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Propeller Venture Accelerator

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Type
  
Seed Accelerator

Area served
  
Worldwide

Founder
  
Gordon McConnell

Industry
  
Venture Capital

Website
  
Link

Founded
  
2011

Headquarters
  
DCU Ryan Academy, Citywest Business Park, Dublin

Key people
  
Terence Bowden (Venture Manager) Drew O' Sullivan (Business Development)

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The Propeller Venture Accelerator is a joint venture between Dublin City University and Irelandia Investments. Launched in 2011, it is an Irish-based organization that invests in early stage information and communications technology companies. Propeller was recently named as the "7th best Accelerator in Europe" by the Kauffman Fellows Program.

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Selection process

Propeller has a number of stages in its selection process

  1. Initially the written applications are vetted by the mentors, short-listing a "Top 30".
  2. These 30 are then invited to present in front of a panel of mentors.
  3. Those successful are met for Due Diligence
  4. The final stage is a presentation in front of the investors of Propeller.

Portfolio

Each year Propeller has the capability to take between 6-10 companies.

Now in its 3rd year, Propeller has a portfolio of 12 companies.

Propeller 1.0

  • Associate Mobile
  • Fantom
  • GreenEgg
  • Healthcomms
  • Simple Lifeforms
  • Vendorshop
  • Propeller 2.0

  • Death Buy Fashion
  • Picturk
  • Seoige Technologies
  • Swiftqueue
  • Videoelephant
  • Zeto Technologies
  • References

    Propeller Venture Accelerator Wikipedia