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Let's do it.

We're a network of accelerators.

We're very traditional in the sense that it's a 13-week program, just like what we've known for years.

It's mentor-driven.

It's cohort-based, which means the teams have to move to the location where we run the program.

But the key thing, and this is where we're different, is the programs we run are very much industry-focused programs.

So they're not so much about, hey, we're going to meet some cool startups and the first thing they'll get out of this when they finish a program will be funding.

Funding is a side effect.

The key thing here is that these are industries that

heavily regulated and where the startups usually come with a b2b proposition so what they need is access to the right players within a bank within an insurer so they can get their first pilot or the first proof of concept off the ground and that's really what we focus on and so how many companies have gone through your program to date

We've now run about, we've now had about 60 programs in the fintech and insured kind of verticals.

But overall, we started bootcamp, we now had 400 companies have graduated.

So I launched fintech in 2014.

That was January 2014.

But startup bootcamp's been around since 2010.

No, it started growing very organically.

We started off as a, hey, some people are doing cool stuff in the US.

We should bring something like this to Europe.

And then it started in Copenhagen.

Then it moved to places like Berlin and Amsterdam.