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Toyota Motor Europe launches the Toyota Startup Awards to find most innovative solutions to improve “Mobility for All”

Toyota and ISDI Accelerator launch The Toyota Startup Awards

  • The Toyota Startup Awards will take place at the 4YFN event in Barcelona, from 24 to 26 February 2020
  • Eight selected startups will participate in a pitching competition to try to win the main prize — a fast track to the Toyota Accelerator Program, powered by ISDI Accelerator
  • Toyota is looking for the most innovative solutions in the fields of Inclusive Mobility, Accessibility and Disruptive Mobility to contribute to its goal of offering “Mobility for All”
  • The competition ties in with Toyota’s global call to “Start Your Impossible”, the belief that when people are free to move, anything is possible

Brussels, December 20, 2019 – Toyota Motor Europe (TME) and Business school ISDI, through ISDI Accelerator, have created the Toyota Startup Awards. This competition targets inclusive mobility companies that offer innovative solutions empowering people with a physical impairment to move around more freely and facilitating their daily life. Eight startups will be invited to attend 4YFN in Barcelona from 24 to 26 February 2020 to exhibit their products or services in the Toyota stand and participate in a pitch competition in front of a specialized panel of jurors selected by TME. The winners will be awarded a fast track to the Toyota Accelerator Program, powered by ISDI Accelerator.

Interested startups can apply between December 20 and January 26. One of the main criteria is that applicants must focus on the following three fields:

  • Socially inclusive mobility: Mobility solutions that are created to meet the unfulfilled mobility needs of people with a physical impairment, elderly and children, as well as people living in suburban areas.
  • Accessibility: Provide innovative approaches that increase the accessibility to mobility solutions and thereby enable a “Mobility for All” future.
  • Disruptive Mobility: Development of new products, services, tools, technologies and / or disruptive business models that can contribute to a “Mobility for All” future.

A jury formed by experts from TME and ISDI Accelerator will choose among the applications a maximum of eight projects that will become finalists for the Toyota Startup Awards and join Toyota at 4YFN. The selected startups will benefit from:

  • Free booth space in Toyota’s stand at 4YFN during the three days of the event to showcase their innovative product or solution.
  • An exclusive time slot on the Toyota stage at 4YFN to pitch their solution.
  • Exposure to event visitors, investors and Toyota executives.
  • Access to MWC Barcelona on Thursday 27th February 2020 for their startup team.
  • Accommodation during the 4YFN event for two members of the startup team.
  • The opportunity to win a fast track to the Toyota Startup Accelerator, powered by ISDI Accelerator that will offer training, mentoring, brokerage with private investors as well as potential future collaboration with TME.

The winners of the Toyota Startup Awards will be announced by Toyota on the main stage of 4YFN on 25 February 2020.

Toyota’s “Start Your Impossible” global corporate story conveys the message that when people are free to move, anything is possible. Toyota believes that mobility goes beyond cars; it is about overcoming limitations. In this spirit our mission is to provide freedom of movement for everyone. Our vision is to offer integrated mobility solutions to everyone, including those with physical impairments, ensuring a more open and inclusive society that allows people to challenge their potential.

Startups are invited to apply via the dedicated website:

About Toyota Motor Europe

Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA (TME) oversees the wholesale sales and marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts and accessories, and Toyota’s European manufacturing and engineering operations. Toyota directly employs around 20,000 people in Europe and has invested over EUR 9 billion since 1990. Toyota’s operations in Europe are supported by a network of 29 National Marketing and Sales Companies across 53 countries, a total of around 3,000 sales outlets, and nine manufacturing plants. In 2018, Toyota sold 1,035,430 Toyota and Lexus vehicles in Europe. For more information, visit www.toyota-europe.com

About ISDI Accelerator

ISDI Accelerator was born in 2014 with the objective of channelling the entrepreneurial interest of the ISDI students and to boost and professionalize the startup market in Europe. Their first startup acceleration program, IMPACT, marked a milestone in the continent thanks to the collaboration between public entities, corporations, educational entities, investors and, of course, startups. Since then they have developed dozens of incubation and acceleration programs, they have created, trained and accelerated hundreds of startups, and thousands of companies have already applied to their programs. ISDI Accelerator is part of ISDI Digital Business School.

