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Boston Impact Accelerator

Get $15K to accelerate your startup's growth and make a lasting impact

Join a 2-week in-person Bootcamp in Boston to get strategic clarity, chart your growth roadmap, and fundraise effectively. Apply proven frameworks using 30+ startup AI agents to refine your product, customer acquisition strategy, business model, pitch deck, and fundraising strategy. Learn directly from successful startups, investors, and leaders at innovation hubs such as HubSpot, Microsoft, Mastercard, Snowflake, Acumen Fund, and MIT Sloan Executive Education, amongst others. Pitch your startup to investors, mentors, and innovators at Demo Day in Boston.

 

Your journey doesn’t end there - continue with 3 months of weekly online check-ins to achieve your milestones. Get full access to 12 months of the Global Innovators Community, an AI-powered learning platform with mentorship, investor insights, and a global founder network to support your journey.

Key Features

Proven Entrepreneurship Frameworks


Apply MIT's 'Disciplined Entrepreneurship', Google Venture's 'Sprint', HubSpot's 'Loop' and 'Theory of Change' frameworks and more to maximize your chances of success.

Startup AI Agents to drive your growth


Leverage 30+ AI agents plus custom-built agents tailored to your startup, to get strategic clarity, streamline operations and fundraise effectively.

Expert Mentorship and Innovation Hub Visits


Learn from top mentors, investors, and work with BonBillo experts to refine your product, customer acquisition strategy, business model, investor pitch, and fundraising strategy. Gain on-the-ground insights from visits to successful founders, investors, and corporate innovation leaders.

Collaborate, Partner, and Grow Together


Build lasting friendships with your cohort of ambitious mission-driven founders. Learn, work and grow alongside your peers in a vibrant office space with amenities at Impact Hub, CIC Boston.

Demo Day


Pitch your startup to a curated audience of investors, mentors, and partners at Demo Day in Boston. Get direct feedback from investors and open doors to fundraising and partnership opportunities.

Weekly Check-Ins & Global Innovators Community


Stay on track with 3 months of weekly check-ins to hit your growth and fundraising milestones. Keep building momentum with 12 months of access to the Global Innovators Community, an AI-powered learning platform where founders share learnings, celebrate wins, and benefit from mentorship, investor insights, and global events.

Partner Perks


Get $50,000+ in partner perks from HubSpot for Startups, AWS, Google Cloud for Startups Program, Carta, and Customer Camp to extend your runway and scale smarter.

Design Sprint with Adoniram Sides, Senior Product Manager, Upserve
Design Sprint with Adoniram Sides, Senior Product Manager, Upserve
Mentorship with John Breslin, Senior Lecturer at National University of Ireland Galway
Mentorship with John Breslin, Senior Lecturer at National University of Ireland Galway
Investment Readiness workshop with Julia Turnbull, Assistant Director of Student Programs at <br>MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
Investment Readiness workshop with Julia Turnbull, Assistant Director of Student Programs at
MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
Team Strengths Profile workshop with Rachel O'Neil, Founder at PeopleNova
Team Strengths Profile workshop with Rachel O'Neil, Founder at PeopleNova
Social Entrepreneurship Framework
Social Entrepreneurship Framework

Program Schedule

 

Week 1 - Disciplined Entrepreneurship, High Performing Teams

Apply the “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” canvas to assess your startup’s progress and identify areas for improvement.

Understand key characteristics that lead to high performing teams.  Define your decision-making process.

Week 2 - Investment Readiness - VilCap's VIRAL Framework, Objectives & Key Results

Apply Village Capital’s VIRAL framework to evaluate your startup’s stage / progress.  Learn to communicate your startup’s stage, milestones and metrics to investors.

Set your Objectives and Key Results, “a management methodology that helps to ensure that the company focuses efforts on the same important issues throughout the organization” as defined by John Doerr in “Measure What Matters”.  This methodology has been successfully applied by Intel, Google, Amazon, Bill Gates Foundation, LinkedIn, Twitter, Spotify, Adobe and Accenture.

Week 3 - Identify your Target Customer, Team Canvas and Strengths

Review the selection of your beachhead market and target customer.

Define your social impact startup’s purpose, values and culture using the “Team” canvas.  Understand your team’s strengths and identify any gaps you’d like to fill.

