Give your community a real-world edge.
Education Partners gain access to global tech startups, giving students and graduates the opportunity to build relevant skills, gain real-world experience, and accelerate their careers beyond the education they received in the classroom. Accelerators, Founder Networks and Innovation Communities gain access to SkilledUp Life's 70,000+ global volunteer talent pool, helping tech startups build teams, validate ideas, and accelerate growth. Every SkilledUp Life partnership is non-commercial, built in good faith, and designed to create meaningful value for everyone involved.
Choose the partnership that fits your community.
Each track is tailored to a different kind of community but all open the same door to the SkilledUp Life Volunteer and Tech Startup ecosystem.
Education Partners
Universities, colleges, bootcamps and course providers giving students references-worthy, real-world experience alongside their studies or post course completion.
- ✓Students and graduates apply learning to live tech startup environment delivering real results and value.
- ✓Demonstrable skills and referenceable experiences on completion.
- ✓Better employability and career outcomes when education is combined with real and relevant experience.
Accelerator Partners
★ Up to 20% member discountAccelerators and innovation centres whose tech founders can build whole teams from our Volunteers making capital and runway stretch further.
- ✓Cohort tech founders build whole teams.
- ✓Capital stretches between rounds.
- ✓Offer cohort members up to 20% off monthly and annual plans in the first year.
Network Partners
★ Up to 20% member discountTech Founder networks, communities and ecosystem builders extending SkilledUp Life as a ready-made benefit for their members.
- ✓An invaluable benefit for members who are building tech companies.
- ✓Members turn ideas into tech companies by building teams with Volunteers.
- ✓Offer members up to 20% off plans.
From first hello to a lasting partnership.
Every SkilledUp Life partnership follows the same clear, formal path. Eight steps take us from a first email to a lasting, mutually beneficial relationship.
Enquiry and introductions
You email us, or we reach out to you. We follow up by email and on LinkedIn to learn about each other.
30-minute Zoom call
A short call to get to know each other and explore what the partnership could do for your community.
Sign the MoU
We issue a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Both parties sign it, and the partnership is formal.
Recognise each other
We list you as a partner on our partner pages, and you list SkilledUp Life as a partner on your website.
Volunteer briefing session
For some Education Partners, we run a live briefing session that explains how volunteering on SkilledUp Life runs for those signing up as Volunteers. It depends on our availability, so it is not always possible and it is not mandatory.
Education Partners · when possibleYour name in our Partner list
We will add you to our Partner list, so Volunteers can choose you as their referral when they sign up.
Coming soon · planned before the end of 2026Online events
We support your online events wherever it makes sense for both communities. Once we relaunch our own events, we may invite you to join us at our online events.
Regular dialogue
We keep in regular contact to make sure the partnership stays healthy and keeps delivering value for both sides.
Every partnership is non-commercial and built in good faith. Start with an enquiry →
Exclusive discounts for your members.
Accelerator and Network Partners can offer their communities a discount on SkilledUp Life plans a tangible benefit you can extend at no cost to you, helping your members get even more from the partnership.
Accelerator Partners
Off plans for your cohort members.
Network Partners
Off plans for your network members.
Founder networks we partner with.
A growing community of networks extending SkilledUp Life to their members. Here are the first few.
A network connecting and accelerating tech founders to grow, scale and raise.
Visit site ↗A global community championing and connecting Scottish entrepreneurs and businesses.
Visit site ↗A community bringing together tech founders, talent and innovators to connect and collaborate.
Visit site ↗Let's build something together.
Whether you run an education provider, an accelerator or a founder network, we would love to explore partnering. Reach out through Contact Us and our partnerships team will be in touch.