Armenia Startup Academy
Dormant - playbook intact
- Ran
- October 2017 to 2023
- Formats
- Pre-acceleration and Traction
- Mandates
- EU-SMEDA, EU-ITTD, EFSE Entrepreneurship Academy, Viva-MTS
- Delivered
- 121 companies involved, 91 graduated, $10M+ raised by alumni
The flagship program and the one that produced most of the alumni pipeline. Pre-acceleration took teams from a technical idea to a testable business; the Traction program took companies that already had a product and pushed them toward revenue and investment.
Seven Demo Day cohorts ran between February 2018 and September 2022, with a final Traction Batch 3 Demo Day in January 2023. The selection process, curriculum, mentor matching and demo-day format are documented and reusable.