Digital Accelerator
A structured online accelerator your cohort works through at their own pace, with exportable artifacts and real-time progress analytics.
DB Learn · For universities and academic programmes
Startup education, built for institutions.
DB Learn helps universities and academic programmes teach how startups actually work — through hands-on workshops and a white-label platform that runs digital accelerator and Dragon’s Den programmes.
Our approach
Real world experience, not academics or theory.
Everything we do at DB Learn is drawn from our experience working in startups across countless sectors, stages and geographies. We translate that experience into teaching the practical realities of not just building an idea, but guiding learners through the knowledge it takes to get projects into market, and to turn inspiration into practical reality.
Workshops & training
A wide range of applications — from undergraduate general education, to tech transfer offices and specialist entrepreneurial programmes.
Standalone sessions for founders, researchers and students — in person or online, from 90 minutes to a full day. Each produces tangible outputs participants keep. Delivered by senior operators, or self-served through the DB Learn platform.
A sample of the catalogue
Commercial awareness
From Idea to Opportunity
The shift from researcher to founder — seeing your work through a commercial lens for the first time.
Find Your Buyer
Identify who would actually pay — customers, partners, licensees — and learn to speak their language.
Venture building
Validate Before You Build
Test your assumptions before you spend time and money, using real validation frameworks.
Map Your Business
Build your business model canvas, define your revenue logic and size your market.
Launch readiness
The Art of the Pitch
Craft a pitch narrative and learn to deliver it, leaving with a deck draft and the skills to present it.
Fund Your Future
Understand the funding options beyond VC, find what fits, and build your fundraising strategy.
Sessions can be taken individually or bundled into a programme, and white-labelled to your institution.
DB Learn platform
A white-label platform for academic programmes.
A white-label solution that lets universities and academic programmes run two flagship formats end to end, under their own brand.
Digital Dragon’s Den
A digital pitch-and-judge programme that runs your own Dragon’s Den — submissions, judging panels and scoring in one place.