Impact Club Accelerator
Impact Club Accelerator accelerates the creation of measurable social impact within the focus themes (SDGs): well-being, sustainability & combating climate change.
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages (SDG3)
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns (SDG12)
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (SDG13)
New adventures are starting: You can submit your application anytime. We have open the continuous application and you can apply with interventions & ideas for any of the SDGs above.
What your team needs is an idea of an impact mechanism & the desired effect on the chosen target audience. We also value that you have a model of what the business side could look like.
Impact Club Accelerator is partly financed by Sitra in 2019 and 2020 & supported by Adventure Club experts.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for passionate teams working with ideas on wellbeing, sustainability or actions against climate change. Most important aspect is the potential of the idea & the team around it.
Who can apply?
Your teams’ solution has impact potential
Your team is working within the scope of our selected SDGs
You are a start-up, scale-up or an internal team in an established company/organisation.
Your business has potential to scale to reach higher impact
Your team can be committed to the accelerator program
What do you get?
Our accelerator specialises in customised acceleration journeys & support for you team: all work is based on the mutually agreed needs & maturity of your team.
What’s included
General acceleration programme (kick-off, mapping, community events)
Customised acceleration journey containing the sprints you need. (See sprint list below)
Mentoring & coaching
Possibility to continue work in project mode and become a part of our alumni-community.
What is the cost?
For now, we have no sponsored seats.
Our pricing for interesting impact ventures is very reasonable.
We provide help on key areas
We provide help on 4 key areas: Impact modelling, Design, business development, & Funding.
Each key area contains customised sprints on following topics:
Impact Sprint
Modelling and measuring
Research Sprint
Understand the user, the context, the opportunit
Product / Service Sprint
Exploring & refining the concept product & service
MVP Sprint
Build MVP / MLP
Branding Sprint
Define the core of the brand and the visual style for presenting the venture
Strategy Sprint
Identifying strategic possibilities, barriers, and marking grounded decisions
Go-to-market / Growth Hacking Sprint
Scaling & improving business
Business Sprint
Building a viable business case
Funding Sprint
Define the possibilities for various funding options, investor material creation & sparring
After being accepted to the accelerator programme, we will draft together your customised accelerator journey for the next 3 months depending on your team’s needs.
Apply for our programme
When & how can I apply?
The application is continuous, you submit your application anytime. We choose max. 3-5 teams per semester.
Programme schedule
Each venture has slightly different journey based on the needs. Accelerator journeys run approximately 3 months . Note! Changes possible.
START
Customised Accelerator journey planning session per team: Impact Business mapping
JOURNEY
Acceleration journeys continue. Deep diving in sprints, validation - hands on working.
If covid situation allows, live meetings, otherwise remote working.
alumni
Alumni meetings every now and then.
Experiences from Impact Club Accelerator
spring 2020
“We gained tangible tools and new perspectives on impact-based marketing and business development.”
“The Adventure Club Accelerator Team’s dedication and professionalism has helped us tremendously in fast-forwarding our own social impact marketplace -business even under the most uncertain times.”
Impact Club Accelerator
is run by Adventure Club designers
Kimmo Timonen
Accelerator Director
CEO at Adventure Club
Laura Turkki
Impact Designer
Maria Solovjew
Impact Designer