Bind 40-Partners

BIND 4.0 is an Open Innovation Platform led by the Basque Government and SPRI Group. It has the collaboration of 57 leading industrial companies based in the Basque Country and is aimed at startups from all over the world that apply disruptive technological solutions such as robotics, IoT, Big Data, additive manufacturing, or augmented reality to industrial, energy, health, and food chain organizations

BIND 4.0 is an Open Innovation Platform led by the Basque Government and SPRI Group. It has the collaboration of 57 leading industrial companies based in the Basque Country and is aimed at startups from all over the world that apply disruptive technological solutions such as robotics, IoT, Big Data, additive manufacturing, or augmented reality […]

Indra Kishinchand

BIND 4.0 is an Open Innovation Platform led by the Basque Government and SPRI Group. It has the collaboration of 57 leading industrial companies based in the Basque Country and is aimed at startups from all over the world that apply disruptive technological solutions such as robotics, IoT, Big Data, additive manufacturing, or augmented reality to industrial, energy, health, and food chain organizations.

BIND 4.0 is looking for the best technological projects from startups, with the aim of fulfilling a dual objective. On the one hand, helping large companies accelerate innovation and boosting and improving their competitiveness through collaboration with startups, as a source of agile and efficient innovation. And, on the other hand, for startups to accelerate their arrival on the market in the hands of large international benchmark companies with direct access to the Basque industrial ecosystem.

BENEFITS AND FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM

The acceleration program has an annual call in which participating startups will get at least one paid contract for the development of one or more pilot projects with BIND 4.0 partner companies. And that is not all, the selected startups also get the following:

  • Participate in networking activities with the driving companies and public agents to facilitate the immersion of startups in the industrial ecosystem.
  • They have a mentoring service provided by world-class professionals, as well as a complete training program for the development of the skills and abilities needed to succeed in the industrial field.
  • They have access to different sources of funding and economic aid, as well as free workspace in the BICs (Business and Innovation Centers) of the Basque Country.
  • They will present their projects to the Venture Club, an investors’ club, aligned with the specialization of the accelerator, whose aim is to reinforce support services and promote contact between participating start-ups and specialized investment entities.

5 YEARS, 130 PROJECTS

BIND 4.0 is now in its fifth edition and, since its creation, has accelerated more than 130 startups and promoted the development of more than 200 projects, with a turnover of more than €6.5 million. This public-private initiative of the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment, which is managed through the SPRI Group and its UpEuskadi platform of the Basque entrepreneurship ecosystem, has become a benchmark for open innovation and acceleration of Industry 4.0 worldwide.

The platform has been selected as the winner of the 14th edition of the European Business Promotion Awards, organized by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, in the category of improving the business environment. And it was one of the platforms selected by the international consultancy firm Gartner to drive innovation in industrial ecosystems.

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.

Business Factory Aero

Business Factory Aero (BFAero) is an accelerator that promotes innovative projects applicable to the aeronautical sector, drones and unmanned vehicles

Business Factory Aero (BFAero) is an accelerator that promotes innovative projects applicable to the aeronautical sector, drones and unmanned vehicles and is part of the Civil UAVs Initiative (CUI) of the Xunta de Galicia.

Indra Kishinchand

Business Factory Aero (BFAero) is an accelerator that promotes innovative projects applicable to the aeronautical sector, drones and unmanned vehicles and is part of the Civil UAVs Initiative (CUI) of the Xunta de Galicia. In barely two years, the BFAero has launched three calls for proposals to which almost two hundred applications have been submitted from all over Spain and abroad, with a significant participation of Galician initiatives. These figures reinforce the important role of its program for retaining and attracting talent from the aerospace sector in Galicia, which has already managed to become a reference in the sector.

The startups and projects that form part of the BFAero receive a complete plan for the development and launch of their product or service in the local, national, and international market. The startups are provided expert tutoring and mentoring, access to the facilities and equipment of the CUI and the CIAR at the Rozas airfield, their own office and spaces for coworking and receiving complete training in all aspects that affect their business idea. The projects also include technological advice and access to potential international clients. They have UAVs from the tractor companies Indra and Babcock free of charge, and they also have subsidized flight hours, with the option of obtaining pilot certification.

