Barclays Black Founder Accelerator 2025 for UK Businesses – YOA

Deadline: May 22, 2025

Applications are open for the Barclays Black Founder Accelerator 2025. Join the 12-week accelerator, the place you’ll collaborate with business leaders to construct and refine a progress technique designed for lengthy-time period success. You’ll concentrate on the place to channel your power, experiment quickly, and make knowledge-backed choices to scale your enterprise successfully.

This accelerator is designed to drive actual funding outcomes by means of skilled-led Funding Growth Workshops, Business Audits, Investor Office Hours, and tailor-made introductions to sector-particular traders. Participants may even profit from pitch deck opinions and suggestions from the Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIRs), peer-to-peer pitch apply classes, an in-particular person skilled-led pitch occasion, and 30-minute angel funding workplace hours.

This accelerator goes past the standard pitch day by providing founders direct, ongoing entry to business specialists and traders. Over 25+ hours of stay workshops and 1:1 teaching, they are going to show you how to develop your progress technique, determine your key metrics, and grasp the channels that drive your progress. They will work hand-in-hand with you to foster a daring, metrics-pushed mindset to scale successfully.

Benefits

• Strategic Business Audit
• Investor Relations & Introductions
• AI-powered Tools Support
• Expert Mentoring & Coaching
• Exclusive Access to Partner Discounts and Benefits
• Lifetime membership to the Foundervine neighborhood

Eligibility

Open to companies that:

• Uses digital know-how and/or AI to function or ship their worth proposition.
• Are able to scale i.e. both seed stage or past, acquired funding from non-public investor, Launched, stay and functioning MVP, Revenue-generating.
• Is a UK-registered enterprise.

Your Team:

• At least 1 founder (or C-suite) self-identifies as Black or of Black heritage
• You have confirmed experience in your business
• You can be found to attend all of the masterclasses over the 12-week interval

Application

There are solely 25 areas accessible on this distinctive accelerator, delivered by means of a mixture of digital and in-particular person occasions from June by means of to October 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Barclays Black Founder Accelerator.