The Collider is the Venture Builder program by Mobile World Capital Barcelona that addresses the challenge of transforming scientific knowledge into technological solutions. From this pioneering program, we connect the results of scientific research with the entrepreneurial initiative in order to create highly innovative technological startups.
From Silicon Valley
New processes
in creating startups
01.
Collision weekend
The first step to success is engaging the best talent and building up the best teams. Selected participants will meet during an intensive weekend ending with a number of high performing teams.
03.
Venture Builder
After 4 months, each team will become part of a full startup builder program. Each startup could receive up to €150k in seed funding.
02.
Bootcamp
The high performing teams will work intensively over a 4 week period to define the problem and the road to success, with the support of industry and tech experts.
04.
Incubation
The challenges of the growth stage will be faced during a 5 month incubation period, covering sales, scalability, pivoting and funding, in which startups must overcome the “valley of death” and flourish as a success story.
Cities of tomorrow
We are looking for scientists and entrepreneurs to solve our new challenge.
01.
Collision weekend
The first step to success is engaging the best talent and building up the best teams. Selected participants will meet during an intensive weekend ending with a number of high performing teams.
02.
Bootcamp
The high performing teams will work intensively over a 4 week period to define the problem and the road to success, with the support of industry and tech experts.
03.
Venture Builder
After 4 months, each team will become part of a full startup builder program. Each startup could receive up to €150k in seed funding.
04.
Incubation
The challenges of the growth stage will be faced during a 5 month incubation period, covering sales, scalability, pivoting and funding, in which startups must overcome the “valley of death” and flourish as a success story.
Cities of tomorrow
We are looking for scientists and entrepreneurs to solve our new challenge.
Cities of tomorrow
We are looking for you
Entrepreneurs
If you have an entrepreneurial profile and remarkable experience in the creation of startups or you are a business professional with capacity to undertake or to develop a new venture.
Scientists
If you have a scientific profile and are linked to a research group from a University or Research Center, with relevant knowledge in the fields of technologies: AI, IoT, VR / AR, Blockchain…
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Creating disruptive startups
Every stage of the startups creation process is supported by our experts
Our experts
Pep Viladomat
CEO and Co-Founder
at Heywood & Sons
Antonio Dávila
Accounting and Control
at IESE business school
Jose Manuel Pérez
CEO & Co-Founder
at Product LAB
Pol Hortal
Managing Partner
at First Programs
Xavier Verdaguer
CEO and Founder
at Imagine creative center
Eduard Alarcón
Vice President
at IEEE Circuits
Pere Condom
Director
at Catalunya Emprèn
Collaborating institutions
FAQs
The Collider venture builder program consists of identifying business opportunities and creating entrepreneurial team’s to lead highly innovative tech startups. The Collider acts as a CoFounder to the startups, and offers the platform and resources needed to facilitate the success of incubated projects.
As an entrepreneur, you must dedicate yourself full time to the project, from the team’s creation phase at the Collision Weekend. From here, you will participate in the conception and validation of the market opportunity, the creation of the startup and execution of the action plan agreed with The Collider’s team.
If the validation of the business opportunity is positive and your profile is sufficient to carry it out the role, you will be nominated as the CoFounder of the created startup meaning you will have an important role to play.
As a scientist, you must dedicate yourself full time to the project, from the team’s creation phase at the Collision Weekend. From here, you will participate in the conception and validation of the market opportunity, the creation of the startup and execution of the action plan agreed with The Collider’s team.
Your role will be based on maximizing your unique knowledge to make technology a marketable product.
If the validation of the business opportunity is positive and your profile is sufficient to carry it out the role, you will
be nominated as the CoFounder of the created startup meaning you will have an important role to play.
As one of the selected to take part in The Collider, this does not automatically guarantee that you are going to become the CoFounder of a future company.
To finally decide whether to create the startup or not, you must have validated that a business opportunity exists and demonstrate that you have the profile needed to join a team of CoFounder’s.
Not really. Ideas should arise and materialize during the Collision Weekend and throughout the following phase of Bootcamp. However, there is no problem if the participant wishes to expose his his or her idea during the process.
Pier01 is a technological hub of 10,000m2 located in the Palau de Mar Building overlooking Port of Barcelona, housing more than 80 companies and 1,000 professionals.
This initiative was created by Barcelona Tech City to turn the city into a global technological hub. CoFounders will be required to move into the offices of the Mobile World Capital Foundation at Pier01 during the period of the incubation process.
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