| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.11.2025 | GIRAF™ Program Launch | 🚀 GIRAF™ Program Launch: 9 Hessen Startups Begin Their Investment Readiness Journey
We just marked the official start of GIRAF™ (Get Investment Ready by Accelerator Frankfurt). Nine promising startups from Hessen have joined our intensive 8... |
| 17.01.2024 | Empowering Women, Empowering Business | Empowering Women, Empowering Business: Creating an Inclusive Future |
| 17.01.2024 | Sign up to the Female Founders Project | Empowering Women, Empowering Business |
| 17.01.2024 | Do you dare to be yourself at your workplace? mindclip.com | Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues,
It has been a great ride! We have had nine waves; six onsite programs in Frankfurt and three online (due to covid). The last two we did for free and dedicated them to female founders. We have had the joy of w... |
| 25.05.2021 | Newsletter – Forward this to a female founder | Testimonial from our alumni female founder Miia Khan:
To be able to change the world we need to take an active part. We need founders who solve modern-day issues. Accelerator Frankfurt is a great way to fine-tune the initial concept and pi... |
| 25.05.2021 | Newsletter May 2021 – Wave 9 | So, Accelerator Frankfurt GmbH launched its Wave9 dedicated to Female Founders. We would like to introduce them: |
| 22.03.2021 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter March 2021 | Female Founders are back
We are opening our applications now for WAVE9 - Female Founders.
Time commitment: 2 hours a week.
Duration: three months.
Location: anywhere.
APPLY https://bit.ly/2zIf1Cu. |
| 01.12.2020 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (November 2020) | Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Female Founders - JOIN OUR Demo Day
Time flies and we are just four weeks away from our Female Founder's Demo Day. The above picture depicts our amazing workshop with Deep Work Studio, on design sprints. The F... |
| 22.10.2020 | Female Founders Accelerator Frankfurt 2020 | Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Female Founders,
We are on our way. Wednesday 21st of October, we launched our Wave8 with the final selection for the Female Founders Program. We have selected four female founders who will embark with us on a... |
| 22.10.2020 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (October 2020) | Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Female Founders,
We are happy to announce that the final selection for the Female Founders Program has been made. We have selected four female founders who will embark with us on a three-month-long program to ... |
| 17.09.2020 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (September 2020) | Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Female Founders,
The hardest thing about starting a company is to have the courage to take the first step.Have you been thinking of starting a business, but don't know where or how to start? Would you like to ... |
| 19.08.2020 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (August 2020) | Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues,
Summer is still on and we hope you are all enjoying the warm weather. Schools have begun and we need to start getting back to routine, as much as that can be possible. Covid-19 is still having an effect on ou... |
| 11.08.2020 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (July2020) | Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues,
Summer is well underway, and we hope you are all enjoying the warm weather. During the next two months, we will be working on preparations for the female founders acceleration program. The program is catered ... |
| 15.06.2020 | Amazing demo day for #wave7 of Accelerator Frankfurt GmbH! | Accelerator Frankfurt Wave7 has been a complete success! We took the risk and uncertainty of running an online program and streamed it live on three channels for aspiring entrepreneurs to get inspired, for investors to follow and for startu... |
| 15.06.2020 | “Where are all the female founders?”, by Maria Pennanen | After having run seven acceleration waves with Accelerator Frankfurt GmbH, and 37 startups through the program, it is time to face the brutal fact: we are missing female-founders. In fact, we have had only two startups with a female founder... |
| 14.05.2020 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (May 2020) | Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Accelerator Frankfurt is inviting investors to join our Demo Day on 20th of May at 16:00 CET. Five of the most promising startups in the field of Blockchain, Fintech, Regtech, and Security will be showcasing th... |
| 24.04.2020 | Accelerator Frankfurt welcomes Wave7, #AccFM | A pure virtual program with focus on Blockchain and Fintech solutions |
| 10.04.2020 | Accelerator Frankfurt Goes Online | Wave 7 of Accelerator Frankfurt will go online because of the Coronavirus pandemic. We see it as an opportunity to invite many more people to join our portfolio companies on their go-to-market journey. Most of the sessions will be live-stre... |
| 18.02.2020 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (February 2020) | Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It has been an exciting kick-off for 2020 with various events where we presented our plans for this year. As mentioned in our previous newsletter, we are setting up a venture capital fund that will leverage our... |
| 06.02.2020 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (Januar 2020) | Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We hope you had a restful and relaxing holiday season. As some of you might know, our mission statement at Accelerator Frankfurt is as follows: Change in business can only happen with passionate people. We attr... |
| 06.02.2020 | Mrs. Finance Technology | 17 years of international experience in the chemical and forest industry taught Maria Pennanen that she thrives best in start-ups |
| 28.11.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (November 2019) | Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are excited to present our November 2019 newsletter and share with you our recent activities as well as the coming events in our ecosystem.
