Sponsor a piece of it. We say your name when it happens.
The Earned Equity Accelerator, powered by LinkedTrust. First cohort, 12 weeks.
Sponsorship keeps the program free for the teams. That is the whole reason it exists. Nobody's product gets pushed on anybody, and the teams work on their own thing.
The stipend pool
The pool pays the founders so they can do this instead of contract work. It is shared out across everyone in the cohort in proportion to the work they log, so it is one pool, not one person's salary. Any amount goes in.
Everyone who puts something in is named on the page and in the note the cohort sends out. Several people funding one pool is the point.
Or sponsor one of these by name
| The thing | Amount | What we say |
|---|---|---|
| Demo dayThe end of the cohort, in front of everyone. | $5,000 | "Demo day is sponsored by ___." |
| The shared AI dev environmentCompute the whole cohort works in for 12 weeks. | $2,500 | Named in the environment and at kickoff. |
| Keeping the toolkit freeThe earned-equity tooling stays open and costs the teams nothing. | $2,500 | Named in the toolkit and its repo. |
| Kickoff weekWhere teams meet mentors and find their four or five people. | $1,000 | Thanked at the top of every kickoff session. |
| The electionRanked-choice leadership vote. The governance moment. | $1,000 | "This election is sponsored by ___." |
| One team's legal formationFairmint or Slicing Pie setup for a team that cannot pay for it. | $1,000 | Named by the team it paid for, if they want to. |
| The cohort recordWhat happened, written down and published at the end. | $1,000 | On the cover. |
| Connectivity and travelFor contributors who need it to take part at all. | $500 | Named in the note, and by the people it reached. |
What a sponsor gets, plainly
Your name on the thing you paid for, said out loud when it happens, and on the sponsor page. An invitation to demo day. The note the cohort sends out. That is the deal.
If you are hiring, ask us about the contribution records. Every contributor has a verified, peer-reviewed history of what they actually did, and we will introduce you to the ones who match what you need. If you invest, come to demo day and meet the teams. Neither of those costs the teams anything or changes what they build.
In kind counts. Credits, hosting, licences, legal hours. We will value it honestly and name you against the matching thing. Teams use what they want to use, so we will never promise anyone that the cohort will adopt their product.
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