Did your idea get through IGNIO? A six-month acceleration program is waiting for you. You will work on your idea, your business model and your pitch, meet mentors and experts, and move your project forward step by step.
- JanuaryKick-offThe program starts and the teams get to know each other.
- February – MayBootcamps and mentoringWork on the idea, the business model and the pitch.
- JuneStartup SpotlightThe closing event and a summer party together.
What is waiting for you during the program?
No theory for the drawer. Topics you will use when building your own startup:
You will not be alone with your startup.
Every team gets a mentor who accompanies it through the program, gives it feedback and helps it move further.
Mentoring is aimed at concrete results, measurable progress and connections that can open new opportunities for a startup.
Do you need expert know-how, a technology or a laboratory for your development?
We will help you connect with the experts and technological capacities of TUKE and find the options your startup needs.
You do not have to have everything in your own team: use the university background for development, testing and validation of your solution.
You will meet people who already know the way from an idea to a successful business.
Entrepreneurs and companies share their experience at the motivational meetings.
You will hear what worked for them on their way, what mistakes they made and what they would do differently today. You get a practical view of building a company, getting over the first hurdles and the decisions that shaped their further growth.
A startup is not built in a vacuum.
During the program you will meet other startup teams, entrepreneurs, experts, partners and people from the innovation environment. The program includes networking activities, StartupConnect and other ecosystem events.
And at the end?
Startup Spotlight
Six months of work culminate in the Startup Spotlight event, where you show how far your startup has come. You present your progress to an expert jury, people from business and potential investors and get feedback on where to take the project next.
Startup Spotlight does not have to be the end. Depending on the progress you have made, what follows can be:
Further cooperation
With Startup center TUKE.
On your own
The startup carries on by itself.