The Growth Marketing accelerator dedicated to ambitious European startups
An accelerator built to grow startups
swanbase is a marketing and growth acceleration program dedicated to early-stage startups.
We support entrepreneurs so they can land their first 10 to 1000 customers:
The program lasts 14 weeks and can be followed entirely remotely.
After the 96 days, you keep most of your benefits. We support you for the entire lifetime of your startup.
Renowned speakers: CEOs, CMOs, early employees who come share their experience.
Workshops on growth, customer acquisition, marketing, SEO, Meta Ads and more, so you can take action.
Unlimited bookings with startup marketing experts. No obstacle is unsurmountable.
+900 investors, +50 growth marketing resources, and replays of past conferences.
We invite startup operators, CEOs, CMOs and founders who have faced the challenges you are running into.
We bring in the best experts in their fields: No-code, Tiktok, Facebook Ads, SaaS, E-commerce, SEO, Growth, AI... All of them are entrepreneurs.
Get answers to questions no one else can answer. Speakers hold office hours to help you 1-on-1 after their session.
Access expertise you could not get without spending thousands of euros.
Deep dive into a critical operational topic: marketing, acquisition, conversion optimization, retention.
Small-group sessions (3h-6h) for concrete marketing actions led by top performers.
You access expertise you could not get without spending thousands of euros. They will help you get started efficiently on:
Tap into the full swanbase expertise through 1-on-1 and group sessions, freely booking time with the partners.
We have mentored and supported hundreds of startup founders since 2018 and we can both guide you and solve the vast majority of problems tied to customer acquisition.
Unlimited bookings with the partners to solve concrete marketing & growth problems. Personalized support for your specific context.
Collaborative help sessions with your cohort. Twice a month on Tuesday mornings.
From day one
swanbase brings founders a wealth of resources. We do not wait for the cohort to start to give you access. The moment you step in, you get everything. Immediately.
Join the entire swanbase community and find all our resources centralized on Discord. Mutual help, news, events, essential tools... Discord is the central hub for all our startups.
Book unlimited office hours immediately. This calendar is yours. Take the time you need to get feedback on your marketing and your go-to-market strategy.
Reach your dedicated Head of Growth by message. 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. We will cover in detail: your action plan, your marketing operations, analyze your results together and answer your requests for advice without limits.
Access +50 startup, marketing & growth resources. Useful links, guides, concrete use cases to solve common problems, or little-known yet extremely useful tools.
Access our directory. Find email addresses of people you could not otherwise reach. Also access our up-to-date list of +900 early-stage investors.
Access +20 recorded conferences you can watch at your own pace. On the program: Growth Strategy with Théo Sitjar, Crowdfunding with Vincent Maurin, SEO with Amandine Bart, etc.
Their detailed feedback on the program
"I had been doing marketing for years. But here we really moved up a level. It is incredible to be supported by people who handled the marketing of Morphée, OPPI, Lunii, and others. Théo and Vincent can solve in 5 minutes problems that have been haunting me for days."
"You provide high-quality support. Your entire team shows creativity and was able to offer us excellent ideas tailored to our needs. What strikes us is the excellent understanding of our challenges and the specific needs of our company. We have learned a lot, and this remains an important step in our progress."
"The program is excellent. The sessions are all of immense quality, and it is great to meet entrepreneurs working in the field. Just discussing 30 minutes with a partner about a channel lets you launch with confidence straight after."
"It is a real added value to have Théo or Vincent at your side. They genuinely understand the workings of startups, and they bring clarity and transparency, without pretense."
"Vincent and Théo were key partners at the launch of the Google workshop in Montpellier in 2019. They know how to speak to entrepreneurs, with a contagious passion for entrepreneurship and marketing. I appreciate their pedagogy and their ability to help others progress. Our conversations are a source of inspiration every time!"
"Six years working with Vincent and Théo, and their advice has always helped us cross significant revenue milestones. Since the start of Satisfix: the closeness, the quality of exchanges with the team, their responsiveness and rigorous follow-up have helped us move forward and evolve. And that is precisely why, six years later, we still work together every day."
"Vincent and Théo helped us from the very beginning of Morphée. They allowed us to set up our Meta ads campaigns, manage them, and optimize them until our first successes. Very pleasant to work with, they are great listeners, responsive and professional."
"It is incredible, the time and investment you bring us. And you do not try to teach us theories, you precisely solve the problems we run into right now. We want to crush it just to live up to the value you bring us."
"They are systematically one step ahead in growth. Whether on strategic or operational questions, they always have clear and precise answers, and I do not hesitate to recommend their resources to people around me. Their expertise was a key resource when I was starting out."
"Who else would have helped me reach +1M people by posting on Instagram, for 0€? And with the 1-on-1s with Vincent and Théo, I picked up reflexes I did not have before, like constantly questioning your users to improve your offers."
"Théo and Vincent have an ability to give relevant answers to important questions, where no one else can answer us. The strength of the program is being able to tackle important topics, and crack the different growth issues to move forward fast."
our priority
What matters most to us:
that founders generate growth
our manifesto
Or how we slaughter our own innovations
In 1863, a Corsican pharmacist invents the most famous drink in the world. Twenty years later, an American copies it, renames it, and builds a planetary empire.
This pattern has been repeating for centuries. Europe invents, others exploit. We wrote about why, and what swanbase intends to change.
Our online resources
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The 4-chapter guide to go from idea to a company that runs without you. Find the right problem, sell by hand, repeat the sale, scale it up. Théo's voice, concrete examples, infographics. The manual we wish we had.
