Position: Incubation / Acceleration Manager
Company: Velas
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent

**Responsibilities:**
- Designing & managing Incubation and Acceleration programs
- Manage the day-to-day interaction with the Incubatees and Acceleratees
- Develop and execute strategy for outreach, hunting, attracting, and onboarding deserving and qualified innovative entrepreneurs, and start-ups.
- Develop, implement new initiatives for incubation service offerings to entrepreneurs & start-ups
- Develop and leverage industry, academics, investors & institutional network for the benefit of the incubation & acceleration programs.
- Develop & manage a network of entrepreneurs, start-ups, mentors, institutions, funding agencies, investors, and industries.
- Ensure the development of appropriate marketing material to promote incubated / accelerated companies
- Assist applicants in proposal writing, pitch deck, business development, fundraising as well as relevant linkages to established companies for business opportunities
- Provide support to entrepreneurs across ideation, acceleration, investment and scale-up stage.
- Perform as a liaison between the applicants, partners, investors, and the Velas Growth
- Develop and maintain relationships with incubators and accelerators
 
**Required Skills & Experience:**
- At least 3 years of experience working with entrepreneurs, start-ups, learning/ tinkering labs, accelerators, incubators, or incubation consultancy.
- Prior experience in Business Incubation, Investment Banking, or Management Consulting with completion of a formal training program
- Possess skills required to manage Incubator/Accelerator relationships including structural and operational procedures.
- Requisite network in the entrepreneurial ecosystem
- Demonstrated ability to cultivate, build and maintain strong working relationships with start-ups, entrepreneurs, mentors, universities, research institutions, industry experts, associations, chamber of commerce & industries, state & central government, and angel investors.
- Good understanding of the social entrepreneurship ecosystem.
- This role does not require you to be an expert in crypto, but a passion for crypto and a desire to be a part of a small team with an outsized impact are mandatory