The past few weeks have been very intense and busy with our 6th wa... |
| 24.10.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (October 2019) | Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Summer is behind us and we are on our way to the final sprint of the year. October has been a great month filled with exciting news from our alumni. Spobi is live, Anyblock secures funding, and COVR is in the f... |
| 23.09.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (September 2019) | Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Accelerator Frankfurt Wave 6 has officially launched, and we welcome three new startups to our community. The last couple of weeks have been incredibly busy, but we are happy to finally start working with our c... |
| 09.09.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (August 2019) | Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The first Blockchain Labs in Frankfurt is launching on September 10th (Save-the-date). We have a new page on our website Blockchain Labs, we invite you to visit and check it out.
During the summer break, we ha... |
| 25.07.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (July 2019) | Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues,
Summer is well underway, and we hope you are all enjoying the warm weather. Blockchain Labs is launching in September with Wave 6 of Accelerator Frankfurt. We are working hard on our final selection of the to... |
| 24.06.2019 | Maria’s Presentation during KPMG Israel Fintech Week | Down below you will find the link to the presentation Maria Pennanen delivered at the KPMG Isreal Fintech Week. A great presentation discussing the different use-cases of blockchain technology in the finance industry. |
| 18.06.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (June 2019) | Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues,
We are very proud to announce that Accelerator Frankfurt was featured among the World’s Best Financial Innovation Labs of 2019! In it, Accelerator Frankfurt is ranked among the top 25 best innovation labs of ... |
| 07.06.2019 | Ram Shoham & Accelerator Frankfurt Featured in Article on Worlds Best Financial Innovation Labs 2019 | Ram Shoham and Accelerator Frankfurt featured in article on World’s Best Financial Innovation Labs 2019! See a couple of excerpts here or check out the full article with the link below. |
| 23.05.2019 | The Smart Contract Meetup – Scaling the Public Blockchain for Payments | The Smart Contract Meetup - Scaling the Public Blockchain for Payments was a great event with a lot of interesting ideas shared. We gained a deeper understanding of the projects developing an off-chain approach while addressing some of the ... |
| 22.05.2019 | Maria Recognized as Top 50 Most Influential Women in Startups and VC | We are proud to announce that Maria was included in the list of Europe's 50 Most Influential Women in Startups and VC |
| 20.05.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (May 2019) | Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to our coming Smart Contracts event held at our office on May 22nd, where we focus on Scaling the public blockchain for payments. Our mission is that you leave informed, inspired, and better con... |
| 23.04.2019 | ENTREPRENEURSHIP PRE COLLEGE SUMMER PROGRAMS IN FRANKFURT | ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMER PROGRAM
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Price: EUR 535 (incl. vat)
SIGN UP: ram@acceleratorfrankfurt.com |
| 17.04.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (April 2019) | Liebe Freunde und Kollegen,
In der heutigen Zeit muss jedes etablierte Unternehmen ihr Geschäftsmodell innovativeren, um konkurrenzfähig zu bleiben.
Auf der anderen Seite sehen wir junge Blockchain Unternehmen, die innovative Produkte und... |
| 03.04.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (March 2019) | Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues,
We just returned from Tel Aviv Fintech Week and Ourcrowd Global Investor Summit. The trip was filled with meetings of Venture Capital funds that have opened their portfolio companies to Accelerator Frankfurt.... |
| 19.02.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (February 2019) | Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues,
We had a terrific past few weeks with many things happening. Our fifth wave completed the program successfully, we signed a major partnership with the Tel Aviv University, and more partnerships are coming.
O... |
| 12.02.2019 | Blockchain collaboration set to begin | We are proud to announce that the Frankfurt Blockchain Hub and The Hogeg Blockchain Research Institute from the Tel Aviv University have signed a cooperation agreement to further support Academic research within the blockchain and cryptocur... |
| 07.02.2019 | COVR Security AB secured funding of SEK 25M | We are very proud to announce that COVR Security AB, one of our startups, secured a funding of SEK 25M from a number of business angels. |
| 06.02.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (January 2019) | Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues, Happy 2019!
