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SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT NOW!
DEADLINE: 31th MAY
Join us in one of our roadshow sessions!
- 80% of the promoters succed in launching a start-up
- 69% raised funding, of which over 60% is from Venture Capital sources
- 50% of the start-ups doubled their teams, creating 35 new jobs
3-step rule to preparing a winning submission:
- Get inspired by previous year's Award winners (1st Ed, 2nd Ed.)
- Read Rules & Regulations
- Then prepare and send us your submission
Beeing one of the 20 selected teams really depends on your effort!
How do we add value to you, the tech-entrepreneur?
Achieving success in today's globalized economy is not an easy task. Bringing together complimentary skills, in technology, organization, marketing, sales and management and legal are some of the necessary but not sufficient conditions for achieving success. Today's tech entrepreneurs face tough competition and every second on time to market counts. But such resources are typically beyond the reach of an early stage, sometimes inexperienced, bootstrapped start-up or even more critical, for those entrepreneurs wanting to launch a venture. So there's a catch 22 here.
That's where Building Global Innovators makes all the difference, between failure or success.
With this goal in mind, in 2010 we launched a globally uniquely designed initiative aiming to do just that: creating the adequate conditions for fostering successful new tech-based start-ups or accelerating the ambitions of recently incorporated ones (under 5 years old), Caixa Geral de Depósitos via the Caixa Empreender+ Awards - supports the ISCTE-IUL MIT-Portugal Venture Competition by providing yearly up to 1M€ in financial awards to 4 out of the 20 selected teams. In fact, from our previous editions 69% of these 20 teams managed to raise funding.
Our mission? To facilitate and encourage a model of entrepreneurial value creation in a globalized marketplace.
How does our model produce incredible results?
Simple. We build on over 20 years of accumulated experience in one of the world's most vibrant ecosystems for technology start-ups: Boston and MIT. We are an hybrid between Venture Capital and tech world famous, now going for it's 23rd edition, MIT $100k Business Plan Competition. No wonder why nearly 15% of our submissions came from outside Portugal. About half of our submissions are already incorporated start-ups, and about 10% from other competitions (Ideas, Business Plans).
As one of the 20 selected, you'll benefit from:
- Participating in the Entrepreneurship Teams (e-teams) program
- Coaching via an International Catalyst program
- Invitation1 to pitch your value proposition to investors in the MIT ecosystem and Bizbarcelona
- Possibility of virtual incubation2 by ISCTE-IUL to the 4 finalists and 4 honorable mentions
- Potential for capital investment
- Networking with 1st line global Venture Capitalists
- Benchmark value propositions on a global basis
- Strong PR press coverage
1 Invitation Only
2 On a case by case negotiation basis
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