With the new TinySeed Europe accelerator program, we’ll be able to give founders in European time zones (including in Africa and the Middle East) the capital, advice, mentorship, and community they need to grow their companies faster. Here’s what that looks like.

We’re proud to announce the Fall 2021 accelerator batch, our first Fall-starting batch and our second accelerator batch this year. We're excited that we're able to work with more founders and startups each year as we expand our program.

On August 10th, Rob Walling (TinySeed’s co-founder) and Tracy Osborn (TinySeed’s Program Director) hosted a live webinar to answer questions about the upcoming Fall 2021 accelerator batch.

We’re fortunate to be continuously amazed by the quality and number of applicants for TinySeed’s annual accelerator program. With each successive batch, the quality of applications has grown, and this round’s batch is also our most international to date, with eleven founders based outside the U.S.

We’re thrilled to share that our portfolio company SeekWell was acquired by ThoughtSpot, representing TinySeed’s first firm to announce an exit. SeekWell was founded by Mike Ritchie and Thabo Fisher, who graduated from TinySeed’s 2020 accelerator program

Our terms allow our founders to remain in control of when they reinvest profits back into their business vs. when they pull them out as dividends. We determine a fair salary cap with the founders, where profits taken out of the company above that salary are considered dividends. Which leads to a common question: How do we determine the salary cap?

The TinySeed accelerator team (Rob Walling, Einar Vollset, and Tracy Osborn) took questions about our third batch application in a live webinar. We’re getting the recording transcribed and timestamped now (we’ll update this post when it’s done) but in the meanwhile, we’ve listed out some of our most frequently asked questions below:

A year ago we wrote a post featuring podcast episodes by TinySeed founders in the middle of our inaugural batch. Now, a year later and a month before our applications open again, we thought we’d revisit the question with the experiences of our second batch.

We were blown away by the sheer number and quality of the applications we received for TinySeed’s second batch. Over the last few months we’ve been working hard to narrow down the field of amazing candidates, and today we’re proud to announce that these twelve companies are in our 2020 batch of startups:

We held our second TinySeed retreat this last October for our current batch of startups, coinciding with the MicroConf Europe conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Like our first retreat, we spend about half the day in a room together, workshopping and and discussing what our companies are currently struggling with…

The application for our 2020 batch of startups has been open for almost two weeks now and we’re so excited to see many amazing applications roll in. We’ve gotten quite a few questions so we thought we’d respond here to the most frequently asked:

Now that applications are open for TinySeed’s second batch, we thought it would be useful to share some of the podcast appearances by current TinySeed founders. TinySeed’s co-founder Rob Walling hosts Startups For the Rest of Us — it’s a great way to see how Rob works with the batch and his general mentorship process. Read more:

We held our first TinySeed founder retreat this past July in Minneapolis, Minnesota: two nights on a ranch a few hours outside of the city and a final night back in the city. Since TinySeed is a remote accelerator with founders across 4 countries and 3 continents…

It’s been an exciting few weeks as we’ve been announcing each of the companies accepted into our inaugural batch. And what a group they are! We’re phenomenally excited about our founders and their companies and are enjoying the chance to work alongside them and help accelerate their growth.