About
SharOn Accelerate is an international acceleration program for the sharing economy concept. Five partner countries from Bulgaria, Estonia, Italy, Poland and Slovakia have joined together to give entrepreneurs the impulse and resources to develop their ideas.
Who are we looking for?
SharOn Academy is a program addressed to startups working on a product or service in the field of sharing economy in such areas as: Travel & Accommodation, Transport & Logistics, Educations, Private & Business Services and Financial Services.
Each country will lead its local participants through three stages of the program: recruitment, acceleration and DemoDay.
The best of the best will develop their projects using the guidance of specialists and present them during the program final - DemoDay in Warsaw.
What and when?
What to do?
STAGE 1: Introduce yourself
We want to get to know you better! Fill in the form. Show your product or service. Tell us who you work with and what experience you have.
COMPLETE THE FORMSTAGE 2: PitchContest
Of all sent applications, the 60 most interesting will fight during the Pitch for getting into the SharOn Academy Program.
We will invite 24 best startups to Acceleration!
STAGE 3: BootCamp
Startups invited to the Program will work on the product or service during intensive workshops under the supervision of the best professionals for 3 days. All key issues for building a startup such as business models, UX, marketing, sales will be discussed.
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STAGE 4: Mentoring
Startups invited to stage 3 can take advantage of the best mentors support. Experienced entrepreneurs, specialists and investors will help to solve problems during individual sessions.
STAGE 5: DemoDay
Five teams - one representative of each country. Five projects in the prototype phase or ready for implementation. One day. You will present your projects to the jury and investors from partner countries. Who knows, maybe you will be able to establish cooperation or acquire a partner, along with whom you will develop your sharing economy platform to a global level?
What will you gain?
Individually tailored development path – Action Plan dedicated to your project
Intensive training and workshops with experts experienced in helping new entrepreneurs
3 months of one-to-one meetings and support of mentors of your choice
Networking with other teams during the Programme
Possibility to present the best ideas to investor at the end of the Programme
Mentors
Many years of experience, hundreds of hours of workshops and learning, modern training methods - these are the mentors who will soon guide you. Cooperation with experts, 10 clock hours for mentoring sessions and tools necessary to develop your project. See who you will work with:
Taavi Raidma
Partner and Digital Marketing Strategist @ Convertal
Gerri Kodres
Founding Partner @ United VC
Ivo Remmelg
President of EstBAN, Partner at ROMIVO.com, Venture Partner at Superhero Capital
Lauri Antalainen
Co-founder @ CoreGrow
Martin Goroško
CEO of Startup Incubator @ Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol
Vaido Mikheim
Tartu Science Park Project Manager
Sven Lilla
ESA BIC Estonia Project Manager
Aleksander Tõnnisson
CEO of Buildit
Sven Illing
Managing partner @ Buildit Invest
Andrus Kurvits
Manager of ESA Business Incubation Centre Estonia & Member of the Management Board at Tartu Science Park
Eliza Kruczkowska
Head of Innovation Development in the Polish Development Fund
Alberto Previato
Manager of Certified Incubator of t2i
Marco Galanti
degree in Economics University in Venice (Italy)
Francesca Favaretto
Degree in Economics University in Venice with an Official Master in European Projects Management
Franca Bandiera
Psychologist Degree with specialization in Organizational and Social Psychology
Venetsiya Netsova-Angova
President @ Association of the Bulgarian Leaders and Entrepreneurs
Svetlan Stanoev
CEO @ Seres Investment Fund
Milena Koleva
Partner @ HIRON
Tanya Tenevska
Managing Partner
Tsvetelina Teneva
Founder @ The Business Institute in Bulgaria
Leona Aslanova
CEO @ Innovation Accelerator Bulgaria
Alexandra Petzeva
Head of Product @ ImmobilienScout24
Paweł Nykiel
Owner @ DivideYou
Mladen Tomov
Manager, trainer and business coach
Angel Angelov
Expert in financial advisory services
Christina Kasparyan
Expert in regional economic development programming
Drahomír Piok
Head of Video at StartitUP
Jana Gulan
Consultant at BIC Bratislava
Veronika Somolányiová
Consultant in BIC Bratislava
Roman Linczényi
Senior expert, managing director of B I C Bratislava, s.r.o.
Štefan Vrátny
Co-owner, Business and Innovation Centre Bratislava, Enterprise Europe Slovakia Coordinator
Jaroslav Noskovič
Head of Intellectual Property Protection and Commercialization at Technology Transfer Centre at Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (TTC SCSTI)
Miroslav Konečný
Business Growth Consultant
Peter Kopkáš
Project manager, Enterprise Europe Network, Innovation/Technology transfer manager, National economy lecturer
Ivan Filus
Innovation advisor, Enterprise Europe Network, Horizon 2020 NCP for Innovation in SMEs & Access to Finance
Jaroslav Kramář
Expert for EU Research & Innovation (EU Commission); Coach for Start-Ups @ EU Comm. and the CzechEkoSystem, CzechInvest
Elżbieta Jabłońska
President @ International Leadership Association Public Leadership MIG
Jacek Lipski
Owner @ B&L Consulting Jacek Lipski
Sebastian Kowalski
CTO @ Leaware
Michał Misztal
CEO @ StartupAcademy
Łukasz Zgiep
Innovation leader @ www.zgiep.com
Bartosz Kwiatkowski
CEO @ driv2e
Artur Kurasiński
Owner @ Kurasinski.comMedia & Essential Partners
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