Week 4 - Design Sprint, Solution Design

Apply Sprint to design and test a prototype with customers to validate key product assumptions.  Develop a product plan based on feedback received.

Refine your value proposition, core and competitive positioning.

Week 5 - Customer Acquisition Process

Refine your go-to-market strategy and design your customer acquisition process applying HubSpot’s “Flywheel” framework and Drift’s “Conversational Marketing” framework.

Week 6 - 7 - Business Model and Social Impact

Evaluate various business models to maximize value creation for your customer and align timing of value creation with your payouts.  Compute your startup’s unit economics (LTV and COCA) to validate it is a sustainable in the long-term.

Develop your Theory of Change with clear impact metrics to communicate your social impact with all stakeholders.

Week 8 - 9 - Pitch Preparation

Apply Andy Raskin’s “Strategic Storytelling” framework to develop your strategic narrative.  Prepare to pitch your social impact startup to the local innovation community on Demo Day.

Week 10 - Fundraising Strategy

Develop a fundraising strategy and identify best-fit funding sources.  Learn about crowdfunding options available.

Week 11 - Demo Day

Pitch to the local innovation community in Boston.  Launch a crowdfunding campaign (optional).

Meet our Alumni

Dan Wexler
Dan Wexler
Co-Founder, EatWell Meal Kits
The BonBillo Impact Accelerator experience has been incredibly valuable, equipping us with excellent frameworks and tools to be a high-growth, high-impact startup, as well as offering high-quality mentorship.
Boston Spring Impact Accelerator 2019
Kevin Hall
Kevin Hall
Co-Founder, EatWell Meal Kits
The support of the BonBillo team has been instrumental in the traction generated by our startup: our acceptance into MassChallenge, deployment of a crowdfunding campaign, and 11 partnership agreements with community organizations for product pilots!
Boston Spring Impact Accelerator 2019
Marianna Novellino
Marianna Novellino
Product Manager, Watts Water Technologies
BonBillo helped increase my network… The network that BonBillo offers on mentorship, presenters, people that help you build your team and work on your soft skills as a leader. It’s something that you don’t find everywhere.
Boston Social Impact Incubator 2017
Kyle Kornack
Kyle Kornack
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Green Gas
Entrepreneurs, like the friends I made during this program, will be the ones who will shape the future.As for Medyear, we found out we could meet a niche need within the HIV/AIDS narrative...I had the best time and came away with so much. Big heartfelt thank you to the BonBillo team and SBC team, and others (Oliver, Papa Trill, etc).
Boston Spring Impact Incubator 2019
David Cooch
David Cooch
Co-Founder and Operations Director, Green Gas
The real value of the program is for entrepreneurs to fast track their professional development and company's progress. Suraj, Rachel, and Julia are all very knowledgeable and wonderful to work with, and their experience covers a wide breadth of facets of running a company. They bring in expert speakers to compliment the program work. I spent many hours in mentor sessions with Suraj where we made fantastic progress and I felt myself taking massive steps forward in my understanding of entrepreneurship.
Boston Spring Impact Accelerator 2019
Cyrus Sabouri
Cyrus Sabouri
Director, MasterCard
BonBillo was an opportunity to apply an approach and get some good feedback to see if there is viability in an idea. This is about whether there is commercial viability for a startup.
Boston Social Impact Incubator 2017

Pricing

Price of $3,499 includes co-working space, events and excursions. It excludes flights to Boston, accommodation, daily food and commute.

Equity Offer

We invest $15,000 in your social impact startup at your current valuation. If we are the first investor, we typically take 0.5 - 2% equity in exchange for the investment. Every offer is tailored to your stage of progress, ensuring alignment with your growth journey.

Equity Back Guarantee:
In order to reduce risk for entrepreneurs, we offer an equity back guarantee subject to certain limitations. Teams may repurchase their equity stake at the purchase price within 3 days after the end of the Accelerator program if they deem that the program has not provided value to their company.

Who is the program for?

Mission-driven founders at pre-seed and seed stage startups in the United States, who have gained initial traction and are now refining their product, customer acquisition strategy, business model, and investment pitch.

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Get $15,000 to accelerate your social impact startup. Pitch to the local innovation community on Demo Day.

Dates : Coming in 2026

Pricing: $3,499

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