CELA OFFICE HOURS | MAY 2022

For Health-Tech Startups

 
 

This month, Firefly Innovations and the CUNY Public Health Innovation Accelerator are joining to power-up our next Health-focused Office Hours!

The CUNY Public Health Innovation Accelerator is an 8-week program that transforms early-stage ideas and prototypes into market ready ventures with public health impact. Venture teams are brought into a collaborative community of mentors, speakers, and peers who support each others development. All online. At no cost. June 8th to July 28th 2022 — Open for applications!

 
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How it works:

Step 1:

Step 2:

Selected founders will be matched with 4 accelerator programs from the Cela network for a 1:1 meeting with each accelerator

Step 3:

In the 1:1 meeting, founders will get insights from each mentor, as well as get further connections to: investment, hiring, sales, product, legal, accounting, and more!

 
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APPLY BY

Thursday, May 26th, 5PM EST.

SELECTED APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED ON

Friday, May 27th by email.

LIVE OFFICE HOURS

Tuesday, May 31st, 5PM EST!

 

CELA OFFICE HOURS

Accelerating Access

Accelerators have put some of our generation’s most influential companies on the map. These programs increase the chances for a founder to successfully fundraise — as well as to support founders as they build their ventures.

But they also provide founders with advocates and mentors — the biggest need for founders aside from financial capital.

So we asked ourselves: what if we could make accelerators more accessible, helping entrepreneurs of all kinds to expand their networks in meaningful ways?

Cela is partnering with the Morgan Stanley Multicultural Innovation Lab to connect founders of all kinds to capital, mentorship, and communities of support.

Morgan Stanley’s Multicultural Innovation Lab (the “Lab”) is an accelerator program that targets companies with women or multicultural founders that have the potential to develop innovative technology solutions that promote a more inclusive and sustainable future.

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Our goal:

Make a more accessible tech ecosystem by bringing the world’s top accelerators together.

 
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SO WHO’S COMING?

Confirmed Mentors

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Matching Founders with Top Accelerators

Accelerators have put some of our generation’s most influential companies on the map. These programs support founders as they build their products and brands, and increase their chances of successful fundraising. But they also provide them with advocates and mentors—which diverse founders tell us is their biggest need aside from financial capital.

So we asked ourselves: what if we could make accelerators more accessible, helping diverse innovators in tech expand their networks in meaningful ways?

Our goal:

To activate the accelerator community as a way to lay the groundwork for a more diverse, inclusive, and accessible tech ecosystem in New York City and beyond.

 
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