Only 30% of accelerators tell you what they will pay

1,101 programmes were checked against pages published by the programme itself. 773 publish no cheque size anywhere, and 537 publish neither a cheque size nor an equity stake. That is what the industry discloses, not a gap in this index.

Of the 414 programmes that do state an equity stake, 329 — 79% — take none at all. Among the rest the median stake is 6%. See the equity-free programmes.

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.

• South Korea: 76% of 17
• Poland: 65% of 17
• Italy: 59% of 29
• Norway: 44% of 18
• United States: 38% of 169
• United Kingdom: 37% of 43
• Sweden: 33% of 30
• Australia: 31% of 36
• Germany: 29% of 59
• India: 24% of 72
• Turkiye: 24% of 25
• Belgium: 20% of 15
• Japan: 17% of 18
• Netherlands: 11% of 27
• France: 10% of 108

What it took

3,172 organisations were assessed to arrive at 1,101 records — 35% qualified. Every rejection is recorded with its reason. Rejected organisations are not named publicly.

Median cheque by sector

• Generalist: $72,000 (n=159)
• Deep Tech: $75,000 (n=88)
• AI & ML: $57,930 (n=54)
• Climate: $54,500 (n=54)
• Health Tech: $55,150 (n=50)
• Space: $54,500 (n=31)
• MedTech: $68,000 (n=27)
• Biotech: $100,000 (n=26)
• FinTech: $79,000 (n=22)
• Social Impact: $14,100 (n=22)
• Energy: $32,225 (n=22)
• SaaS: $150,000 (n=21)

Medians are not published per country: only 328 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. 1,702 source URLs back the 1,101 records, each with the date it was read. Nothing is inferred or taken from another directory.