Cohort #1 begins 5 Oct 2026 — 1-month and 3-month tracks

Ready to launch your next chapter?

Bring the move you have been circling. You get the mentors, the room, and the push to make it real — with SG Innovation, Mamba Partners and Cybrdeck in your corner. The application takes approximately 10 minutes to complete.

~10 min completion

Your details

Full name*

Mobile*

Where should we reply?*

This is where replies go, and the address your application is filed under — reopen the form from it to revise what you sent.

Which track are you applying for?

Which intake are you applying for?

Cohort #1 for both the 1-month and 3-month tracks begins 5 Oct 2026.

Where you are now

What you are working on today, and what you want to change*0 / 2000

Company or organization

Role or title

Years of relevant experience

What you are bringing

Not the pitch — the evidence. We read these answers against what you have already done, so specifics beat ambition here.

What should we call it?*

A short name for the idea or the move you want to make. This becomes the title of your dossier.

How close are you to the problem?*

Describe a recurring, expensive problem in an industry you know first-hand. How do people handle it today, and why does that fall short?*0 / 2000

Name the workflow, the cost and the workaround. Specifics are what we score.

Who else is already solving this, and why are they not enough?*0 / 1200

"Nobody" is a red flag, not a good answer.

What have you already done about it?*0 / 2000

Name the artifact — a repo, a deck, a pilot, a customer, a spreadsheet. Work done before this program counts for most.

Have you taken something from idea to finished and into someone else's hands?*

Has anyone outside your friends and family paid for it, piloted it, or asked to buy it?*

Where we can look at your work

Portfolio or product

GitHub

Commitment and follow-through

Three months is short only if you are actually there for it. We would rather hear the constraint now than discover it in week four.

The program meets 9am–6pm, Monday to Friday, for three months. What is already true about those hours for you?*

What is arranged, not what you intend to arrange. This is the first answer we check when someone goes quiet in week four.

Walk us through a real week. When exactly would the program fit, and what would you give up to make that true?*0 / 1200

Name the hours, and name what loses them. A vague answer here is the single strongest predictor of a dropout.

If this asked you to go full-time, how long could you cover your own living costs?*

Who is counting on your income right now?*

Describe the hardest thing you finished that nobody was forcing you to finish. What broke, what did you do, where is it now?*0 / 2000

If we asked you to hit a dated milestone every two weeks and report honestly whether you did, would you?*

Name one person outside this program who would notice if you quietly dropped out.*

Their name and what they are to you. We may ask them.

Coachability and risk

This program changes what you are building more often than it funds what you already planned. We read this section for whether you would let it.

Name one assumption you started with that you have since found out was wrong. What was it, what showed you, and what did you change because of it?*0 / 1500

The change is the evidence. "I realised I was wrong" without a change behind it is not coachability, it is a sentence.

What is the strongest reason this could fail — not a generic startup risk, the specific one that applies to what you are building — and what would you need to see in the next 90 days to know it is happening?*0 / 1200

A reason we could have written for any applicant does not count. Name the one that is actually yours.

If you started tomorrow, what are the first three things you would do in the next 30 days — specific actions, not goals?*0 / 1200

"Validate the market" is a goal. "Call the 5 operations leads I already know and ask what they pay for this today" is an action.

Expectations

Public money is involved, and we are accountable for how it is used. These answers are read alongside your grant options.

Suppose three months pass and no grant, no funding and no offer lands. What would have made it worth the time?*0 / 1200

What do you expect grant money to pay for?*

There is no wrong answer here, but there are expensive ones. Grants are taxpayer money and we answer for how they are used.

Have you or your company ever received a government grant or public funding?*

Why this program

What you want out of three months, and what you will bring*0 / 4000

How you heard about it

We reply to every application — cohorts are small, so a first pass takes a few days, not weeks.

Read by the Cybrdeck founders and the programme partners who assess this cohort; your application is also prepared as a review document held on a private drive. Aggregate figures drawn from applications — how many, which industries, which grant schemes people are not yet eligible for — inform our internal programme review with names, contacts and companies removed. Nothing you write here is published or used to train a model. See the privacy policy.

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