Accelerate innovation
together

We live in exciting times, where digital developments and business model innovation are transforming the traditional operating landscape as we know it. This presents new challenges for the sector, but also opportunities to grow. To help accelerate the development of your entrepreneur centric services, FMOxCELERATE gives you the opportunity to work with experienced entrepreneurs and innovation specialists to design and test new products for your customers; using a proven and guided innovative approach.

What we offer

Because we believe in learning by doing, FMOxCELERATE is an execution-oriented approach in which you can experiment with new technologies and innovations to develop new customer centric services and products. By this approach, complex processes are broken into small, manageable steps. The service offers the following benefits:

Entrepreneur in Residence

FMOxCELERATE will match you with and pay for an experienced innovation specialist who will act as a hands-on mentor and supports your team with execution and implementation. Your contribution will be in the form of travel and accommodation for the entrepreneur.

Experts on Call

You will get access to a network of experts from FMO, partners and peers. Subjects covered range from legal to green finance and from treasury to Fintech.

Meet the experts

Active community of peers

You are not alone, FMOxCELERATE will link you to other like-minded institutions that are trying to tackle the same challenges.

Building an innovative community

Innovation is faster when done together. Many institutions like your own are experiencing similar challenges and opportunities. That is why FMOxCELERATE is working towards peer-peer collaboration and the power of our community to solve problems together. A community where knowledge, information, experiences and lessons learned are shared among peers and teams, and innovation is jointly accelerated!

The Process

1

Submit your challenge

Describe your innovation challenge and share it with your peers, who can express interest and virtually join your team

2

Match with entrepreneur

Supported by FMOxCELERATE, you will be matched with an entrepreneur-in-residence, who will help you tackle your challenge

3

Accelerate together

Share knowledge and lessons learned in the challenge with your peers (virtual team). Of course, private and sensitive information will be kept confidential

Experts on Call

Erik-Jan

Dirks

Senior legal counsel. Ask me about: legal aspects of debt investments; direct equity investments; portfolio guarantees; knowhow management; contract automation

Kim

van der Leeuw

Experienced Impact Entrepreneur. Ask me about: business modelling, climate finance, product ownership.

Let’s accelerate
together