You’re building something real, but most days still feel uncertain.
You’re juggling sales, marketing, financial decisions, legal questions, and customer conversations, often without knowing if you’re focusing on the right things.
Platform Pre-accelerator exists to support founders in this exact moment. It’s designed to provide the structure, accountability, and guidance to focus on what actually moves the business forward.
Cohort 2 (September 28, 2026 - November 26, 2026)
Applications open now for Fall 2026
Board Member
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Advisor
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Two intensive weeks of group workshops, where you do the foundational work:
Where the real work happens:
Take the stage to pitch what you’ve built and where you’re headed while boosting your professional network and visibility. Participation in the Showcase Night is dependent on active participation, completion of deliverables, and progress made throughout the program. Only 10 teams will be selected from the cohort based on progress made during the 8 weeks.
Social lunches, panels, and events across the program, so you leave with a network of founders and ecosystem partners who get it and are there to support your journey.
Two intensive weeks of group workshops, where you do the foundational work:
Where the real work happens:
Take the stage to pitch what you’ve built and where you’re headed while boosting your professional network and visibility. Participation in the Showcase Night is dependent on active participation, completion of deliverables, and progress made throughout the program. Only 10 teams will be selected from the cohort based on progress made during the 8 weeks.
Social lunches, panels, and events across the program, so you leave with a network of founders and ecosystem partners who get it and are there to support your journey.
8 weeks
Cohort 2 (September 28, 2026 - November 26, 2026)
Applications open now for Fall 2026
An 8-week, in-person Pre-Accelerator for Calgary tech founders with early traction who want to move beyond theory to structure, accountability, and real execution.
No cost
In-person at Platform Innovation Centre
Land Acknowledgement
We honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. We respect all Nations who live, work, play, innovate and build things on this land, and in so doing honour and celebrate the territory.