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Alexandra Carrasco Szulc
Communications Manager – ISDI Accelerator
E-mail: acarrasco@isdi.education

More about ISDI/IMPACT

We are in the middle of our rebranding, soon we will have a new website where we will inform about all that is happening in ISDI Accelerator, before known as IMPACT 🙂
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UNICEF e ISDI Accelerator crean una nueva aceleradora para proyectos sociales de España y Latinoamérica

UNICEF Lab busca los cinco proyectos más disruptivos de habla hispana centrados en la infancia

  • UNICEF Lab centra su búsqueda en proyectos para la infancia con foco en financiación, nuevo contenido, seguridad, data, optimización de procesos e innovación disruptiva
  • Los proyectos recibirán financiación, formación, asesoría de expertos, acceso a servicios de proveedores y podrían optar al desarrollo de un piloto

Madrid, 14 de noviembre de 2019.- La escuela de negocios ISDI, a través de su aceleradora ISDI Accelerator, y UNICEF Comité Español, presentan una nueva aceleradora de startups centrada en proyectos para la infancia en habla hispana. UNICEF Lab inicia hoy su andadura para encontrar y lanzar las cinco ideas más innovadoras con la infancia como protagonista.

La primera convocatoria del programa estará activa hasta el 2 de enero de 2020 para startups de España y Latinoamérica y pondrá el foco en proyectos que desarrollen:

  • Nuevas formas de financiación: para proyectos que trabajen en el desarrollo de nuevas fuentes de financiación y sostenibilidad de las causas sociales como microdonaciones, campañas de crowdfunding, redondeo solidario, ventas solidarias, criptomonedas, donaciones por RRSS, etc.
  • Nuevo contenido: en este ámbito entran startups que fomenten la creación de contenidos y formatos adaptados a los diferentes públicos objetivos con tecnologías como realidad virtual o aumentada, tecnología por voz, contenido móvil, sensores, o contenido específico y personalizado.
  • Confianza, datos y seguridad: para actividades que mejoran la trazabilidad y gestión de la información para ofrecer confianza, transparencia, obtener información ágil para la toma de decisiones y ofrecer una experiencia personalizada y segura; algunos ejemplos de esta área serían proyectos de Blockchain, Inteligencia artificial, Big data, Marketing automation, CRM, herramientas predictivas y de perfilado que mejoren el compromiso social, interactividad y efectividad de la comunicación a los distintos colaboradores.
  • Optimización de procesos clave: creados para mejorar la eficiencia en las organizaciones no lucrativas.
  • Innovación disruptiva: un espectro en el que entran el desarrollo de nuevos productos, servicios, herramientas, tecnologías y/o modelos de negocios de carácter disruptivo que puedan contribuir a la puesta en marcha, al apoyo y mejora de causas sociales.

Un jurado compuesto por expertos de UNICEF Comité Español e ISDI Accelerator elegirá entre todos los proyectos presentados a un máximo de 25 finalistas entre los que saldrán las cinco startups elegidas para seguir el programa de aceleración. Diseñado y gestionado por ISDI Accelerator, tendrá una duración de tres meses e incluirá entre otros beneficios:

