Village Startup Support
Unlock the full potential of your startup with Village Startup Support — a tailored support program offering immersive guidance, strategic support, 1:1 mentorship and access to an elite network.
Early Stage Startups
Kickstart your early stage venture
Minimum requirements
- Have a PoC
- Looking to raise their first institutional check (Accelerator/pre-seed stage)
- Building on the Polygon protocols or planning to transition to any public network in the Polygon ecosystem as part of the short term roadmap
Key benefits
- How to raise your first check
- How to plan an MVP
- How to launch
- + more related themes
- Credits from service providers such as Google Cloud, AWS, Infura, Alchemy, and more
- Access to Polygon Village Mentor network for 1-1 sessions on specific needs
- Access to Builder House Events
- Credits to use co-working space
- Dedicated meeting time with Polygon Village team members to ask questions and get feedback
- Intros to ecosystem accelerators
- Opportunity to apply for grant funding through one of many Polygon Village grant campaigns
Growth Stage
Startups
Empower your growth with Polygon Labs
Minimum requirements
- Live on mainnet, either on the Polygon protocols or looking to transition to any public Polygon network from other chains
- Seed funded
- Active community
Key benefits
- Events
- Co-working
- DevRel
- Networking
- Classes taught by subject matter experts in the Polygon ecosystem
- Meeting opportunities to get funding advice and feedback from notable VC’s
- Credits from service such as Google Cloud, AWS, Infura, Alchemy, and more
- Dedicated meeeting time with Polygon Village team members to ask questions and get feedback
- Office hours and 1:1 matching with mentors based on your project’s needs
- Exclusive 1-1 meetings with Polygon Labs leadership
Late Stage
Startups
Elevate Your late-stage success with Polygon Labs
Minimum requirements
- Series A+
- Token has an active market (not mandatory but a strong plus)
- Live on mainnet, either on the Polygon protocols or looking to transition to any public Polygon network from other chains
- Active community
Key benefits
- Dedicated SPOC to help grow your business and expand market share
- Marketing/community initiatives to drive engagement and access your target customer segments
- Access to Polygon Village Mentor Network for 1-1 sessions focused on specific needs (Tokenomics, growth, community, etc
- Dedicated DevRel/Dev Success SPOC to help your team build on the Polygon protocol and navigate the Polygon Stack
- Networking with founders
- Access to talent to scale teams
- Dedicated meeting time with Polygon Village team members to ask questions and get feedback
- Exclusive 1-1 meetings with Polygon Labs leadership
- Office hours and meeting opportunities to get funding advice and feedback from notable VC’s
FAQs
The Village Startup Support program offers immersive support to founders and teams across the life-cycle of a startup. So whether you’re just starting out or have an already established business in the ecosystem, Village Startup Support can offer support in areas that are custom to your project.
The goal of the Village Startup Support is to help startups at all stages of the life cycle with grant funding, partner connections, resources, mentorship, vouchers, masterclasses and other end-to-end support initiatives to ensure your project gets the support needed to grow your business.
Village Startup Support is available for projects in any stage of the startup lifecycle. Whether you’re just starting out and need to validate your PoC or you’re already live on the Polygon protocols and are looking to scale your project, you can register for Village Startups to get 1:1 support. The only prerequisite is to have a working PoC and be building on the Polygon protocols
Once you register through the form the Polygon Village team will review the application. After your application is reviewed, applicants will then go through a round of interviews and a select number of applicants will then be admitted into the program.
Yes. All startups need to have an MVP in order to be eligible to apply for the Village Startup Support program.