[9] Each MACH37 Cyber accelerator 90-day cohort is intended to be an intense period of assessment, customer discovery, clarification, design, development, outreach and growth with the ultimate goal of finding product-market fit, market traction, additional investment.

Companies conclude the program by giving a presentation and answering questions in front of a panel of potential investors at a large community event known as Launch Day.

[10] In an interview with Washington Business Journal, former CIT chief Pete Jobse stated "What the accelerator is designed to do is make sure the concepts [and] the markets that appear to be interesting for these new technologies are actually there for them".

[11] During the 90-day cohorts, MACH37 hosts a variety of events to foster connection across the cyber community, both locally in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., but also globally as companies and investors participate from countries across the world.

as an opportunity for emerging technology companies to gain access to government contracts relating to cyber security, but historically focused predominantly in the commercial sector.

This has allowed participants to focus exclusively on product design and development while MACH37 aims to provide connections to financial backing that typically require additional resources and expertise from the startups.

[21] As of 2016, MACH37 has partnerships with Microsoft BizSpark, Rackspace, Virtru, and Square 1 Bank and is sponsored by Amazon Web Services, General Dynamics, and SAP SE.