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Applications and selection live in a form tool
Hundreds of applications arrive through a generic form, and shortlisting the cohort means exporting spreadsheets and emailing reviewers by hand.
Solved with PlademyApplication + onboarding forms
Accelerator
Your accelerator program, all in one home
Stop juggling scattered tools for mentoring, demo days and cohort updates. Run founders, mentors and your schedule on a single platform.
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Spring Mentorship Cohort
126 participants · 12 weeks
76% on track
Applied48
Matched36
In progress30
Completed13
Problem
Every cohort, a new tool mess
Mentor matches live in spreadsheets, demo days in Zoom invites, and updates split across Mailchimp and WhatsApp. Your ops team chases tools instead of running the program.
02
Mentor office hours get booked over email
Founders chase mentors for a slot over email threads, and the ops team has no single view of who has met whom this cohort.
Solved with PlademyLet's Meet 1:1 booking
03
Demo day and portfolio updates are a scramble
Investor invites, the pitch-day run sheet and portfolio milestone updates get rebuilt from scratch in a new tool every cohort.
Solved with PlademyEvents + branded newsletters
The modules that matter most to you
Run your program end to end
One toolkit for every stage of the cohort, from application to demo day.
Cohort Mentoring
A matching engine pairs founders with the right mentors; session booking, mentor/mentee roles and progress reports are tracked automatically.
AI Support for Founders
The AI agent drafts pitches and content for founders, suggests matches to ops, summarizes sessions and nudges low engagement.
Demo Days and Online Sessions
Launch demo days and mentor sessions in one click with LiveKit live audio/video rooms; founders and investors join straight from the browser.
Cohort Schedule and Workshops
Plan recurring workshops and milestone meetings; founders register, reminders go out automatically, and paid events are ticketed.
Cohort Comms and Updates
Send weekly updates, milestone announcements and demo day calls to the whole cohort at once with branded newsletters.
Solution
The whole program, one place
One platform instead of Slack, Calendly, Zoom, Mailchimp and Mentorcruise. Invited founders sign in with a magic link, and everything from mentoring to demo day flows under one roof.
A typical week in your program
- 1
Matching in minutes
The program manager opens a new cohort, the matching engine pairs 20 founders with suitable mentors, and the first sessions land on the calendar.
- 2
Demo day on one link
On demo day, founders join the same room and present live while investors watch from the browser; registration and reminders are automatic.
- 3
Founders book their own mentor
A founder picks an open slot through Let's Meet and a Zoom and Google Calendar invite is created instantly.
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Keystone Accelerator
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Mentee
Hanna Virtanen
Product strategyFundraising
3 strong matches
Sofia Rossi94% fit
Mentor · Product strategy
Richard Hale87% fit
Board member
Omar Haddad72% fit
Angel investor
Matched · first session Tue 10:00
FAQ
Accelerator: your questions, answered
What is the best incubator or accelerator management software?
Plademy covers the full cohort lifecycle for accelerators and incubators: application and selection forms, cohort onboarding, mentor matching and office hours, demo day events, and branded updates to your portfolio, all on one invite-only platform.
Can we manage accelerator applications and cohorts in one place?
Yes, applicants fill out your application form, your team reviews and approves a cohort by invite, and from there mentoring, scheduling and communication for that cohort all run inside the same platform.
How do founders book mentor office hours?
Mentors publish open slots and founders book a session in a click through Let's Meet; the call runs in a built-in LiveKit video room or connects via Zoom and Google Calendar, with reminders sent automatically.
Can we run demo day and track portfolio companies afterward?
Yes, demo day can run as a ticketed or free event with registration and reminders, hosted live in the platform's video rooms, and after the cohort ends you can keep portfolio founders in the community and send them milestone updates through branded newsletters.
Does the platform work for both incubators and accelerators?
Yes, the same core — applications, cohort mentoring, scheduling, events and reporting — fits both a longer incubation timeline and a fixed-length accelerator sprint; you configure the program structure and milestones to match your model.
Already included
On top of the modules tailored to your audience, everything else in Plademy comes with you — no add-ons.
- AI Assistant
- Mentorship
- Events
- Open Letters
- Games
- Video
- Voice Rooms
- Live Chat
- Let's Meet
- Topics & Tags
- Categorical Profiles
- Pages
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- Invites
- Ecosystem Tour
- Notifications
- AI Moderation
- Closed Community
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