About us

The British Accelerator of Innovative Startups EX1P is the path from testing ideas to launching a full-fledged business with real profit. We unite startups, experts, mentors and investors.

Startup teams working in the accelerator's open-plan office

The Accelerator is a separate legal entity created under British law, it is a training and expert center where everyone can test their idea for success and profitability, receive business knowledge that they lack, as well as mentoring support for the successful implementation of their project for money or in exchange for a share in a startup that has passed the appropriate selection, confirmed the hypothesis of the chosen business model of their idea, showed growth and first profit.

We guarantee investment to startup teams that have shown growth and first profit.

In 2018 received WOW successful awards “Breakthrough in Innovative Business” award

  • 18mln+GBPInvestments attracted
  • 2017yearStarts of our work
  • 298+itemsStartups examinations conducted
  • 4itemsStartups in top businesses
Installation of screens at a technology exhibition

The accelerator is a partner of more than 430 research centers and technoporations in 41 countries. It has its own venture fund, as well as a number of partnership programs with investment and venture funds, family offices, investor advisory offices, and private investors around the world.

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81% of our listeners are guaranteed to receive funding for business development!

About the founder

Nataliia Riazanova, founder of the EX1P accelerator

Dr. Nataliia Riazanova, mentor of startups, patent attorney, managing partner of the international SION IP and accelerator EX1P, PhD in law, author of a unique methodology for testing startup ideas for success and profitability.

Author of more than 70 scientific and business articles in the field of protection and commercialization of intellectual property

For more than 20 years she has been protecting and commercializing innovations.
Conducted more than 280 examinations of startups for success and profitability, a quarter of which received funding under her mentorship.
She has 4 higher education degrees in the field of jurisprudence, economics, innovation, business, as well as an academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Law (PhD in Law).
She interned in US Technoparks, German industrial giants (BMW motors concern), UK venture funds, the Russian investor community (Skolkovo) - where she gained experience in the processes of monetization of creative, scientific and technical activities through the launch of innovative startups.

Author of training courses
“Projecting and attracting investment in a startup”
"Start and development of innovative business"
“Business and Intellectual Property”
which is attended by more than 300 students annually.

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Our team

Reviews

  • Informative meeting! Useful information, practical tasks, accessible material, interesting moderators. Thank you for organizing the express course at the First EX1P startup academy. Good luck!

    Diana Pritika

    Diana Pritika

  • Thank you very much to Nataliia Riazanova for the invitation to the team building masterclass. This was very helpful and especially important at the right time. Oleg Demchik - Your master class flew by unnoticed, three hours in one breath. Thank you for sharing exactly the information that is necessary to build a competent and strong team.

    Elena Lesovskaia

    Elena Lesovskaia

  • Thank you for the opportunity to participate in the event - pre-accelerator "Design and investment of online projects"
    I heard, saw and realized important points. There were a lot of insights and a reason to look at the core of your Project from a different perspective... Useful! Productive!

    Aleksandr Lazarev

    Aleksandr Lazarev

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