Scale your health as intentionally as your company.
Why we built accelerate health
Gerjet—a startup founder turned health coach—and Natascha—a health psychologist with a bias for action—had both seen how quickly ambition can outpace well-being. Between boardrooms and burnout, pitch decks and panic attacks, it became clear: the startup ecosystem was running on empty.
So we built something different.
What began as a series of health-focused founder workshops has grown into a cutting-edge collective of entrepreneurs, coaches, and psychologists working at the intersection of performance, longevity, and leadership.
Since 2021, Accelerate Health has partnered with leading accelerators, VCs, and entrepreneur networks to rewire how we support the humans building the future. In 2023, we launched Build & Thrive for Impact—an EU-funded, first-of-its-kind health-oriented leadership program for 20 impact founders.
Today, we design the infrastructure behind sustainable leadership—fusing personalized health data, executive coaching, and curated peer support to help ambitious people lead better, live longer, and stay human in the process.
Trusted by the ones who back bold ideas:
Leadership that lasts – backed by science, built in community
Accelerate Health supports bold, purpose-driven founders and leadership teams in leading with clarity, vitality, and long-term impact.
We design science-based leadership experiences that integrate personalized health insights, executive coaching, and peer connection—delivered by a collective of top-tier coaches, psychologists, and practitioners.
Whether through immersive programs, hands-on workshops, or partnerships with VCs and accelerators, we help leaders build capacity from the inside out.
Because peak health fuels peak leadership—and resilient, connected humans are the foundation for systems change.
The team behind the mission
We’re a team of entrepreneurs, psychologists, consultants, coaches, and creatives—united by a mission to help leaders thrive while building what matters.
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Cimberley, our Head of Coaching & Leadership, has spent the past 6+ years shaping the European climate tech space, holding leading roles in carbon removal and ESG startups and supporting one of the first European impact VCs in raising over €100M.
As the former lead of VOYAGERS in Berlin, she built community spaces for founders, investors, and scientists across climate and health tech. After seeing the toll of stress and burnout up close, she spent the last 4.5 years deep-diving into mental, physical, and emotional health in high-pressure environments. As a certified coach, she now helps founders and companies rethink performance through a lens of wellbeing — and is here to build the kind of support she once needed herself.
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Franziska, our Program Lead, is a creative strategist and former startup CEO who raised $1.3M for Humanize, a tech venture combining social neuroscience with mindfulness.
With international experience across Germany, Silicon Valley, New York, and Indonesia, she brings a global lens to her work. She’s led programs at the intersection of innovation, health, and human connection, and designed wellbeing experiences for teams at Lavera, Babbel, and GRID. Franziska believes in heart-centered business as a driver of purposeful change—and builds every program with that ethos.
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Dominika, our Marketing Lead, is a full-stack marketer and brand strategist who’s spent 8+ years helping brands like McDonald’s and Raiffeisenbank craft stories that resonate—and supporting health and sustainability founders to do the same. Her work has driven visibility, sparked partnerships, and attracted top talent.
Having felt the loneliness of entrepreneurship, she’s now building the kind of community she once craved—because she believes strong relationships are the foundation of lasting health, happiness, and leadership. Her mission: to help leaders feel seen, supported, and energised to lead with heart.
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Prajwal, our Creative Director, blends storytelling, strategy, and mental well-being to craft content that connects. At Accelerate Health, he leads content and creative that supports impact-driven leaders—helping them navigate the emotional and mental weight of building purpose-led companies.
Previously, he co-founded a creative studio in India and led projects across video, design, and brand storytelling. With a background in screenwriting and a deep interest in psychology, he’s on a mission to create content that doesn’t just look good—but feels real.
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Gerjet combines startup grit with a deep care for founder health.
After earning his Master’s in Corporate Management and Economics, he worked across NGOs, development finance, and Berlin’s health tech scene—before launching his own startup, Skill Yoga, in 2018. He grew it to over €1M in revenue and raised €1.8M in funding—while quietly facing the stress, pressure, and burnout so common in the founder journey.
Today, he supports other founders in doing it differently—blending real startup experience with training in fitness, yoga, breathwork, and body-based coaching. His belief: healthy founders build stronger companies, and a better world. He also grows cacao in Guatemala—because regeneration, like leadership, starts deep below the surface.
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With a background in business and health psychology (M.Sc.), she’s been championing health from day one—across schools, executive coaching, and corporate consulting. Her mission: to create environments where people and performance thrive together.
An active voice in Berlin’s digital health scene, Natascha works closely with visionary founders and changemakers to shape the future of healthcare. Drawing from both professional expertise and her own health journey, she integrates cutting-edge science, practical tools, and interdisciplinary methods to make well-being tangible—every day.
Our values
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Our values •
Health is a strategy
We treat well-being as a core part of performance-not an add-on. Because thriving leaders build thriving companies.
Growth is the work
We don’t chase hacks, we build capacity. Leadership, like health, is a practice–measurable, trainable, and always evolving.
Leadership is personal
Sustainable leadership starts within. We build the inner capacity to lead with clarity, not just charisma.
Science over guesswork
We ground our work in evidence, data, and proven tools. Not trends or hype.
System change starts with humans
Better leadership ripples outward – through teams, companies, and communities. The future depends on how we lead now.
We lead as a collective
We work as an ecosystem of coaches, practitioners, and peers – because meaningful change is never built alone.
Let’s build something better—together.
Whether you’re a founder, investor, or ecosystem partner, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out and let’s explore how we can support your journey.