- Formerly known as Vietnam Silicon Valley Accelerator or VSVA, VSV Capital Accelerator is the leading and longest-running accelerator that invests in Vietnam-connected startups since 2014. To date, we have invested over $3M into hundreds of entrepreneurs across 70 investments, who have gone on to raise next rounds of funding with multimillion-dollar in valuations.Our program is designed for pre-seed and seed stages startups to quickly validate the viability of their products and business models before scale. Startups in our accelerator portfolio also have the chance to receive follow-on investment from our VC fund.
130+ COMPANIES ACCELERATED
Our firsthand experience working with startups in Vietnam is unrivalled.
70+ INVESTMENTS MADE
Many of the brightest of startups in Vietnam have had us as their 1st institutional check.
UP TO $50K PER TEAM
Each team that gets into our accelerator receives up to $50K in cash in exchange for 7-10% equity.
06 BATCHES HELD
Apart from your own cohort of 10, you also have access to our amazing network of alumni.
OVER 500X INCREASE IN VALUATION
Our portfolio companies have achieved valuations at over 500x increase since joining our accelerator.
70% RAISED OUTSIDE MONEY
After graduation, most of our companies have raised more funding from investors all around the world.
Workshops
Workshops and seminars will be done by experts in their fields, consisting of in-house mentors and external speakers, who will provide you with knowledge about business modelling, marketing, fundraising etc.
Office Hours
During Bootcamp, you can book 1-1 meetings with VSV Capital Lead Mentors as often as you need, to discuss anything you are working on, or to figure out together what you should be working on. Talk to us often!
Dinner Talks
Every week during Bootcamp, we will invite a speaker, who is usually either a seasoned entrepreneur or investor, to come and join the batch for dinner, and share their journey as well as their advices with you.
Events
There are two important events that we always organise for each batch: Feedback Day and Demo Day. Apart from that, there will be other social and networking events where we organise or give you access to.
Linh Han is Founder and Managing Partner at VSV Capital. He has raised and managed 4 funds with $3.5M fund size in total. He also led 60+ investment deals through 6 batches of VSV Accelerator. Linh plays a critical role in mentoring and being an active partner from day one with most of VSV portfolio startups, taking them from zero to up to 500 times multiple in valuation.
He was honoured by Forbes Asia in the 30 Under 30 list of 2020 for Finance & VC. Prior to founding VSV, he was working in Consulting and Banking.
Gibs Song is General Partner at VSV Capital. Gibs was Director of Samsung R&D in America and Samsung Electronics Corporate Venture, with 25 years in technology development, management and consulting internationally. Before coming to Vietnam, he was an angel investor and venture partner in Silicon Valley. Many of his investments were acquired by big Korean corporations.
At VSV Accelerator, he plays an important role in pulling international resources, partnerships and investments into our portfolio companies.
