Deadline: 31-Mar-22
Armenia Startup Academy’s Pre-Acceleration Programme is now open to guide early-stage tech startups and teams working on innovative ideas and products through the process of customer development using advanced tracking methodologies and instruments.
The Pre-acceleration programme guides prototype-stage startups through their idea validation, customer development, go-to-market strategy development, and pitching.
The programme is looking for early-stage for-profit tech startups that have strong teams with complementary skills, scalability potential and want to acquire hands-on experience in all knowledge areas that are crucial for their growth, customer and product development.
The Key Components of the Program:
- Customer Development
- Silicon Valley tracking tools helping startups to track their everyday progress towards value creation and e?ciency of distribution channels.
- Mentorship
- Individual work with the teams by the Academy instructors and entrepreneurial assistants, as well as pairing with foreign and local mentors.
- Funding
- Support in receiving local and EU grants and connecting with local as well as US- and EU-based angels and VCs.
- Access to Accelerators
- Guidance and coaching to apply to regional and global accelerators.
- Access to Network
- Guidance to build relevant partnerships for market validation and access to networks.
- Admin Support
- Financial and legal support, legal council, financial and tax administration.
Curriculum and Training
Providing practical knowledge, tech architecture coaching, and weekly lectures, workshops, guest-speaker talks about the main topics:
- Team/Founders
- Technology
- Business Model
- Market
- Customers
- Competitors
- Ecosystem
- Investor Interest
- IP & Legal
- Financial
Benefits
- Up to 10K EUR.
- For up to 8 top-performing startups.
- Selection to be made on Week 5-6.
Eligibility Criteria
- Early-stage for-profit tech startups.
- Strong teams with complementary skills.
- Startups with scalability potential.
- Teams who want to acquire hands-on experience.
For more information, visit https://www.startupacademy.am/pre-acceleration-program