SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT

Expected results

• Key connections with industry partners and your program peers
• Matching and first talks with potential adopters
• Steps to protect your intellectual property
• Validation by experts on the whole of your project

Program objectives

• Validate your initial hypotheses
• Work, rework and refine your idea into a viable product or service offering
• Structure your project into an initial business model
• Build a development roadmap for your project
• Establish the solid foundation for your startup and launch it with confidence

Details

• Online program
• Duration: 10 weeks
• From the week of April 17 to the week of June 19 2023
• Participant engagement expected :
  • Week 1 : 35 hours
  • Weeks 2 to 10 : 10 hours per week
• Up to 10 selected projects

What the preincubation offers you:

• Privileged access to the Zú network and industry partners
• Services valued at $15,000 per supported project
• 45 hours of collaborative workshops and presentations
• Access to experts for 1-1, free and on demand consultations
• Benefit from the experience of your peers through a cohort program

Robust and proven methods:

• Based on the design thinking and lean startup methodologies, the preincubation is a program created to support projects in the start-up phase
• More than 30 alumni companies have already completed this program

Should I apply?

You are eligible to the program if:

• You are launching a new company OR you are developing a new solution within an existing company
• Your startup is building innovative technology and wants to carve out a place for itself in the creativity and entertainment industry
• You have a strong idea and want to develop it into a concept and define your business plan 
• You are leveraging new technologies: Artificial intelligence, 5G, virtual reality, augmented reality, metavers, automation/robotics, edge computing, game engine, connected object (IoT), brain-machine interface, smart spaces, blockchain, intelligent clothing, haptics, etc
• You have at least one founder available to attend all the activities organized as part of the program
• You are creating a proprietary solution, which could be protected: in other words, you are creating intellectual property