STARTPLATZ Open Accelerator

– powered by cozama

Proof you have what it takes to develop your idea into a business investors love to invest in.

SUCCESS IS A MATTER OF EXECUTION

How to excel with our accelerator

Define your purpose

Use our software to define your purpose, set expectations, plan initiatives and review your progress.

Work on the right priorities

Our software prioritises initiatives and identifies road blockers that hinder your progress.

Unlock perks

Improve your performance to unlock services and perks (e.g., cloud credits, mentoring, discounts, etc.)

THIS IS STARTPLATZ ACCELERATOR

As the largest innovation network in NRW, STARTPLATZ provides guidance and founding expertise to its startup teams. Based on STARTPLATZ' years of experience we offer STARTPLATZ Accelerator as a hands-on program for the most promising tech-startups in Germany.

Our partnership with cozama allows us to innovate on the acceleration model and open access to all interested founders that are willing to proof they have what it takes to build impactful businesses through their performance.

STEPS

How to proof you are building a successful business

Register

1

Fill out the form below to get on the waitlist. You will notified as soon as as we launch our acceleration programme.

Define your purpose

2

cozama provides a framework hat helps you define your startup's purpose.

Set Key Results

3

Based on your company's overall purpose, pick the results you want to achieve in the next three months.

Plan

4

Define initiatives that drive results. cozama will automatically prioritise them for you. Use our office hours to get early feedback on your plan.

Get sh*t done

5

Work on your initiatives and track your results. cozama reminds what your priority should be. You have three months to proof you are able to make significant progress.

Review

6

cozama offers a unique analysis of road blockers that hinder you team from accomplishing your goal. We match you with mentors to overcome road blockers.

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The Road Blocker Matrix

STARTPLATZ Open Accelerator uses cozama to help teams make meaningful progress and proof they are on track to build successful businesses. 


cozama provides a framework and propriatary planning and review tools that show at a glance what the startups should be working on and what road blockers are hindering them from achieving meaningful results. In turn, we can provide startups individual services and perks based on their actual needs and performance. Teams can unlock more services and perks by improving their Road Blocker Index (RBI) demonstrating they have what it takes to develop their ideas into successful businesses. We match the teams with the mentor that helps them remove the road blockers and avoid waisting the teams time on workshops they do not need.

EVERYONE GETS THE ATTENTION THEY DESERVE

Unlocking perks through progress

Performance based services and perks

100% to 50%

coazama computes a Road Blocker Index (RBI) in % that allows us to see to which degree the team is blocked from making meaningful progress towards their defined goal.


The challenge for the teams: You have three months to lower the score below 50% to get access to the resources you need to accelerate your business.

Anyone can register their team for free and starting working on their idea and develop a product people love. Teams can use the planning and review tools that cozama provides to start making progress towards their goal. All teams have access to a content library and office hours that help you make best use of the tools provided.

> 50%

Teams that are able to drive their RBI below 50% get access to additional services to improve their performance, such as:

  • Needs-based mentoring
  • Cloud credits and service discounts
  • Community membership
  • Access to co-working in Cologne and Düsseldorf
  • Discounts to workshops and events
  • Employer branding services
  • and much more

> 33%

A score below 33% indicates that the team was able to make continuous progress towards a meaningful goal and that they are (about to) generate monetary results.


We provide platforms for the teams with a score below 33% to pitch their business to investors and the general public. Investors get a access to the teams' profiles and can contact them directly.

AN INNOVATIVE, SOFTWARE-BASED APPROACH TO BUSINESS ACCELERATION

Opening access for ambitious founders

We support anyone who believes (s)he has what it takes to build a successful business

We believe that societies thrive when innovative and ambitious founders succeed with building scalable and (economically) sustainable businesses. 


Experience has shown that to build a successful business you need to do one thing really well and avoid the common mistakes others have made. On of the biggest challenges for founders in this context is to focus on the right priorities and not get distracted. The right priorities are the things that make you unique and stand out from your competitors (your purpose) and that help you overcome your road blockers.

Through our cooperation with cozama we are able to grant anyone who is willing to focus on building a successful business access to the tools, services, and the community they need to work on the right priorities.

Anyone can start using cozama to define their idea, set expectations of the results that proof them right, plan and review their progress towards building a successful business.

We are open for anyone working on ambitious business models

Gaming

Enter-tainment

Music

Fashion

Finance

Events

Sport

Health-care

B2B

SaaS

Social Media

Consumer

Real Estate

MENTORS AND EXPERTS

We are an ecosystem of competence

The expertise of 75+ mentors and experts in our network.

Hamidreza Hosseini

ECODYNAMICS 

Louis Schulze 

Futur3

Christoph Hagenkötter 

KICKZ

Nico Limberg

Laid Back Ventures

Simon Klein

IcecreamSwap

Frank Zimmerer

conXito

Michael Hajut

AD3M

Adrian Wilbrandt

Nclip

More Mentors & Ambassadors

Matthias Nawrocki

Gira

Jonas Hayajneh

DAO Maker

Dominik Karaman

eekigai Labs

INVEST IN TEAMS THAT ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK

For investors

cozama identifies teams that are making progress towards a meaningful goal that drives economic results. The analysis provides unique insights based on the teams executive performance over time and provides early signals for potential success. 


As such, it complements your due diligence and helps you understand how the team works before you write the check.

Do you want to get access to our pool of startups on track to success?

Shoot: manaen.stuerenberg@startplatz.de

Your Team:

Register your team

Register your team and be notified as soon as STARPTLATZ Open Accelerators is launched.

STARTPLATZ Accelerator

Im Mediapark 5

50670 Köln


accelerator@startplatz.de

www.startplatz.de

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