Accelerate at The Central Research Laboratory
 
 
 
The UK's leading hardware accelerator at CRL is recruiting for the 2021 cohort
 

Are you building a product based startup? This is your chance to join the UK’s leading hardware accelerator and work alongside an incredible team of product designers, investment experts and industry mentors all focused on helping you accelerate towards manufacture, investment and commercial success.

Notable award winning alumni include, Aceleron, creating sustainable lithium batteries, who were amongst the top 10 shortlisted for the 2019 Telegraph Tech 4 Good Pioneers. CosiCare, a female-led tech startup focused on alleviating the symptoms of Eczema and winning the 2019 Mayor of London’s Award for Innovation, Tata Varsity Pitch 2019 and Santander Entrepreneur of the Year 2019. And Chip[s]Board, a company creating bioplastics for the design sector globally.

Applications to join the CRL Accelerator programme close at midnight on the 14th of March. 
 
 
The CRL Accelerator formula for success
 

The Central Research Laboratory Accelerator success formula is crafted by product development experts and specialists. It encompasses intensive mentorship, access to an award-winning workspace, a focus on customer discovery and investment readiness, engineer support, a £5,000 grant towards testing and product development costs, and a trip to Shenzhen in China to gain an insight into the manufacturing process.

A team of product development experts at CRL will be helping to guide and support the 8th cohort, including CRL Programmes Director, Toby Kress, Accelerator Programme Manager, Anneza Pitsialis, and Product Development Director, Jim Reeves.

 
 

What Cohort 7 has to say...
 
 
 

HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT

Led by product development experts
 

“Having so many experts in their fields, giving attention to your hardware development really helped us to progress our design. We got a lot of support in making our product more DFMA (designed for manufacture assembly) to make it a more viable and profitable product.”


- Eli Heath, Co-Founder of Enayball and The Soapstone and cohort 7 alumni
 
 
 
 

ALL ENCOMPASSING

Intensive mentorship
 

“I’m still working with a lot of the people that we met, in terms of the advisors, so everything from digital marketing, to brand, to finance to legal, it really helped. I can’t think of an area of our business that we didn’t meet someone who’s helped us grow in some aspect. And that’s from a kind of full 360 business growth perspective. So, I think that’s a wicked thing – the network and the experts that you get to meet.”

 

- Lottie, Co-Founder of Myomaster 
 
 
 

Demo Day 2020
 
 
Cohort 7 - Compassionate Innovators
 

There has never been a more important need for collaborative innovation to resolve universal human challenges. The way we live, our physical and mental health and the way we care for others is now, more than ever a global concern.

The CRL accelerator 2020 cohort took on this challenge. Click below to meet the innovators from cohort 7 and be inspired by some of the UK's most talented hardware startups.
 
 
 

AWARD WINNING COWORKING SPACE AND ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME
 

The Central Research Laboratory is proud to have won the West London Business Award for best coworking space and accelerator for the fourth time. The workspace is a thriving entrepreneur community featuring desk space, meeting rooms, specialist workshops, prototyping facilities, and collaborative spaces. The cohort receives 24/7 access to this space for the duration of their time on the programme to work alongside other cohort members and a network of product startups and specialists.

 
 

Apply now!
 
 
So, what do you need to apply for the UK’s leading hardware accelerator at the Central Research Laboratory?
 

+ A Prototype (it doesn’t have to be pretty)
+ Technical knowledge relevant to your hardware development
+ Desire to build a scalable product-based business
+ A product or business model displaying genuine innovation
+ Two or more team members are desirable but not essential
+ Ability to attend the programme (The programme requires a full-time commitment. On average, you will be onsite 2-days p/week with progress made in between)
+ Business registered in the UK
 
 
 
 
 

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