According to a recent Harvard Business Review article, these three factors make the defense market highly appealing for startups:

1. The Pentagon is a motivated customer, making moves to court software vendors, due to their need to keep pace with other countries.

2. The defense market is stable amidst many commercial market headwinds.

3. Private capital investors are increasingly supporting companies in the defense market.

Read the entire HBR article here

Both!

Larger companies seeking to move into the federal market have found success in our program learning how to translate their commercial product into government use cases, identifying target agencies, and then refining their pitch and marketing materials for government use.

For early-stage dual-use companies, our program will help you understand the landscape and build your strategy from the ground up.

Accelerator is perfect for:

• Chief Revenue Officers
• Chief Growth Officers
• Chief Marketing Officers
• along with the rest of c-suite
• VPs of Federal
• Federal Sales teams

Accelerator is open to anyone from your team who will benefit from understanding how to enter the federal market.

You'll come away from Federal Accelerator with a much deeper understanding of the federal market,  enabling you to focus your efforts on the right places, guide your buyer, and grow sales.

For leadership teams, you'll leave Federal Accelerator armed with the knowledge you'll need to shape your federal GTM strategy, and you'll be ready to take this before your board.

For sales teams, you'll overhaul your federally-facing marketing materials based on the feedback you receive from our experts and that you'll be able to better structure your go-to-market strategy.

The federal market is a beast, but you'll walk away with a good understanding of the topics you need in order to be successful in:

• Planning your strategy
• Messaging your tech and solutions for government buyers
• Finding opportunities for your use cases
• Guiding the buyer targets
• How to avoid trouble 

Here are selected wins that attendees of previous Accelerators have listed: 

• Deepened understanding of the federal market
• Companies have identified new use cases they hadn't previously considered, opening up new agency targets and contracting opportunities
• Mentors have connected companies with target agencies they had been trying to reach
• Companies have fully overhauled their federal-facing 2-pagers, which in turn helped them close meetings they'd be tying to set up for months.

No!

Dcode's Federal Accelerator has just the fixed one-time fee which covers the entire program duration.

Nope! Just the one-time fee paid at the time of registration.

Unlike other accelerators, we don't take any equity either.

You'll retain online access to the learning materials and our community platform for life.

The community is a great place to connect with other tech companies, as well as tapping into our mentor network to keep progressing in federal!

Yes! Several VC firms have sponsored their companies to attend past Accelerators.

Please contact us for more information.

Yes, all types of tech companies are welcome to attend. All tech companies will benefit from the learning materials, speakers, and workshops.

The core learning process is built for any type of tech company, so you may select the cohort which works best for your schedule, even if that cohort isn't an exact match for your technology.

Future cohorts will focus around companies working in cyber, ML, and data analytics, among others. You can view all scheduled cohorts here.