Startup Accelerator Link — What the 2025 cohort achieved in 6 months.

Six months ago, twelve teams walked into the first day of the 2025 Startup Accelerator Link cohort. This week, they walked off the Demo Day stage. This is what happened in between – the numbers, the moments that defined the cycle, and what we are taking into the next one.

Who joined the cohort.

The 2025 cohort was deliberately small. Twelve teams, picked from more than four hundred applications. Roughly half were focused on enterprise B2B, the rest split between fintech, healthtech, and developer tools.

Every team came in with a working product and at least one paying customer. The Link track is built for startups that are past the first proof point and need to find a repeatable commercial motion.

What the program looked like.

The structure was simple. Twenty-four weeks. One weekly working session, one weekly one-on-one with a sector advisor, and a heavy emphasis on operator-led workshops on pricing, sales cycles, and fundraising hygiene.

We resisted the temptation to over-program the calendar. Most of the value sat in the unstructured time between sessions – the introductions, the side conversations, the late-night Slack threads between teams.

The biggest unlocks.

Pricing rework.

Almost every team revisited their pricing model during the program. Several moved from per-seat to usage-based. A few moved from monthly to annual contracts. The average contract value across the cohort grew by 2.3x by Demo Day.

Sales process maturity.

Most of the founders had been selling on instinct. By the end of the program, every team had a documented sales process, a defined ideal customer profile, and a forecast they actually trusted.

“The cohort did not magically discover new customers. They got dramatically better at converting the ones already in front of them.”

The numbers.

• Teams in the cohort: 12
• Aggregate new revenue during the program: $4.6M
• Capital raised by cohort companies: $11.2M
• Net new hires across the cohort: 38
• Demo Day attendance: 280+ investors and corporate partners

What we are changing next cycle.

The format works, but two things will change. We are extending the program by four weeks to give late-stage commercial work more room. And we are adding a structured peer-review block where every team will dissect another team’s pipeline once a month.

What this means if you are thinking of applying.

The Link track is not for ideation. It is for teams that already have something in market and want a serious six months of operator-led acceleration. If that sounds like where you are, the door is open for the next cycle.