Initiatives to help ICT entrepreneurs

In times of crisis, with a high percentage of unemployed young people and at risk of the Spanish economy falling back into recession, initiatives for entrepreneurs take special emphasis. And seeing that employment is in the doldrums, there are many who draw strength and decide to embark on a hard road, full of obstacles but also rewards: entrepreneurship . In order to enrich the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem and add value to the economy, some initiatives - both public and private help entrepreneurs in the ICT sector to validate their ideas, to train them in all those aspects in which they hobble, to support them and even to give them access to financing. Some of these initiatives are:

SeedRocket

SeedRocket is an innovative private initiative for entrepreneurs with projects related to New Technologies, who provides training, advice and access to financing, three key elements in the early stages of development of a start-up. At the forefront of this project is the SeedRocket Angels Association, a non-profit association formed by renowned Internet professionals in Spain, who share the common goal of promoting the use of ICT . The event that allows access to all these Advantages is the Campus of Entrepreneurs, an eight-day training program in Barcelona, ​​where the selected projects have the opportunity to train and work with the mentors of the network. In addition, during the last day of the event, the finalist start-ups will have the opportunity to present their projects to a large group of business angels and venture capital funds under the Investors' Day. Finally, this complete program for ICT entrepreneurs continues with the development of their projects within the accelerator of SeedRocket companies, a coworking space within their facilities of more than 200 square meters in Barcelona Activa. To access the program it is necessary that the projects carry out the registration previously via their website.

ACC1Ó

ACC1Ó is the agency that supports the competitiveness of the Catalan company, expert in innovation and internationalization. They offer different types of economic aid, such as the following: - Internationalization aid to start, expand and consolidate the company. - Aid for innovation to promote R & D projects and companies with technological base growth. management and business strategy, which aim to consolidate the business model and the management of the company. - Aid to the sectoral policy for companies to boost competitiveness in those areas where Catalonia has a consolidated industrial structure or those in which that there is a high growth outlook.

Association of Internet Investors and Entrepreneurs (AIEI)

AIEI is an association that supports entrepreneurs with projects in the initial stage, with Business Plans already developed. They offer free consulting to the projects, making a monthly follow-up of them in various areas of the company such as monetization, technological infrastructure or establishing the target audience. They also offer the possibility for entrepreneurs to reach rounds of financing, given that it is a link between entrepreneurs and investors .

Tips
  • Search online the web pages of these organizations to stay up to date with the ICT entrepreneurship offers they offer.
  • Subscribe to the Twitter of these organizations to know when the aid to ICT entrepreneurs comes out:
  • Seedrocket's Twitter account: //twitter.com/#!/seedrocket
  • The ACC1Ó Twitter account: //twitter.com/#!/ACC1O
  • The AIEI Twitter account: //twitter.com/#!/AIEI_en