The Station Fintech Accelerator, powered by Highline Beta, is a four-month program designed to help you grow your company and foster corporate partnerships with Finance Montreal’s members. The program will be tailored to your specific needs to ensure that you hit your next milestone.
Sponsoring Agency: Highline Beta
Type of Fund: Accelerator, Incubation, Mentorship and/or Training
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/23/2021
Size of the Fund: Less than USD $50,000
The Station Fintech Accelerator, powered by Highline Beta, is a four-month program designed to help you grow your company and foster corporate partnerships with Finance Montreal’s members. The program will be tailored to your specific needs to ensure that you hit your next milestone.
For the inaugural cohort, they are looking for early-stage startups with a product in the market and showing signs of early traction, primarily operating in the Payments space.
The Station FinTech Montréal Accelerator is an opportunity for FinTech and InsurTech startups from across Canada to work closely with Quebec’s financial and insurance institutions.
• A true ecosystem program to help startups and big companies connect
• Focused on the needs of large financial institutions and insurers
• Pan-Canadian and operated in Montreal
• A focused “thematic” approach to bring everyone together
Thematic Cohort
Some examples of areas of interest:
• Payments everywhere
• SMBs go Digital
• Explosion in E-commerce
• Vertically-focused payments system
• Subscription everything
Program Outline/Benefits
• FOUR-MONTH PROGRAM
o The milestone-based program runs for 4 months with programming tailored to your needs, to help you move towards your next corporate partnership
• TAILORED MILESTONE-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING
o Hands-on weekly coaching from their team to help you develop a concrete growth plan incorporating sales, fundraising and corporate engagement strategy.
• COACHING AND MENTORSHIP
o Active mentorship from the Highline Beta leadership and Station Fintech Members will help you with fundraising strategy, analyze your business model assumptions, and connect with corporations.
• CORPORATE CONNECTIONS
o Curated private events, corporate pitch sessions, office hours with advisors who provide unique insights and guidance on navigating the corporate maze (i.e. procurement, compliance, legal etc.)
• INVESTMENT
o Optional: $25k upfront minimum investment from Highline Beta for 2% equity and potential further investment.
Eligibility Requirements
• Canadian & North American startups that help solve the most pressing payment-related challenges today.
• Startups helping their users with payments that have a product in the market and are showing signs of early traction.
• Startups that have solutions that would make payments safer, quicker and more reliable.
More information at: https://www.stationfintech.com/en/accelerator-informations
Eligible Countries:
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States
