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Munich · in preparation
Because founding is hard enough.
An accelerator for disabled founders — sixteen weeks, online, no fee.
Length
16 weeks
From the kick-off to Demo Day, every team on the same beat.
Time
About 2 days a week
One programme day, plus preparation and follow-up.
Place
Online
In person only for the kick-off and Demo Day, both in Munich.
Cohort
Up to 10 teams
They start together and give each other feedback every week.
Mentoring
8 sessions
One to one, every two weeks, with someone who fits your team.
Week 10
Assistance & applications
A block of its own for the questions no other programme asks.
Week 16
Demo Day
In front of investors, partners and the press. Before that, in week 8, an internal pitch.
Cost
€0 · 0%
Partners and, later, software licences carry the cost — not the teams.
Looked up, not claimed
Why this exists
Nobody counts how many disabled people start a company in Germany. Not roughly, not imprecisely — not at all. I searched the three largest German surveys of new business activity for these words:
Behinderung Barrierefreiheit neurodivers ADHS Autismus Legasthenie Schwerbehinderung
My own full-text search of the published reports, as of August 2026. If you know of a survey that does ask, please get in touch.
0hitsDeutscher Startup Monitor 2025
1,846 records searched
0hitsKfW-Gründungsmonitor 2026
50,000 respondents
0attributesNext Generation Report
Full census of all new companies in 2025
What isn't counted doesn't get funded. That has to change.
Four reasons
What's in the way
Funding routes
Pension, personal assistance, disability benefits — no standard curriculum answers the questions that come before founding.
Rooms
An in-person date with not a word about the building is a rejection that doesn't call itself one.
Role models
If you have never seen someone like yourself start a company, you don't picture yourself in that role either. And nobody tells you — because the numbers and the stories don't exist.
Access
Is this for me?
The programme backs founders, not accessibility products.
Your idea does not have to have anything to do with disability.
- At least one person on the team with a physical disability or who is neurodivergent
- No disability card, no medical certificate — your own word is enough
- Pre-seed — an idea is enough, an MVP is not required
- Solo or team, 18 or older, any sector
- Anyone founding in Germany — where you live rules nobody out
How it runs
The programme
Accessible means: it works somehow. Fitted means: it was built for you.
If four hours in one go isn't something you can do, the rhythm changes — not the standard you are held to.
Costs nothing
Teams pay nothing, now or later.
Schedule
Week 1 → 16
- Weeks 1–4Problem & customers
- Weeks 5–7Business model & funding
- Week 8Mid pitch, internal
- Weeks 9–12Prototype, legal form, go-to-market
- Weeks 13–16Pitch deck & Demo Day
About two days a week
- Mon
- Tue
- Wed
- Thu
- Fri
- Sat
- Sun
Programme Your time
One programme day, plus preparation and follow-up. The rest of the week belongs to your company, your job, your therapy or your rest. Across sixteen weeks this is a marathon, not a sprint.
Mostly online
- The kick-off event and Demo Day take place in Munich.
- Everything else runs from the room you are in anyway.
- If you miss a session, you catch up on it later — with captions and a transcript.
- For every in-person date you get a description of the building beforehand — entrance, lift, toilet, routes.
Entrance Lift Toilet Routes
What fills the sixteen weeks
The nine steps
Nine steps from the first problem to a finished pitch, in three phases. At the end of each step there is no tick mark but a result you can show somebody.
Phase 1
Understand
Team & vision
Understand the problem
Observe & empathise
Who you are, what you are working on, and who you have really spoken to.
Phase 2
Develop
Synthesis & point of view
Develop ideas
Business model
Interviews become patterns, patterns become ideas, and one idea becomes a calculation.
Phase 3
Prove
Prototype & MVP
Test & validate
Build & grow
Build something you can put into somebody's hands — and measure what happens.
And back again.
If a test disproves your hypothesis, you go back to step 4. If the model doesn't hold, to step 6. That is not a setback, it is the normal case.
- 08 04A test disproves the hypothesis
- 08 06The model doesn't hold
Every step comes with a tool: a guide, an output, a check.
