“We met 60 investors through the program. The thing that also accelerated us was the Connect platform. Newchip teaches things you would never learn in the real world about investors - they pushed, prodded, and pulled us into being truly investment-ready.”
“Newchip is my new best friend. If any problem ever comes to mind, Newchip is the first place I think of for help. While the curriculum and introductions are amazing, the community is absolutely the best thing you could be a part of.”
“Through Newchip, we were introduced to our first investor, which created a snowball effect for our company; that little bit of momentum helped us bring on many more investors and strategic partners to where we raised one of the largest Pre-Seed rounds in the Middle East of $12 million.”
“I was incredibly impressed with the strength and relevancy of the investors Newchip introduced to us. They hand-selected VCs in Minneapolis, Canada, Chicago, and St. Louis that were directly interested in our business, which helped us save an incredible amount of time and energy.”
“Everything has been perfect !!!! I can’t see anywhere for more improvement as far the cohort accelerator program, everyone has been so helpful, the mastermind sessions have been great, as far as my side I am working on completing my pitch deck for the showcase the extra week really has allowed me to gain more progress for completion, but if I need some one on one services I will not hesitate to reach out to the Newchip team”
“The accelerator had a ton of useful information and was very well laid out... It definitely opened my eyes and gave me good insights into the investor world and the obstacles and hurdles that lie ahead. As a single founder right now my main challenges still persist...finding time and money to implement anything meaningful... But, you've definitely steered me in the right direction and I am grateful for that. All the best and thank you.”
“Newchip was a very "cookie cutter" experience, not a true accelerator. I'm pretty sure the graduation ceremony was pre-recorded and the "homework" was never checked. Lots of confusion around connections and their investor network was weak at best. I participated in 3 demo days and most investors contacted me through LinkedIn, so it's hard to know if they did anything proactive to encourage investment or actual introductions. Our company is definitely investable as proved by us raising $450k in one month on StartEngine, but not a dollar was from Newchip or an intro from NewChip. The best part of NewChip was getting to try Sofos.ai.”
