Future Unicorns Accelerator

🌟 Dream Big, Scale Fast 🌟 Join the Future Unicorns Accelerator and gain insights from industry legends who’ve funded the biggest names in tech. 💡 Get mentored by investors from: ✅ Sequoia Capital ✅ Greylock Partners ✅ Bain Capital Ventures ✅ US Venture Partners (USVP) …and more! 🚀 Spots are limited - apply now! Link in the comments section.

🌟We’re proud to see two of our board members featured in the media, continuing to inspire and empower the next generation of entrepreneurs. 🎤 Pavlina Yanakieva sat down for an interview with Natalia Todorova and DIR.BG, one of Bulgaria's leading web portals with over 20 years of history and 1.3M+ monthly unique visitors. 📖 Bogomil Balkansky graced the cover of Forbes Bulgaria, where he shared his remarkable journey and deep insights into building impactful ventures. At Future Unicorns Accelerator, we’re committed to supporting the Bulgarian and Central and Eastern European startup ecosystems as they scale globally, with a strong focus on expansion to the US. (Founders, you still have one month left to apply for the next edition of the program) 🔗 Curious to learn more? Check the links in the comments for these incredible stories and how we’re making an impact.

🦄 Here’s to a new year filled with breakthroughs, growth, and impact. To all of our donors, mentors, #FutureUnicorns entrepreneurs and community partners & friends, we wish you an extraordinary new year!

🦄 As we celebrate 2024 with our favorite people, our thoughts turn to you, the entrepreneurs who dream big, build bravely, and push boundaries every single day. Happy holidays to you!

👩🏻🏫 The real asset of our program is the quality of our mentors, with a network that has started to grow organically in the past years. We currently have 300+ professionals who are individually equipped to guide our portfolio companies through their scaling process, aiming to create, in time, a regional mindset shift. 🧩 Our accelerator is entrepreneur-centric, which means we're focused on the specific challenges that every company who enters our cohorts is facing. We facilitate long lasting connections that correspond to different growth stages and that offer start-ups the guidance they need not just while they're a part of our program, but also long after graduation. 🌏 You can support us in making CEE the next global innovation hub: https://lnkd.in/dQEUyze4.

📊 While we wouldn’t attempt to take the credit for all of the success that our accelerator alumni have experienced, we’re glad that the start-ups that we selected as part of our cohorts are on a significant growth path. 👏 This is in equal parts the merit of all the people who have shown their support, from mentors to partners and sponsors, and to the founders whose unwavering global ambitions have started to show global results. 🚀 You can support us in reaching more exceptional founders and nurturing them throughout their CEE-to-US scaling process: https://lnkd.in/dQEUyze4.

🙌 Throughout our activity, the increasing support from top VCs in our region has been a relevant indicator that we’re connecting the right dots in terms of knowledge and expertise that’s required for CEE startups to achieve their global visions. 🚀 CEE is becoming a tech investment destination with undeniable potential, and the increased support infrastructure now includes over 100 VC funds, multiple accelerators, angel investors and even serial entrepreneurs who are actively working to put our region on the global map for good. 🧩 You can support us in this journey of accelerating the expansion of CEE-born startups on the global stage: https://lnkd.in/dQEUyze4. #CEEtoUS #FutureUnicorns #ScalingJourney

🦄We’re proud to spotlight Saga, another innovative company in the Future Unicorns Accelerator portfolio that recently launched Saga 1.0. Saga is an AI workspace for notes, tasks, and documents, designed to make it easier for teams to adopt and use AI every day. With over 40,000 users and hundreds of teams relying on it weekly, Saga is focused on simplicity, speed, and seamless collaboration. What makes Saga special? ⚡ It’s collaborative, super fast, and has intuitive linking to help you navigate and organize your work. 🧠 With Saga AI, you can "talk" to your knowledge, take actions, and streamline your workflow directly from your notes. Congratulations Filip Stanev and team! Check out Saga in action: https://lnkd.in/dExMBsrq #AI #Productivity #Startups

🌍✨ Last week, the Bulgarian Consulate General in New York hosted an inspiring gathering to celebrate the power of connection and innovation! As co-organizers together with Endeavor Bulgaria, we at Future Unicorns Accelerator 🚀 were honored to share how Bulgaria’s startup ecosystem is evolving🌟and explore how the diaspora community can play a key role in driving innovation, investing in bold ideas 💼💸, and mentoring future unicorn founders 🎓🚀. 🌉 These connections - bridging continents and communities - are essential for unlocking Bulgaria and CEE's vast potential. Let’s keep building together! 💪🌟

🎞️Movie time! Earlier this fall, we gathered supporters, founders, investors, and ecosystem builders for a special event hosted by United Bulgarian Bank to celebrate the impact we’re making together. From the evolution of our accelerator to our vision for the future, this community has been at the heart of it all. 🎥 In this short video, hear from some of the incredible voices shaping our journey and discover what lies ahead as we scale our efforts to help CEE founders expand to the US market with the support of 300+ world-class Silicon Valley mentors. This milestone wouldn’t have been possible without the unwavering support of key partners. A heartfelt thank you to: America for Bulgaria, United Bulgarian Bank, Appolica | Venture studio and all of our 70+ supporters. Together, we are building a stronger bridge between the innovation ecosystems in CEE and Silicon Valley. 🌍 If you believe in empowering startups to grow into global companies, we invite you to join this mission. Your support can help us amplify our impact even further. 🙌 👉 Donate to support the growth of the CEE startup ecosystem: https://lnkd.in/dQEUyze4 Featured in this movie: ✨ Pavlina Yanakieva and Konstantin Kunev, Assoc CIPD, Future Unicorns Accelerator ✨ Nancy Schiller, America for Bulgaria Foundation ✨ Silvia Kalenska-Nikolova, Frank Jansen and Kiril Velitchkov, PhD, United Bulgarian Bank ✨ Ralitsa Ivanova, Appolica | Venture studio ✨ Jose Campos, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati ✨ Max Gurvits, Vitosha Venture Partners ✨ Iskren Mitev, BESCO - The Bulgarian Entrepreneurial Association ✨ Christian Tsanov, portfolio founder Let’s continue building bridges and multiplying success for the CEE innovation ecosystem! 🚀