Applications are now close for UMSL Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center’s Anchor Accelerator, and the 2025 cohort will be the first to participate in the re-envisioned program. Applications were due November 8, 2024. Finalists will participate in a closed Pitch Day with a selection of jurors this December, and ten winners will be announced in January of 2025 with workshops to take place this spring.
The most competitive applicants will be:
Grant recipients will receive $2,500 at the start of the program, and the remainder of the grants will be awarded alongside an Entrepreneurship Certificate from the University of Missouri–St. Louis upon completion of the five workshops.
*Schnuck Markets’ ‘Schnucks Springboard’ Diverse-Owned Business Accelerator, Greater St. Louis, Inc.’s Downtown Retail
Whether or not you applied to the accelerator and/or were invited to participate in the accelerator pitch competition, we wanted to share with you a PowerPoint template you are welcome to modify and use during your next "live" pitch presentation about your startup. With just eight slides, the template provides a framework for efficiently discussing some of the most critical questions that potential accelerators (or potential investors or other stakeholders) may have about your company:
UMSL is the only public university in the region to carry dual AACSB accreditations for its business and accounting programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
