Deadline: 24-May-21
Applications are now open for the Starter Business Acceleration Program 2021 to connect participants with different business units and technology experts from EDP and EDP Renewables in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, and the USA.
Startups participating in the program will be able to attend to the Global Module, exposing the most innovative startups to deal opportunities, in a direct and personal connection with the EDP partners.
Benefits
- A chance to test your solution in the energy sector in partnership with EDP (Portugal, Spain, Brazil, USA).
- Access to a wider pool of mentors and experts matched to your unique requirements.
- Going global: the opportunity to grow your network within the global energy sector and the potential to be invested from the partners.
- Input, feedback and insight into your product/ service and business.
- Time to develop a relevant proof of concept with senior stakeholders.
- Be evaluated by EDP Ventures to receive financial support and/or know-how for your startup.
- 50.000€ prize for the winner and besides the award, the 10 startups selected for the Global Module will join EDP at the Web Summit 2021 and will have the opportunity to showcase their solutions in the largest tech conference in the world.
Solutions they are looking for
Starter wants to tackle several challenges in the energy sector. Here are the solutions the program is looking for:
- Client focused Solutions: E-mobility, decentralized energy systems or energy management systems, always with a solid digital layer to boost new business models and new revenue streams.
- Digital Innovations: Focusing on data collecting, extracting value from it, maintain it safe and leveraging on cloud computational resources and other emerging technologies.
- Energy Storage: Design and optimization tools for energy storage integration, preventive and predictive analytics for energy storage technologies, management of systems and platforms for energy storage and DER integration, energy storage solutions for behind the meter residential and C&I, solutions for electrical vehicles.
- Clean Energy: New renewable energy technologies, new retrofitting technologies to improve renewable energy generation assets’ performance, solutions to improve energy generation operations & maintenance and asset management, new business models for the energy sector.
- Smart Grids: Improving the infrastructures technical and economic efficiency, keeping the distribution grid up to date with the sector’s emerging needs.
- Impact Innovation: They’re looking for impact, access to energy and other solutions that can help improve communities’ quality of life and have a positive social and environmental impact.
- Innovation Internal Processes: Support in the areas such as: finance, legal, management, human resources, marketing and others, impacting workflows, deal flows and similar.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Program is open to individuals, teams of individuals and companies, partnerships and other similar entities.
- Companies, entrepreneurs and startups from across the globe are encouraged to apply. The program will be working in fully remote experience.
- Companies, entrepreneurs and startups from across the globe that are prepared to develop their products and services in collaboration with EDP for the benefit of their customers and consumers.
- They want to open applications to the program as widely as possible, so they have only a few eligibility criteria. You (and, if you are applying as part of a team, each member of your team):
- must be at least 18 years of age;
- must not be an employee of the Program Managers or Promoters;
- involved in the Program selection process, a Program mentor;
- or otherwise involved in the design, delivery or promotion of the Program (or a member of any such person’s immediate family or household).
- They welcome international applicants, but please be aware that if you are applying from outside of participating countries, you will be responsible for complying with any immigration (e.g. visa) requirements and any travel costs involved in participating in the application process or the Program itself.
- You are welcome to submit or be involved in multiple applications (for example as an individual and as part of a team), provided that each application should be substantially different from each other. If we consider that two or more applications that you are involved in are too similar we may ask you to choose one of those applications to proceed with.
For more information, visit https://theenergystarter.com/?linkId=100000042442693