ACCELERATOR TIMELINE

ACCELERATOR DETAILS

APPLY

Applications for 2025 closed on February 17, 2025 at 11:59pm.

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible to apply, your startup must:

• have at least one team member affiliated with UConn (undergraduate or graduate student, faculty, staff or alumni).
• have at least one founding member available to participate in ALL scheduled program dates, including commuting to our Hartford center 1-2 days per week.
• be incorporated (LLC, S-Corp, C-Corp etc.) by June of the current year.

TIMING + COMMITMENT

Participants spend three days per week over eight weeks in the summer developing skills needed to bring new products and technologies to market and receiving one-on-one coaching from industry experts. Sessions are held from 9am-3pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays; and some early-evening networking events or other activities may be scheduled.

*The Summer 2025 cohort will be hybrid, with 1-2 of the three days per week located at our center in Hartford. Startups should expect to spend additional time outside of the program hours working on their business.

SUMMER 2025 SCHEDULE

Week 1: 6/2 , 6/3, 6/5, 9am-3pm
Week 2: 6/9, 6/10, 6/12, 9am-3pm
Week 3: 6/16, 6/17, 6/19, 9am-3pm
Week 4: 6/23, 6/24, 6/26, 9am-3pm
4th of July Break
Week 5: 7/7, 7/8, 7/10, 9am-3pm
Week 6: 7/14, 7/15, 7/17, 9am-3pm
Week 7: 7/21, 7/22, 7/24, 9am-3pm
Week 8: 7/28, 7/29 , 7/31, 9am-3pm

FUNDING

Each startup is awarded $15,000 (non-equity, non-diluting) in funding to aid in business development. Of which, up to $5,000 (per student) can be used to pay a member of the team to participate in the program. This team member must be a current UConn student or recent UConn graduate (May 2025), and it will be paid as fellowship – half at start of program, half at completion.