Vacuum Deep Tech Acceleration is launching a project with the support of the USAID Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine. The project begins with the selection hackathon “Innovations in the field of deep technologies”, which will take place on March 1-3, 2024 in Kyiv in a hybrid format! 🚀🤩
* Both individual participants (students, scientists, financiers, designers, marketers, developers) and ready-made teams can participate.
✍️ Apply here: https://vacu2m.com/intensive/
🔍 What awaits the winners of the Hackathon:
The 30 winning science-intensive startups will join the Science Intensive Innovation and Development and Renovation acceleration programs, where teams will receive the following benefits:
👉 Interaction with potential customers: participants will have the opportunity to actively cooperate with potential customers, which will allow them to more easily identify and adapt their products to real market needs.
👉 Attracting Investments: participation in the program gives startups the opportunity to learn effective strategies for attracting investments to grow their business.
👉 Finding a Product-Market Fit: participants will actively work on identifying and optimizing their Product-Market Fit to ensure that their products are as relevant as possible to market requirements.
👉 Access to resources: the winners will receive the necessary resources for successful work, such as webinars, bootcamps, lectures, individual work with experts, workshops and access to necessary services to help them expand their knowledge and skills.
👉 Business model review: program experts together with business representatives will help participants to review and optimize their business model to ensure its effectiveness and viability in the market.
🗓️ Open Call runs from January 08, 2024 to February 12, 2024.
📌 Requirements for participants:
▫️ The participant must have an idea or product based on a knowledge-intensive technology with potentially high added value.
▫️ The participant and his/her idea/product have entrepreneurial potential.
▫️ The participant is motivated to build or is already building a sustainable innovative business.
▫️ The participant must be registered as a legal entity or individual entrepreneur or ready to be registered in the future.
▫️ The majority of the participant’s team must be located in Ukraine.
▫️ The participant shall position itself as Ukrainian on its website and social media.
🚀 Selection process:
▪️ Submitting an application to https://vacu2m.com/intensive/
▪️ Invitation to the Hackathon “Innovations in the field of deep technologies”.
▪️ Interaction with mentors and product validation.
▪️ Pitching on the third day of the Hackathon.
▪️ Jury selection of 30 winners to participate in the program.
The acceleration programs Science Intensive Innovation and Development and Renovation are implemented by Vacuum Deep Tech Acceleration with the support of the USAID Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, and the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine in cooperation with the Kyiv Academic University, Ukrainian Startup Fund, and YEP Accelerator.
🌐 Join our community and unleash your potential in the world of deep tech!