Over 75 founders, four cohorts, and
a co-operative not yet incorporated.
founders through Mosaic to date
in alumni revenue since Fall 2023
first customers won in a cohort
people employed by alumni
still operating two years on
in two Discovery Foundation awards
Mosaic is small. We would rather publish real numbers than an impressive-sounding one that counts everyone who ever opened an email.
Most impact reports are marketing with a chart on it.
What we count
First customers. First $1,000 month. First employee. First wholesale order. Still operating in Year 3. Numbers a founder can check against their own bank account.
What we refuse to count
Applications received. Social media reach. Hours of programming delivered. Satisfaction scores collected the day everyone felt good.
How we collect it
We ask alumni once a year, in writing, and they can decline. Nobody is chased and nothing is published without them seeing it first.
What we will publish
This page, updated annually, including the years the numbers are worse. A co-operative that only reports good years is not being audited by anyone.
Some alumni & the milestone each chose to have written down.
Sixteen alumni, each with a milestone they reached while participating in an eight-week Mosaic program.
How many of them own part of it afterwards.
Every accelerator can tell you how many founders went through. Almost none can tell you how many still have a stake in the institution that trained them.
Once the co-operative is incorporated, this is the line we will report first, every year, and the one we expect to be judged on.
What we are not claiming
That ten weeks fixes structural underinvestment. It does not. Intersectional women, transgender, and non-binary founders are underfunded because of how capital is allocated, not because of a skills gap, and no accelerator sincerely believes otherwise.
What ten weeks can do is get a business to paying customers and a founder into a circle that does not disperse. The co-operative is our attempt at the other half.