The STRIDE Accelerator is specifically designed for hard tech startups - those with a high-tech physical product - that have already completed significant customer validation. Most participants have completed I-Corps Teams and all participants have conducted 100 or more customer interviews.

​The STRIDE Accelerator is designed to cover the topics pure customer discovery programs do not, like: 

• Solidifying your minimum viable product specification
• Branding and marketing
• Testing a customer acquisition process
• Exploring revenue models and pricing
• Generating detailed financial projections
• Building sales skills
• Pitching and fundraising

​The STRIDE Accelerator utilizes a cohort based model with a group of 3-5 hard tech companies meeting weekly on Tuesdays from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. 

Program Dates

• Applications Due for Fall 2021 Cohort: July 23
• Meeting kickoff: Tuesdays, August , 10 2021, 3:00 to 5:00 pm

Program Metrics

• Launch date: 9/3/2019
• Cohorts completed: 2
• Companies graduated: 7
• Funding raised: $900,000

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Portfolio companies

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Special thanks to UARF's STRIDE Accelerator sponsor:

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