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Why does Excelerate exist? How do we thrive to make a difference? And what is our ultimate goal in the future? Learn more about the foundation and DNA of Excelerate.
To give all talents equal opportunity and the best possible foundation to pursue their passion and dreams.
To bridge educational institutions and industries by enabling talents and companies to easily form early invaluable relations.
To be the leading digital platform matching and connecting talents and companies with a 50% market share in 2027.
Spoken directly from the heart of Kaspar, Founder & CEO.
Still not sure how, but I got Christian Werner (CTO) and John Carty (COO) to join as co-founders. We began building the platform, and in November 2019, our completely unpolished BETA version went LIVE.
On March 11, the universities closed due to Corona. It had a huge impact, and we had a very hard time reaching the students. At the same time, John had to step away from Excelerate. Later in the year, Christian became seriously ill and had to leave Excelerate – he is doing great today.
The money was exchanged to hard work, and all of 2021 was spent proving our first thesis: Students will love the idea of a platform where they can find corporate collaborations for their thesis. We felt confident that the thesis was proven.
The money was turned into hard work, and the entire year of 2021 was spent proving our first thesis: students would love the idea of a platform where they could find company collaborations for their thesis. We felt convinced that the thesis was proven. This marks the Excelerate 2.0 period.
The first half of 2022 was tough, and we ran out of money and energy. We went from 5 people (most part-time) to 2, and I decided that I needed to find new co-founders. At the same time, we continued working with an external development partner. The main thesis here was to prove that we could bring companies on board.
Six months of searching and many conversations ended when I found both Nicolas Holstein Trebbien (COO) and Alexander Christrup (CMO)! We reached 1,000 students on the platform.
We won our first startup competition Co-Conf. The best solution for bridging educational institutions and the business world.
Mikkel Westermann (CTO) joins as a co-founder, and we decide to bring development in-house and start rebuilding the platform from scratch, as we are now much clearer on what it needs to do and where we want to go in the future.
We are launching the new version of the platform with a new look and a lot of new functionality, where everything has been rethought. We are expanding to also handle student jobs, internships, and full-time jobs. Thesis collaboration is still our primary product.
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Meet the people and minds behind Excelerate who makes magic happen on a daily basis.
Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CMO
Co-Founder & CCO
Co-Founder & CTO
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Advisory board
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The existence of Excelerate is based on 3 of the UN Global Sustainable Development Goals. It is these goals that act as guidelines for Excelerate’s daily activities, our development in general, and the direction we are aiming for.
Excelerate is a platform that helps students to complete their education with a strong thesis project. We give students the opportunity to easily and free access to professional sparring from companies within their particular field of study, so that they can increase their learning and write a better graduation thesis project.
At Excelerate, all students have equal opportunities no matter their gender. Regardless of whether you are male, female or in between. The matching process depends solely on the student’s thesis topic proposal and the information the student chooses to share about their education, skills, and personality.
At Excelerate, we reduce inequalities in recruitment and project collaborations. A student’s gender, ethnicity, age, religion, and similar factors are anonymised. The matching process at Excelerate is bias-free and depends solely on the student’s project topic proposal and information about the student’s education, skills, and personality.
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