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ProgramEarned Equity Accelerator
Runs12 weeks, first cohort autumn 2026
Cohort7 teams, 41 contributors, 9 countries
Siteworkers.vc
Contactgolda@linkedtrust.us

Get in front of founders at the moment they choose everything.

Teams in this cohort have no incumbent tools, no cap table, and no hiring process yet. They are picking all three during the twelve weeks you sponsor.

7teams in the first cohort
41contributors working for equity
9countries
612tasks verified and peer reviewed

Who we are

The accelerator that hands teams the ownership machinery, not a check.

The Earned Equity Accelerator is run by LinkedTrust. Teams get the legal instrument (Fairmint or Slicing Pie) and the work tracking that turns verified contribution into equity, so they can recruit anyone in the world and pay in ownership instead of promises.

We run on it ourselves. Our CEO in Nairobi was elected. Our own cap table is built from peer reviewed tasks. Founders in the cohort are building in healthcare, microfinance, and risk and compliance, and they come from Nairobi, Lagos, Tel Aviv and elsewhere. Some are juniors. Some have run companies before.

Why sponsor

What a sponsor actually gets out of it

It stays free for the teams

Sponsorship is what pays the stipend pool and keeps the toolkit open, so founders can do this instead of contract work. That is the whole reason the money is needed.

Hiring signal you cannot buy

Every contributor has a verified, peer reviewed record of what they actually did. Not a CV. Most of them are early career developers you would otherwise have no way to assess.

Deal flow before anyone else

Each team has a real cap table from week one. You see the companies and the contribution data behind them at demo day.

Your name on something real

Pick a part of the program and it carries your name. We say it out loud when that thing happens, the way IIW thanks the sponsor of the opening circle.

Association with the ownership story

Founders paying contributors in real, tracked ownership. It is a story worth being attached to and it is not a story anyone else can tell yet.

None of your time, unless you want to spend it

Every engagement below is optional. Hand us credits and docs and we run the rest.

Already in

Who is behind it

Mike Moyer, Slicing Pie advisor Fairmint legal instrument Rackdog infrastructure LinkedTrust toolkit

Levels

Three levels, plus a way for individuals to be counted

Each level includes everything in the level below it.

LevelAmountWhat you get
BackerIndividual $200
  • Named on the sponsor page
  • The monthly note from the cohort
  • An invitation to demo day
SupportingAffordable $500
  • Into the stipend pool, shared across founders by work logged
  • You hear directly from the cohort
  • Your logo on the cohort page
ContributingMid $1,000
  • A named part of the program is yours: kickoff week, the election, one team's legal formation, the cohort record
  • We say your name when that thing happens
  • One optional workshop or office hours slot
  • Logo on demo day materials
PartnerPremium $5,000
  • Demo day carries your name, said from the front
  • Access to verified contribution records, and intros to contributors you pick
  • First look at every company at demo day
  • Your name on a piece of the program

Following the rule hackathon organizers use: the top level stays under a quarter of the program budget, and the entry level already includes something general, something public, and something to do with hiring.

Add ons

Pick any of these at any level

Name a part of the programKickoff week, the election, demo day, the cohort record. Yours, and said out loud.
WorkshopTeach the cohort your tool. Thirty minutes, remote is fine.
Office hoursBe available for questions. Book as little as one hour.
MentoringTeams choose their own mentors, so this is an offer, not an assignment.
Stipend poolAny amount. Shared across founders in proportion to the work they log.
Contributor introsWe introduce you to people whose records match what you are hiring for.
In kind instead of cashCredits, API, hosting, licenses, legal hours. Valued honestly and placed at the matching level. Made available to teams, never pushed on them.
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