Accelerator

Hotbed, established by Margaret Anne Coyle and Perdie Alder in May 2022, aims to rectify the startup ecosystem's inequalities. With 500+ founders benefited from our programs, we've facilitated over 150 investor-founder connections, hosted summits, and various events in collaboration with leading partners like SeedLegals, G-P, Stripe, and more.
Our Team:
Perdie Alder, Co-founder & CCO: Brings over 7 years in the startup ecosystem, having supported founders and investors globally. With a background in program design across London, Greece, and Ghana, Perdie holds a BA in Business Management and Psychology and an MA in Entrepreneurship. Margaret Anne Coyle, Co-founder & CEO: With 5+ years in the startup sector and a BA in Entrepreneurship, Margaret Anne has deeply supported the community and developed Hotbed’s MVP, showcasing her Computer Science skills.

Part of the ODI Startup Accelerator, 2016 was the first year that the programme was extended outside of London with ODI Leeds as the hub for startups based in the north of England. It has been so successful that Leeds will be a hub for the 2017 January intake of startups to the programme.
 

Ignite's angel-led UK startup accelerators offer world class coaching and support to startups in 4 locations across the UK. As well as the usual accelerator programme content they also offer a founder trip to the US east coast.
 

Ignite's angel-led UK startup accelerators offer world class coaching and support to startups in 4 locations across the UK. As well as the usual accelerator programme content they also offer a founder trip to the US east coast.
 

Ignite's angel-led UK startup accelerators offer world class coaching and support to startups in 4 locations across the UK. As well as the usual accelerator programme content they also offer a founder trip to the US east coast.
 

Ignite's angel-led UK startup accelerators offer world class coaching and support to startups in 4 locations across the UK. As well as the usual accelerator programme content they also offer a founder trip to the US east coast.
 

Think of the Programme as an ideas incubator. Whether you’re a developer, innovator or entrepreneur it’s the perfect funded start-up accelerator if you want to create a product or business using location information and technology.
 

A new corporate-backed, multi-sector, incubator and accelerator at the very centre of the European technology ecosystem.
 

The UKSE Y-Accelerator 2016 forms part of the business support offer through the brand new Sheffield City Region Growth Hub. Thanks to funding support, the programme is free of charge and is complementary to other start-up programmes in the region. UK Steel Enterprise are kindly offering a substantial £25k equity investment prize at the pitch event.
 

Support for technical development of an innovative technology that addresses the challenges raised by the climate emergency and/or reduces human impacts on the natural environment. The Technology Accelerator Fund supports innovators who are wishing to take their technology from benchtop to prototype or demonstrator scale.
 

Winton Labs aims to be Europe’s premier startup accelerator for data science companies. Run by the venture division of quantitative investment group Winton, the programme aims to attract early stage companies where the creation of data or the application of data science is central to the business objectives.
 

For those who have ambitions to grow, to build a team, and to trade beyond borders, we have the Accelerator, run through the Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme funded by the European Regional Development Fund. We have a programme of support that provides the backing to get moving in the most appropriate way
 

WebStart Bristol is the internet accelerator for the dynamic city of Bristol which opened in January 2014. WebStart Bristol used Seedrs, crowdfunding site, to raise funds to invest in Bristol based startups.
 

Excelerate Labs will help entrepreneurs and management teams to consistently drive significant business growth and employment gains by helping them to: develop & promote business growth, generate more revenue & profit, access to networking, become more effective business leaders, create new revenue streams, create powerful marketing, raise employees' productivity, carry out effective financial engineering, develop more effective technology-based performance management, and embedding R&D and technology deployment cycle within new and growing female businesses
 

Excelerate Labs will help entrepreneurs and management teams to consistently drive significant business growth and employment gains by helping them to: develop & promote business growth, generate more revenue & profit, access to networking, become more effective business leaders, create new revenue streams, create powerful marketing, raise employees' productivity, carry out effective financial engineering, develop more effective technology-based performance management, and embedding R&D and technology deployment cycle within new and growing female businesses
 

We’re dedicated to nurturing food startups by providing the space, the expertise and the support you need to make your idea a successful business.
 

The Bakery over the last four years has taken over 50 new products and services to market and have seen a marked shift in the way corporates need to think about innovation. In an increasingly networked world with an ever-growing start-up ecosystem, our programmes enable you to leverage this in very powerful and efficient ways
 

Techstars is the global ecosystem that helps entrepreneurs build great businesses. Techstars helps entrepreneurs make the connections and access the resources they need to succeed.
 

Pioneer 10 is a fully-funded programme led by inspiring business experts. Featuring workshops, tools, support and a business awards programme it has been designed for small, ambitious businesses in a number of Oxford Innovation's Innovation Centres. The programme is available to entrepreneurs and businesses at all stages to help drive growth and development. It is an awards programme that offers free business growth coaching, office space and a package of business services worth up to £25k.
 

One of the first UK startup accelerators on the scene Seedcamp has evolved and act much more like a VC these days. Seedcamp has a strong reputation in Europe and one of the best networks.
 

Seedbed is one of ten projects in the UK funded by the Social Incubator Fund which is backed by the Cabinet Office. It is a new type of social accelerator programme that offers intensive support and affordable loan investment for social ventures in the South West.
 

With a focus on IoT, the R/GA Venture Studio UK is designed for start-ups developing connected hardware products and software services with the goal of helping them to build businesses and brands that can scale. In a three-month, immersive, mentor-driven program, companies receive support from leaders in industrial design and marketing.
 

If you've got an innovative, creative, change-the-face-of-music startup, we'd love to hear from you.
 

Property Innovation Labs (Pi Labs) is Europe's first venture capital platform to invest exclusively in early stage ventures in the property tech vertical. Pi Labs was founded to become the centre of the property innovation ecosystem with the vision to identify, mentor, invest in and accelerate high-calibre startup ventures looking to disrupt the property industry.
 

The IT for Equity accelerator for early-stage startups, helping entrepreneurs acquire hard skills and turn ideas into MVP.