Grow!

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN! The Ment2Grow accelerator for B2B startups is accepting applications from September 15 through October 25, 2026.
For 8 years, Ment2Grow has been helping B2B tech startups with global ambitions to grow! It provides top-notch, tailored mentors and connects startups with investors, potential clients, and experienced entrepreneurs. Business, talent, and finance are the core themes of this 6-month accelerator program, which is packed with hands-on workshops, networking opportunities, and other activities. More than 100 startups have completed the program, and the pool of experienced founders continues to grow.

WE BUILD ON

Wide community

and sharing among experienced startup founders.

Networking

with potential clients, partners and investors in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Mentoring

tailored to each startup for a period of 6 months.

Workshops

with experts from various fields.

WHY MENT2GROW

  • 8 years of experience in startup acceleration.
  • A community of more than 100 startup alumni.
  • Unique network of Czech and international speakers and mentors.
  • Connecting with potential investors and clients.
  • A strong base of partners.
  • International business trips.

LEARN FROM EXPERIENCED FOUNDERS

Become part of a unique community of experienced founders and find answers to your questions in podcasts, workshops, or through mastermind meetings.

Matthijs Welle

The first recruitment is absolutely crucial. You need to recruit someone who isn't afraid to bust down doors and over time you start to build a strong team. 

Vít Horký

The Czech Republic has a potential to become the startup nation of Central Europe. We have a lot of great technical founders. But the problem is, very often, they don't know how to sell. And that's why I like the Ment2Grow program because it teaches you how to sell and how to expand globally.

Richard Malovič

It is important not to underestimate the matter of training and know-how transfer. Don't think that I will train the first person in two months, then I drop it from my head and go fundraising, for example.

Pavel Doležal

A key move in the expansion was to move to the US. If you don't live in the market to begin with, you can't regularly go to events, conferences, meetups and make solid contacts.

Jakub Hon

Marketing and sales should converge under one head, pull together and have common KPIs.

Přemysl Rubeš

I see Pitchdeck as a resume, it's a ticket to a conversation. It's basically a marketing material – after 35 seconds of reading it should be clear what I do, why I do it and why the investor should be interested in me.

Many startups have gone through the accelerator during its operation. Among the companies that have benefited from the program are number of promising stars of the emerging Czech digital economy.
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AI is reshaping how products are built—but what does that actually mean for startups with small tech teams? Our guest Jake Dluhy-Smith, CEO and founder of OAK’S LAB,

REFERENCES

Still hesitant to become part of the Ment2Grow platform? Read what participants have to say about the program.

ACCELERATOR MANAGEMENT

Veronika is the manager of the Ment2Grow accelerator. She believes in innovation and technology that have a long-term impact on society, and in founders who focus on customers rather than buzzwords. In addition to her work at M2G, she has long served as the COO of the nonprofit organization Beat Sexism and is a co-founder of the biotech spin-off BLURRED.

Co-founder of Opero, Managing Partner of Fazole Ventures and Managing Director of GROWTHGARAGE. Previously led large corporate projects, launched new ventures and startups, as well as, for example, a development program of a humanitarian organization in Afghanistan.

STEERING & ADVISORY BOARD

The program is backed by the Opero business hub and a team of experts from various fields, whose goal is to help strategically guide the program's development.

Vít Horký

Vítek is a Czech serial founder and investor with more than 20 years of experience building technology companies, best known as the co-founder of the Brand Embassy platform, which he successfully sold. Throughout his career to date, he has founded five companies—two of which he led to an exit, while one was unsuccessful. Today, as part of the United Founders platform, he helps early-stage founders across the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His main mission is to strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty and build a connected pan-European ecosystem that combines capital, expertise, and community to ensure the global competitiveness of promising startups.

Václav Pavlečka

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Czech Founders VC, a fund „by founders, for founders“ that brings together the majority of the startup elite in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Václav has straddled the intersection of technology and innovation throughout his career. In New York, he co-founded Kliché Killers; he brought the Farmhouse Leo Burnett concept from Chicago to Prague; and since 2016, he has been investing in bold entrepreneurs. He is currently a managing partner at United Founders.

