TechPeaks is a 6-month accelerator program located in the Italian Alps that selects hackers, designers, entrepreneurs and mixes them into teams. It provides funding, housing, food and services for 6 months to help teams develop prototypes, test technology, and commercialize and test the market for their ideas. Top mentors coach the teams. Successful startups that attract private funding in the following 12 months can access a second phase and receive matching funds up to 200k Euro. The program is well funded for 4 years with 13 million Euro committed. It aims to generate the best founder teams and startups through an intense lean startup methodology approach.

2. Concept
TechPeaks
…is a People Accelerator!
…is a long-term initiative, already set up and funded for 4 years
with 13M€ (~17M$) of committed capital: One boot camp in
2013, starting in May, and two boot camps each following year.
…selects hackers, designers, entrepreneurs, mixing them into a
high-pressure 6-month boot camp in the beautiful Italian Alps.
…is an intense programme based on hard-core lean
methodologies, enlisting technical entrepreneurs and global
mentors to generate the best founder teams in high-tech.

3. How it works
People, teams, Prototyping, Commercialization, Revenues
ideas technology test market test
Phase 1 - People and team Phase 2 – Startup
acceleration
Talented people Great projects Matching Fund
Accelerator programmes
Seed funding or first round (angels,
VCs)
time
6 months 12 months 3

4. Offer
Participants need skills, talent, passion. We provide a small salary
(€500/m), free housing, food, desks, services and visa for 6
months. Teams and ideas can be there from the beginning or be
shaped during the programme.
During the first weeks, teams form and change, validate ideas
using lean methodologies. Teams pitch ideas to get a non-equity
grant of 25k€ (~33k$), incorporate and start their businesses.
Top-notch mentors with global business and tech background
coach teams. Research labs provide people networks and ideas.
Startups attracting private investors in the following 12 months
can access phase 2 and get matching funds up to 200k€ (~330k$).

5. What is the difference?
People
• Unique value: Bringing together international technology
competences, in particular from Eastern Europe, mixing
them with Italian creativity and design
Technology
• Strong technological background: Trento hosts the Italian
node of the European Institute of Innovation &
Technology (EIT) ICT Labs, leading community in EU
Startups
• Great dealflow down the line: Creating a free-thinking,
high-pressure environment for great entrepreneurs to
meet and grow, and build great products and startups
Funding
• Growth is key: First phase provides pre-seed funding
(25k€); Second phase of the programme provides
matching funds to promising teams, up to 200k€ per
startup 5

6. Some mentors…
Andy Parsons Fausto Gimondi
Co-founder/CTO at Happify Digital Media Expert
Obie Fernandez Rebecca Paoletti
Author of bestseller
CEO, Co-founder – CakeWorks
CTO Lean StartUp Machine
Vladimir Oane Evan Nisselson
Co-Founder of UberVU Investor, Mentor (Seedcamp,
500 start-ups, MindtheBrindge)
Bostjan Spetic Jeremiah Robinson
CEO at Zemanta ltd. VP Software at Jawbone
Renaud Visage Peter Stern
Co-Founder & Web Designer at Newport
CTO at Eventbrite News Shipbuilding

7. Partner accelerators
We partnered with great private accelerator programs, aiming to
help the next generation of world-class startups and improve the
ecosystem: We provide great deal flow and matching funds.
Our partners 2013:

8. The team
Paolo Lombardi Daria Batukhtina
• Leader of New Business • Marketing and product
Creation team in TrentoRise development leader
• Public sector innovator, • Entrepreneur, EU and
micro angel investor and Russian start-up ecosystem
AI expert • Blogger, DO evangelist
Alessandro Ligabò Andrea Baldini
• Business Analyst in New • Principal at Earlybird in
Business Creation team, Milan
TrentoRise • Formerly software engineer
• Ex McKinsey consultant and manager in Silicon
Valley for Cisco
Matteo Cevese Evan Nisselson
• Investor at LDV Capital,
• Community manager in mentor,
New Business Creation • Experienced entrepreneur,
team, TrentoRise team leader, and digital
• Communication specialist media expert

9. Starting May 2013 in Trento!
http://techpeaks.eu