For accelerators, incubators & venture studios
Two stories, one product. Programme leads and IC coordinators get a formal cycle for cohort decisions and partner approvals.
Platform leads get a proven board workflow to hand to founders precisely when they graduate or raise — the moment board work turns formal.
The programme governance cycle
Five stages: four cover the programme's own selection-committee cycle, and one is the handoff path for portfolio founders whose board work has turned formal. The handoff is a personal introduction, not a packaged channel programme — we keep that distinction honest.
Recurring selection committees, founder reviews and cohort approvals run as a real governance cycle — agenda, materials, attendance, quorum — attached to the meeting record. The same workflow that scales for venture-studio investment committees, sized appropriately for cohort intake.
Formal cohort decisions, partner approvals and venture-studio investment votes captured inside the meeting, with the rationale attached to the decision it justifies. The programme stops storing decisions in slide decks and partner email threads.
A first-board checklist and founder decision template that the programme can hand to its portfolio companies before their first investor board. It is a pack, not an automated portfolio rollout — the page is honest about that.
When a portfolio founder's board work turns formal, you introduce them to the BoardiGO startups & scale-ups path and they pick up the same workflow themselves. A personal introduction, not a packaged channel programme.
See the startups & scale-ups workflowPartner actions out of the committee, mentor commitments, founder asks and sponsor-reporting tasks — owners and due dates that survive between committee meetings and cohort milestones.
When this page fits
Programmes come in many shapes — accelerator, incubator, venture studio, scout fund, corporate innovation. Four honest checks before we take your time, so we can tell quickly whether there is a real board-work need to talk about, or whether a "nice template" is the honest read.
Recurring cohort selection, venture-studio investment committees, board-readiness curriculum or portfolio-governance enablement. Coworking spaces, events-only programmes and light mentorship circles are a different category.
Real introductions to portfolio founders, a curriculum slot for board-readiness, or a sponsor-led activation moment. Programmes with no founder activation route are a different conversation.
Who uses BoardiGO and who pays for it are often different people in a programme — programme-paid, sponsor-paid, founder-paid or VC-partner-paid. The conversation is most productive when at least one of those is on the table, even if we test it together.
Cohorts that are too early for formal board governance — pre-seed without a board, idea-stage exploration — are a different stage. If the programme has its own real selection committee, that alone is enough to qualify for the direct-IC conversation.
Where BoardiGO fits
Accelerator and incubator ecosystems already run a dozen tools. Here is where BoardiGO fits — and the neighbouring categories it leaves to the specialists.
Programmes are concentrated founder ecosystems, so we work with them one at a time — a real conversation about your cohort, not a campaign blasted at "every accelerator".
BoardiGO is for formal decisions and the cycle around them. Founder education, equity tooling, deal-flow CRMs and investor-update platforms are a different category with their own tools.
We work with programmes case by case on partner economics, co-marketing and referral pricing — scoped per programme rather than sold as a package. See /pricing/#faq-accelerator-programme for what is in market today.
An introduction is an introduction. We keep conversion measured and the language straight rather than promise that every portfolio founder adopts the workflow after a handoff.
Talk to BoardiGO
Send a sentence about your programme cadence, your portfolio governance posture and who would actually sign for either side — programme-paid, sponsor-paid, founder-paid or VC-partner-paid. We will reply with the matching path and an honest read on whether the buyer/payer split makes sense for the stage your cohort is in. No demo deck, no fake urgency.