BFAero is the accelerator in the drone sector with the greatest economic support per project in Europe. Each startup has up to €50,000 of non-refundable funding per project from the Xunta. In addition, it is eligible for financial support in the form of loans from INDRA of between €50,000 and €500,000 in incubation and with no limit on acceleration, convertible loans, and technology in exchange for capital. In addition, in the acceleration phase they have access to participating loans of up to €250,000 from the Xunta de Galicia through XesGalicia.

BFAero welcomes the companies in its facilities of the CEL Iniciativas por Lugo Foundation and it is a team project: the members of the Xunta, which include Agencia Gallega de Innovación (GAIN), Igape and XesGalicia, are joined by relevant collaborators to guarantee the success of the initiative: Market leading companies in the sector such as Indra or Babcock, the Galician Automotive Technology Center (CTAG), small and medium sized companies which are important for their knowledge or technologies, entities such as the Galician Aeronautical Consortium and knowledge generators such as the three Galician universities.

I’MNOVATION Startups is ACCIONA’s open innovation program with startups, and the first specific ecosystem for infrastructures and renewable energies in Spain

I’MNOVATION Startups is ACCIONA’s open innovation program with startups, and the first specific ecosystem for infrastructures and renewable energies in Spain, a pioneer in Europe.

Indra Kishinchand

ACCIONA is a leading international company in sustainable infrastructure and renewable energy solutions.  The company is a benchmark in the creation of an innovative ecosystem that provides room for startups to solve the great challenges of the future of infrastructures, electricity generation and mobility, based on sustainability and the circular economy.  Its collaboration program with startups seeks co-innovation to promote disruptive technologies and new businesses that help develop transformative infrastructures aligned with Sustainable Development Goals.

I’MNOVATION Startups is ACCIONA’s open innovation program with startups, and the first specific ecosystem for infrastructures and renewable energies in Spain, a pioneer in Europe.  Launched in 2017, in 2019 it extended its scope to Latin America with several challenges led from Chile.

This program is a collaboration model with startups that combines the experience of the multinational with the agility of companies in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.  Currently, up to two calls a year are made, offering startups the opportunity to test their solutions in real environments linked to one of ACCIONA’s businesses around the world, and access to financing, operational, technical and business support with the advice of experts and professionals from ACCIONA.

The program is backed by the success achieved over the last three years, in which more than 1,000 startups from all over the world have presented technological solutions and 40 have developed pilots with the company.

Depending on the result of the pilot project and in a personalized way, the Startups will have the possibility to access new opportunities, close agreements to continue the scaling of the proposed solution or receive funding from ACCIONA. So far, 2 out of 3 of those that have developed pilots with ACCIONA have signed agreements to continue working with the company.

With I’MNOVATION Startups, the ACCIONA group seeks to incorporate passionate entrepreneurs and creative minds into its ecosystem that will provide viable solutions with the potential for scalability and global expansion to meet the challenges posed by the company. With I’MNOVATION, ACCIONA places itself at the core of the innovation ecosystem of its business sectors, making it the main agent of its future.

I’MNOVATION #Startups has been recognized by Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) as the most innovative program with startups in Europe in the last two years.  In the last edition of Startup Olé, the organization recognized ACCIONA with the award for “Best Corporation”.

BerriUp is the first Startup Accelerator with private initiative in the Basque Country. It was founded in 2015, by local entrepreneurs to encourage the development of new businesses.

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Berriup is the first Startup Accelerator with private initiative in the Basque Country. It was founded in 2015, by local entrepreneurs to encourage the development of new businesses.

Through its calls, twice a year, Berriup chooses different projects to be part of its acceleration program. Indifferently of the sector or the typology of the team, Berriup is committed to innovative and revolutionary initiatives with a passionate team behind and eager to turn their idea into a reality.

They have already made 10 calls, where the winners receive:

  • 50K in exchange for 10% of the company
  • Training and advice for entrepreneurial teams in charge of our network of mentors.
  • A Coworking space
  • Belonging to the BerriUp community with more than 100 outstanding members: entrepreneurs, company managers, mentors, etc.

The selected teams in each call are settled for 16 weeks in the Berriup coworking space in San Sebastián, with the aim of working on the validation of their business model, demonstrating its viability and its place in the market.

