WISE EdTech Accelerator 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: October 31, 2026

Applications are open for the WISE EdTech Accelerator 2026-2027. Since its inception, the WISE EdTech Accelerator has supported edtech founders from world wide in constructing and scaling modern options to key challenges in schooling. Each yr, WISE delivers a bespoke program that helps startup development via one-to-one teaching, masterclasses with business consultants, and entry to a world community of buyers and schooling specialists.

The accelerator presents two tracks:

• Local observe: The Local Track of the WISE EdTech Accelerator is designed for early stage startups (seed to pre-collection A), able to scale and enter the Qatari market. This observe offers unparalleled entry to Qatar’s quickly rising schooling sector.
• International observe: The International Track of the WISE EdTech Accelerator welcomes modern, early stage startups (seed to pre-collection A), from throughout the globe, providing an thrilling OPPORTUNITY to scale with out the necessity to give attention to any particular market.

Benefits

• Global Network – Some advantages of becoming a member of the WISE international community embrace:
  • Access to an intensive community of buyers and schooling specialists
  • International visibility via companion occasions and the WISE Summit
  • Become part of a group of edtech founders from 22 nations
• Coaching & Mentorship: A hand-picked group of consultants specializing in
  • Marketing, gross sales & fundraising
  • Product technique, growth and roadmapping
  • Market insights and positioning
• International Visibility – Selected ventures can have the chance to attend our worldwide occasions and promotion on WISE international platforms together with:
  • Global occasions similar to IFC Global Education Conference, Web Summit Qatar, London EdTech Week, and extra.
  • WISE social media platforms
  • WISE Summit in Doha, convening over 4,000 attendees from 100 nations

Eligibility

• Open to startups past the MVP stage, with proof of traction and gross sales. Typically, ventures are early stage (seed to pre-collection A), having raised lower than $500,000.
• The Accelerator is agnostic to geography, with previous cohorts together with ventures from each developed and creating nations.
• Startups should present confirmed traction and measurable affect inside their working markets. Impact is a key consideration within the choice course of.
• The Accelerator targets for-revenue ventures (NGOs and nonprofits should not eligible).
• Ventures from quite a lot of instructional subsectors, together with K12, larger schooling, {and professional} growth, are eligible.
• Preference for ventures with co-founders, as this promotes broader engagement throughout totally different areas of assist.

Selection Criteria

Each yr, a committee of main consultants in schooling and entrepreneurship helps the WISE Accelerator group within the choice course of. Applications are assessed in opposition to these standards. The program has a 5% acceptance fee.

• Team Credentials: The Accelerator prioritizes ventures with co-founders slightly than single founders. Co-founders carry numerous experience throughout totally different areas similar to product growth, advertising and marketing, and gross sales. The group should exhibit robust management and a capability to execute their imaginative and prescient, with related backgrounds in schooling, expertise, or entrepreneurship.
• Innovation: The startup ought to exhibit an modern strategy to addressing instructional challenges. Solutions must be disruptive, leveraging expertise to remodel educating and studying in significant methods. Unique product choices, groundbreaking expertise, or novel pedagogical approaches will probably be thought-about.
• Scalability: The enterprise should present potential for scaling regionally or globally. The resolution ought to have the capability to develop past preliminary markets and have a broader affect in numerous geographic contexts. Evidence of a development technique, market demand, and adaptableness to totally different schooling techniques is essential.
• Financial Sustainability: The Accelerator seeks ventures with clear plans for lengthy-time period monetary sustainability. This features a viable enterprise mannequin, potential for income technology, and proof of market traction (e.g., gross sales, fundraising). Startups should exhibit monetary planning, projections, and a path in the direction of profitability.
• Impact: Education affect is a core focus. The enterprise ought to have demonstrated measurable affect in its goal markets, with clear outcomes associated to studying outcomes, instructional entry, or empowerment. Impact ought to align with the Accelerator’s mission of bettering instructional outcomes, notably for underserved communities.

Application

Applicants will probably be required to finish the official on-line application type, in English, offering particulars together with:

• The edtech resolution and the way it works
• The downside it addresses
• The goal beneficiaries
• The motivation for becoming a member of the WISE EdTech Accelerator

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to WISE EdTech Accelerator.