The start of a new year brings along new resolutions, renewed energies and for me personally, a lot of reflections on the year behind us. What is most important for us at the accelerator, is stay ... |
| 09.01.2019 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (December 2018) | Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues,
2018 has been a wonderful year yet again. We have had great startups which are still growing strong and raised an amount of EUR 12 million in combined investments. Most importantly, these companies are settin... |
| 22.11.2018 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (November 2018) | Dear friends and colleagues,
On Monday the 26th of November, we welcome you to our office for another learning session on Crypto Trading Strategies. Expand your trading skills and understanding on cryptocurrencies with one of the top gurus... |
| 24.10.2018 | AI beyond the hype | Some two hundred Artificial Intelligence (AI) enthusiasts from European national banks and ECB attended the conference in Frankfurt to learn about AI. Koenraad de Geest, the Director General of Information Systems at ECB, had the opening wo... |
| 03.10.2018 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (October 2018) | Blockchain & Crypto Assets, plus Korean startups networking
Dear friends and colleagues,
Our community is once again gathering at the Santiment Blockchain Hub on October 24th, for an evening not to be missed. We strive to enrich our k... |
| 12.09.2018 | Blockchain revolution in real estate | So, how can blockchain be applied to real estate?
Blockchain technology is all about decentralization and implementing decentralized systems in order to make things more transparent. When it comes to real estate, the industry is very old f... |
| 05.09.2018 | Accelerator Frankfurt partners with Santiment to set up the Blockchain Hub | (Frankfurt am Main, 30.09.2018) Accelerator Frankfurt partners with Santiment (a successful crypto data insights provider) to set up the Santiment Blockchain Hub. The vision is to build a place where like-minded people can collaborate and t... |
| 03.09.2018 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (September 2018) | Accelerator Frankfurt launch event, October 2nd
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Accelerator Frankfurt is inviting its community to our launch event, which will be held in our new office location at MINDSPACE Frankfurt in the city center. A n... |
| 03.07.2018 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (July 2018) | Dear friends and colleagues,
Summer months are here already but we at Accelerator Frankfurt are continuing at full speed ahead. The 4th Wave Demo day is over with great success and achievements. Currently we are traveling extensively meeti... |
| 03.06.2018 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (June 2018) | Dear friends and colleagues,
A few days before the 4th Wave Demo day (June 19) which reflects the work our startup has achieved throughout the Go-to-Market program, we are happy to present our June newsletter edition. Events' demos, meetin... |
| 03.04.2018 | Accelerator Frankfurt Newsletter (April 2018) | Dear friends,
We are excited to present our April 2018 newsletter and share with you our recent activities as well as the coming events in our ecosystem.
The past few weeks have been very intense with the launch of the 4th Wave of our Go-... |
| 30.01.2018 | Accelerator Frankfurt’s third Demo Day a success! | (Frankfurt am Main, 21.01.2018) Accelerator Frankfurt successfully completed its third wave. The startups Cogia (Big Data Analytics / Textmining, Germany), Cytegic (Automated Cyber Risk Officer, Israel), Enterpay (Fintech Payments, Finland)... |
| 01.08.2017 | Go-to-Market Program with Accelerator Frankfurt open for application! | (Frankfurt am Main, 01.08.2017) Accelerator Frankfurt https://acceleratorfrankfurt.com offers a “Go-to-Market Program” for later stage startups in need to accelerate their business development. Accelerator Frankfurt is a private initiative ... |
| 16.07.2017 | Accelerator Frankfurt second Demo Day a success! | (Frankfurt am Main, 16.07.2017) Accelerator Frankfurt successfully completed its second wave.
