Ignite Your Tourism Venture with Beta-Start Accelerator
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Join a 3-month adventure and grow your business.
about
Beta Start – Tourism is a 3-month pre-acceleration program designed to support entrepreneurs in better structuring their business.
Whether you have your project thought through, you built a prototype or you actually have a startup in the tourism industry, this program will help you validate your hypotheses through prototypes and initial product versions – proposing, testing, and structuring your revenue models and cost structures, not to mention the construction of its presentations to clients and investors.
In the end, on Demo Day, you have the opportunity to show your potential as a business and receive feedback from potential customers and investors.
who we are looking for:
Call out for startups looking for the first investment rounds – pre-seed stage or seed stage, located in Portugal or planning to enter the country with a solution to improve the sustainability of the tourism sector:
Dematerialization of processes and services
Recycling, reuse and reduction of waste
Integration of clean energies
Energy efficiency
Water efficiency
Intelligent Mobility
Customer Experience
Benefits
Improve your solution
Design a bolder, client-oriented business model with a product-led growth.
Get feedback & mentorship
Access to feedback from mentors and investors matched to your maturity stage.
Learn by doing
Let’s work for real. Go beyond workshops, learn by doing and grow by testing.
Create a killer pitch
Turn all this leveraging experience and feedback into a killer pitch and presentation.
Ecosystem & Networking
Meet investors, ecosystem partners and stakeholders that can help you grow.
Funding opportunities
Connect with investors for the chance of getting up to 100k€ in pre-seed investment.
Time for your business
This program sets the agenda from Tuesday to Thursday, you will still have time to keep the pace of your business.
Applications
Selection Phase
Acceleration Phase
Pitch Day
What you will learn
During the acceleration phase you will take a deep dive into:
Validation
Put aside your beliefs and validate your assumptions and business visions, learn what investors are looking for, new validation techniques, how to map stakeholders and talk to users, and last but not least, define customer journeys.
(Workshops – Theory + Practice, Sprints and hands-on time, Mentoring sessions)
Product
Insights to Product: Entrepreneurs will transform their validated assumptions into prototypes and products while using tools that will allow them to learn through customer interactions. The startups will launch their MVPs and set their product metrics.
(Workshops – Theory + Practice, Sprints and hands-on time, Mentoring sessions)
Business case
Take a deep dive into business strategy, build a structured business case with a marketing and sales strategy and financial projections. Develop your pitch and practice the presentation.
rules of participation
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Participation to Beta Start – Tourism is entirely free. This program is supported by Turismo de Portugal and produced by Beta-i.
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By registering to Beta Start – Tourism you are confirming your participation in team-activities and workshops during three months. The program will be held remotely.
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We will accept only applications coming through F6S platform.
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No equity stake involved.
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Any doubt? Contact us.
Partners
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