You don’t need a venture capitalist. You need paying customers.
Mosaic is for intersectional women, transgender, and non-binary founders – those living at the intersection of two or more identities, who have been quietly written off by the people who hand out capital.
Whether you are starting from an idea, or you are already in market and your revenue has flattened and you cannot work out why – 10 weeks, and a room of seven other founders who will not let you drift. Online, from anywhere in the world.
Fewer than 1% of businesses ever raise venture capital – we are built for the rest of us. We focus on revenue – the most non-dilutive capital – by leveraging AI powered by Ancestral & Matriarchal Intelligence.
Every face on this site is a real Mosaic founder. No stock photography will ever appear here.
Most accelerators end at demo day.
Ours can end with you owning part of it.
Mosaic is becoming a community investment co-operative. Founders who come through a cohort can become member-owners – and in time the La Sociedad Fund can finance the businesses it helped build.
Open Track
The full curriculum, Akin, the rituals, the community. $600, and no cap on who joins.
A cohort seat
Seven or eight founders, 10 weeks, hours with the Village. Accountability with your name on it.
Founder Member
You can graduate into ownership. One member, one vote – the same as everyone, including us.
Community capital
Trust circles, funding circles, a zero-interest revolving fund. Capital that does not take your company.
You did not get here alone & you will not build alone either.
To be born, you needed two parents. Four grandparents. Eight great-grandparents. Twelve generations back, across four hundred years, it took 4,094 people for you to exist.
Not one of them was a solo founder. Which is why Mosaic is a circle and not a ladder.
Starting from nothing and stuck at something are different problems.
So we run two rooms. Which is which gets decided once we see who applies – because a cohort of eight only works if the eight recognize each other.
From an idea to your first paying customer
You have something you believe in and nobody has paid you for it yet.
10 weeks to change that – customer conversations, an offer people say yes to, and the first invoice you send.
Most of this room has never charged anyone before. That is normal here.
Already in market & revenue has flattened
You have customers. You have revenue. It stopped moving and you cannot see why. 10 weeks on pricing, positioning, the offer, and where the growth actually leaked out.
This room moves fastest, because there is already a business to move.
Your hours are spendable across the whole Village,
not just the business half.
Book a vocal coach the week before a pitch and a money-trauma coach the week you have to raise your prices. Same hours, same Village. We have not found another accelerator that does this.
Business & growth
Strategy, sales, marketing, finance, legal, product, operations, technical build.
Craft & presence
Vocal coaching, fashion and image, storytelling, visibility, how you hold a room.
Healing & wholeness
Trauma-informed coaching, the trauma of money, ritual and ceremony, wellbeing.
Gift an hour with an Auntie. Buy an hour for a founder who cannot afford one. When a founder succeeds, their community succeeds – we would rather that were a mechanism than a slogan.
Gift an hourWe keep milestones, not testimonials.
Praise is easy to collect. First revenue is not. Every filled tile is a founder who came through Mosaic and is still operating.
Things we will not do to you.
A co-operative is accountable to its members. These are not aspirations. Several are already binding in our rules, and the rest we will answer for.
Mosaic did not arrive on its own,
and saying so is itself co-operative.
Two $25,000 grants that started this accelerator.
Administered both grants in those first years.
The company Mosaic operates under, and the entity the co-op spins out of.
Akin, the Indigenous-built, women-led AI guide.
The ritual practice inside the program.