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Summer Entrepreneurship Program (SEP)

Vali Berlin - The Entrerpreneurship Hub
Satellite
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

calendar

April 6 - June 27

Program
blended

Face-to-face and virtual

Format
hourglass

March 7th, 2025

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

Program

Team work in green
Phase 1 (on-site)

Teambuilding and problem identification

April 15-28, 2024

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.

Ideate meet
Phase 2 (virtual)

Validation and Problem-Solution Fit

April 29 - June 23, 2024

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.

Vali Demo Day
Phase 3 (on site)

Fundraising strategy and pitching

June 24 - July 5, 2024

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.

Vali Berlin Alumni

Disrupting 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.

Marie 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."

Visit their website

We contribute to solving global challenges like wildfires by providing real-time insights for prevention using Robotics and AI. Pushing robotics and AI technology beyond the limits to solve important issues is at the core of our company.

Andres Jimenez and Jhorman Perez
Co-founders of Robbi

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

Baris Efe

Manager & Co-founder at Vali Berlin - Entreprenurship Hub at ESMT

Henry Sauermann

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

Juanita Corredor

Program Manager at Vali Berlin - Entreprenurship Hub at ESMT