Barclays Black Founder Accelerator 2026 for UK-registered Businesses – YOA

Deadline: April 20, 2026

Applications are open for the Barclays Black Founder Accelerator 2026. Join the 12-week accelerator, the place you’ll collaborate with trade leaders to construct and refine a sturdy progress technique constructed for the long run. They will assist you optimise the place to take a position your vitality, educating you to experiment quickly and make information-led selections to scale your enterprise successfully.

This accelerator provides extra than simply conventional masterclasses, they supply a platform for significant, ongoing entry with consultants and traders. Through over 25+ hours of interactive workshops and 1:1 teaching, you’ll develop your progress technique, determine your key metrics, and grasp the channels that gas your progress. Together, they may foster the daring, analytical mindset required to take your enterprise to the following degree and scale successfully.

Benefits

They provide:

• Strategic Business Audit
• Investor Relations & Introductions
• AI-powered Tools Support
• Expert Mentoring & Coaching
• Exclusive Access to Partner Discounts and Benefits
• Pitch Training & Office Hours

Eligibility

You can apply if your enterprise:

• Utilises digital know-how and/or AI to ship its worth proposition.
• Is at an early stage (pre-seed or seed), with or with out non-public funding or income era. We’re versatile on this standards and are open to working with you based mostly on the place you’re, so long as you have got a compelling proposition.
• Is a UK-registered enterprise.

You/Your staff

• You are an formidable founder, pushed by a shared imaginative and prescient to create significant affect.
• You and your staff deliver confirmed experience in your trade, with a deep understanding of the challenges you’re addressing.
• You and a minimum of one co-founder are dedicated to attending all masterclasses and actively taking part all through the 12-week programme.
• At least one founder (or C-suite member) identifies as Black or of Black heritage.

Application

There are solely 25 areas out there on this accelerator, delivered by way of a mixture of digital and in-individual occasions from May by way of to August 2026.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Barclays Black Founder Accelerator.