The Revenue Accelerator
at Golisano Institute
Hands-on sales help.
Real revenue results.
The Revenue Accelerator at Golisano Institute for Business & Entrepreneurship helps Western New York-based B2B tech companies improve sales performance.
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.
“The Revenue Accelerator at Golisano Institute will be unique nationally and should grow the venture capital input in Western New York.”
– Tom Golisano, Founder of Paychex and philanthropist
“With the help of GrowthX, we increased our revenue by over $100,000.”
– Mary Lobson, REES (Buffalo)
“GrowthX and Golisano Institute helped us evolve the way that we talk about our product – it’s now less about what we do and more about what we do for the customer. That’s really carried a long way, including signing two new customers.”
– Evan Leaphart, Kredit Academy (Buffalo)
Program Details
Highly Selective. Non-Dilutive.
- 16-weeks of intensive sales help
- A dedicated expert sales coach
- Co-Work at Golisano Institute
- Western NY Founders Only
- No equity
- Next Cohort: March 2025
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.
The Revenue Accelerator at Golisano Institute will help you attract investors because it helps you create exactly what investors are looking for: real revenue results and a tangible get-to-market strategy that scales with capital.
“We were able to build more conviction around the startup’s GTM plans since GrowthX worked closely with the company. Additionally, GrowthX was instrumental in helping our investment team vet founder self-awareness and willingness to source and act upon feedback. This assistance definitely helped de-risk some of the main questions that are commonplace with early-stage companies.”
– Brian Dixon, Kapor Capital
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 Revenue Accelerator at Golisano Institute 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 an expert sales 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
Open Now
Application Submission
Rolling review process, with priority given to early applications.
March 2025
Program Launch
Don’t Just Take Our Word For It
Hear from The Revenue Accelerator founders.
“We signed 2 out of 3 enterprise deals with Fortune 500 companies! We wouldn’t have been able to do it without GrowthX.”
– Bianca Gonzalez, AMPAworks (Buffalo)
“I don’t think I would have been able to live up to my full potential without the help of GrowthX. I genuinely feel like they saved me as a founder!”
– Reagan Bonlie, NudgeMoney (Rochester)
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 Revenue Accelerator is the only program that is 100% focused on helping founders with sales.
The Revenue Accelerator at Golisano Institute is not academic. You will be selling alongside your dedicated get-to-market coach who will lead you through proven playbooks and templates.
Yes! We’ve accelerated B2B Startups that enter our program with millions of dollars of revenue.
The Revenue Accelerator at Golisano Institute meets program participants where they are and specifically addresses their pipeline and sales challenges.
There are three goals to the program:
- Identify and validate the specific customer type and use case for you to focus all of your sales efforts;
- Systematically 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.
The application process 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.
The Revenue Accelerator at Golisano Institute is exclusively for post-product Western NY-based B2B tech startups that are serious about getting sales help.
When you are in The Revenue Accelerator at Golisano Institute, you are not making a commitment to the program. You are making a commitment to focus on sales.
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 and selling efficiently.
Rather than waste your time with mentor sessions, guest speakers and lunch ’n learns, The Revenue Accelerator at The Golisano Institute 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 sales for over 225 B2B tech companies across 20 industries.
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.