Announcing Encode Club’s Solana Accelerator — Apply with your project!
Introducing Encode Club’s Solana Accelerator, an eight-week online program starting on 2nd November designed to transform the most promising Hackathon and early-stage Bootcamp projects into fully-fledged startups.
This accelerator offers a unique opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs to receive expert guidance, mentorship, and resources tailored to the Solana ecosystem. Throughout the program, participants will gain valuable insights on product development, fundraising, go-to-market strategies, and more, all aimed at turning their innovative ideas into successful ventures.
Accelerator Concept
The Encode Club’s Solana Accelerator is a follow-up to the Encode Summer Hackathon Sponsored by the Solana Foundation and the Encode Autumn Bootcamp (which is currently ongoing). This accelerator is designated for Encode participants of past or present Encode x Solana programmes, but there may be an opportunity for others if the seats don’t get filled. Hackers who submitted a project during the hackathon and bootcamp participants will get first opportunity to join the accelerator. We’d love to see demonstrable projects hackers already put efforts into while they were involved in our programmes.
Apply With Your Project
Only a limited number of projects (teams) will be selected, which makes our application process very competitive. Previous hackathon and current bootcamp participants will be reviewed first, but don’t let that discourage you — we’d love to see your project! After receiving a message confirming you have successfully applied, we kindly ask our applicants to wait for a follow-up email from our Programme Manager regarding the next steps.
Overview
- Accelerate your project to become a startup
- Weekly workshops and 1–1 sessions
- Our team helps you with everything from technical building, design, product testing and fundraising
- Assisted by mentors, leading investors and entrepreneurs in the space
- After the accelerator, we help you go full-time and raise funding
Eligibility
- Any high-quality individual or team building on Solana will be allowed to apply to participate
- Your project has a higher chance of acceptance if it was built during our Hackathon or Bootcamp
- The programme will take place online, so anyone in the world can take part
- As part of this accelerator, you do not have to commit full-time to your project or incorporate a company (you will have time commitments of 2–3 hours of calls per week as a minimum)
- So long as your project has not received a significant amount of equity or token funding, you will be allowed to apply for the programme
- Teams can be made up of 1–6 people
Workshop Topics
- Welcome Event
- Startup Method
- Design
- VC Workshop
- AMA
- Grants and Fundraising
- Pitch Practice
- Pitch Day
About Solana
Solana is a blockchain built for mass adoption. It’s a high-performance network that is utilized for a range of use cases, including finance, NFTs, payments, and gaming. Solana operates as a single global state machine and is open, interoperable and decentralized.
About the Solana Foundation
The Solana Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in dedicated to the decentralization, adoption and security of the Solana ecosystem. For more information, please visit: https://solana.org/
About Encode Club
Encode Club is a web3 education community learning and building together through fantastic programmes with the leading protocols in the space. Together we organize programmes like education series, bootcamps, hackathons, and accelerators both online and in person. We then help our community get jobs and funding for projects and startups.
