The Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Accelerator powered by Pegasus Tech Ventures, is a ten-week, equity-free program for early-stage companies.

 

The accelerator features world-class faculty and mentors providing in-depth workshops designed to provide customized support to address your challenges and meet your requirements.

Program Highlights

Personalized Experience

Faculty, Guests & Mentors

Peer Mentoring

The HarvardAE accelerator provides extensive mentoring support to address the specific needs of each company. The faculty and mentors will work with each startup to identify its specific key challenges and develop a customized program of support and solutions.

The faculty, guest speakers, and mentors have unparalleled experience as entrepreneurs, educators, and investors, bringing practical, real-world knowledge and techniques to the program.  

To build ties between members of the program and reinforce mastery of key concepts and tools, the accelerator also integrates a novel and powerful “peer mentoring” process.

Demo Day

Post Accelerator

Startup World Cup

The program concludes with a Demo Day that gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their businesses to a panel of experts and investors and to the larger community of the Accelerator.

Beyond the ten weeks of the program, entrepreneurs will continue to have access to their peers and to the faculty and mentors through an online community that is designed to carry the advantages of the program far beyond the ten weeks of the intensive accelerator.

The company with the best presentation on Demo Day will be invited to compete at the global Startup World Cup championship event in San Francisco in the Fall of 2024. At the event, the company will compete with over 80 regional champions from around the world for a grand prize of $1 million.

Meet the Organizations Behind the Accelerator

Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs

 

Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs is a non-profit organization with 20 Chapters worldwide, connecting nearly 19,000 Harvard alumni, faculty, students, and friends from across the University and throughout the world.

Pegasus Tech Ventures

 

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world.  Pegasus' network includes Global Fortune 500 companies and other multinational corporations across a wide variety of industries.

Sponsors

The HAE Accelerator is a unique program that would not be possible without their support. We are proud to be sponsored by amazing organizations and individuals who have stepped forward to make this community possible.

The generosity of the people and companies listed here has enabled three Accelerator Cohorts to embark upon a journey that will drive innovation across a wide variety of industries.

Global Sponsor

Yintai Investment Company, LLC

We are grateful for the ongoing support and partnership of all our sponsors, and we look forward to running this program for many cohorts to come!

The HAE Accelerator is also proudly sponsored by members of the Crimson Founder's Circle:

 

Haresh Abichadani, Geraldine Acuna Sunshine, Saurav “Sunny” Arora, Patrick Barclay, Saju Bhaskar, Boyd Carson, Anthony Chirchirillo, Sara Choi, Juan DeAngulo, Debra Decker, Michael Decker, Guillaume Dion, Jonathan Dippert, Rodrigo Espinosa Jurado, Gareth Glaser, Matthew Hagen, Adriana Herrera, Brett Hickey, Yajun Hu, Eduardo Iglesias, Faizal Javer, Veronica Jung, Marie Kim, Seung Chan Kim, Andrew Koh, Sachin Latawa, Keith Levy, Thomas Mahoney, Joseph Martinez, Kevin May, E Rulonna Neilson, Stefano Oligati, Mehul Patel, Roman Petra, Vishal Punwani, Ilona Theodora Rand Dotson, Kaivalya Rawal, Abhinav Reddy, John Reichenbach, Bill Reichert, Dana Rowan, Pedro Rubio, Regina Ryan, Omiros Sarikas, Tejasvi Sharma, Maera Siddiqi, Denise Silber, Richard and Jodi Steel, Jarrid Tingle, Francesco Tronci, Jay Tsao, Laurent Vernhes, Shezan Zarook.