Springboard

A new kind of start-up accelerator

We think your ideas are awesome. We want to see them polished, coded, working and real. So we invented Springboard.

Springboard is a programme where we give you a chance to turn an idea into a software business. And all you need up front is the idea.

Here’s how it works:

We give you the things you need to get started: mentoring, office space, money, and a really good lunch. It’s all free. What we don’t give you is legal hassle. We won’t take any equity, and you don’t even need a company.

You come to Red Gate’s offices in Cambridge, and get to be part of our start-up ecosystem: smart people doing interesting things with the right resources to become awesome.

Specifically, you’ll get:

• a great array of speakers and training over 12 weeks
• money to live on so you won’t be out of pocket
• your own accommodation sorted for 12 weeks
• ongoing mentoring from founders who’ve actually built a world-class business
• space to work in the Red Gate building along with a group of other cool start-ups
• free breakfast and lunch every day (the SQL Servery is great and you can tell your mother you’re finally eating properly)

Red Gate and Cambridge get to be a better place for it, you get to code something you really, really want to; and we get a warm fuzzy feeling (as well as some cool companies to build relationships with). And there’s nothing tying you down when you’re done.

Naturally, we’re looking for particular kinds of people with particular kinds of ideas – you can’t just play World of Warcraft, that’s not an idea – come on in and read about Springboard and the team behind it.

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