    • Financiación: directa en metálico de un máximo de 50.000€ en total, que se repartirán entre las startups con el siguiente desglose:
      • 5000€ para cada una de las cinco startups seleccionadas;
      • un premio de 10.000€, dos de 5.000€ y otros dos de 2.500€, que se repartirán entre las 5 startups aceleradas en función de su desempeño en el programa.
    • Asesoramiento en la búsqueda de financiación adicional con inversores privados.
    • Formación tipo “bootcamp”: orientada a ayudar a las startups a ampliar sus conocimientos en las distintas áreas de negocio, con un formato práctico y ponentes de organizaciones líderes, incluyendo ISDI y UNICEF Comité Español.
    • Mentores de negocio: sesiones individuales con mentores de alto nivel asignados a cada startup durante tres meses. Siguiendo una metodología personalizada y trabajando en necesidades reales para ayudar a sus proyectos a desarrollarse.
    • Mentores especialistas: acceso a todos los mentores de ISDI Accelerator.
    • Programa de “Perks”: acceso a servicios gratis o con un alto descuento como tecnología, marketing, legal y talento, entre otros, proveídos por reconocidas empresas como Amazon, Braintree, Marketo, Sendgrid, etc., gracias a los acuerdos desarrollados por ISDI Accelerator para todas las startups de su ecosistema.
    • Demo Day: al final del programa de aceleración, las startups presentarán su proyecto en un evento de cierre en el que participarán diversos expertos tanto de UNICEF Comité Español e ISDI como inversores privados y ejecutivos de grandes corporaciones.

Fuera del programa previsto y en función del momento de desarrollo en el que se encuentren los proyectos, se valorará el apoyo para la creación de pilotos o pruebas.

Una colaboración fructífera

La creación de UNICEF Lab es fruto de una colaboración que ya tiene una larga trayectoria detrás y que se ha desarrollado entre UNICEF Comité Español e ISDI a través tanto de la escuela como de la fundación ISDIdigital Foundation. UNICEF es la agencia de las Naciones Unidas que trabaja para defender los derechos de la infancia y conseguir cambios reales y duraderos en la vida de millones de niños. UNICEF Lab es una iniciativa de la agencia para aprovechar las nuevas tecnologías para cumplir su misión y cuyo principal objetivo es encontrar soluciones innovadoras a los desafíos que enfrenta la infancia.

ISDI ha sido uno de los colaboradores estratégicos en esta etapa en la que ha diseñado y puesto en marcha iniciativas para fomentar la innovación interna en UNICEF Comité Español, incluyendo planes formativos, talleres y un programa de incubación de proyectos para generar intra-emprendimiento desarrollado por ISDI Accelerator. La creación de esta nueva aceleradora de impacto social es un paso más en esta colaboración en la que UNICEF ha seguido confiando en ISDI y en su aceleradora, una de las más premiadas y mejor posicionadas no solo en España sino también en Europa. Su último reconocimiento ha sido para el programa IMPACT Connected Car, elegido como mejor programa de aceleración del (Innosup-1-cluster-project-year) en la sexta edición de la European Cluster Conference, organizada por la Comisión Europea.

Acerca de UNICEF

UNICEF trabaja en algunos de los lugares más difíciles para llegar a los niños y niñas más desfavorecidos del mundo. En 190 países y territorios, trabajamos para cada niño, en todas partes, cada día, para construir un mundo mejor para todos.

Acerca de ISDI Accelerator

ISDI Accelerator nace en 2014 con el objetivo de canalizar el interés emprendedor de los alumnos de ISDI y de dinamizar y profesionalizar el mercado de las startups en Europa. Su primer programa de aceleración, IMPACT, marcó un hito en el continente gracias a la colaboración entre entidades públicas, corporaciones, entidades educativas, inversores y, por supuesto, startups. Desde entonces ha desarrollado docenas de programas de incubación y aceleración, creado, formado y acelerado a cientos de startups y son miles las compañías que han aplicado a sus programas. ISDI Accelerator aparece en las primeras posiciones de los rankings europeos y globales como una de las aceleradoras más importantes de Europa y en 2019 su programa IMPACT Connected Car ha sido elegido como el mejor proyecto de aceleración de startups de 2019 por la Comisión Europea.

La colaboración con UNICEF ha sido compartida por la aceleradora tanto como por su matriz, ISDI, la escuela de negocio digital líder de nuestro país, presente en Europa, Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica, y la Fundación ISDIgital.

