With only 3 days left for applications for the next program, the Rockstart accelerator recently announced a new awesome batch of mentors. Mind you, we’re pretty proud to have Bogdan Iordache on that list!

So what is Rockstart Accelerator? 

Rockstart is a European accelerator based in Amsterdam that comes with a great offer. Attending teams will have access to seed investment of €15k, 6 months of office space, a lineup of 99 mentors and coaching by entrepreneurs in house. The startups will also be going on a 3-week trip to Silicon Valley where they will meet serial entrepreneurs, pitch to investors and VCs, visit 500startups’ hub and co-work at Google campus for several days.

Back to the mentors…

Great names on the advisors and mentors list! You can check out the whole list for yourselves, but let’s just name a few:
- Werner Vogels – CTO and VP at Amazon.com and the visionary behind Amazon Web Services
- Dave Kochbeck – Former CTO of Friendster; CTO and founder of AtomicPass
- Arthur A. van Hoff – CTO at Flipboard
- Dees Chinniah – Firestarter at Mozilla, the makers of Firefox
- Patrick Vlaskovits – Entrepreneur and author of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphan
- Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten – Serial entrepreneur & Founder of The Next Web

Applications for Rockstart accelerator are open for teams from all over Europe, until January 31st. Check out the full agenda of the program. So, European awesome startups, if you were looking for a great accelerator not that far away from home, Rockstart accelerator is definitely an option for you!