Multiple Accelerator Application

Autism-Tech Accelerator
Thank you for your interest in Multiple's Autism Tech Accelerator! The Multiple Accelerator is a 10 week virtual program that supports early-stage autism and neurodiversity-focused startups in building traction, becoming investor-ready, and connecting with mentors and capital to scale their impact. We accept 8-10 companies per cohort.

Key Dates:

Applications Due February 27th at 11:59 PM EST

Program runs March 31 - Jun 4th

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Program goal: Help founders become investor-ready while continuing to build real traction.

Who It’s For: Startups with an MVP and early traction or paying customers. We do select some earlier-stage teams, but typically, those teams are better suited for the LaunchPad program!

What Founders Work On

• Sales & go-to-market strategy

• Marketing & positioning

• Partnerships & pilots

• Fundraising & investor preparation

• Business model refinement & pitching/storytelling

Program Structure: Approximately 5-6 hour time commitment per week spread over 3 days. A typical week may look like:
- Tuesday: 1-2 hour session led by Multiple CEO Keevin O’Rourke, operators, investors, and autism-tech ecosystem leaders
- Wednesday: 1-2 hour session led by Multiple CEO Keevin O’Rourke, operators, investors, and autism-tech ecosystem leader
- Thursday: Founder office hours (30 minute one-on-one with the Multiple team) OR CEO roundtables for peer learning and candid discussion (2 hours) on alternate weeks
Each cohort member matched with dedicated mentors from the Multiple network for hands-on, tailored support

What Founders Get:

• No cost to participate

• No equity taken

• Demo Day with investors, partners, and ecosystem leaders

• Post-program investor introductions for participating companies

• Potential opportunity for investment via Multiple’s fund-in-progress (details forthcoming)

Company Information
Company Name:
Main Contact Name

First NameLast Name
Main Contact Email:
example@example.com
Main Contact Phone:
Location: (City, Country)
Year Founded:
Web URL:
Product
In one sentence, tell us what your company does.
In more detail, what is your solution and how does it addresses unmet needs in the autism community?
Please describe your customer segment in one sentence below. If you have multiple segments, please also add a sentence for each:
What is your value proposition for each customer segment?:
If you have a demo/prototype, what's the URL? Alternatively, if you have a demo video - please provide that.

How long have you been working on this?
Is one of your core team members working on building your core product or are you outsourcing it?
Why did you start the company?
How did your founding team meet?
What's your background and why is your team the right team to take on this idea and market?
Do any of your founders consider themselves underrepresented founders?

YesNo
List the executive/founding team members individually with their full name; LinkedIn profile; role on the team; how long they have been working on the startup; whether they are full time or part time; whether they will be attending the program
Market
What market are you targeting and how big is it? What piece of that market will you realistically target and capture? Please be quantitative.
Explain how you intend to (or already do) acquire customers.
What is your revenue model?
Competition
List the names and websites of 3-5 of your competitors.

How do you differentiate yourself from your competitors?
Traction
Please describe your traction to date:
Please describe any additional market validation you have achieved:
Funding
How much money have your raised total?
Are you currently fundraising?

YesNo
If you answered yes to the above, how much are you raising?
What is your planned use of funds?
Impact
What is the current magnitude of your impact?
How do you measure and track the impact of your business?
How does your solution contribute to health or wellbeing for the autistic community?
Autism Focus
To what degree is your solution focused on the autism population?

Solely for the autism populationPrimarily for the autism populationPrimarily for an adjacent population, but autism is a focusSolely for an adjacent population, but autism is a use case

Autism-Tech Accelerator

Company Information

Product

Market

Competition

Traction

Funding

Impact

Autism Focus