Founder Builder graduates
Founders who complete the Founder Builder Program with a working prototype, validated demand and a business worth pushing further.
Phase 2 · Future program under development
A cross-industry accelerator, after the first program works.
The OMS2 Startup Accelerator is intended to give deeper, longer support to founders who have validated a business. It is a future program in development. It is not operating, and it is not accepting companies.
Not accepting applications or companies.
OMS2’s current work is the Founder Builder Program. The accelerator will be announced only after that program has run and the accelerator’s funding, staffing and admission criteria are in place.
Get updates as plans developThe intended path
Start with Founder Builder.
The accelerator is designed as the second step, not the front door. Today the front door is the Founder Builder Program.
Go to the Founder Builder ProgramFounders with validated businesses
Founders who already have customers, revenue or clear evidence of demand and need structured support to grow responsibly.
Founders meeting future admission criteria
Admission criteria will be published before applications open. They have not been set.
Cross-industry by design
Not a software-only program.
OMS2 teaches founders to use technology, but the businesses themselves can be anything that serves real customers. The accelerator is intended to keep that cross-industry scope.
- Participants will not be required to follow a venture-capital model.
- Technology and nontechnology businesses are equally relevant.
- Support is intended to be free to accepted founders, subject to funding.
Sectors that may be served
- Technology
- Retail
- Food
- Manufacturing
- Professional services
- Creative businesses
- Real estate and construction
- Local services
- Other scalable small businesses
Still being designed
What has to exist first.
Nothing below is finished. OMS2 will not open accelerator applications until each item is genuinely in place.
- Program design and curriculum for later-stage founders
- Mentor and instructor capacity beyond the introductory program
- Admission criteria and a fair selection process
- Funding required to deliver the program without charging founders
- Measurement standards for founder outcomes
Support the program that feeds it.
The fastest route to an OMS2 accelerator is a first Founder Builder cohort that produces founders worth accelerating. Participation in any OMS2 program will never guarantee revenue, investment, grants, contracts or business success.