Connecting Minority and Women Tech Founders to Institutional/Industry Knowledge & Capital

The MVP Accelerator is a venture-in-residence program at the NYIT School of Management-Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (SOMCES). SOMCES is a premiere and distinguishable leader in entrepreneurship education and provides access to tech talent, faculty research, and expertise to manage successful entrepreneurial ventures in the context of a technological and global market place.

MVP launched its technical assistance programs to support more than mobile, social, or ventures led by minorities and women. The Accelerator also supports end-to-end product development through augmented reality, 3D printing, and Circuit-board Fabrication. These resources will further support the development of scalable in communities of color.

MVP offers a comprehensive calendar of business education events in NYC in supplement to it’s training bootcamps. These programs serve to connect groups of emerging entrepreneurs, startups, and early-growth companies to thought leadership and innovators in tech entrepreneurship.

The MVP Accelerator is a fast-moving business education program dedicated to the launch, scale, and exit of minority / women-led technology firms. MVP selects qualified candidates from low-to-moderate income communities to learn strategy behind their ideas, build a technical team, while participating in a comprehensive ecosystem of industry and academic knowledge.

MVP accelerates a variety of startups at different stages. Typically the earliest stage a startup enters our program is A) having a core team with diverse skill sets in place, and B) has a product built that initial customers are using. Startups will gain an immense amount of condensed experience through hands-on mentoring, connections to extremely targeted industry insiders, and exposure to investors and the press contacts.

MVP is powered by VANGUARDE CONSULTING a leading provider of entrepreneurial training and content for small business innovation. VANGUARDE delivers high-value programming and learning opportunities for more than 10,000 small businesses throughout New York City, New Jersey, Boston, and Delaware.