No upfront cost. Just 7% equity.

Your brand is your first signal to the market. Our in-house design team builds the full identity stack: logo, mark, wordmark, type system, color palette, brand guidelines, and a production-ready Figma library. We have designed for venture-backed startups, consumer apps, and enterprise platforms — and we know the difference a coherent visual identity makes when a founder walks into a fundraising room or a partnership meeting.

Partners receive a complete brand package before their first public launch, not a mood board. We iterate alongside your product until the brand earns the same credibility as your code.

We produce content, manage cadence, and secure the credentials that signal legitimacy at scale. That includes verified GIPHY sticker packs for your brand, optimized profiles across LinkedIn, X, and Instagram, and an editorial calendar calibrated to your launch milestones. Our social team knows what performs for B2B audiences and what resonates with consumer communities — they are not the same playbook.

Partners do not post in a vacuum. We coordinate timing with your fundraising narrative, product releases, and press cycles so every post moves the company forward rather than filling a content calendar.

Weekly strategy sessions — not passive check-ins — with consultants who have operated in your sector. We help you sharpen the problem definition, sequence your go-to-market, and build a positioning document that survives contact with skeptical investors and demanding customers.

We hold you to written outputs: decision logs, experiment retrospectives, and positioning revisions. The cadence is deliberate. Accountability without paperwork is a slogan; accountability with written artifacts is a practice.

Persist Ventures has built relationships with seed and Series A investors across enterprise software, consumer fintech, climate tech, and health infrastructure. We make introductions when there is a credible fit — stage, sector, and founder profile aligned — not as a lottery you enter by completing a batch.

Before any introduction, our team works with you on the fundraising narrative, data room structure, and follow-up cadence. Warm intros are wasted without preparation. We do not send you unprepared.

We staff every partner company with access to our shared infrastructure team: legal templates reviewed by startup counsel, finance modeling support, hiring brief drafts, and a technical advisory bench for architecture reviews. The goal is to eliminate the weeks a founder loses figuring out things that have been solved before — so all of that energy goes into building.

A Persist Accelerator partner gets a dedicated point-of-contact from day one — not a rotating associate. That person understands your company's constraints, keeps the team aligned on your priorities, and escalates when you need a senior decision-maker in the room. You are not a ticket in a queue.

Batches run on a quarterly cadence. The first four weeks focus on sharpening problem definition and assembling the service stack. The middle weeks are execution-heavy: brand launches, social build-outs, investor prep. The final weeks focus on narrative consolidation and setting up the next phase — whether that is a raise, a partnership close, or a product launch.

1. 01

   Select your startup idea

   Start with a curated list of startup ideas, choose your top three, or pitch an original idea. We help you pressure-test the concept before committing.

2. 02

   Idea approval and course material

   After selecting or pitching your idea, receive team approval and comprehensive course materials to navigate your entrepreneurial journey effectively.

3. 03

   Weekly sprints and mentorship

   Work through structured weekly sprints with your dedicated Persist team member. Strategy sessions, positioning reviews, brand builds, and investor prep run in parallel.

4. 04

   Launch readiness

   By the end of the batch you have a production-ready brand, an active social presence, a sharpened go-to-market narrative, and a fundraising package built by people who have raised from the same investors you will approach.

The 7% equity stake applies only when you are launch-ready or incorporated. It does not apply on day one. If you join the program and do not finish, you owe nothing — no fees, no equity, no obligation.

This structure exists because we only win when you win. Taking equity from a company that did not make it would contradict the entire reason we built the program. The incentive alignment is intentional: we have every reason to make sure you reach launch-readiness, and no reason to extract value from a company that is still figuring things out.

You can join from any stage: idea, prototype, or early product. The program calibrates to where you are, not where we need you to be on day one.

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