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Setting up your startup in Spain?
Work with a local partner!
Work hand in hand with a local partner in Spain and accelerate your growth. We help you set up your startup in Spain, while collaborating in the development of specific technological solutions.
Over the past years, the innovation ecosystem in Spain has evolved exponentially, the number of entrepreneurs, the quality of projects, the financing, and its global position.
Take part in this unique ecosystem to accelerate your startup.
Work hand in hand with companies in Spain, integrate in a new innovation ecosystem, have access to highly qualified talent and new sources of financing.
If you share this vision,
Rising Up in Spain
is your program
Rising UP in Spain,a program for startups
willing to set up and grow in Spain
You only need
to be open to innovative technological collaboration
As a startup you will need to show you can provide disruptive technological solutions for a local partner in Spain while you take part in an extensive accelaration program to set up in Spain.
As a local partner you will have to host a foreign startup and develop a technological solution for your business.
Startups will be selected by an expert team
according to the proposed innovation, scalability and viability of the investment project in Spain.
Up to 50 startups will sign a local agreement with a local partner and will receive a broad accelaration program to settle in Spain.
Take a look to the terms of reference for startups.pdf
Application period – to be open in January 2022
If you want to be the local partner of a foreign startupand work together in the development of new technological solutions
Rising UP will allow you to explore disruptive technologies for your business.
Blockchain, big data, IoT, machine learning, industry 4.0,...
6 month collaboration
No initial costs
Application period now open!
A collaboration agreementbetween the local partner and the foreign startup
will be signed after a one-week intensive bootcamp with the top 100 resgistered startups. Mathching process will be guided by an expert consultant.
Win-win collaboration
6 month working space for the startup
No entry costs
Optionally, remuneration agreement
Selected startupsreceive a full acceleration program
by a professional management team
Networking
Access to Finance
Legal advice and help with paperwork
Visas - facilitation
CalendarVI Edition
1.Application period
For local partners- 15/nov/2021 - 03/feb/2021
For startups: 3/jan/2022 - 3/mar/2022
2.Selection of startups
Best valued 100 startups will be communicated on march 25, 2022
3.Matching
Bootcamp: 25-29 april, 2022
Collaboration agreements to be signed by May, 15 2022
4.Setting up in Spain
After the signature
(no later than September 15, 2022)
5.End of the program
6 meses after arrival to the local partner
(no later than march, 2023)
What
Rising UP
in Spain offers?
A win-win program
setting in Spain ↔ a technological solution
Working space
at a local partner in Spain
at least for 6 months
Visa
support for
entrepreneur visas
Legal advice
and help with paperwork
to set up your startup in Spain
Visibility
in media for your
technological solutions
Investment
access to investors in Spain
Networking
at events for startups
Program
manager
Martin Jerch
Contact
Startups
participants in the program
Pedro Mendes & Miguel Rangel
founders of Invisible Collector
ICEX-Invest in Spain and the Rising UP in Spain programme have been a major part of our international adventure. They have given us the opportunity to work close to the market, to understand companies and their needs, to be in Iberia's most significant sector clusters"
Gonzalo Aguero & Angelina Vigliocco
founders of WorknMates
Rising UP in Spain programme first helped us with understanding the market, and then with understanding the legislation and the culture. It has also connected us with great partners who can make our entry much cheaper, simpler and more certain"
Susan Greenfield and Sara García Rates
CEO and founder of Neuro-Bio and Director of Operations respectively
Being selected for this programme has shown that Neuro-Bio is an attractive company, with good ideas and good management organisation. And there is the support the programme has exposed us to in the Spanish and European markets, with enormous possibilities for collaboration with companies and research centres headquartered in Spain which we did not know before we were selected”
Sasha Ivanova & Valeria Panina
Founders of SharpShark
For us it was very important to take a good look at our assumptions and project them onto the European market, thanks to the programme Rising UP in Spain. In Latin America we were already strong, but the European market was a complete unknown to us. That’s why taking part in this type of programme is such a great opportunity for start-ups to expand into overseas markets"
Dom Teysseyre
Founder & CEO of M3storage
The Rising UP in Spain programme is very well thought out. It clearly provides major support when deciding to set up in Spain. ICEX does in addition have great prestige in the country and is a seal of confidence; it clearly helps us when it comes to making first contact in Spain”