The startups Adjesty (Adtech, Israel), Aeroplan (Insurtech, Israel), AsiaFundManagers (Fintech, Germany), EcoKraft (Fintech, Germany), Norma (Cyb... |
| 29.06.2017 | Coming Soon Accelerator Frankfurt’s Second Demo Day | ACCELERATOR FRANKFURT's second DEMO DAY! Come see our passionate entrepreneurs pitching together with our guests from VABN. We invite investors from Europe to participate! |
| 20.06.2017 | The ‘secret sauce’ to successful cooperation between banks and FinTechs | After working with startups for years and running an accelerator program, I can confirm that the key to success is quite simple. Obviously after you read this article, my ‘secret sauce’ will not be a secret anymore, so why am I writing this... |
| 13.06.2017 | Why is cooperation with startups and accelerators an opportunity for the SMEs? | Frankfurt is aiming to win a place as a startups hub in Germany and as a Fintech hub in Europe. Startups are often seen as the disruptors of businesses. The fear is that the use of modern technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Machi... |
| 10.05.2017 | Demo Day date is set for 13th of July | Six weeks ago Accelerator Frankfurt launched its second wave. Eight diverse startups joined us: three German (AsiaFundManagers.com, Travel to Live and EcoKraft), three Israeli (Adjesty, Aero-plan and Kensee), a Korean (Norma) and a Dutch co... |
| 02.04.2017 | Proud to present Accelerator Frankfurt’s Second Wave! | (Frankfurt am Main, 02.04.2017) Accelerator Frankfurt’s second wave of startups began their four-month program on the 27th of March. The startups where presented during our Launch Event at our premises in the TechQuartier in Frankfurt. |
| 22.03.2017 | Israeli FinTechs welcome to Frankfurt! | Representing Frankfurt: Eric Menges, Ram Shoham, Sebastian Schäfer, Gerhard Kebbel, Peter Feldmann, Peter Buxmann, Jochen Biedermann and Uwe Becker. |
| 25.01.2017 | Accelerator Frankfurt first Demo Day a success! | (Frankfurt am Main, 22.01.2017) Accelerator Frankfurt successfully completed its first program with a demo day on 16.01.2017 at TechQuartier. All the eight startups (Alyne, BeeEye, Cindicis, Fenror7, Pronteo, SchnellSpesen, SecuredTouch and... |
| 16.01.2017 | Accelerator Frankfurt’s first Demo Day 16.01.2017 | 16.01.2017 the startups from Accelerator Frankfurt will have their Demo day @TechQuartier. They are joined by startups from our collaboration partners Deutsche Börse Venture Network Fintech Hub, Main Incubator GmbH and VABN (Aurelis real es... |
| 06.12.2016 | TEAM; the success factor for startups and innovation | In the startup world we emphasize the importance of teams. Not without a reason; it is what makes or breaks a startup. Success depends on the ability of the team to work together under stressful conditions and still deliver results. Underst... |
| 21.11.2016 | Frankfurt taking the right steps in becoming a startup hub | It’s about a year ago when I wrote my first blog wondering why Frankfurt, the banking centre of Germany, was not the startup hub for Fintech in Germany. In a year many things have materialised that moved the development to the right directi... |
| 22.09.2016 | Proud to present Accelerator Frankfurt’s first wave of startups! | (Frankfurt am Main, 22.09.2016) Accelerator Frankfurt’s https://acceleratorfrankfurt.com first wave of startups have started their four month program on the 19th of September. The startups where presented during our Launch Event on Tuesday ... |
| 18.09.2016 | Accelerator Frankfurt’s first wave of startups starting on 19th of September | Accelerator Frankfurt’s https://acceleratorfrankfurt.com first wave of startups will start their four month program on the 19th of September. The first program will take place in an elevated setting at one of Frankfurt’s main skyscrapers We... |
| 29.06.2016 | “Unser Ziel ist es, Frankfurter Startups investitionsfähig zu machen!“ | Maria Pennanen, Mitbegründerin des Accelerator Frankfurt, spricht im Interview mit altii über den Nutzen von Accelerators für Startups, Investoren und etablierte Unternehmen, die Zukunft Frankfurts als FinTech Hub und den Ansatz des Acceler... |
| 24.01.2016 | What 3 things need to be done about Frankfurt’s startup scene? | Why is it that the Banking centre of Germany is not the Fintech startup center of Germany? I am a big fan of Frankfurt and an investor in startups who wants to help put Frankfurt on the map of relevant startup hubs of Germany. As a person g... |
| 23.01.2016 | Accelerator Frankfurt launches! | This Wednesday 20.01.2015, Fintech Meetup in Frankfurt gathered a record crowd of some 170 startup enthusiast at the co-working premises of Die Zentrale, hosted by Felix Scheffka and Yassin Hankir. Those who could not be there could enjoy i... |
