The Mint Mar25
- Deadline
- Mar 9, 2025
- Applications
- Closed
- Location
- New York
- Duration
- 70 days
Applications are closed
The application window closed Mar 9, 2025. This page stays here for the record.
About this program
- Program Type: In-person
- Location: New York
- Investment: $500K
- Equity Taken: 10%
- Program Duration: 10 weeks
- Stage: Pre-seed
- Industry of Focus: Fintech
Key Highlights
Program Overview: The Mint is a fintech-focused pre-seed accelerator program created by Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV). It offers a 10-week, in-person program designed to provide fintech startups with tailored guidance, hands-on support, and access to a tight-knit community of like-minded founders and experts.
Investment Details: $500K investment for 10% ownership.
Benefits Details and Perks/Credits
- Tailor-made guidance
- Hands-on support and expert coaching
- Tight-knit, like-minded community
- Off-the-record fireside chats with prolific CEOs
- Workshops and office hours with functional experts
- Live Demo Day to tier-1 VCs, founders, angels, and strategic partners
- Annual founder retreat with BTV’s portfolio
Program Format: 10-week, in-person program with sessions covering key essentials such as product design, recruiting, sales, go-to-market strategies, storytelling, fundraising, and people management.
Location or Relocation Requirements: In-person participation required.
Cohort Size and Program Frequency: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, with cohorts running from March to May.
Post-Program Engagement: Annual founder retreat with BTV’s portfolio.
Company Types Requirements: Fintech startups.
$500K investment for 10% ownership
Program questionnaire
What The Mint asks on its own application. Nothing is answered here, prepare these, then apply on their site.
- 1
What's the name of your company?
- 2
What's your company website?
- 3
What's your full name? If there's more than 1 of you, list everyone here.
- 4
What's your email? If there's more than 1 of you, list everyone here.
- 5
What's your phone number? If there's more than 1 of you, list everyone here.
- 6
What's your LinkedIn page? If there's more than 1 of you, add everyone's page links.
- 7
This in-person program will run in 2025, in NYC. Are you willing to relocate for the duration of the program? (approx. 10 weeks)
- 8
What are you building?
Limit to a few sentences
- 9
How far along are you? Are people using your product? What have you done and learned so far — product-wise, company-wise, market-wise, etc.
- 10
How will you make money? And how big can this get?