Incubator, Accelerator, VC, & Venture Studio Onboarding
Onboarding an Incubator, Accelerator, VC, or Venture Studio is comprised of two phases:
Phase 1: Onboard Executive Team & Build Applications
Phase 2: Onboard Portfolio and then set up Perks, & E-Learning
Phase 3: Onboard Group
Phase 4: Maintenance
Phase 1: Onboard Executive Team & Build Applications
Information needed:
- Executive Team Emails for inviting
- Landing Page information for Startup, Membership, and Mentor application (if applicable)
- Timeline
- Startup Application Questions and/or People Application Questions
- Credit Card
We focus the first phase on getting the executive team onboarded and comfortable with the system.
Sparkxyz’s onboarding specialist will walk them through each of the different sections and start their applications.
The team should come prepared with the information necessary for creating the Landing Page for their startup, membership, and mentor applications.
We will also invite the executive team during this meeting, so please come prepared with their email addresses.
The specialist will give the team a week to play around with the system and answer any questions. During that week, the team must discuss how they want to construct their diligence. The executive team should determine how their diligence is built and what questions should be asked before the subsequent meeting.
During the subsequent meeting, they will complete the below steps for the applications:
Phase 1 Complete: Executive team onboarded & applications built
Phase 2: Onboard Portfolio, set up Perks, & E-Learning
The second phase is focused on getting your portfolio onboarded, adding your perks/ partnerships, and creating your self starter learning library. See the below guides and demo’s for each section.
Portfolio
Display your portfolio with ease. Add your portfolio companies venture profiles under manage portfolio.
Create categories and then drag and drop them to the appropriate category. (Do not drag by the logo or it will not register)
Use the URL of this page to link to your website or send to other interested parties. If the other party is not a member of your collective the only visible portion of this page will be Companies, Jobs & Categories. Example: Amplite Capital
If you want to leverage the jobs board, have your founders add a job description to their venture profile page and list this page on your website. They can use Linkedin, Angellist, Etc.
Demo Video: Manage Portfolio
Perks
The Sparkxyz perks listed are exclusively for your members and portfolio companies. Members can access the perk by clicking the logo and then clicking redeem.
For portfolio companies to access the perks, you must add their venture under the portfolio tab. Once they have accepted the portfolio invite (if they are pending, the restriction will not lift), have them click on perks in the top navigation, and they can see all perks available to them.
Perks Management
The perks you add will only be visible to members and portfolio companies (once added and accepted). They are not for the consumption of the greater Sparkxyz community. If your portfolio companies or yourselves have a perk you would like to add, please use this application: Apply Here
Demo Video: Perks E-Learning
E-Learning
On the left-hand navigation side, you’ll see two sets of categories:
- Member-only Categories are for members of your collective. Build a library for running diligence, code of conduct, etc.
- The second is for the portfolio companies. For the cohort-based collectives, you can add weekly topics or build the categories by section: Sales, Fundraising, Technical, etc.
Make sure to build out your categories before adding entries.
Under the Manage tab, click +E-learning button to add a new entry!
Demo Video: E-Learning
