What: MIT Enterprise Forum CEE Acceleration Programme
For whom:
Start-ups from Central and Eastern Europe in the following areas:
- Fintech and Insurtech
- Health
- Industry 4.0
- Energy and Smart Buildings
- General Path
The company might already have solution verified by the market or it might be in the early stages of development.
The programme
- five workshops sessions focused on verification of business start-ups’ assumptions
- workshops with lawyers, patent attorneys, sales coaches, etc.
- participation in the Pitch Academy
- cooperation with mentors (each start-up is assigned to two mentors)
- cooperation with large companies (both Polish and international )
- Bootcamp in Boston (for five best start-ups)
Benefits:
- chance to cooperate with large companies and have pilot and commercial implementation of products in accelerator’s partner companies
- access to global networking and present technologies to potential US partners and investors.
- chance to acquire co-financing for business development up to 50,000 Euros.
How to apply: via the programme website
Deadline: 3rd March 2019
Timeline: March/ April 2019 – applications’ analysis and interviews; May/June 2019 – programme sessions; July 2019 – Demo Day, October 2019 – Bootcamp in Boston
The organiser: Foundation for Technology Entrepreneurship together with supporting partners
Important:
The programme is free of charge. The organiser do not take equity. Startups cover their own travel costs, accommodation and other costs related to possible participation in the workshops and program events.
More details can be found on the MIT Enterprise Forum CEE website