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Ciru for Accelerators

Help founders reach relevant experience in your network.

Ciru connects current founder needs with willing mentors, peers, investors or other support participants you invite. Your team can review feedback on the support founders received.

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The opportunity

Access is part of your promise. Relevant support makes it credible.

A list of mentors, investors and partners does not show whether founders received help with the challenges that matter now. Your team needs to connect available support with current needs, and explain what that support contributed.
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Solution

Connect a founder priority with relevant support.

Founders share what they need and can offer. Ciru identifies relevant willing participants within your programme or portfolio network, facilitates mutually accepted email introductions and gathers follow-up feedback.
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THE INTRODUCTION JOURNEY

From a priority to a useful conversation

Looking for

Experience with a founder challenge

Can offer

Relevant mentor experience

Relevant people within your invited network

Founder + willing mentor

  1. 01 / Mutual interest

    Both people agree to connect

  2. 02 / Introduction

    Email introduction

  3. 03 / Feedback

    Follow-up feedback

    Did the support address the need?

Illustrative workflow, not a live product screenshot or customer results.
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Benefits

What your team gains.

Make existing support easier to access.

Help founders find relevant experience beyond the people they already know.

Support programme coordination.

Use a defined introduction and follow-up process.

Learn where support helps.

Review reported usefulness and needs that remain unmet.

Business impact

Potential business impact

Useful support can strengthen the programme experience. Evidence of that support can inform programme improvement and discussions with founders, funders or partners. Fees, funding and sponsorship decisions depend on the organisation's wider proposition; founder revenue or investment is not accelerator revenue.
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Ciru for Accelerators

A relevant reason to connect.

Customer & Business Partner Introductions

Make commercial access part of your founder offer.

Help founders meet relevant potential customers and collaborators already in your network. Assess whether the conversations support the progress your programme aims to deliver.

Investor Introductions

Give fundraising access a clear scope.

Connect founders with relevant, willing investors who have joined your network. Offer an introduction opportunity without promising investment.

Expert & Mentor Introductions

Put existing support capacity to work.

Match a current founder challenge with relevant experience in your network. Make specialist access a practical programme benefit.

Peer Support

Extend the usefulness of your portfolio network.

Help founders access relevant operating experience across the people you invite. Keep peer knowledge available beyond the active cohort.

See Ciru in action

See the path from founder need to relevant introduction.

Review the workflow with your programme team and define what evidence you want to collect.
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From conversation to launch

Getting started

  1. 1

    Discuss the programme objective.

    Choose the founder needs and support audience to prioritise.

  2. 2

    Agree on scope and price.

    Review the proposal with programme, finance and relevant funding stakeholders.

  3. 3

    Launch the workflow.

    Set up your workspace and invite founders and relevant support participants after agreement and payment.

Your team configures the workspace and invites participants from your existing network. Include participant recruitment and follow-up in your launch plan.

Give every stakeholder a clear basis for the decision.

Use the demo to review the workflow with your delivery team. Include any data, security or procurement requirements in your quote request.

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Good to know

Questions

Make relevant support a stronger part of your programme proposition.

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Looking for peer exchange as a programme leader?

Tell us the priorities you would like to discuss with peers.

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