Selected For ACCEND Cohort 2 — And The Gap It Opens For EU Government AI Training

A Win Without A Cheque

ACCEND just selected Immersive Fox for Cohort 2, and the gap it opens for EU government AI training is significant. The accelerator is EU Horizon-funded. It runs out of the University of Edinburgh and Codebase.

Cohort 2 includes 20 European deep tech scaleups across 10 countries. We are proud to sit inside that group. So this is a signal we want to share openly.

Two years ago, I would not have posted this news. There was no cheque attached, and that felt like the only metric worth shouting about. But that instinct was wrong.

The Wins That Actually Compound

Founders love wins with a dollar sign. Meanwhile, we quietly underweight everything else. This is a habit I want to break in public.

The wins that compound into a Series A are mostly not cheques. Instead, they are credibility lines and signal stacks. They are third parties who did not know you last month.

Now those same parties carry your name into rooms you could not book yourself. That is what ACCEND gives us. So we are treating this selection as the asset it actually is.

The Real Gap In EU Government AI Training

ACCEND picked Immersive Fox on our AI workforce thesis for the public sector. This is where the EU government AI training story gets uncomfortable. Every government in Europe is buying AI licences right now.

Yet almost none of them have trained anyone to use them properly. Pick any ministry. Then look at the Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise spend over the last 18 months.

Now ask how many civil servants got role-specific training. The answer is usually far fewer than the procurement deck implied. As a result, the productivity promise quietly stalls inside the building.

What Comes Next For Us

ACCEND opens the EU procurement side for us in a serious way. This means Spain, Germany, the Nordics, and Brussels itself. Therefore, our focus stays on EU government AI training that actually lands with end users.

So we are leaning into the part of the market that needs us most. The adoption gap is real, and the tools to close it exist.

If you sit inside an EU government department right now, this is for you. Your AI rollout may not have landed the way the budget promised. Get in touch with us and let us fix the adoption gap together.