Riva Karo

Riva is a former program manager at M2G and head of partnerships at Opera. She holds a degree in Nutrition and Food Science, has conducted research on the gut microbiome, and has worked, among other roles, as an event manager at DoToho! and in the pharmaceutical industry. She currently serves as Head of Real Estate at CDN77.

Pavol Čobirka

Pavol is the CEO and founder of KobiVentures, where he helps companies grow and scale globally. He has more than 10 years of experience in international sales and strategy, and has served as CCO at Whalebone and CSO and co-founder of PEKAT VISION. He is known as a „process geek“ and an „improvement addict“ who can turn chaos into order. Outside of business, he is a passionate freediver and an amateur “Ice Man.”.

Pavel Fara

Pavel is the executive director of the British Chamber of Commerce in Prague.

Ondřej Bočkay

Ondřej is the executive director of the Czech-Israeli Joint Chamber of Commerce.

Miroslav Lukeš

Miroslav Lukeš is a top executive and strategist with more than 20 years of experience in global business, finance, and technology. He led Mastercard in Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, and served as President of LASVIT and CMO of J&T Banka. As Chairman of the Czech Fintech Association, he supports the development of the digital economy. He focuses on growth strategies, international sales, and organizational development.

Lukáš Foglar

Co-founder and Chief Product & Marketing Officer at LutherOne—a platform for effective collaboration and performance management. With a passion for creating exceptional experiences for customers, users, and employees, Lukáš specializes in designing and implementing digital and forward-looking strategies and products that drive success.

Lenka Kučerová

She manages community and partnership relations at prg.ai—an association whose vision is to fully harness the Czech Republic’s potential and transform Prague into a European hub for artificial intelligence. Lenka informs, connects, advises, organizes, challenges, encourages, and generally strives to help individuals and organizations that have a positive impact on the world.

Karel Obluk

Karel is a partner at Evolution Equity Partners and an angel investor.

Jan Přerovský

Jan is an experienced CRO and board member at Brand Embassy, YOUR PASS, and Yieldigo. Among other things, he is also an angel investor and a long-time mentor in the Ment2Grow program and Sales Bootcamp by Ment2Grow.

Jake Dluhy-Smith

Jake is the founder and CEO of OAK’S LAB, a product development company he built from the ground up without investor funding, growing it into a business that generates hundreds of millions of CZK in annual revenue. Previously, he served as a director of the Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, where he helped lead multiple venture-backed startups from the initial idea stage through product-market fit and growth. As an advisor and angel investor, Jake works closely with founders in the U.S. startup ecosystem, drawing on his deep expertise in software development, company building, and business strategy.

Eva Shaw

Partner at The Good Board—a firm that identifies and develops leaders who are the driving force for good within your company and in the world. Eva shares her experience as a mentor in the DoToho!, Equilibrium, and Youth Mentor programs. She has more than 25 years of experience in global senior leadership search across various industries, including FinTech, software technology, and private equity firms, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

PARTNERS

The program works thanks to support of our financial and expert partners.

OTHER MENT2GROW SERVICES

Get going Your Sales with experts in a 3-month intensive program!
 
In the Czech Republic, we develop great technological solutions, but we don't know how to sell them. That's why Sales Bootcamp was created by Ment2Grow.
A no-nonsense, practical program—from founders for founders—focused on developing a business strategy and building a sales team.

12 experienced speakers with international experience,
8 meetings,
40 hours of hands-on training on the premises of the business hub Opero.
Every startup He's actually always raising funds. It's a long game. So how do you get it off to a good start?
🤝 That is why the program was created Pitch Booster by Ment2Grow

An intensive 2-month program that will teach you:
  • how to effectively sell your vision,
  • talk to investors,
  • fine-tune the pitch deck,
  • prepare a financial plan
  • and develop a strategy for successful fundraising!