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Poland Prize by AdVentures: Scale Up Your Startup with Large Businesses

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November 26, 2018
Poland Prize AdVentures

You have a solution for industry? Interested in finding a customer among biggest companies in Poland and some of the biggest in Europe? Get up to 50k equity-free grant to support implementation and additional 12k in expert services to help you get established and adjust your solution to fit customer’s need.

Poland Prize by AdVentures is a program designed for startups and teams wanting to do business in Poland and scale it. The organizers are working with a set of big companies that can become customers of the teams that they will work with. Program is supported by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development.

What is the program offering?

  • up to EUR 50k equity-free grant
  • up to EUR 12k in expert services
  • one of five large companies as your customers

What are the organizers looking for?

Startups or teams who:

  • Have a solution or a working prototype that can be tested and implemented
  • Want to scale up their business with large businesses
  • Majority of shares must be held by non-Polish citizens

Where do you need to be?

For the organizers to be able to provide you with the best acceleration program, ideally you would have already:

  • a working prototype, or
  • some research to prove your technology is working, or
  • customers.

If you will be able to provide us with a prototype or way to verify your solution during our roadtrip or at the application stage that would give you a great advantage!

Participation in Poland Prize by Ad Ventures requires being in Poland for the duration of the program and launching your product as well as registering a legal entity in Poland.

You should be a startup in one of the following areas: Areas, Biotechnology, New Materials, Energy, Industry 4.0, Electromobility, Chemistry, or Space Technologies.

Poland Prize AdVentures

Money and services

Every startup accepted into the program will receive:

  • up to EUR 50k equity-free grant in cash,
  • up to EUR 12k in expert services to help you get established and adjust your solution to fit your potential big customer’s needs,
  • access to special dedicated VISA track if needed,
  • tickets to Poland,
  • hotel and pocket money for first weeks in Poland,
  • help in registering a legal entity in Poland,
  • help in renting a flat in Warsaw,
  • access to infrastructure of big company,
  • possibility of investment, purchase or revenue share agreement with big company,
  • possibility of investment from Polish VC funds.

Participation in Poland Prize by Ad Ventures requires being in Poland for the duration of the program and launching your product as well as registering a legal entity in Poland.

Find our more information here or apply straight away here. The call is open until November 30th, 2018. If more information needed, get in touch with Dimitri Khlopkov on Facebook or at dimitri@ad-ventures.pl.

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