Accelerator
Your MVP got you here. Execution gets you funded.
Vest Ventures is Romania’s only accelerator built inside a venture capital fund. Over 16 intensive weeks, ambitious tech teams work with international operators, sharpen the business behind their product, enter a European investor network and build a serious case for investment.
What you’ll experience:
_On-site workshops, bootcamps, and 1-to-1 sessions with international mentors
_ Ongoing online mentorship and progress sessions to keep momentum high
_ A one-week immersion in a leading European startup hub, designed for deep work, high-level mentorship, partner meetings, and applying your learnings in an international startup ecosystem
The Vest Ventures Accelerator uses a methodology developed with Startup Wise Guys, one of Europe’s most experienced early-stage accelerator funds.
_ A 16-week, intensive, best-in-class acceleration program built on an internationally proven framework. The curriculum combines expert-led content, mentors, hands-on workshops, applied sprint exercises, and 1-to-1 mentoring, delivered by 90% international mentors and operators.
_Teams accepted into the Accelerator will receive investment. The program is fully funded and free to attend. Founders do not pay participation fees.
_The goal is to remove financial barriers so teams can focus entirely on building, scaling, and raising capital.
Who is it for?
We are looking for early-stage, tech-driven startups that are ready to grow fast and commit fully to the program.
Ideal teams:
_ Have a working MVP
_ Have at least 2 co-founders, full-time or core team members
Show initial customer traction, such as early revenues, MRR, signed pilots, or Letters of Intent
Have already issued first invoices or validated a real market need
_ Are incorporated (or ready to incorporate) and open to relocating to the Western Romania Region
_ Aim to build a high-growth company with international ambition
Core content pillars
What we build together
- Company Building
Clarify your strategy, business model, priorities, founder roles and operating rhythm.
- Product and Market
Strengthen your product-market fit, customer understanding, value proposition and roadmap.
- Sales and Go-to-Market
Define your ideal customer, sharpen your positioning and build a more repeatable commercial process.
- Marketing and Growth
Connect messaging, acquisition and retention to the metrics that actually move the business.
- Leadership and Execution
Build a healthier decision-making system, stronger team alignment and a company capable of moving faster.
- Fundraising
Prepare your financial model, investor story, pitch deck, data room and fundraising strategy.
- Pitching
Communicate the opportunity with clarity, authority and enough evidence to hold an investor’s attention beyond the meeting.
