Bring A Real Accelerator To Phoenix

Backstage Capital is Looking for a Fourth City to Accelerate

Mat Sherman
Sep 9, 2018 · 1 min read

Phoenix doesn’t have any true accelerators right now. We have a lot of incubators, but there is not one example of an “accelerator” investing $X into a certain amount of startups for X% amount of equity. Well, I was at Disrupt this past week, and came across an opportunity to put Phoenix in a great position to get our first accelerator here, funded by Backstage Capital, a quickly growing VC firm who funds women, people of color, and LGBTQ founders.

The Terms

Backstage will invest $100,000 for 5% of all companies in the accelerator.

Our Job as #yesphx

Our job is to tell them that they should come here, in numbers, and explain why PHX. We can do that via voting on their website..in numbers. Vote here.

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Founder and CEO at PubLoft

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