German Accelerator Southeast Asia

The German Accelerator program empowers German tech and life sciences startups to successfully enter global markets. Supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), it has locations in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, Boston and Singapore. To date, German Accelerator has nurtured over 220 startups which have raised more than US$2.5 billion in venture funding.

German Accelerator Southeast Asia (GASEA) runs an immersive five-month growth acceleration program in Singapore, supporting high-potential German startups gain insight of the Southeast Asian market and make relevant connections to scale quickly into internationally-recognized ventures.

The team at the German Accelerator are entrepreneurs themselves. Together with a group of experienced and well-connected mentors, its structured program takes startups through a fast-paced learning journey to understand Asian customer needs and the heterogeneous markets across Southeast Asia in order to build an effective go-to-market strategy.

The startups that are selected for the program receive free mentoring, a safe sounding board, access to the local network of business partners and venture capitalists, and free office space to work from.