The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator
Hands-on sales help.
Real revenue results.
The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator helps Alberta-based tech startups improve sales performance and create consistent revenue results.
You’re assigned a dedicated expert sales coach with proven sales playbooks for 16 weeks.
Whether it’s your first sale or you’re struggling to create systematic revenue growth that scales, we work closely with you to develop a plan that is tailored to your specific needs and goals.
We then work together to execute that plan and deliver real revenue results.
“With the help of GrowthX and The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator we had the revenue traction and a tangible GTM strategy to help us close our Seed round!”
– Kelsey Hahn, Monark
“With the help from GrowthX and The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator, we doubled our revenue!”
– Alisha Olandesca, SOS Charging Solutions
“We capitalized on the program’s insights and had a strong year, achieving 600% ARR growth and 450% customer growth. We are on pace to hit and exceed our first $1MM ARR this year.”
– Leighton Healey, KnowHow
Program Details
Find product-market fit faster
- A dedicated get-to-market expert.
- Tailored get-to-market help.
- On-demand coaching videos, proven playbooks and downloadable templates.
- 30+ hours of hands-on help.
- 16-week virtual program
- No cost. No Equity.
- Next Cohort: November 4, 2024
Curious about the on-demand platform and playbooks that you and your coach will leverage throughout the 16 weeks? Just hit the button below for full access!
Revenue Accelerated
Raise Capital With Confidence
Traction speaks louder than words and pitch decks.
“As an early-stage investor, the go-to-market insights I get from GrowthX are invaluable! I send companies in my pipeline because the customer and team insights are unlike anything a traditional due diligence process uncovers, and I also send my portfolio companies because nothing increases valuation like customer and revenue growth!”
– Bryan Slauko, Metiquity Ventures
First we help. Then we invest.
GrowthX Capital – our pre-seed and seed stage venture capital fund – relies on the investible insights and founder relationships from The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator to source, select and earn investment opportunities.
Together We Go Farther
The path to product-market fit is not meant to be traveled alone. Having a dedicated coach and proven sales playbooks takes the guesswork out of getting to market and systematically increasing revenue.
We feel privileged to be a part of your journey, and we take that responsibility seriously.
Together we rise.
Important Dates
On-Demand
Information Session
Click here to watch on-demand.
Oct 11, 2024
Application Deadline
Rolling review process, with priority given to early applications
Nov 4, 2024
Program Launch
Don’t Just Take Our Word For It
Hear from the founders themselves.
“The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator is the most effective program that I’ve participated in! It’s been the difference between success and failure for us, as recent new revenue is a direct result of the program.”
– Peter Gammell, onthejob
“We grew our average customer size by 6X!”
– Al-Karim Khimji, Propra
FAQ
All of your questions answered
While there are many accelerator programs that teach founders high-level startup theory and pitch deck best practices, The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator is the only program that is 100% focused on helping founders get to market and grow revenue.
The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator is not academic. You will be doing the actual tactical work of taking your product to market alongside your dedicated get-to-market coach who will lead you through proven playbooks and templates.
This program is perfect for post-demo day founders ready to focus on sales.
Yes! At GrowthX, we’ve accelerated and invested in companies that have graduated from those accelerator programs (and many more).
The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator picks up where other programs leave off: a deep dive into – and the actual work doing – everything that you need to do so to find product-market fit. If you’ve graduated from one of these programs, you’ll be in a great position to succeed in The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator.
There are three goals to the program:
- Identify and validate your initial target market;
- Grow your revenue; and
- Effectively communicate your traction to investors.
Companies that have successfully completed The Revenue Accelerator typically see a 2-10X increase in revenue and a >50% reduction in sales cycles.
Finally, founders graduate with a set of playbooks and templates that enable them to build a get-to-market team, scale and attract investment.
The application process to The Revenue Accelerator is simple! We work to determine whether we want to help you and can we help you (in that order).
Our goal through the application process is to learn enough to start helping. That way, you get a sense of who we are and how we help. And, we get a sense of whether you and your team are know-it-alls or learn-it-alls.
Start the process by completing the application. Our team will review your application and reach out to select companies to schedule a 30-minute conversation.
We then make acceptance decisions and communicate back to you ASAP.
Yes! As we say at GrowthX, “traction speaks louder than words or pitch decks”.
By participating in The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator you will build a traction narrative and the documentation to back it up that will attract the right investors.
Hopefully, including GrowthX! We built The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator to find great founders and earn the right to invest in them.
The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator is exclusively for post-MVP Alberta-based tech startups that want to prioritize their go-to-market and growth efforts.
Typically. founders that are looking to get to market faster and are ready to commit time towards thoughtful revenue acceleration are a great fit.
Pre-Revenue: The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator has helped pre-revenue companies successfully identify their target market, capture early customers and win revenue.
Post-Revenue: The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator has helped revenue-generating startups accelerate growth while working with founders and their teams to implement frameworks to scale.
When you are in The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator, you are not making a commitment to the program. You are making a commitment to focus on growing revenue for your company.
You can have the best strategy or product in the world but at the end of the day revenue growth is a byproduct of time spent developing your market.
The program is 16-weeks long and in any given week you will have the opportunity to learn, execute and grow through group workshops, one-on-one coaching and on-demand learning.
Rather than waste your time with mentor sessions, guest speakers and lunch ’n learns, The Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator is designed to provide you with the bandwidth, expertise and flexibility to do the actual work of finding customers and growing revenue.
We’ll meet you where you are and work with the resources that you have.
No. Our approach is to meet you where you are and to work within the resources that you have available.
We appreciate the importance of protecting runway through capital efficient revenue growth.
We’ve never asked any program participant to spend money on website updates, sales automation software or digital ads and it’s never stood in the way of revenue growth.
No. While your product and market may be unique, the path to prodcut-market fit is not.
We have successfully accelerated companies from nearly every industry and business model.
While there are many industry- and sector-specific accelerator programs, most of them are loosely affiliated mentor networks that struggle to create meaningful impact.
In our experience working with hundreds of entrepreneurs, we have yet to find a situation where industry background or lack thereof was a significant hindrance to our ability to grow revenue.