Información de prensa

Belén de Vicente
UNICEF Comité Español, Tel: 609 160 051 / 91 378 85 91
E-mail: comunicacion@unicef.es

Cristina del Gallo / Rafael Delgado
Formedia, Tel: 91 562 81 00
prensa@grupoformedia.com

Más de ISDI/IMPACT

Estamos en mitad de nuestro rebranding, pronto tendremos nueva web a través de la cual os informaremos de todo lo que está pasando en ISDI Accelerator, antes conocido como IMPACT 🙂
We are in the middle of our rebranding, soon we will have a new website where we will inform about all that is happening in ISDI Accelerator, before known as IMPACT 🙂

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ISDI Accelerator ranked World Top 5 Public Business Accelerator

ISDI Accelerator ranked World Top 5 Public Business Accelerator

ISDI Accelerator is ranked World Top 5 Public Business Accelerators by UBI Global, which has compared 364 programs from 82 countries. The ranking states that ISDI Accelerator is above the global average, outperforming their global peers with regard to the value they provide, to their innovation ecosystems and client startups, as well as the attractiveness of the programs themselves.

Madrid, 7 November 2019.- Last evening UBI Global presented The UBI Global World Rankings of Business Incubators and Accelerators 2019 – 2020 during the World Incubation Summit in Doha. In the category World Top Public Business Accelerator 19/20 ISDI Accelerator was ranked amongst the top 5. Compared to previous rankings there is only three categories presented this year; world #1, World Top 5 and World top 10.

“At ISDI Accelerator we feel very proud to be ranked among the world’s top 5 accelerators, as measured by UBI Global. There are many other business accelerators doing an incredible job, so it’s amazing to be here. This is only possible thanks to our team, partners, investors, mentors and of course to our startups; this is an award for all of them, too. And they have our commitment to continue working hard to be able to help them to achieve their goals,” says Miguel Ángel Díez Ferreira, Director at ISDI Accelerator.

During previous year’s rankings, 259 incubators and accelerators participated in the process, which can be compared with this year’s 364 participating organizations in UBI Global World Rankings 19/20. The ranking shows that ISDI Accelerator is well placed internationally in terms of the number of companies that are accepted to the acceleration programs, access to funds, the availability of a great network and outstanding performance in nurturing entrepreneurship and innovation.

Since the birth of ISDI Accelerator in 2014, we have developed 14 Open Calls, distributed 45 million Euros, accelerated 154 startups from 64 countries, startups have obtained 183 million Euros in funding after being part of our programs and our Net Promoter Score is 92 (scored by startups). Also, recently, our acceleration program IMPACT Connected Car was awarded Project of the year 2019 by the European Commission.

The UBI Global world rankings of business incubators and accelerators 19/20

About ISDI Accelerator

ISDI Accelerator is born in 2014 with the objective of channeling the entrepreneurial interest of the ISDI students and to boost and professionalize the startup market in Europe. Our first startup acceleration program, IMPACT, marked a milestone in the continent thanks to the collaboration between public entities, corporations, educational entities, investors and, of course, startups.

Since then we have developed dozens of incubation and acceleration programs, we have created, trained and accelerated hundreds of startups, and thousands of companies have already applied to our programs.

All this has led us to be listed in the top positions of the European and global rankings as one of the most important accelerators in Europe, and in 2019 one of our programs (IMPACT Connected Car) was chosen as the best startup acceleration project of 2019 by the European Commission.

But we don’t do it alone. We are accompanied by our parent company, ISDI, and also hundreds of mentors, teachers and experts, the best investors in Europe, our partners and colleagues in the different acceleration programs and the corporations and institutions we work with.

About UBI Global 

UBI Global is a Swedish-based intelligence company and community specializing in mapping, highlighting, and connecting the world of business incubation. Through a network of more than 700 member organizations from over 90 countries worldwide, UBI Global provides matchmaking, benchmarking, and research services to corporations and business incubation programs.

Previous results from UBI Global’s studies have been featured on BBC Radio, The Chicago Tribune, Le Figaro, Der Standard, The Huffington Post, The Irish Times, France 3, and many other media outlets around the world.

