Help your portfolio stretch further.
You mentor, coach and fund founders to build great tech companies — but capital only stretches so far. By partnering with SkilledUp Life, your portfolio companies tap 66,000+ Volunteers and build whole teams to accelerate growth.
Portfolio companies build whole teams, not one or two hires.
Your capital and runway stretch further between rounds.
Faster growth, stronger metrics, more fundable startups.
Make every pound of capital go further.
Until now, your investment only stretched so far before the next round was needed. By partnering with us, your portfolio companies grow rapidly by leveraging our Volunteers — skilled professionals contributing real work in exchange for experience and references.
Instead of adding one or two paid hires, your founders can build entire teams across product, marketing, sales, HR and more — and reach their next milestone sooner.
You back the founders
You provide the mentoring, coaching and initial capital to get great tech companies off the ground.
We add the talent
Your portfolio companies post Opportunities and build teams from 66,000+ SkilledUp Life Volunteers.
They stretch further
Runway lasts longer, more gets built, and growth accelerates between funding rounds.
Your fund wins
Stronger, more fundable portfolio companies — and a partner benefit you can offer founders for free.
Accelerators we work closely with.
Two of our deepest accelerator relationships, each giving their founders access to the SkilledUp Life Volunteer community.
Founder Institute
Berlin & South Asia chaptersThe world's most proven pre-seed accelerator and startup-building network. Since 2009, the Founder Institute has helped over 9,000 entrepreneurs across 100+ countries raise more than $2 billion. We partner with their Berlin and South Asia chapters.
HtHatch
Sri LankaSri Lanka's premier tech startup accelerator and award-winning co-working space, in the heart of Colombo. Hatch runs accelerators across fintech, cleantech and female entrepreneurship, backed by a network of mentors and experts across 10+ countries.
Mutually benefiting partnerships.
A growing community of accelerators and innovation centres giving their founders an edge with SkilledUp Life.
HtSri Lanka's premier tech startup accelerator and co-working space in Colombo.
View partnership →The world's most proven pre-seed accelerator, helping founders build fundable, global startups.
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AMHelps young founders become GREAT entrepreneurs through hands-on acceleration.
Visit site ↗Not an accelerator? Let's still talk.
We also partner with tech founder networks and communities — like Techcelerate — that bring founders together to learn, raise and scale. If you convene or support a community of tech founders, SkilledUp Life is a ready-made benefit you can extend to your members.
Networks, angel groups, founder communities and ecosystem builders are all welcome.
Explore a network partnership →Techcelerate
A network connecting and accelerating tech founders to grow and raise.
Founder communities
Give your members access to Volunteers to build their teams.
Ecosystem builders
Strengthen your ecosystem's outcomes with skilled, motivated talent.
Give your founders a whole team.
If you run an accelerator, innovation centre or founder network, let's explore partnering. Reach out through Contact Us and our partnerships team will be in touch.