In this period, the Berriup team helps startups in secondary matters and advisory efforts so that they can focus on those tasks that do add value to the project.

The teams have to be personally in the coworking space, which help them training as well as contacting more often with the network of mentors. Also, this allows accelerated companies to share experiences in the same work environment from which new proposals for collaboration and mutual support usually arise.

Berriup offers its experience in innovation development and entrepreneurship to SMEs, as an external consultant, performing personalized services to each company: either with internal development programs (intrapreneurship), or with external programs (open innovation). In this way they collaborate with companies to achieve new business lines, promote their digital transformation and the development of the business fabric. Berriup has already analysed more than 700 projects.

Nowadays through this method, it has more than 20 accelerated companies, a network of more than 30 professional mentors with a relevant trajectory, and a space of more than 500mts2 located in San Sebastián.

Impulsa Vision RTVE

Impulsa Vision RTVE

Impulsa Visión RTVE is the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation accelerator.

Indra Kishinchand

Impulsa Visión RTVE is the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation accelerator. An initiative to support innovative entrepreneurship in the audiovisual sector. The program for startups is directed by Esteban Mayoral Campos, Javier Sánchez Pérez and Óscar Baza Moreno, and is aimed at freelancers and recently created micro-SMEs with practical and innovative ideas. So far, the program has held five editions and soon will begin the sixth. Some of the startups that have participated are Teltoo, FilmMarket Hub, Zapiens and Golumi.

Impulsa Visión was created in 2015 in response to the need detected by the RTVE Corporation to incorporate talent, promote the exchange of knowledge and boost entrepreneurship and innovation in emerging business projects in the Spanish audiovisual sector.  It is a program that breaks the logic of the classic supplier-customer relationship, as well as the participation in the capital of the startup, and goes beyond the mere action aimed at CSR.

The platform offers all its support, means and the more than 60 years of experience of RTVE to the selected projects. These projects receive economic funding, working spaces and resources, institutional support, tutoring and training by RTVE professionals to accelerate and promote their startup. The program includes all the communication sections. From the audiovisual sector, Radio, Television, such as RTVE Digital, through the WEB and Networks.

Impulsa Visión RTVE Startups is an initiative with a vertical design aimed at investing in innovative and disruptive proposals in the fields of technology, content and/or business organization and management applied to the audiovisual sector. The proposal is based on a “win-win” model whereby both parties benefit from working together.

Costa del Sol Tourism Hub

The Costa del Sol Tourism Hub business acceleration program is designed and run by Costa del Sol Tourism and Planning for the creation of businesses and consolidation of the tourism business fabric, through a mentoring process and strategic consultancy.

Indra Kishinchand

The Costa del Sol Tourism Hub business acceleration program is designed and run by Costa del Sol Tourism and Planning for the creation of businesses and consolidation of the tourism business fabric, through a mentoring process and strategic consultancy.

Throughout the four months of the program’s acceleration period, in addition to the experience and contacts of mentors and consultants specialized in different areas of business management, the projects will have a work space in the program’s own facilities, as well as support in the search for funding, for which the program also has the collaboration of investors from the Málaga Business Angels Network.

The projects that successfully complete the acceleration phase will have the opportunity to participate in the call for the Costa del Sol Awards for Entrepreneurial Tourism Initiative, supported by the Unicaja Banking Foundation, which will reward talent, innovation and the development of the three best projects with an economic award of €5,000, €3,000 and €2,000, respectively.

In addition to a process of selection and matching of mentors and ad-hoc consultants for each project, the program has, among its greatest exponents, an advisory board made up of different businessmen and professionals from the sector who are part of the Tourism Forum of the Costa del Sol, which are joined by the professionals from the area of business development and the business areas of Tourism and Planning Costa del Sol.

MAIN PROJECT

Projects as interesting as MYSTREETBOOK, a recommender of routes adapted to the user’s preferences, which was selected by the World Tourism Organization as a technological solution to be presented at the II World Congress on Intelligent Tourist Destinations held in 2018; or the company I+DB ACOUSTIC, whose project of sound-absorbent awnings has been recognized in different specialized forums as the only solution aimed at guaranteeing rest in spaces considered as Acoustically Saturated Zones, have passed through the Costa del Sol Tourism Hub accelerator.

