COLLIDER

ABOUT ACME COLLIDER

At the core of Acme Innovation’s ethos is the belief that success in business begins with continuously re-examining your priors, maintaining a carefully calibrated growth mindset, embracing adjacent and orthogonal ideas, and staying aligned with respect to values. In short, we believe that collisions—not curation—leads to real innovation and growth.
To this end, Acme and WAVIA have launched Collider, a hybrid conference-accelerator program advancing early-stage music, gaming, and creative IP startups operating in or developing Web3 deployment.
Like other accelerator programs, Collider provides founders the access they need to mentorship, domain expertise, and investor exposure in exchange for equity. But what makes Collider different is its emphasis on pushing those in the cohort to both learn from and also provide education to others in the program, all of whom bring different and diverse degrees of expertise. This approach encourages and embraces “collisions” between like-minded founders across adjacent or orthogonal industries, generating accretive value through unexpected ideas and breakthroughs, and amplifying creativity and unexpected learnings.
Additionally, Collider leverages Acme’s broad network to provide thought leadership from a range of experts, all aligned by a shared value of sustainability in its many forms.
At the core of Acme Innovation’s ethos is the belief that success in business begins with continuously re-examining your priors, maintaining a carefully calibrated growth mindset, embracing adjacent and orthogonal ideas, and staying aligned with respect to values. In short, we believe that collisions—not curation—leads to real innovation and growth.
To this end, Acme and WAVIA have launched Collider, a hybrid conference-accelerator program advancing early-stage music, gaming, and creative IP startups operating in or developing Web3 deployment.
Like other accelerator programs, Collider provides founders the access they need to mentorship, domain expertise, and investor exposure in exchange for equity. But what makes Collider different is its emphasis on pushing those in the cohort to both learn from and also provide education to others in the program, all of whom bring different and diverse degrees of expertise. This approach encourages and embraces “collisions” between like-minded founders across adjacent or orthogonal industries, generating accretive value through unexpected ideas and breakthroughs, and amplifying creativity and unexpected learnings.
Additionally, Collider leverages Acme’s broad network to provide thought leadership from a range of experts, all aligned by a shared value of sustainability in its many forms.
Date
Location
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
Knowledge Partner

Uniquely Qualified.





APPLICATION CRITERIA
- Have already secured a friends and family, angel, or seed round;
- Have brought a product to market and successfully demonstrated product-market fit;
- Embrace Web3 as an integral part of their value proposition;
- Be one of two types of companies in the music, gaming, and/or creative IP industries:
- Web3-native companies building in these industries; or
- Established Web2 companies adopting Web3 technology
COLLIDER 2022
The first Collider kicked-off in Southern LA in November 2022 with a diverse cohort of 18 companies, as well as over 50 advisors, mentors, and thought partners.
We met for four days of panels, breakout sessions, one-on-ones, performances, and deep learning with the explicit goal of avoiding the pitfalls of blind spots, knowledge gaps, echo chamber mentalities, and a lack of innovative thinking by building accretive value and sustainability through diversity.
At the core of Acme Innovation’s ethos is the belief that success in business begins with continuously re-examining your priors, maintaining a carefully calibrated growth mindset, embracing adjacent and orthogonal ideas, and staying aligned with respect to values. In short, we believe that collisions—not curation—leads to real innovation and growth.
To this end, Acme and WAVIA have launched Collider, a hybrid conference-accelerator program advancing early-stage music, gaming, and creative IP startups operating in or developing Web3 deployment.
Like other accelerator programs, Collider provides founders the access they need to mentorship, domain expertise, and investor exposure in exchange for equity. But what makes Collider different is its emphasis on pushing those in the cohort to both learn from and also provide education to others in the program, all of whom bring different and diverse degrees of expertise. This approach encourages and embraces “collisions” between like-minded founders across adjacent or orthogonal industries, generating accretive value through unexpected ideas and breakthroughs, and amplifying creativity and unexpected learnings.
Additionally, Collider leverages Acme’s broad network to provide thought leadership from a range of experts, all aligned by a shared value of sustainability in its many forms.
Date
Location
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
Knowledge Partner

Uniquely Qualified.





APPLICATION CRITERIA
- Have already secured a friends and family, angel, or seed round;
- Have brought a product to market and successfully demonstrated product-market fit;
- Embrace Web3 as an integral part of their value proposition;
- Be one of two types of companies in the music, gaming, and/or creative IP industries:
- Web3-native companies building in these industries; or
- Established Web2 companies adopting Web3 technology
