Application period
OPEN through 01/24/2025
Digital Twins Accelerator
Put your solution to work in the real world
Purpose-built to help startups using digital twins in their solutions.
An unmatched opportunity to learn, develop, prove, connect, and grow.
Accelerate your commercialization and growth
Are you an ambitious commercially minded early-stage startup using digital twinning as a key part of your solution? Apply to join our 2025 cohort to accelerate your commercial pathways and company growth at the most immersive Digital Twins Accelerator in the world and within our regional innovation-driven ecosystem. The Accelerator’s 6-month program runs March to August 2025 and provides many benefits, including:
- Access to our partners for technical and market learnings/insights, joint R&D, and/or pilots.
- Connections to market, government, and investor contacts to help you build, grow, and fund.
- Expertise from technical and business mentors and advisors to help you learn and grow faster.
- Perks from our partners to help you go faster and operate more affordably.
- Showcase for your solution, team, and company to our ecosystem and climate tech investors.
Align and accelerate
Our Accelerator embraces the digital twin definition as a digital representation of a physical world object, person, environment, system, or process that uses dynamic data to simulate, analyze, predict, monitor, and optimize performance. We believe the application of digital twins can transform approaches and power innovative pathways toward community resilience by translating monitoring technologies and predictive analytics into reliable and trustworthy decision support systems that enable key aspects of resilience.
If your startup aligns to one or more of our focus area use cases, you’re a great fit for our Accelerator.
Soil health and
productivity
Natural hazard preparedness
and response
Water
quality and
availability
Program structure and outline
6-month program from March to August, 2025, emphasizing upfront assessment and tailoring, and action/outcome-minded. The program is primarily virtual; however, in-person presence will be required during kick-off and ramp-up week March 3 to 7, 2025 and showcase and wrap-up week August 25 to 29, 2025.
Month 1: Assess and plan
This phase sets the foundation for tailored program focus and success through upfront joint understanding and planning as well as in-person collaboration and learning.
This phase sets the foundation for tailored program focus and success through upfront joint understanding and planning as well as in-person collaboration and learning.
Months 2-5: Implement and learn
This phase is the core of the program and focuses on preparing and implementing the solution in real-world context through joint R&D or pilot(s)/proof(s) of concept.
This phase is the core of the program and focuses on preparing and implementing the solution in real-world context through joint R&D or pilot(s)/proof(s) of concept.
Month 6: Prepare and ascend
This phase concludes the program, featuring a showcase “demo day” to partners and investors, and lays the groundwork for post-Accelerator next-phase progression.
This phase concludes the program, featuring a showcase “demo day” to partners and investors, and lays the groundwork for post-Accelerator next-phase progression.
Let’s go, grow, and accelerate together!
The 2025 Digital Twins Accelerator cohort application deadline is January 24, 2025.
The Digital Twins Accelerator is a fee-based program. The NSF does not endorse the purchase of any products or services mentioned on this page and does not directly support the program.
