Expert-in-Residence Program

We feel it is important to help Seedcamp startups build and strengthen their core. We’ve watched as startups have met a few hundred mentors through the Seedcamp process (opening the relationship door) and then brought on several of these mentors as Advisors into their businesses. We’ve seen just how effective and momentum driving it is to have top notch Advisors for the business early on.

While this evolution of a relationship from a 1-day mentoring event to a longer term Advisory role has been happening naturally in some Seedcamp startups, we felt it would be useful for both Seedcamp startups and mentors to standardize this. If you look at the great technology businesses that have been built, novice founders have time and again had a handful of expert Advisors helping them on their long and often difficult journeys.

As such, our “Expert in Residence” program will actively work to match up Seedcamp startups with Advisors. This program will enable those mentors that want to work even more closely with the startups to do just that. Seedcamp will be providing guidance to both the startups and to the experts on how to setup the Advisor relationship and any documentation they will need to formalize such a relationship.