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TINC 2023 - Take your business idea to new heights in Silicon Valley

The Tech Incubator (TINC) accelerator program gives you the opportunity to build networks and develop your startup at a rapid pace in Silicon Valley. The program is placed with Nordic Innovation House in Palo Alto.

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The offer in brief

What can you apply for?

Swedish start-up teams are offered help with, business development, pitch training, growth hacking, scaling strategies, networking and understanding of raising capital.

Who can apply?

Start-up companies that have a product launched, are starting to see customer growth and have a scalable business model with clear international ambitions. You are able to challenge yourself and be open

How much can you apply for?

The funding includes a place on the TINC program which is a 4 week long programme. Where three weeks take place remotely and one week physically on site at Nordic Innovation House in Paloa Alto in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Important dates

    • What is the offer about?

    I Silicon Valley has the sharpest business developers, sharpest marketers and many insightful future scouts. There is also Nordic Innovation House (NIH) - a Nordic collaboration to promote innovation and business development.

    NIH has now opened the spring application round to the accelerator program Tech Incubator (TINC). The program includes a kick-off in Oslo (5-6 March 2020) and four weeks at Nordic Innovation House in Palo Alto in the heart of Silicon Valley (27 April - 22 May 2020). TINC is carried out in collaboration with Innovation Norway SF/Silicon Valley and with funding from Vinnova.

    We now have the opportunity to offer a maximum of five Swedish start-up teams a place in the program. Together with teams from other Nordic countries, these will receive help with, among other things, business development, pitch training, growth hacking, scaling strategies, network building and understanding of capital raising. The format of the program is workshops combined with one-on-one time with some of the absolute best business developers in Silicon Valley. In addition, NIH has a large network and is happy to connect you with potential customers and partners.

    Who can participate?

    • You who apply to TINC should:
    • want to challenge yourselves,
    • have launched your product or service and started to see customer growth, have a scalable business model with international ambitions,
    • have innovation height regarding solution and/or business model.

    This is how you apply

    You apply by filling in the form below:

    Apply here

    Links

    Abbot Stevenson

    How to apply

    To apply for funding, you need to log in and complete an application form in our eServices portal. The application form contains questions about your project, the participants taking part in the project and your budget. 

    Please allow enough time

    Please keep in mind that it takes time to complete an application. Filling in the templates can take several days, since they're based on analyses you need to do. Therefore, start the application well in advance. You can start filling in your details, then save and continue at a later time.

    When you've completed your application, please mark it as done ("klar"). You can unlock and make changes to your application at any time until the call closes. If you unlock your application, you must mark it as done ("klarmarkera") if you want the application registered when the call closes. 

    Any questions?

    If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

    Anna Delin

    Reference number 2023-00017