Distance Accelerator - New Ventures BC

Join our distance Venture Accelerator Program.

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Why join the distance Venture Accelerator Program?

Virtual Mentorship

Founder one-on-one hourly weekly mentorship sessions over phone or video at a time that you choose.

Market Validation Training

Discover your customers and identify your markets.

Quarterly Reviews

Stay accountable. Panel sessions to review progress, gain expertise and celebrate your successes.

Entrepreneurial Training

Webinars on special topics with an expert or mentor.

Program Perks

Get access to AWS credits, Hubspot for startups and more.

Your tech company is

BC-based
Developing a new and innovative product or service in any tech sector
Coachable and can commit to weekly meetings
In the ideation, early or growth phase
Generating revenue or pre revenue

Meet our clients

It's Your Journey

1. Apply Anytime

We accept and review applications on a rolling basis. After receiving your application, we will chat with you, then if you're a fit, pair you with the right mentor based on your needs and open availability.

2. Choose a Mentor

Chat with our programs team and choose a mentor. Set a regular weekly time to virtually meet with your mentor.

Start Your Stream

No Product-Market Fit:

Discover your customers and identify your markets through our online Market Validation Training.

Product-Market Fit:

Refine your sales, financing goals, hiring and sales strategies.

3. Set Quarterly Objectives

Examples include: financing, Minimum Viable Products, go to market strategy, marketing, refine your pitch, hiring, sales, raising money.

4. Every Quarter:

Present your progress and pitch to a panel of mentors.

5. Graduate

Ready to scale up? We will prepare your company for a scale up program accelerator program or set off on your own.

Meet our Executives in Residence

Learn from someone who’s “been there and done that”. Our five dynamic EiRs bring a vast range of professional experience to their mentorship roles.

Alan Foster

Executive in Residence

Alan has more than 30 years’ experience in building and managing technology based ventures worldwide. Currently Alan is helping leaders in startups and early stage technology companies define business objectives, set priorities and commercialize their products enabling them to grow their companies.

He is a dynamic leader with expertise in organizational leadership, business planning, sales and marketing and product management. Prior to his consulting work, Alan worked in senior management roles with technology startups and Fortune 100 companies providing strategic guidance and technology expertise, enabling organizations to drive business value through innovation.

Beth Gallup

Executive in Residence

Curiosity and drive have given Beth the opportunity to work with large publicly-traded companies, research-driven universities, growing businesses, and new startups. Her own entrepreneurial ventures deepen her understanding of the many ways innovation succeeds, and stalls. Beth’s career has introduced her to machine learning and AI; manufacturer to consumer supply chains; outdoor safety, sport, and wearable technologies; making things work in remote areas, off the grid; plus, environmentally-intelligent development, construction, and adaptive re-use. She has worked on boards and across borders, in different cultural milieus. She has an MBA in New Venture Development and studied at the European Summer School for Advanced Management.

Beth joined New Ventures BC as an EiR in 2016. She is passionate about entrepreneurial success, achieved through a deep understanding of the customer, and a solid go-to-market plan. You’ll find Beth in Fernie, BC, an ideal place from which to mentor Distance Venture Acceleration clients located all around the province.

Ean Jackson

Executive in Residence

Ean “Action” Jackson has invested the past 25 years of his professional career in management, technical and business development roles in the technology industry. He’s been a top sales performer for businesses across North America ranging from startups to major multinational corporations including IBM, Oracle Corporation and Sprint International. Ask him what he loves best, however, and he’ll say “helping folks achieve their goals”.

Ean has started up several businesses, taught entrepreneurship at three universities and served on numerous boards. He speaks four European languages and has mentored entrepreneurs for New Ventures BC since it started in 2000. When not coaching aspiring entrepreneurs, Ean likes to run trails and climb mountains. If you want to get him excited, ask him what it’s like to run 100-miles!

Angel Pui

Executive in Residence

Angel Pui is a serial entrepreneur who has founded five companies since the seventh grade. She has an affinity for solving complex and highly fragmented problems and creating scalable connections through a data-driven approach. For the past 13 years, she focused on the pursuit of product market fit, scaling two- (and even three-sided) marketplaces. Owing to the success and exit of her previous startups, she is now an advisor to Fortune 500 companies, and seed to Series A startups, with her roster of companies listed on ThePlaybooks.co.

In addition to her entrepreneurship and mentorship, Angel is a proud mom of two cute little fashionistas. She collects Hermes Birkins and Chanel bags as a way to diversify her portfolio and has a following of over 7000 on her investment guides on BanIsland.com. Still an avid gamer, Angel is also currently down the rabbit-hole of all things Crypto and NFTs.

Peter de Verteuil

Executive in Residence

Peter has over 30 years of experience in Sales and Marketing management, Business Development, Corporate Strategy and Communications. Peter has held leadership positions in dynamic high-growth environments as well as large multinational organizations and has navigated change management through a number of corporate acquisitions. In roles of VP of Sales and VP of Strategy at SAP, Peter managed highly successful sales teams, and helped drive GTM Strategy & Planning for one of SAP’s leading growth divisions.

While VP of Marketing for Future Shop, Marketing Magazine named Peter one of Canada’s most influential marketers. Today Peter provides professional Business Development, Strategy, Sales, Marketing and Media consulting and advisory services to a wide spectrum of organizations, from startups to large enterprises.

The Distance Venture Acceleration Program is part of the BC Acceleration Network, sponsored by Innovate BC.

BC Venture Accelerator Program

Program is $150 / month. $50 discount for past New Ventures BC competitors, for the first three months.

Featured clients

I found that doing this distance accelerator program is like having my own secret weapon in my back pocket: invaluable advice from a mentor who has been in my shoes. The weekly check-ins have helped me make better business decisions and have also prevented me from wasting resources and making mistakes.

— Yawen CA, Ballegro Player

“Being part of the program over these past months has really pushed our team forward. The weekly meetings with my mentor have been amazing. Having that amount of support, expertise and a different perspective, has been critical to not only the company’s growth but my own personal growth as an entrepreneur.”

— Lori Munoz Malcolm, HeartPress

The program is worth at least ten times what we spend on it. It’s not just the mentorship – it’s the feedback we have received from all the Executives in Residence. The course material has also been very helpful. Opportunities are flying our way at incredible speed, and thanks to the program we know which ones to take and which ones to pass on.

— Kevin Urbanski, Rithmik Solutions

“Within a short period of time, the program has really helped us to scale our business. At each weekly check-in our mentor, Ean, has given us good advice. The feedback Ean has given us has helped grow our venture because it has pushed us to take on new perspectives that we had not previously thought about ourselves.”

— Abhishek Arora, WedoLaundry