Guide Output Check
Included in the programme
What you get
A mentor
Eight sixty-minute sessions across the sixteen weeks, online.
Matched to your team — by sector knowledge or by founding experience.
8 × · more on request
A cohort
Up to ten teams on the same beat: feedback from each other every week, and once a month an evening with guest speakers — in a closed room, not an open forum.
Weekly feedbackMonthly evening
Specialist partners
Personal assistance, applications, social law: here these questions are answered by people who do this for a living.
AssistanceSocial lawAccessibility
The tools
For each of the nine steps a guide, an output and a check — usable with a mouse, a keyboard, a screen reader or heavy magnification.
MouseKeyboardScreen readerMagnification
A Demo Day
In week 16, planned for Munich. Before that, an internal pitch in week 8 — so that the first public one isn't the first one at all.
W8 internal W16 public
After week 16
Planned: up to twelve more months of support, with check-ins every two to four weeks — also free of charge.
up to 12 months
The programme costs the teams nothing — no fee and no equity, at any point.
No contribution, no success fee, nothing to pay back.
- 0 €fee
- 0 %equity
- 0 €to pay back
Honestly
What isn't settled yet
This page advertises something that does not exist yet. So that you know what you are signing up for:
Open
- When the first round starts — applications only open once the funding is in place
- What the selection criteria are
- Where in Munich the kick-off and Demo Day take place
- Who besides me is involved
Settled
- Taking part costs the teams nothing
- Sixteen weeks, mostly online, about two days a week
- Up to ten teams, all starting together
- To apply, a short description of your idea is enough — followed by a conversation
- Any sector, pre-seed, open to anyone founding in Germany
- Your idea does not have to have anything to do with disability
Development status
The software behind it
A tool for each of the nine steps — usable with a mouse, a keyboard, a screen reader or heavy magnification.
Draft · sample data
The screenshots show the German interface of the software; there are no English ones yet.
Where this stands right now
Being built.
No start date, no cohort, no application process. What there is: a list — and every entry on it is part of an answer to an open question.
It isn't the content that's missing, it's the way in.
- There is a list
- No start date
- No application process
Three ways
Support
Mentor
Eight 60-minute sessions across 16 weeks, online — more if you like. One team, matched by sector or founding experience.
Get in touchSpecialist partner
Personal assistance, social law, accessibility — you contribute the expertise, for example to the block on assistance and applications in week 10.
AskPass it on
The box headed „In short“ is meant to be forwarded. More material is in the works.
ContactIn short
Able-Ventures is an accelerator for disabled people who want to start a company — sixteen weeks, online, no fee and no equity.
It comes with mentoring, a fixed cohort and tools that everyone can use.
For investors and funders
An accelerator, carried by its own software.
Partnerships carry the programme at first, later licences for the software sold to universities, startup centres and companies. That is why teams never pay.
90tools for nine steps, each one described
77methods the programme draws on
4competitor fields examined, with prices and sources
- For each of the 90 tools there is a record of which product already exists on the market, how it is licensed and where its barrier lies
- 77 methods the programme draws on — each one checked against the list of tools
- A market overview across four competitor fields, with prices, published accessibility statements and sources
- A positioning that holds up against the market: three of my own claims that the research disproved have been dropped
- A finished test sheet that compares four existing tools on the same task over five runs — it decides which tool gets built first
- Four technical building blocks of the platform are already in use, in applications I run myself
Next milestone
A first tool as the MVP, chosen through this comparison with existing tools.
Who's behind this
Not an institutional project run over the heads of the people it is for.
Yannick Andricek, 25, from Munich. I am building Able-Ventures because I use the tools that come out of it myself.
I know what it is like to sit in a programme that was built for somebody else. That is why nothing here is made accessible afterwards — it is cut differently from the start.
- I have founded before: YA-media, since 2021, a video production business with its own client projects, from the quote to the sign-off.
- I build the software and the AI myself — the platform designs, the tools and this page. What it says here about accessibility is measured, not estimated.
- Chair of the German Osteogenesis Imperfecta Society, Bavaria chapter, and a speaker at the Zero Project Conference at the United Nations Office in Vienna — there on the accessibility of the digital euro.
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No application, just a list
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