Cohort 09 starts 12 January 2027
12 places
$120k investment
No program fee
The arc.
The sun on the left tracks where you are. Every cohort follows the same five phases in the same order.
Weeks 0–2
Diagnose
We take your business apart before we try to grow it. Your lead mentor sits with your numbers, your customers and your team until the one metric that matters is obvious.
Unit economics teardown with our finance bench
30 customer interviews, recorded and tagged
Your one metric and a 16-week target, agreed in writing
Weeks 3–6
Position
Most early companies are selling the wrong thing to the right people, or the right thing in the wrong words. This phase fixes the story and the price.
Ideal customer profile and narrative
Three live pricing experiments
Website and sales deck rebuilt with Sofia Marchetti
Weeks 7–10
Build the engine
With a story that lands, we find the channel that compounds and build the weekly rhythm to run it without the founders doing everything.
Two channel tests, one winner by week 9
Weekly growth review with your lead mentor
Your first go-to-market hire, scored and closed
Weeks 11–14
Raise
If you are raising, this is when. If you are not, we use the same work to plan the next twelve months of cash.
Data room in the Daybreak format
40 warm investor introductions
Three recorded mock partner meetings
Weeks 15–16
Demo Day
Two stages, one afternoon. You present your week-16 number against the target you set in week zero.
Demo Day in Lagos and Lisbon, streamed
320 investors at Cohort 08
Alumni network and office hours for life
A week in the studio.
The rhythm stays fixed for all sixteen weeks, so your team can plan around it.
Monday
Number review
Your lead mentor and your team review last week’s number and pick the three things most likely to move it.
9:00–10:00
Tuesday
Specialist clinics
Book up to three 45-minute sessions with the specialist bench on whatever is blocking the week.
Open slots
Wednesday
Build day
No meetings from Daybreak. The studios stay open for heads-down work.
All day
Thursday
Founder circle
Six founders, one problem each, 20 minutes per problem. No slides.
16:00–18:00
Friday
Friday review
Every company posts its number to the shared board, then we meet in both studios to go through it.
15:00–16:30
The deal.
Simple terms, the same for every company in the cohort.
$120k
Invested on a post-money SAFE in week zero
0%
Equity taken if you miss your week-zero growth target. The SAFE is cancelled.
$0
Program fees, office hours and Demo Day travel