Barcelona’s Largest Student Startup Acceleration Competition: 6 months to develop a startup idea from scratch and deep dive into Barcelona’s rich startup ecosystem.

Throughout their journey, each team will be accompanied by one of the mentors drawn from their respective professional landscape. In addition to mentoring, the teams will have the opportunity to attend several workshops with speakers to learn the steps of creating a startup. The experience culminates in a Final Gala where the five best teams will pitch their startup to a pool of investors and where the top three will be awarded prices to further their entrepreneurial journey.

This year’s IdeaUp is made up of five different workshops spread across the first few months:

• October 26 – HR, Recruitment and Talent Management: “How to get a team to work well together and align strategically?”
  – 10:00am to 2:00pm
  – Fusion Point – Esade Sant Cugat
• November 16 – Mentors and Team Networking and Pairing: “Set and decide ideas with the team, be ready to develop them”
• November 23 – Identifying and validating ideas. Business planning. Customer discovery and validation.
• February 15 – Product development and MVP
• March 1 – Sales and Marketing: “Training on go-to-market strategies, sales techniques, digital marketing, branding and growth marketing. Focused on market penetration and market-entry strategy“
• March 15 – Fundraising and Investor Relations: “Workshops on pitching investor meetings, understanding term sheets and raising capital“

• March 29 – Challenge Gala: The 5 best teams move on to the Final Gala.

• April 5 – Final Gala: The 5 best teams compete in order to choose the winner.