{"id":68302,"date":"2016-05-06T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=68302"},"modified":"2016-05-06T09:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T05:05:23","slug":"l-spark-opens-applications","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/l-spark-opens-applications","title":{"rendered":"L-Spark Opens Applications for Third Accelerator Cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7483\/26852674635_e6e1939263_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"174\" \/>Ottawa&#8217;s&nbsp;L-Spark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-spark.com\/programs\/accelerator\/\" target=\"_blank\">has opened applications<\/a> for their third accelerator session.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>The accelerator is seeking enterprise Software-as-a-Service startups who are looking to grow revenues and prepare for Series A financing in nine months.<\/p>\n<p>13 companies in L-Spark&rsquo;s second cohort are preparing to graduate from both the incubator and accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>L-Spark companies are matched one to one with a mentor. Embedded for two days a week within one company, mentors are hands on with the founders they&rsquo;re matched with.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At the end of the day, you&rsquo;re getting a C-level executive working for your company. You&#8217;re never going to get more value than having someone with those resources and that much pedigree and knowledge,&rdquo; says CareerJSM co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Doucet.<\/p>\n<p>The Business Development Team will prepare the startups for late seed or Series A investment from Angels or early stage Venture Capital and facilitate guided meetings with early stage angel, venture capital and institutional investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa&#8217;s&nbsp;L-Spark has opened applications for their third accelerator session. The accelerator is seeking enterprise Software-as-a-Service startups who are looking to grow revenues and prepare for Series A financing in nine months. 13 companies in L-Spark&rsquo;s second cohort are preparing to graduate from both the incubator and accelerator. L-Spark companies are matched one to one with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":68304,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-68302","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/68302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/68302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68302"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=68302"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=68302"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=68302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}