Are you an early-stage startup transforming mental health, psychedelics, or building the tools and infrastructure to scale them? Apply now to the Burning Heroes awards for a chance to pitch in front of VCs, get expert feedback, and join our community of visionary founders.
ELEPHANT GATE & PSYCHEDELICSÂ TODAY
Elephant Gate is Pink Elephant’s accelerator program, supporting and investing $150k in up to 10 companies each year building critical infrastructure for the psychedelic and frontier mental health ecosystem. It combines sector-specific insight, hands-on support, and strategic mentorship to help early-stage founders develop safe, scalable, and effective solutions.
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Psychedelics Today is the leading media and education platform in the psychedelic space, dedicated to exploring the transformative power of altered states. Through cutting-edge education, investigative storytelling, and thought leadership, we bridge science, spirituality, and culture to support personal growth, professional development, and systemic change. Our mission is to empower individuals and communities to navigate psychedelics safely, ethically, and effectively—helping shape a more conscious, connected, and regenerative world.
ELEPHANT GATE & PSYCHEDELICSÂ TODAY
Elephant Gate is Pink Elephant’s accelerator program, supporting and investing $150k in up to 10 companies each year building critical infrastructure for the psychedelic and frontier mental health ecosystem. It combines sector-specific insight, hands-on support, and strategic mentorship to help early-stage founders develop safe, scalable, and effective solutions.
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Psychedelics Today is the leading media and education platform in the psychedelic space, dedicated to exploring the transformative power of altered states. Through cutting-edge education, investigative storytelling, and thought leadership, we bridge science, spirituality, and culture to support personal growth, professional development, and systemic change. Our mission is to empower individuals and communities to navigate psychedelics safely, ethically, and effectively—helping shape a more conscious, connected, and regenerative world.
BURNINGÂ HEROESÂ
Burning Heroes is the first startup awards created by founders for founders! Our mission is to help early-stage startups reveal their potential.
We know how hard it is to start from scratch: idea validation, team building, seeking market fit, go-to-market strategy, wait lists, early adopters’ community... it’s tough. This is why we want to network with the best teams and share our experience.
Apply now to get the chance to be noticed by top advisers and investors and to join our Burning Heroes community!
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BESTÂ PRODUCT
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— Tech Maturity
— Usability & Design
— Product Adoption
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BESTÂ IDEA
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— Bold idea & innovation
— Market PotentialÂ
— Team & Execution
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BESTÂ PRODUCT
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— Tech Maturity
— Usability & Design
— Product Adoption
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BESTÂ IDEA
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— Bold idea & innovation
— Market PotentialÂ
— Team & Execution
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Apply for the competition as a startup founder. Include your pitch deck, tell us about your strengths, what problems you're solving and what difficulties you were able to overcome.Â
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We thoroughly review every pitch deck and hand-pick the most promising teams. The top six to eight startups will receive an invitation to our live pitch event and each of them will be offered one coaching session to perfect their presentation beforehand.
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Live Pitch session in front of the jury online. Winners receive 1:1 sessions with investors and experts in the field.Â
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Media featuring
Top-investors' feedback
Free personal advising session with experts from the jury
Personal pricing and promo codes from our partners
Warm access to VCs
Membership in our closed community
Have questions?
Get in touch!
contact@burningheroes.com
Have questions?
Get in touch!
contact@burningheroes.com
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Yes, any startup can take part in the contest from any field of activity. Whether high-tech innovation, IT, or production, we welcome projects that are ready to present themselves to the world.
No, participation in our contest is free! We do not take any additional financial contributions from our competitors.
Yes, any project can participate in the contest. The existence of a company is not a must.
We recommend applying even if you are not confident in your deck. We pay much more attention to your ability to grow based on the market fit, product design, and the technology you are leveraging. If we can see this we will help you to improve your pitch and materials.
The process to participate as a start-up is really simple and designed to only take the minimum time required, but give you maximum benefit for your input.
All you’ll need to do is:
1. Submit an application form. If you have a pitch deck ready, this should take you no more than 2 minutes.
2. If you’re shortlisted in the top companies selected to pitch at our online event, aside from the time to practice your killer pitch, the event will take 1,5 hours with about 5 minutes allocated to each pitch and 5 minutes for Q&A.
That’s it!
We accept startups from any country and region. The contest is offline, make sure that you can attend the final event in person.
Yes, we encourage you to apply and show that you know how to solve the problem in the space.
