Programa Minerva

Minerva is a technology-based business accelerator backed by the Andalusian Regional Government and Vodafone that works to promote ICT entrepreneurship and to help companies consolidate their business in Andalusia.

Minerva is a technology-based business accelerator backed by the Andalusian Regional Government and Vodafone that works to promote ICT entrepreneurship and to help companies consolidate their business in Andalusia. Its program involves projects, startups, and companies from all sectors, provided that the fundamental basis of their business model is technology. Furthermore, as a public-private partnership, […]

Indra Kishinchand

Minerva is a technology-based business accelerator backed by the Andalusian Regional Government and Vodafone that works to promote ICT entrepreneurship and to help companies consolidate their business in Andalusia. Its program involves projects, startups, and companies from all sectors, provided that the fundamental basis of their business model is technology. Furthermore, as a public-private partnership, it is a free initiative for the entrepreneur and does not enter into the capital of accelerated companies.

Every year, the Minerva Program launches a new edition to promote business projects. In each call, it selects a maximum of 30 projects from all the applications submitted. The selected participants begin a complete program of entrepreneurship, acceleration, and growth with the aim of developing and/or consolidating their technological business for a maximum of one year.

The acceleration program is based on 4 different work blocks which, together, bring together all the essential business aspects for any technology business and which will be developed under the guidance of the Minerva Team: business development, where the project must validate its business model through the Lean Startup methodology; communication and marketing, to improve its corporate image and digital traction; sales, where they will improve their commercial skills and strategies; and legal, where they will learn to understand the basic legal documentation and will receive advice to guide them through legal processes.

The Minerva Program stands out for having a team that accompanies the project in all phases of the acceleration, for the specialized mentoring in business development, its communication office for startups that provides media visibility, its training and personalized advice in the commercial area, for the quality of its high-level training program to promote business skills in business, communication, and sales and for its legal accompaniment. In addition, one of the program’s characteristics is that it has cash prizes for the projects that achieve the best traction and performance during acceleration. A “Minerva Check”, a resource exchange that is highly valued by entrepreneurs and helps them to continue growing.

Minerva also has a post-acceleration support called the Minerva Forum, a community that will continue to support entrepreneurs by offering them media coverage and activities to facilitate networking and investor searches.

Since 2012, the Minerva Program has been accompanying technological business projects at different stages of maturity in the development of their business. More than 150 business initiatives have passed through Minerva with a business success rate of 80%. In other words, eight out of ten companies with the Minerva seal manage to sell the products or services they develop during the acceleration.

With more than 3600 hours of advice and training dedicated in each edition to the selected business projects, FUNCAS places the Minerva Program as the first Andalusian accelerator in the ranking of acceleration programs, and it is in the top 5 nationally.

factorialHR

Factorial is a human resources software developed to digitize companies by integrating human management processes such as time control, clocking in, holiday and absence management, payroll incidents, search process, recruitment and induction of personnel, cost control and internal communication, among others.

Factorial is a human resources software developed to digitize companies by integrating human management processes such as time control, clocking in, holiday and absence management, payroll incidents, search process, recruitment and induction of personnel, cost control and internal communication, among others.

Indra Kishinchand

Factorial is a human resources software developed to digitize companies by integrating human management processes such as time control, clocking in, holiday and absence management, payroll incidents, search process, recruitment and induction of personnel, cost control and internal communication, among others.

Factorial HR is a cloud-based software available for computers and iOS and Android mobile devices, which is constantly being updated in order to provide workers and managers with an optimal, intuitive and secure user experience.

Currently more than 60 thousand renowned companies trust Factorial to carry out their human resources management, being present in countries such as Spain, France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal, United States, Mexico and Brazil.

The company, founded by Jordi Romero, Pau Ramón and Bernat Farrero, connects human resources management with benefits for employees with flexible remuneration, while gathering key information for measuring performance, aimed at contributing to dynamic decision-making. Its target audience is human resources managers, company managers and consultants who need to manage all types of teams.

The software offers great advantages for HR managers, since from the employee portal section, it is possible to upload, manage and share documents such as contracts, payrolls, personal identification and even medical leave receipts, all of which can be legalized through the use of electronic signatures.

