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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 2:00 to 4:00 pm. 
Program Dates
  • Applications Due for Spring 2021 Cohort: February 15, 2021
  • Meetings: Tuesdays, March 2, 2021 to July 13, 2021, 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Program Metrics
  • Launch date: 9/3/2019
  • Cohorts completed: 2
  • Companies graduated: 7
  • Funding raised: $900,000

Portfolio   companies
Special thanks to UARF's STRIDE Accelerator sponsor: