Promising startups struggle to communicate value.
Build an accelerator program where impact and growth are measured together
Else Thinking helps accelerators embed Impact Due Diligence into their programs, giving startups, investors and funders a common framework for evaluating growth, impact and long-term value.
We help make it part of the commercialization journey from day one.
Impact is often added too late.
Most accelerator programs help startups validate technology, business models and market opportunities. Impact is often added later as reporting, storytelling or funding compliance.
This creates a disconnect. Accelerators seek measurable impact. Founders focus on innovation and commercialization. Investors evaluate growth potential and risk. Each stakeholder uses different language, different metrics, and different criteria for success.
Impact remains difficult to compare.
Program outcomes are difficult to demonstrate.
Investors lack a consistent framework for evaluation.
A different approach
Impact becomes a strategic growth tool.
Impact should be integrated into commercialization from the beginning. When impact is embedded throughout the accelerator journey, startups develop stronger business cases, impact becomes measurable and investor discussions become clearer.
Comparable cohort outcomes
Clearer investor discussions
Demonstrable program results
What we provide
Support for startups and the program behind them.
For participating startups
Impact Due Diligence
- Impact Due Diligence Report
- Action plan for growth and impact
- Investor Readiness
For the accelerator
Impact framework
- Stronger cohort insights
- Better stakeholder and funder reporting
- A differentiated accelerator offering
For program teams
Capability building
We help accelerator teams build internal capability to maintain and evolve an impact-driven program over time, so the framework becomes part of how future cohorts are evaluated and supported.
Built for
Programs turning science into market-ready value.
Deep tech accelerators
University incubators
Research commercialization programs
Science parks
Climate innovation programs
Health innovation programs
Experience across the innovation ecosystem
Tested through more than 100 science-based and innovation-driven cases.
The methodology has been piloted in Europe and used by organizations across the innovation and investment ecosystem, including research organizations, innovation accelerators, foundations and investors.
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