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MISK Foundation is partnering with Plug and Play to establish a Seed-Stage Tech Startup Accelerator Program. It will be an intensive 12-week program aimed to accelerate regional and international startups’ growth and expansion here in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
A qualified cohort of 20 startups will participate in the accelerator program, which will last 12 weeks. The program will provide continuous training and mentoring by experienced industry experts (internal or external)., venturing experts, as well as intensive training on professional presentations, strategic reasoning, market, product, and business structure designing, among several other training modules.
This virtual accelerator will include virtual and in-person elements and it will provide a networking environment to exchange knowledge/experience and know-how with your cohort, other startups, investors, end-users and mentors.
The cohort startups will have 24/7 access to a dynamic and versatile virtual workspace to enable their teamwork and connectivity to the accelerator program and support team.
To best understand your needs and objectives for the program so that we can better tailor the experience for you.
You will be trained by exceptional tech leaders and coaches who are experts in areas essential for your startups journey. This includes: design-thinking & product development; team & talent development; business & finance strategy; business development, growth hacking and marketing etc.
You will be matched with a mentor that will be well suited to provide you with helpful guidance to support your growth. Where possible and suitable, we will help set up meetings with potential end-users of your technology (particularly if B2B) and/or potential suitable investors on an ad-hoc basis.
A member of the Plug and Play team will help you to track and plan your progress systematically every week.
We will periodically host social and professional gatherings for the whole cohorts and the wider KSA tech ecosystem to help motivate and enable your startup’s potential.
This will be the conclusion of the program where each startup will be presenting the solution and tractions throughout the program to a select audience of investors, end-users and other key movers and shakers with the KSA and wider MENA tech ecosystem.
Program Starts: 26/9/2021
Program Ends: 20/12/2021
26th September 2021
Startups simply need to complete the short application below so that we can understand more about your startups business, traction, goals and aspirations.
To be eligible to apply:
● Your startup should be operating, or eager to operate, in KSA
● You have at least 3 members of staff
● Are early-stage, technology-enabled company
3 months
Misk and Plug and Play will provide a word class team of mentors best suited for the participating startups.
By filling out the application form available on the website
The first batch from Sept to December 2021 will be Virtual for startups.
The Misk accelerator will not take equity from the startups.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Virtual)
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