Road to Success

Are you a startup and would like to get ready for the new post-COVID-19 normal? Have you been impacted by the crisis and wish to reinvent yourself? Prepare your startup for the new economy to come: new strategies, technologies and opportunities.

The COVID-19 crisis has created new challenges for startups with high growth potential: they have seen sales decrease, new investments fall or new opportunities vanish.

At times like this, it is key for startups to act quickly and efficiently through the support of established consultants. Not just to survive, but to keep growing.

The Road to Overcome COVID-19 programme provides expert advice from ACCIÓ and its Silicon Valley Field Office, along with US MAC, to help you identify new growth opportunities and define new strategies to ensure survival, recovery and change in your startup.

US MAC’s international mentoring team is made up of Silicon Valley consultants who have successfully guided their companies through times of economic hardship, such as the bursting of the dot-com bubble, 9/11 or the 2008 financial crisis.

Are you a digital world technology startup? Would you like to soak up the dynamism and competitiveness of the world’s most innovative digital ecosystem? Prepare your startup to fly high with the Road to Silicon Valley!

The Road to Silicon Valley service offers intensive preparation adapted to the Mecca of entrepreneurship. 16 startups will participate in a Boot Camp in Barcelona where the 5 finalists will be selected. They will carry out an intensive exchange with US·MAC, which will consist of 4 weeks of preparation and a 2-week trip to Silicon Valley.

With this service you will enjoy training, mentoring and direct connections with some of the ecosystem’s most prominent players. If you have a startup with a global ambition and mentality, get it on the map with the Road to Silicon Valley!

Don't miss the unique experience of startups that have already traveled to Silicon Valley!

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Are you ready to grow? Are you looking for investment to help your startup scale up? Do you think a large corporation may be interested in your innovative solution? If you already have an MVP or a validated business model, the Road to North Europe offers a roadmap to promote your startup to the continent’s most powerful ecosystems.

If you are one of the 10 startups chosen, you will enjoy three days of bootcamp in Barcelona to work on your value proposition and receive the best training and mentoring by experts in the markets of Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Everything you need in order to learn about the characteristics, regulations and peculiarities of these ecosystems in depth!

The bootcamp ends with a Pitch Competition to decide which 5 startups will receive a customized roadmap. With this work plan you will be able to succeed in the most appropriate North European market for your solution, which you will be able to visit during the first quarter of 2020. Are you ready to connect with the ecosystem’s most important contacts?

The customized roadmap will define your contacts, investors, open innovation opportunities and other services that you will need to address; it will identify the key actions to climb in the market and will mark out the path to access funding, all with the support and monitoring in the field by ACCIÓ’s foreign offices in Berlin, Stuttgart and Copenhagen.

Also, if you are one of the 5 finalist startups, you will receive a cheque for €1,500 to cover expenses directly related to your roadmap.

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This service is specifically for companies specializing in: eHealth, biotechnology, pharma, bioinformatics, life sciences, medical technology and ICT.

The Road to Boston service offers 50 hours of specialized consultancy with mentors of the ecosystem over six months. You can also make two stays in Boston thanks to an advanced support service designed for companies and startups that need to validate their business model at the sector’s world capital of innovation: the state of Massachusetts.

The region around Boston has major universities, the most innovative companies and the world’s largest investors in the health sector. If your company aims to play in the Champions League of biotechnology, pharmacy and health, this is where it should be.

The Boston area is one of the most competitive ecosystems. Under normal conditions, you would to persist for years and a lot of quality contacts, and to make a great many mistakes before achieving tangible results in a place like this. With the Road to Boston service you will save a lot of time, energy and resources by speeding up this process.

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