MOTIVATION: You want to grow your startup and scale your product.
PHASE: Startups from pre-seed to Series A.
SOLUTION: Tech-driven & scalable solutions, truly outstanding, and unique.
STAGE: Show us your minimum viable product, prototype in beta, and/or some market validation.
TEAM: A founding team consisting of at least 2 people.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
The program is divided in two phases:
Acceleration program | 3 months | grant up to 6k €
Integration project (optional) | up to 12 months | up to 40k €
ACCELERATION PROGRAM
The program consists of 12 intense weeks with a both in-person and virtual presence.
You get weekly personalized coaching and a network of mentors that supports you on topics like IP, finance, fundraising, sales, marketing, IT, HR, etc. During this period you have full access to the office, access to our e-learning platform, and all events. This phase ends with a Demo Day.
INTEGRATION PROJECT
After that, you will have the possibility to get additional 9 months to further define, develop and pilot your product/technology in cooperation with our corporate partners.
This project’s length, terms, and conditions are strictly individual as all projects are different.
Pilot outcomes include:
product co-development
commercial partnership
licensing agreements
extension of customers base
additional investments
TERMS
We take no equity and it is cost-free.
A grant up to € 6k supports participation to the acceleration phase and additional funds are assigned to startups for the project phase up to € 40k
Compulsory attendance to the activities of the acceleration program and all events (including Demo Day).
The program is hybrid (3 out of 12 weeks are in presence in Hannover).
The program is entirely in English.
WHEN
We generally have 2 programs per year and every startup stays in RootCamp for a minimum of 3 months up to 1 year (including the pilot project). Please check the timeline below.
