SkilledUp Life gives tech companies access to 69,500 skilled volunteers from 158 countries. Techcelerate members use them to validate ideas, build products and take them to market, moving at the pace of a funded team.
Recruit the skills you need, when you need them, and scale the team up or down as your tech startup moves forward.
A validation team of up to 15 SkilledUp Lifers
Market research, customer discovery interviews, surveys, competitor analysis, landing pages and smoke tests, run in short, focused cycles.
Evidence: who has the problem, how painful it is, and whether they will pay.
Founder tools: Idea validation scorecard
A product team of up to 25 SkilledUp Lifers
Product managers, UX and UI designers, developers, testers and data specialists, organised around weekly releases.
A first version real customers use, and a feedback loop that tells you what to build next.
Founder tools: Product–market fit score · Team cost planner
A marketing, sales and customer success team of up to 100 SkilledUp Lifers
Content, social, SEO, campaigns, sales development, partnerships and customer success, focused on the numbers that matter.
Pipeline, paying customers and the metrics to show the business is growing.
Founder tools: Unit economics · Sales pipeline forecast
Agree the outcome you need, the volunteering roles and skills, and how many hours a week, in an Execution Sprint or with the Techcelerate team.
Post your roles on SkilledUp Life, then shortlist and interview volunteers from a global pool of skilled people.
Give each team a clear goal, a lead and a weekly rhythm, so volunteering delivers results and progress is measured.
Scale the team up for the next stage, or bring in new skills as your priorities change.
SkilledUp Life is exclusively for tech companies. Volunteers gain real-world experience on real products; tech founders gain capacity without adding payroll.
SkilledUp Life volunteers give their time. These rules protect them and you.
Volunteers cannot be financially compensated: no stipends, not even gift vouchers.
Volunteering costs volunteers nothing, so there are no expenses to claim or cover.
Volunteering is remote only, with no office or customer visits.
Paid roles must not be promised during recruitment or volunteering.
Join Techcelerate, pick the sprint for the challenge holding you back, and resource it with SkilledUp Lifers.