Only 31% of accelerators tell you what they will pay

1,021 programmes were checked against pages published by the programme itself. 701 publish no cheque size anywhere, and 473 publish neither a cheque size nor an equity stake. That is what the industry discloses, not a gap in this index.

Disclosure by country

Share of programmes publishing a cheque size, for countries with at least 15 records. This measures what a programme publishes, not how good it is.

• Italy: 59% of 27
• Norway: 50% of 16
• United States: 38% of 169
• United Kingdom: 37% of 43
• Australia: 37% of 30
• Sweden: 33% of 30
• Germany: 30% of 57
• India: 25% of 72
• Turkiye: 24% of 25
• Japan: 20% of 15
• Belgium: 20% of 15
• Netherlands: 15% of 27
• Canada: 11% of 37
• France: 10% of 63
• Spain: 10% of 29

What it took

2,853 organisations were assessed to arrive at 1,021 records — 36% qualified. Every rejection is recorded with its reason. Rejected organisations are not named publicly.

Median cheque by sector

• Generalist: $75,000 (n=156)
• Deep Tech: $75,000 (n=87)
• Climate: $53,650 (n=54)
• AI & ML: $58,860 (n=53)
• Health Tech: $55,800 (n=51)
• Space: $55,150 (n=30)
• MedTech: $68,000 (n=27)
• Biotech: $100,000 (n=25)
• Energy: $31,750 (n=23)
• FinTech: $79,000 (n=22)
• SaaS: $150,000 (n=21)
• Social Impact: $12,600 (n=20)

Medians are not published per country: only 320 programmes disclose a cheque at all, across 104 countries.

How a figure gets in

A number is recorded only if it appears on a page published by the programme or its parent organisation. 1,533 source URLs back the 1,021 records, each with the date it was read. Nothing is inferred or taken from another directory.