This IdeasLab 7.0 cohort can undoubtedly be called the most international yet, based on the number of applications submitted. In total, we received 143 applications from universities across Ukraine, Europe, and North America! After conducting 37 interviews, we have selected 20 promising startup teams that are now one step closer to bringing their ideas to […]
The selection process for the second round of the free educational program for Ukrainian entrepreneurs, Stanford Ignite Ukraine, has concluded. Out of 892 applications, the CfE Accelerator UCU proudly announces 42 Ukrainian small and medium-sized business owners who will begin their transformative journey in March. The program includes one week of study at the Ukrainian […]
November 22 marked the grand finale of our one-of-a-kind student acceleration program, IdeasLab 6.0. Our teams showcased the startups they’ve passionately developed over the past months to an expert jury. We have four finalist teams in the program’s history for the first time: 1st finalist team + 110k UAH: PBCS – а universal system for […]
892 applications from entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized businesses of Ukraine were submitted to the Stanford Ignite Ukraine program. The CfE Accelerator UCU team is delighted to see so many ambitious people ready to take on new challenges to scale their businesses. The next stages of selection will be announced soon. We will remind that […]
On October 25, the Sheptytskyi Center hosted the second Pitch Day for the 6th batch of the IdeasLab student acceleration program from CfE Accelerator UCU, where 11 teams competed for a grant of 60,000 hryvnias. According to the voting results, the following startups received grants: PEONY, PBCS, Motyv*, Savvy, Meow. There is still a month […]
On October 24, Kyiv hosted the last Pitch Battle by CfE Accelerator UCU and Kooperativ before the finals in December. 6 teams participated in the battle, including Crosscheck, Voopty, BUD TUT, tTravel, and the Cabina AI teams won by the audience’s decision and SoftTrainer by the jury’s decision. The expert jury included Daria Yanieeva Investment […]
CfE Accelerator UCU, in collaboration with the venture syndicate Toloka.vc and Angel One Fund, has successfully launched a series of events aimed at raising the level of education in venture investing in Ukraine. The first event, titled “Ukraine Venture Hub: Where Investors Go Wild,” took place in Lviv on the eve of IT Arena, with […]
Accelerators should not only teach but also invest in startups. This was emphasized by Ivan Petrenko, Executive Director of CfE Accelerator and Managing Partner of Angel One Fund, during the panel discussion “Synergy between the state and business: how to achieve big goals together” at IT Arena in Lviv. Here are some more takeaways from the […]
On September 25, the Sheptytskyi Center hosted the first Pitch Day for the 6th cohort of the IdeasLab student acceleration program from CfE Accelerator UCU. 18 teams pitched their projects for three hours before the jury, which included Artem Horilyk, co-founder, CPO and head of PV at DrugCard, Valeriia Fadieienko, senior business analyst at Angel […]
The expertise and content of the IdeasLab student startup acceleration program grow with each new cohort! We are excited to announce that starting this September, our team of mentors and lecturers has been joined by new, highly experienced experts—true industry leaders—who are ready to support young startups in developing their ideas. A big thank you […]
A record 152 applications, 45 conducted interviews — and we have 21 selected teams of startups that are one step closer to realizing their unique ideas! Congratulations to the teams for the energetic start of the IdeasLab program at CfE Accelerator UCU. At this batch, we gathered students from various universities of Ukraine and even […]
CfE Accelerator of the Ukrainian Catholic University, in collaboration with the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is launching the second round of the free educational program for 42 Ukrainian small and medium-sized business entrepreneurs—Stanford Ignite Ukraine. The training will begin in March 2025 and will consist of one week at the Ukrainian Catholic University, four […]
Deloitte Ventures? IdeasLab Batch4? “FuckUpNight”? BazaIT? What’s going on in CfE Accelerator? Yes, we have plenty of news, so now it’s high time to show them up! First, we have launched the Batch4 of student acceleration program – IdeasLab!💡 We have selected teams with the most exciting and ambitious startup ideas such as finding a […]
The 2nd week of the ideasLab acceleration program has ended, the apogee of which was the Mentoring Roundabout This is one of the most favorite forms of communication between teams and mentors, its essence is that each team has the opportunity to communicate with several mentors for 20-30 minutes. Interestingly, such work aims not only […]
So, the first week of studying at ideasLab is over. We have already gotten to know the teams and their ideas better and are ready for fruitful work! Considering the fact that we have participants from different Ukrainian universities, our meetings are held online and only 4 teams join offline, as they are located […]
We are happy to inform you that the official website of CfE Accelerator now has a special place for the Network IQ Alliance page. UCU is a partner of the consortium since last fall, so we have already successfully finished Phase I of the project. You can read more about it at the following link. […]
The new page at CfE Accelerator is opening today – we are starting the third batch of the student acceleration program called ideasLab. During 12 weeks, the 14 selected teams would have an opportunity to: improve their knowledge in the startup field; validate their idea; find a portrait of the client; try to pitch; […]
What do CfE Accelerator program participants get? The most valuable thing that our participants could get is experience, knowledge, networking, and support. This is something that stays with our alumni forever! Not every startup “fires” and has a viable idea, however, precisely because of gaining this kind of experience, delving into its “failures” and […]
This is the very moment to finally announce the first batch of Ukrainian startups who receive $50k grant support. There are six teams, six different ideas, approaches, aims, and fields. Meet our heroes Book Box [Kyiv] CEO Andrii Orlyk Book Box is a B2B reading service. The startup is convinced that reading increases team engagement, […]
It’s been a week since we united to defend our past, our present, and not just our future – the last part world is still struggling to comprehend. It’s been a week. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have been defending our home in combat from the Russian enemy, who has infringed our freedom, ruining our […]
