There is a place for you in this.
Whatever you have to give.
Mosaic Accelerator is a ten-week accelerator and a forming co-operative for intersectional women, transgender, and non-binary founders building tech-enabled businesses – founders who need customers, cash flow and a circle far more than they need a pitch deck.
You don’t need a venture capitalist. You need paying customers. And we work on both sides: the founders, and how businesses like theirs get funded.
If you are introducing us
Here is a paragraph to paste into an email, so you do not have to write one.
Rochelle Grayson runs Mosaic Accelerator, which works on both sides of the table for intersectional women, transgender, and non-binary founders: a ten-week program for building a business on paying customers rather than venture capital, and a co-operative now forming so that, in time, a community can fund founders like these through their revenue rather than their equity. Mosaic pays every mentor in its Village and never names a founder to a sponsor. I think you two should talk. More at mosaicaccelerator.com/stand-with-us
Five ways in
From the lightest to the deepest. Start wherever feels right.
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Follow along
The Village Post, our monthly letter: founders’ milestones, the Village, and what we are learning. And when a founder’s story moves you, share it.
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Open a door
An introduction is often worth more than a cheque. A first customer for one of our founders. A stage, a panel or a podcast. A company that might sponsor a place. A credit union or a family foundation that cares about community capital.
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Give your expertise
Join the Village, our Aunties, Uncles, Cousins and Madrinas. You set your own availability, typically at least two hours a month. Everyone in the Village is paid for their time, and you are never asked to work for exposure. Reading applications each intake is paid too.
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Fund a place
From one Village hour for a founder in the current cohort, $175, to an extra community-supported place, $975, which means one more founder gets in. Eleven ways in all. You are never told whose seat you paid for, and sponsorship never buys admission.
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Own a share, later
Women have been doing revenue-based finance at the kitchen table for centuries. Mosaic is becoming a co-operative its members can own, and that is how we plan to do it again, at a size that can fund a business. It is not incorporated yet, and we are not raising money. We are not taking money, pledges or commitments: being counted records that you are interested, and nothing more.
All prices are in Canadian dollars and do not include tax. GST or HST is added at checkout where it applies.
The sponsorship page has all eleven ways to fund a place, and the four things we will never do with a sponsor’s money.
Tell us which rung feels right.
You will hear back from Rochelle Grayson, who runs Mosaic, and not from a form.