It is also worth mentioning the participation in this program by the company RENTHAS, positioned as “the first 4.0 manager of tourist accommodation” and with which important international investment funds of the sector are already collaborating for its expansion in Spain; or the project DREAMED RESTAURANTS, aimed at offering technological solutions for communication channels and marketing in catering services, through mobile applications that allow an integral management of the service, and which was the winner of the first edition of the Costa del Sol Tourism Awards to the Tourism Entrepreneurship Initiative.

Airbus Bizlab

Airbus Bizlab is the accelerator and incubator from Airbus, the French civil aircraft construction company.

Raquel Utrera

Airbus Bizlab is the accelerator and incubator from Airbus, the French civil aircraft construction company. Startups, small technology-based companies, and company employees with innovative ideas (intra-entrepreneurs) can participate to develop their projects and transform them into profitable businesses, both for themselves and for the company.

The accelerator offers a safe space, where entrepreneurs can develop their projects and ideas thanks to the support of dedicated coaches and mentors, weekly learning sessions, access to a space for creating prototypes and, also, a Demo Day with professionals from the company, partners, and venture capitalists. The accelerator also provides access to tools and knowledge and access to the entire Airbus network (experts, mentors and contacts), to create startups that generate business with the company so that internal projects are incorporated into the structure of the company.

In addition to the program, BizLab also offers €50,000 to implement a proof of concept, and payment is subject to the successful delivery of a prototype, according to a specific use case defined with Airbus, with a business success rate of 42%. This program has a duration of 6 months, and is divided into 3 phases:

  • First phase: analysis of business interest and market, with the consequent search for the largest possible customer acquisition.
  • Second phase: analysis of proposals.
  • Third phase: analysis of the business model and set up for startups and intra-entrepreneurs to work effectively.

In the last 3 years, the accelerator has incubated 50 startups and 40 internal Airbus projects within the Bizlabs based in Toulouse (France), Hamburg (Germany) and Bangalore (India). During the first season in Madrid, they have incubated 5 startups (Recogn.ai, Daisho, Urban Data Eye, Botslovers and Unblur) and 3 internal projects (Fly-up, Back to Fly and Chainbus).

PARTICIPATE IN BIZLAB

The registration period starts on May 7, 2019 and ends on July 7.

Applications can be submitted through its website or through the specific campaign. The Bootcamp Selection of the Madrid Campus will take place on 4 and 5 of September.

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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.

CorreosLab-Accelerator

CorreosLabs is located in Las Tablas, in the north of Madrid.

CorreosLabs has invested 750.000€ in this program to supply the facilities and technology needed to bring innovative initiatives to life.

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Correos (Spain’s national postal service) has launched CorreosLabs with the objective of supporting entrepreneurs on their journey towards business creation and consolidation. CorreosLab is an entrepreneurship program that provides directions and guidelines to help entrepreneurs developing their projects during a one-year period. CorreosLab gives access to mentors, entrepreneurs, or other actors within the ecosystem, as well as potential investors that can help an idea go far. The program is run by Jordi Escruela. 

LOCATED IN MADRID

CorreosLabs is located in Las Tablas, in the north of Madrid. It offers entrepreneurs workspaces and support in the development of projects. Correos has invested 750.000€ in this program to supply the facilities and technology needed to bring innovative initiatives to life.

The facilities include a work area with 30 workstations, formal and informal meeting rooms, a more intimate, private area with suitable soundproofing, a conference hall with capacity for 60 people and rest areas. The whole space is equipped with high speed WIFI and cloud computing services. It also includes a garage where startups can perform tests, analyse and monitor prototypes.

CorreoLabs’ first initiative was ‘Reto Lehnica’, and it was aimed at entrepreneursand freelancers with companies no more than three years old, and focused on logistics, digitalization and society. In its first edition, five startups were selected: Tripacto, Delsuper.es, Goi Travel, Homyhub and Dsign-cloud, each receiving up to € 30,000 to work on their projects for a year. These startups can freely access all the services offered byCorreosLabs, as well as enjoy the coaching and mentoring program managed by Correos.