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Join Concordia Design Accelerator
Receive a grant and substantive support, gain reliable business partners and grow your start-up in a new place. Easily. In just a few months. Without giving away equity.
To achieve international success, join Poland Prize powered by Concordia Design Accelerator at the technological hub of Central and Eastern Europe. We invite you to Poland and Wrocław, the regional capital of Lower Silesia.
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Business partners
+20 industry partners
+5 VC
Our fields of expertise
We are looking for solutions which will help people and companies operate more effectively, more securely and more wisely in the post-COVID economic era. We tend to prefer teams specialising in the sectors set out below, but this certainly doesn’t mean that we exclude others! Is your product or service a good one? Apply for the Poland Prize powerd by Concordia Design Accelerator
Artificial Intelligence
AI is vital to the process of social transformation. We are interested in solutions that relate to all sorts of areas of life and have an AI component or are connected to fields such as machine learning (ML) or process automation.
Cybersecurity
This is crucial in the post-COVID era. Our thinking on the topic is broad and we are looking for projects in areas including data security, application security, cloud security and identity protection.
Smart City
Our primary focus in this field is on technologies which will serve local governments and residents, not only by supporting transport, energy, waste and water consumption management, but also by assisting with the digitisation of local administration.
Why is Concordia Design Accelerator
worth applying for?
Receive a grant of up to
EUR 65 000
for establishing a company in Poland
and completing all milestones
A maximum of
13 months
intensive, fascinating work
under the programme
Equity free
The shares in your company remain yours
Develop your project with
+5 VC’s
which could be potential
investors in your project
Take part in
8 events
for networking and
promoting your start-up
Industry Partners
waiting to validate your solution
Access to
38 million
potential customers
on the Polish market.
Support of
+20 mentors
with experience
in various areas of business
Wrocław
One of the largest start-up hubs
in Central and Eastern Europe
Programme Schedule
APPLICATION
(01.09.2022 – 31.10.2022)
Fill in the form, providing a precise, detailed description of your project
SELECTION
PHASE
(01.11.2022 – 28.11.2022)
We will be in touch with you to discuss the details and will be inviting the best start-ups to join the programme.
SOFT
LANDING
(1 month)
We are here to help you form a company in Poland. If you do, then you will receive more than EUR 2 000.
DEVELOPMENT
(2 months)
Develop your project in line with a plan tailored to its needs. Sign a letter of intent with an Industrial Partner or a VC fund. If you do that, you will receive almost EUR 9 000.
ACCELERATION
(up to 10 months)
Work closely with your Industrial Partners or VC fund in line with your Individual Acceleration Plan. If you reach three milestones, you will receive a sum of up to EUR 55 000.
POST-
ACCELERATION
(3 months)
As you build your business on the Polish market, you can continually count on our help.
Our mentors
Alain Heureux
Virtuology Academy
Rafał Pisz
QuantUp
Sylwia Hull-Wosiek
Concordia Design
Piotr Voelkel
VOX Group
Leszek Kwieciński
Wroclaw University
Krzysztof Nawelski
Santander Consumer Bank
Jacek Lewandowski
Coventry University
Tomek Popow
VFE.ve
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Concordia Design. Who are we?
We help companies to develop. Including yours! We have been doing this with great effect for more than ten years now. We work with global players and dynamic start-ups alike, supporting entrepreneurs in research and development projects and in improving their products and services. Our client portfolio includes IKEA, Volkswagen, Samsung and OLX, to name but a very few. We believe that the foundation of any business is a good team. Let’s build yours together!
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Concordia Design Wrocław
A centre of creativity and business in a stunning setting at the heart of the city’s Old Town, on Wyspa Słodowa (Malt Island) on the Odra River. We run an incubation programme and are creating a technological community. We also organise business and cultural events. ArchDaily, an international website focused on architecture, named Concordia Design Wrocław its Building of the Year 2021 in the Offices category.
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Concordia Design Poznań
A hub for creativity and business situated at the centre of the west-central Polish city of Poznań, capital of its region. We inspire and educate entrepreneurs, adults and children, stimulating them to develop. Our work includes designing events, services, products, business models and organisational culture in companies and institutions.
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LAB 150
Lab 150 is Poland’s first state-of-the-art centre dedicated to the design, prototyping and testing of products and services created for companies in the interior design and creative sectors.
LAB 150… the setting for you to carry out the entire process of creating something new, from idea to implementation.
