Challenger Accelerator has announced a recruitment for Challenger Bootcamp: USA Market Access, an online program that will help startups and entrepreneurs prepare for entering the US market and test how ready their product is for scaling.
Challenger Accelerator has announced a recruitment for Challenger Bootcamp: USA Market Access, an online program that will help startups and entrepreneurs prepare for entering the US market and test how ready their product is for scaling.
According to the Challenger Accelerator press release, the program is structured as a series of six online workshops with a practical focus: teams will not work theoretically, but will apply the tools to their own product and business model. The organizers promise individual and group meetings with Ukrainian and American experts who have experience in launching in the US and working with international startups. The message also emphasizes that participants will receive a structured understanding of how the US startup ecosystem works, how to check demand and generate sales, as well as how to build communication with investors to avoid typical mistakes at the start.
The training part covers key blocks of preparation for the American market: Customer Discovery and searching for Product-Market Fit, preparation for fundraising and Investor Relations, marketing and sales for B2B and B2C, as well as legal and financial aspects of working in the USA — regulation, taxes and certification. Separately, practical case studies of companies that have already managed to enter the US market are presented so that teams can understand which solutions worked in real conditions.
The workshops are scheduled for February 18 to March 18. Speakers and topics include fundraising (Sarah Romanko from Geek Ventures), Customer Discovery and Product–Market Fit (Valentyn Yaromenko, Big Sister AI), marketing and sales (Yulia Popyk, Petcube), legal and financial issues (Manuel Airapetov, Airapetov & Partners). The organizers have also announced a separate session on the US ecosystem with a presentation by the Ukrainian Business Embassy with the participation of the American Embassy.
You can apply via the registration form, deadline is February 17. Startups with the most relevant and clearly formulated requests may receive additional mentoring sessions.
Challenger Bootcamp: USA Market Access is implemented by Radar Tech and Civitta with support from American Councils and the US Embassy in Ukraine. The program is aimed at early and growth stage startups, founders and product teams that consider the US as a priority or promising market for international scaling.
Previously, dev.ua wrote about how Ukrainian ML&AI/SaaS company Object Control won the Challenger Accelerator AI 3.0 competition and received a $25,000 grant from the Ukraine-Moldova American Enterprise Fund and $25,000 in AWS cloud credits from the Ukrainian Startup Fund.
