Non-equity investments up to $25k, 200+ hours of mentoring sessions, 150+ meetings with investors, partner services up to $50k, as well as extensive networking with successful founders.
Is your startup ready to take off?!
100+ mentors
from Ukraine, USA,
UK, Israel, Europe
$ 2million +
YEP alumni have received in
grants and investments
30+ startups
are the winners of USF, TechStars, WebSummit, Slush, IT Arena
🟩 Up to $25k investment for the best startups chosen at the Demo Day
🟩 Up to $50k partner services for custdev, product, and marketing
🟩 Mentor Days – days dedicated to intensive work with mentors
🟩 Office hours – 1-1 meetings with VCs from Ukraine, Europe, and the USA
Market & Competition
Pitch Training
Customer Development
Financial Model
Perks & Grants
Unit Economics
Investors Feedback
Mentors Support
VC & Fundraising
Networking
Boost your startup and get
up to $25k investments
The acceleration program is individualized for each startup - we plan the optimal combination of group bootcamps
and workshops, individual mentoring sessions, and 1-1 meetings with investors.
The program consists of two phases:
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First phase (4 weeks): group bootcamps and individual mentoring sessions for product validation, product-market-fit, and building a sales and go-to-market strategy.
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Second phase (8-10 weeks): individual mentoring sessions, 1-1 meetings with founders and investors, group Q&A sessions. Pitching, unit economics, financial model, fundraising strategy, pitching and pitchdeck, Demo Day for investors.
Startups can get to the second phase only based on the results of the YEP expert board's evaluation after after completing the first phase.
The terms of participation are discussed individually with each startup during the interview. The call for applications is open until October 20.
Program schedule
08/11
First phase
Product validation
Product-market-fit
Go-to-market strategy
Sales strategy
09/12
Second phase
Unit economics
Traction and fin model
Pitching and pitch deck
Fundraising strategy
04/01
Office hours
1-1 meetings with investors
from Ukraine, Europe, and the USA. Preparation for pitching at
Demo Day
25/02
Demo Day
Pitching to investors
from Ukraine and Europe and
opportunity to get
up to $25k investment
Andriy Zaikin
Founder and CEO at YEP
Serhii Martynchuk
General Manager at Cisco
MENTORS
Alyona Kalibaba
Co-founder of SLab Ukraine
Denys Zernyshkin
Founder and CEO of Gravitec.net, Pixar.io
The YEP acceleration program is supported by the Ukraine-Moldova American Enterprise Fund, which supports initiatives to promote reforms in Ukraine and transformative projects.
Ukraine-Moldova American Enterprise Fund (UMAEF, formerly Western NIS Enterprise Fund) is a $285 million regional fund, a pioneer in Ukraine and Moldova with over 29 years of successful experience in investing in small and medium-sized companies. UMAEF was funded by the U.S. government via the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Since its inception, UMAEF’s cumulative investments total over $190 million to 143 companies employing 27,000 people and made it possible to unlock $2.4 billion for companies in Ukraine and Moldova.
Additional features
We are building a global network of partners to provide more opportunities for YEP! resident startups to develop — investments, discounts, tools, network.
Our startups
HealthTech
3D Manufacturing
Aviation Software
Marketing Platform
AI Software
Cloud Infrastructure
SaaS
Hardware
Creative Tech
Creative Tech
Martech SaaS
Interior Design
Greentech
e-commerce
Biotech
Mental Health
Founders who chose YEP
We are engineers and aviators, namely from the business side, we came to YEP with zero baggage. Meetings with mentors and Andrii Zaikin gave us this knowledge. We think that in 2021 we quickly accelerated precisely because we went to the first Zoom session with YEP in March!
Anastasiia Smyk
Founder & CEO, INPUT SOFT
