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Summer Entrepreneurship Program (SEP)

Vali Berlin - The Entrerpreneurship Hub
April 17 - July 7, 2023

Make this summer count

Deadline March 19

Apply now to the Summer Entrepreneurship Program at Vali Berlin - Entrepreneurship Hub at ESMT

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The launchpad for ideas and tech teams with global ambitions.

The SEP helps entrepreneurial talents to develop and elaborate their own startup ideas: finding co-founders, identifying trends and problems, finding and building solutions, and pitching in front of Venture Capitalists (VCs) and business angels. On Demo Day, the talents and teams will present and pitch their vision in front of an audience and a jury to win €5,000 prize money.

Overview
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April 17 - July 7
Program
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Face-to-face and virtual
Format
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March 19, 2023
Application deadline

  • Target Group

    We are looking for talents that strive to become entrepreneurs and tackle the largest problems of our time. We are especially looking forward to working with:

    • Technologists
    • Entrepreneurial-driven generalist/business person
    • Industry experts
    • Other (e.g. design)

  • Value Proposition

    During the program, you will

    • Connect with tech and business talents and potential co-founders
    • Gain valuable insights into trends, technologies, and sustainability
    • Identify and validate significant problem opportunities and solutions,
    • Develop landing pages, prototypes and an MVPs,
    • Receive mentorship and coaching, and
    • Meet the Vali network, including students and alumni of ESMT.

  • Highlights

    • Participation is free
    • Pitch your idea in front of an expert and investor jury
    • The winning team wins prize money and a spot at the ESMT Demo Day

Target Group

We are looking for talents that strive to become entrepreneurs and tackle the largest problems of our time. We are especially looking forward to working with:

  • Technologists
  • Entrepreneurial-driven generalist/business person
  • Industry experts
  • Other (e.g. design)

Value Proposition

During the program, you will

  • Connect with tech and business talents and potential co-founders
  • Gain valuable insights into trends, technologies, and sustainability
  • Identify and validate significant problem opportunities and solutions,
  • Develop landing pages, prototypes and an MVPs,
  • Receive mentorship and coaching, and
  • Meet the Vali network, including students and alumni of ESMT.

Highlights

  • Participation is free
  • Pitch your idea in front of an expert and investor jury
  • The winning team wins prize money and a spot at the ESMT Demo Day

Program

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Phase-1 - on-site

Teambuilding and problem identification

During the first phase of the Summer Entrepreneurship Program, our batch will receive a number of workshops and coaching sessions to identify an idea and problem and find potential co-founders.

During the first phase of the Summer Entrepreneurship Program, our batch will receive a number of workshops and coaching sessions to identify an idea and problem and find potential co-founders.

Phase-1
on-site
Phase-2
virtual
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Phase-2 - virtual

Validation and Problem-Solution Fit

During the second phase, teams will validate the problem and market opportunity through customer discovery. We help teams in hypotheses testing, prototyping and developing their MVP, by coaching, mentoring and providing access to the ESMT and Vali network.

During the second phase, teams will validate the problem and market opportunity through customer discovery. We help teams in hypotheses testing, prototyping and developing their MVP, by coaching, mentoring and providing access to the ESMT and Vali network.

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Phase 3 - on-site

Fundraising strategy and pitching

During the last phase of the program, participants prepare their fundraising strategy, financials and their pitch deck to pitch their idea in front of investors.

During the last phase of the program, participants prepare their fundraising strategy, financials and their pitch deck to pitch their idea in front of investors.

Phase 3
on-site

Program

Phase-1
on-site
x
Phase-1 - on-site

Teambuilding and problem identification

During the first phase of the Summer Entrepreneurship Program, our batch will receive a number of workshops and coaching sessions to identify an idea and problem and find potential co-founders.

During the first phase of the Summer Entrepreneurship Program, our batch will receive a number of workshops and coaching sessions to identify an idea and problem and find potential co-founders.

Phase-2
virtual
x
Phase-2 - virtual

Validation and Problem-Solution Fit

During the second phase, teams will validate the problem and market opportunity through customer discovery. We help teams in hypotheses testing, prototyping and developing their MVP, by coaching, mentoring and providing access to the ESMT and Vali network.

During the second phase, teams will validate the problem and market opportunity through customer discovery. We help teams in hypotheses testing, prototyping and developing their MVP, by coaching, mentoring and providing access to the ESMT and Vali network.

Phase 3
on-site
x
Phase 3 - on-site

Fundraising strategy and pitching

During the last phase of the program, participants prepare their fundraising strategy, financials and their pitch deck to pitch their idea in front of investors.

During the last phase of the program, participants prepare their fundraising strategy, financials and their pitch deck to pitch their idea in front of investors.

SEP Alumni
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Marie Kober and Ulas Türkmen

Senvo_JPGDisrupting the logistics industry

Senvo is a B2B SaaS solution for logistic departments across industries built by a team with more than 10+ years industry experience. Senvo automates manual processes and aggregates data, so that customers can optimize their logistic performance and spend while reducing their carbon footprint.

 

Vali_SEP_MarieMarie Kober - Founder at Senvo, MBA2022

"During my time at ESMT, I took a deep-dive into Berlin’s vibrant startup ecosystem. Building up a network of successful founders and partaking in ESMT’s Incubator Vali Berlin was a great source of inspiration and fueled my motivation to start Senvo."

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Interested?

Application deadline: Mar. 19, 2023

Apply here

SEP Past Events

  • Events (examples)

    • Opportunity and Trend recognition, Mega Trends
    • Sustainability and SDG 
    • Agile Work in Teams
    • How to talk to customers
    • How to develop an MVP
    • No-Code Hackathon
    • Pitching
    • Business Angel investment
    • VC funding
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Baris Efe
Marie Kober and Julie Rosenfeld, founders of SENVO
Vali Berlin scholarships

Vali offers Female Founders and entrepreneurship scholarships for full-time MBA students working at their own company or proactively exploring new business ideas.

Learn more
Introducing Vali Berlin, the entrepreneurship hub at ESMT

In episode #13 of Campus 10178, the ESMT Berlin podcast, Baris talks about how Vali Berlin was created, the development of its SEP, and where it fits in Berlin’s startup ecosystem.

Listen to the podcast
Summer Entrepreneurship Program 2021 - Demo Day

SENVO wins €5,000 prize money at Vali Berlin’s Demo Day at ESMT Berlin

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Contact

Baris Efe

Manager & Co-founder at Vali Berlin - Entreprenurship Hub at ESMT
+49 30 212 31 1649

Henry Sauermann

ESMT Chair in Entrepreneurship & Academic Director at Vali Berlin - Entrepreneurship Hub at ESMT

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