provides funding as a content partner of The Conversation UK.Business accelerators are programmes which offer various types of support, including training, mentorship, access to workspaces and investment, with the aim of helping them through the fragile early stages of growth. They may play a vital role in the post-COVID-19 recovery., funded by the UK government, we found evidence that participating in one particular accelerator (which will remain anonymous) was associated with an increase in business survival rates, investment raised and growth in the number of people employed. This could...…provides funding as a content partner of The Conversation UK.Business accelerators are programmes which offer various types of support, including training, mentorship, access to workspaces and investment, with the aim of helping them through the fragile early stages of growth. They may play a vital role in the post-COVID-19 recovery., funded by the UK government, we found evidence that participating in one particular accelerator (which will remain anonymous) was associated with an increase in business survival rates, investment raised and growth in the number of people employed. This could...WW…