KPT ScaleUp Accelerator

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This is our way to bring you closer to business success in Poland:

• NON-REFUNDABLE FUNDING

We provide you with a grant up to EUR 66,000 for your startup (EUR 11,000 for softlanding + EUR 55,000 for acceleration).

• REAL HELP IN EXPANDING TO THE POLISH MARKET

Our experienced team will make sure to be close to you and your startup throughout the acceleration. You can count on our commitment, availability and practical support.

• COOPERATION WITH INDUSTRY 4.0 AND NEW TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS

Acceleration program gives you: access to a group of industry experts from our partners. You will benefit from networking with Polish founders, mentoring and consulting of specialists in law, finance, marketing, sales and management.

• DIRECT ACCESS TO POTENTIAL CLIENTS

Our ecosystem consists of over 200 industrial companies and several investment funds. We invite them to Demo Day, a big event organised to present exciting solutions developed by startups and industrial Partners.

Check the ideal profile of a startup that we are looking for:

• you have solutions that answer to technological challenges of our partners
• you use technologies such as IIoT, VR, AR, AI, big data, robotics and automation, as well as others helping to digitalize business processes
• you have a solution ready for validation and test implementation at one of our partners

• start a business in Poland in the form of a capital company and establish cooperation with our Partner
• half of the shares of your startup are owned by a person/people who are not Polish citizens, and at least one member of the management board is not a Polish citizen.

Detailed terms and conditions of joining the recruitment process and taking advantage of acceleration support can be found in our Regulations.

Each stage of our program has been planned in such a way as to consistently bring you closer to your desired goal.

Stage I: softlanding (3 months)

In the first stage of the program we will help you finance your start-up in Poland and plan the development of your product. The goal of this stage is to establish cooperation with a technology buyer or investor and to plan validation. You may receive up to EUR 11,000 for this stage.

Stage II: acceleration (6 months)

In the second stage of the program you can count on financing costs related to development and validation of your solution. Our experts will help you not only to plan the necessary resources for the pilot, but also verify your business assumptions. At this stage, you can receive from us up to 55 000 EUR.

KPT ScaleUP is the largest Polish Industry 4.0 accelerator. For 4 years we have been successfully connecting the startup community with large industrial companies. We have completed 7 six-month editions of acceleration during which we have supported 85 young technology companies.

The group of our industrial partners already includes over 25 representatives of the Polish Industry 4.0.

But the most important proof of our effectiveness is the commercial implementation of solutions developed by our startups.

What do they say about us?

“(…) we benefited and came out well from it” – Artiom Komardin, co-founder of Sense Monitoring

“(…) acceleration is very rich in additional services and knowledge, and formal matters are so much simplified and fast that you do not feel any inconvenience at all. (…) Acceleration in KPT is really well thought out” – Anna Strezynska, founder of MC2 Energy

“Startups and business ideas at a high level, great people, awesome organization” – Grzegorz Kolasinski, co-founder of Business Tailors

“Thank you for the great organization and interesting concept of the event. It was a great pleasure to be able to share knowledge and international inspiration with entrepreneurs and startup founders” – Grzegorz Bratek, founder of Export-Experts