chance to move on to the next stage of development

Timetable of the pre-accelerator

Topics that are critical for launching a startup and that are covered during the accelerator.

  1. The idea, the problem, and the view of investors

    Day 1

  2. The business model, marketing, financing and the pitch

    Day 2

  3. Working independently

    Day 3

  4. Pitching and feedback

    Day 4

Kätlin-Carolin Noormägi

Kätlin-Carolin Noormägi

Community Manager of the Accelerator

+37256939881
katlin@tehnopol.ee

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