The company has a team of more than 100 expert professionals working in Barcelona, with the aim of revolutionizing the role of human resources managers within companies.

At the beginning of 2020, Factorial achieved the highest investment round in Spain with €15 million. The operation was led by CRV, a Silicon Valley investor in Twitter, Dropbox and Zendesk. The company has managed to multiply its turnover eight-fold and grow internationally by offering even more functionalities.

Enel Innovation Hub

Enel Innovation Hub Europe

Enel Innovation Hub Europe is part of the network of ten collaborative spaces for startups that the Enel Group, parent company of the Spanish electricity company Endesa, has created to develop its relationship with the entrepreneurial ecosystem and identify startups and SMEs capable of solving the innovation challenges of their business.

Blanca Capitán

Enel Innovation Hub Europe is part of the network of ten collaborative spaces for startups that the Enel Group has created to develop its relationship with the entrepreneurial ecosystem and identify startups and SMEs able to solve the innovation challenges of its business.

The initiative is not an accelerator and does not invest in the capital of startups, but rather offers a mutually beneficial collaboration model in which Enel acts as an industrial partner. In this way, the final objective is for the startup to develop its business and grow through its relationship with Enel.

Among the services it offers to startups are its know-how, the various infrastructures and laboratories for testing, as well as scalability through access to its operations and its base of 70 million customers in more than 30 countries.

The collaboration (proof of concept, pilot, project, commercial relationship, etc.) and its duration are defined according to the degree of development of the solution and its fit with the business need. In this sense, and with reference to the financing received by the startups that belong to the Enel initiative, this depends on the collaboration that is established. In some cases, the business line can enter into co-development of the solution and make an economic contribution, without entering into the capital of the startup.

Some of the startups that are part of Enel’s portfolio of collaborations are Athonet (Italy), Envelio (Germany), Form Energy (USA), Nido Robotics (Spain), Nozomi Networks (Italy) and Percepto (Israel), as well as other international ones. In the last four years the startups with which Enel has collaborated have received forty million Euro in revenues from the company.

Cloud_Incubator_Murcia

Cloud Incubator HUB prepares at least two European proposals per year.

Cloud Incubator HUB is a face-to-face and online company incubator/accelerator with the aim of creating startups in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.

José Torrego

Cloud Incubator HUB is a face-to-face and online company incubator/accelerator with the aim of creating startups in the field of Information and Communication Technologies, where the collaborative work between entrepreneurs and networking is promoted with experts in many different areas (entrepreneurship, creativity, art, education, research, industry, entertainment, tourism, etc.). Cloud Incubator offers a collaborative ecosystem that allows entrepreneurs to accelerate and mature their projects until they become a company.

Cloud Incubator HUB prepares at least two European proposals per year, with a minimum of one call per proposal. For 2019 Cloud Incubator HUB plans to carry out the following programs within the framework of Startup Europe.

1. UNICORN. Acceleration program to promote the use of cloud technologies among European startups in the maturity phase, funded by the European Commission, dedicated to the creation of a platform for the development of applications in the cloud with DevOps methodology, where 12 startups or PYMES will be selected and granted €10,000 in the form of a contract in order to validate the platform by developing their own products or prototypes in it.

2. MERLIN. The aim is to reach a large number of researchers and SMEs/ICT startups, that have received funding from the EU, through thematic workshops, online materials and international conferences, providing them with the knowledge, skills and network to innovate and generate business models led by the market to develop or support ongoing marketing efforts of their products. Participants will receive assistance from MERLIN and will be integrated with existing support and funding programs available to grow their innovations and bring them to market.

3. MOMMYPRENEURS. The Mommypreneurs project aims to develop an innovative approach to reduce youth unemployment through training programs for young businesswomen.  700 women will receive training in digital skills (e-commerce and web services) and 350 women will receive training in entrepreneurship. The aim is also to improve the employment situation of young mothers; the aim is that at least 70% of those who receive training in digital skills will get jobs or start working for themselves, and create at least 35 new companies.