Conquer Accelerator
VC Fund
East Lansing, United States
Conquer Accelerator is a VC fund in East Lansing focused on Software and Health Care. As a summer accelerator with a strong bench of experienced entrepreneurs, business leaders, and motivated investors, Conquer provides select teams with an intensive ten weeks tailored programming and mentorship. Our startups focus on goal-driven benchmarks, honing their ventures and bringing their solutions to the market. Conquer Accelerator is acollaborative effort at Michigan State University made possible through generous partnerships with the MSU Foundation, its subsidiary, Red Cedar Ventures, and Michigan State University Federal Credit Union.Any qualifying business may apply to program—an existing affiliation with Michigan State University is required. For those companies who are part of Michigan State University's entrepreneurial ecosystem, Conquer Accelerator fills a crucial gap in their development cycle.Conquer's selected teams receive an investment of $20k and work through an intensive ten-week season. In addition to capital investment, Conquer Accelerator teams receive one-on-one mentorship and support, a creative co-working space, and strategic resources.Startup applicants should reflect the following attributes:• products or services that solve problems for specific target customers • capital-efficient business, operational at less than $1M in external funding • scalable distribution or proven ability to scale sales • simple revenue model: transactions, subscriptions, affiliates • functional prototype or prior product success • measurable traction (engaged users, revenue, attractive unit economics) • three (or more) members in a cross-functional team • ability to be located in East Lansing, Michigan for the duration of the programFind our previous cohort teams, learn how to apply, and follow the journey: conqueraccelerator.com.
- Total investments:
- 45
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 82%
Last updated:
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Industries Conquer Accelerator invests in
Stages Conquer Accelerator invests in
Countries Conquer Accelerator invests in
Contacts
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Tom Stewart
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 15 (33%)
- Health Care 7 (16%)
- SaaS 5 (11%)
- Internet 5 (11%)
- Medical Device 5 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 34 (76%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (20%)
- Series A 1 (2%)
- Convertible Note 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 38 (84%)
- Bulgaria 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Tom Stewart
Accelerator Manager
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Accelerator Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Revolin Sports
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Revolin Sports is an eCommerce platform that sells eco-friendly paddles to customers. It also designs and manufactures plant-based sporting goods to help athletes buy environmentally sustainable sporting equipment. | $20K / Seed / Sep 23, 2021 | |
Ascending
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Ascending empowers forward-thinking People Leaders & Teams seeking to create meaningful change in their internal Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion metrics. Learn more about our mission at joinascending.com! | $20K / Seed / Sep 23, 2021 | |
Smart Bridge Medical
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Smart Bridge Medical, Inc. is a woman founded startup company that solves dangerous, overlooked unmet clinical needs. We bring innovative medical solutions to market – Fast. Complete. Compliant.Our leadership team consists of seasoned C-suite medical device executives who have developed and commercialized over $7B in global medical devicerevenues. Our team brings a collective 100+ years of medical device industry experience. Our first respiratory device solution (POPSafe™) is geared towards solving accidental ventilator disconnects between a patient’s tracheostomy tube and their ventilator; a deadly problem known clinically as "pop-off". We have expanded our patented POPSafe™ product portfolio to eliminate both tracheostomy tube (TT) and endotracheal tube (ET) “pop-off” events. | $20K / Seed / Sep 23, 2021 | |
SBE Medical
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SBE Medical develops a catheter that saves time for clinicians, eliminates the chance of UTIs, and dramatically increases patient comfort. | $20K / Seed / Sep 23, 2021 | |
Pulse
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Pulse is a software that helps educators monitor their virtual classrooms and remote student performance, in real-time. The software delivers up-to-the-minute status of each remote student’s performance from several Learning Management Systems, simultaneously. Its dashboards and reports make staying current on the entire virtual classroom’sperformance simple and well-organized. Pulse enables to set best-practices benchmarks for teacher interactions with their virtual learners, and then monitor progress. | $20K / Seed / Sep 23, 2021 | |
CrossBraining
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CrossBraining's competency-as-a-Service cloud platform proves learning competency in K-20, vocational and corporate training with its video, community learning library and certification suite. Backed by leading educational foundation investors and angels. Founded by Michigan teacher-of-the-year nominee Josh Nichols and headquartered inJackson, Michigan. | $20K / Seed / Jun 01, 2021 | |
Frizzmo
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Frizzmo is a banking app and an online platform that facilitates parents to guide kids' liable money management and donate for teachers. | $20K / Seed / Jun 01, 2021 | |
Rebound
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Rebound develops of a business metric platform intended to monitor and gather insights. | $20K / Seed / Jun 01, 2021 | |
Nickels
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Nickels assist consumers of banks and credit unions in managing their money using behavioral science. | $20K / Seed / Jun 01, 2021 | |
SafetySit
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SafetySit develops an assistive therapeutic medical device to support disabled or recovering patients to sit in an upright position. | $20K / Seed / Jun 01, 2021 | |
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FAQ
What does Conquer Accelerator invest in?
Conquer Accelerator invests primarily in Software, Health Care and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Conquer Accelerator includes Tom Stewart (Accelerator Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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