For more information:

Alexandra Carrasco Szulc, Communications Manager
ISDI Accelerator
Phone: (+43) 900 814 144
Email: acarrasco@isdi.education

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A record-breaking number of 2,000 startups apply to IMPACT Growth’s last open call

IMPACT Growth's last open call for startups is a huge success!

  • The IMPACT Growth accelerator will select 14 startups from among the 2,000 participants
  • The program, which offers €3.6 million in equity-free funding, has received applications from more than 60 countries. Among IMPACT Growth’s four verticals, Smart Content and Smart Cities accounted for 71% of the applications
  • These selected startups will join the 14 companies that were selected in the first open call and are currently being accelerated
  • IMPACT Connected Car, IMPACT Accelerator’s other program, has also had an open call seeking startups and SMEs that offer to disrupt the emerging market of connected vehicles; the program had more than 500 applications

IMPACT Growth, the startup acceleration program backed by leading accelerators, venture capital entities and global brands, wrapped up its second and last call for applicants with the participation of over 2,000 startups. The call, launched in September in DLD Tel Aviv, and promoted in top global events such as MWC Americas, Web Summit, Slush, South Summit and MWC Shanghai, has received applications from more than 60 countries, in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. From among the participants IMPACT Growth will select a total of 14 startups to initiate an acceleration process headed by ISDI and Accelerace. These selected startups will join the 14 companies that were selected in the first open call and are currently being accelerated.

Out of the 2,000 applicants, 20 semi-finalists will be chosen before narrowing it down to the 14 finalists

Application stats

Spain, Italy, Poland and Denmark led the number of applications in this second call. Among IMPACT Growth’s four verticals, of special note was the participation of startups in the Smart Content (41% of applications) and Smart Cities (30% of applications) sectors. Smart Agrifood and Smart Manufacturing are the other two verticals, accounting for 13% and 11% of the applications, respectively. The global brands Ferrovial Servicios, MADE, Danone and DOCOMO Digital will support the startups selected in their verticals.

About IMPACT Growth

IMPACT Growth is an initiative funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, with a total of €3.6 million for its initial phase. The project, led by FundingBox, features two calls for applicants for the selection of a total of 28 startups, granting each with 100,000 euros equity-free for their initial funding and the best four with an additional funding of 150,000 euros equity-free. Participants have the possibility of obtaining more funding through partner Invesdor‘s crowdfunding platform. The top startups will be able to receive private investment of up to €1.5 million from the European venture capital Kibo Ventures.

The startups will participate in a training program featuring international experts and entrepreneurs in Madrid, Copenhagen and Barcelona, and access an international network of over 100 renowned mentors, founders and investors. The training program will go hand in hand with participation in the different international events organised by 4YFN, the business platform for the growing community of technology startups at the global level supported by Mobile World Capital Barcelona (MWCapital).

The startups will also benefit from support by the FIWARE Foundation for the integration of this technology into the development of their projects. FIWARE is an innovative, open source, Cloud-based technology that makes possible the creation and deployment of global services and applications in the new digital age.

Other IMPACT programs

IMPACT Growth is one of the two programs IMPACT Accelerator, which invested over €14 million in 77 startups from 2014 to 2017 and has recently been named among the global top ten in Gust’s Global Accelerator Report after evaluating 579 programs from five continents. IMPACT Connected Car, IMPACT Accelerator’s other currently-running program, has also recently had a call for startups and SMEs that offer to disrupt the emerging market of connected vehicles. More than 500 startups applied, for a total of more than 2,500 applications to IMPACT programs in recent months. In 2018, IMPACT Accelerator plans to launch a new acceleration program focused on startups disrupting the robotics market.

IMPACT Growth's Jury Day will be held at ISDI Madrid in the spring of 2018

Jury Day to announce the winners

The winners of this selection process will be announced after a Jury Day slated for March 1st at the ISDI Digital Acceleration Center in Madrid. A shortlist of selected startups will pitch in front of panel of experts that will judge these companies taking into account account criteria such as scalability and international growth.

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