BIC Founders Accelerator

Developing the Founder Behind the Venture

A six-month hybrid accelerator for founders scaling from idea to MVP, built on Orienting Intelligence™, the foundation that helps leaders develop the judgment to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change.

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Orienting Intelligence™

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Build What Matters. Where It Matters.

The Berkshire Innovation Center Founders' Accelerator backs early-stage hard tech startups moving from prototype to product — and the founders who have to grow just as fast. Rooted in Western Massachusetts, built for teams working where engineering, manufacturing, and market readiness meet.

Why We Built the Stage 2 Accelerator

We launched in 2022 to give technical teams with working prototypes the tools, expertise, and network to scale. We're not chasing unicorns. We back mission-driven startups solving real problems.

Four years in, we found the harder bottleneck. Traction creates decisions no prototype prepares a founder for. What to say yes to. What to hand off. What kind of company this is becoming.

The Governing Founder

Over six months, founders examine the experience they already carry, gain a precise vocabulary for how they think and decide, and build the intelligence to govern under uncertainty.

The outcome: a founder who can make hard calls and account for the reasoning — to a board, a customer, a co-founder, or themselves. That's what keeps a company coherent as it scales.

No cost. No equity.

Curriculum published by and licensed from Narrative Research Group, Inc. BIC is a certified Level 1 Provider. Facilitated by Dr. Dennis Rebelo. Includes the Integral Psychological Profile (IPsP), developed by Roy Horan.