KisStartup

KisStartup in collaboration with KisImpact is implementing an incubation program for cultural and heritage-based startup projects.

Participants: 

• Cultural and heritage-based startup projects
• Enterprises who want to develop new products and services on the basis of culture and heritage
• Organizations/communities who wish to build new programs and business models on the basis of culture and heritage

Our main activities:

• Training: Being trained on how to use tools to identify and build a business model based on culture and heritage
• Coaching: being offered step-by-step instructions to apply the knowledge trained on the project directly 
• Early stage investment: being provided direct investment in projects with soft and financial support.
• Accompanying and developing projects through startup mentors, professional advisors: last for 4-10 years
• Networking: being provided important network connections to help the project develop, including partners, customers, and programs implemented at KisStartup & KisImpact

Please fill out the registration form by following the link: HERE

Application opening: 01.03.2023 

Application deadline: 23.03.2023

Contact: Ms. Xuan  (+84.396292442)

Email: hello@kisstartup.com

After 06 consecutive years of training in INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP for startups, SMEs, and universities for hundreds of founders and lecturers, in 2021 KisStartup started testing e-learning courses. After the successes and lessons learned from experimentation, in 2022, KisStartup officially opened the e-learning course on INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP on the Thinkific platform.

On this platform, participants will have multiple choices of courses that are suitable for their abilities and knowledge as well as their own experience.
There are more than 40 modules that follow the steps of a startup project from Ideation -  Validation - Growth with the following contents around:
 - Innovation, design thinking, lean startup
- Developing Entrepreneurship innovation projects
- Manage and measure project impact
- Lesson learned from case studies (exclusive case studies from KisStartup)

You will have access to modules of Entrepreneurship innovation with the price equivalent of university credit.

KisStartup's course is suitable for young startups, lecturers, and coaches who want to learn about innovative startups, and universities wishing to disseminate knowledge to lecturers and students about Entrepreneurship innovation.

Any interest please contact hello@kisstartup.com or 0982498095 (Zalo) for the best support.
 

On September 28th, at TECHFEST Hai Phong 2022 KisStartup was very pleased to meet the project 3D Construction Printing - QLAT with a completely new look after 5 months of coaching.

After 5 months of active working, 3D Construction Printing - QLAT no longer needs a push to move. Now they are confident in making plans and strategies and turning them into action for serving and seeking customers.

Congratulations to QLAT 3D Printing and Hai Phong University for their stable and brightening movements.
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3D Construction Printing - QLAT led by Dr. Pham Thi Loan from Hai Phong University accompanied by KisStartup through the RnD Vietnam program - Pre-Incubation phase to help the project commercialize the results research by finding business models and effectively cooperating with partners, businesses, organizations, etc. After 3 weeks of participating in the #RnDVietnam - Pre-Incubation phase, the project had made valuable changes when it came to defining goals, clearly analyzing and streamlining the team, and having more potential customers.

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The Workshop of "Open Innovation in Lecturers - Students - Schools: Creating a Wave of Innovation in Education", in order to create and promote the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to strengthen the connection and sharing of resources for developing the innovation ecosystem in higher education institutions has been organized on September 19, 2022, by Hong Duc University in coordination with NATEC, Ministry of Science and Technology, and KisStarup Joint Stock Company. 

Within the framework of the program, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Bui Van Dung - Rector of the University and Ms. Nguyen Dang Tuan Minh - Head of Corporate Open Innovation Technology Village, Techfest 2022, Founder and CEO of KisStartup signed a memorandum of cooperation on building and developing ecosystems for HDU and startups in Thanh Hoa province.

Accordingly, KisStartup will cooperate with the school to develop MISP-HDU, an incubation and acceleration program for the promotion of innovative startup solutions for SMEs and Micro enterprises in Thanh Hoa, and at the same time connecting solutions of startups to serve SMEs and Micro-enterprises through testing and developing the market in Thanh Hoa.

KisStartup also cooperates with the school to promote the commercialization of research results from the university through KisStartup's Vietnam RnD incubation program and to improve the capacity of faculty and students in innovation.

Hong Duc University with its strength as a multidisciplinary university, located in the ecosystem of more than 25,000 small and medium enterprises in Thanh Hoa will have the potential to become an innovation center in the North Central region.
The signing ceremony was conducted in the presence of Mr. Pham Hong Quat, Director of NATEC, Ministry of Science and Technology and other stakeholders in the startup ecosystem.

From February 1, 2021 to the end of 2021, the representative of KisStartup, Ms. Nguyen Dang Tuan Minh, will participate in the program "NEWTON FUND’S LEADERS IN INNOVATION FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMME " (LIF) in Vietnam, which has supported the above 70 researchers in their path to bringing research products from the laboratory to the market.

The LIF7 program is co-implemented by the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) with the Royal British Academy of Technology. LIF6 includes training on research commercialization, experience sharing and networking activities in Vietnam, and a 2-week training course from March 9-20, 2020 in the UK.

The program consists of three components: Capacity Building, Research and Transfer. In Vietnam, the British Council is currently working with Vietnamese government funding agencies and organizations to implement the Capacity Building component to facilitate international cooperation and professional development. individuals and research organizations in Vietnam's development priority fields such as:

Health and life sciences
Agriculture
Environment and energy
Future city
Digital technology, innovation and creativity
Within the framework of the program, KisStartup targets accompanying and developing a program to support capacity building and commercialization of products and services from research results of researchers from institutes and schools. Hoping to develop the first version of the Vietnam Commercialization Acceleration Program in 2021, we believe that the KisStartup representative participating in the program will help us gain the necessary skills, experience and network. to contribute more effectively to the Vietnamese startup ecosystem, especially the commercialization of research results from institutes and schools.

Source: https://www.britishcouncil.vn/cac-chuong-trinh/giao-duc/khoa-hoc-doi-moi...

On 19.05.2020 KisStartup officially ended 05 days of intensive training on Innovation in Business Model with Online Marketing with 08 cooperatives across the country in the support program of non-profit organization of Agriterra. The class was organized online to create favorable conditions in terms of time and cost for the cooperatives.

During 05 days of intensive training and practice, cooperatives have the opportunity to learn about their business models and simultaneously approach Online Marketing from the most basic understanding and step by step transform their business model from traditional sales model to the mixed model of online and offline channels.

After 5 days of intensive training and continuous practice, cooperatives have achieved remarkable results through testing Online Marketing via Facebook. Thanks to the relentless efforts of members of the cooperative group, after the training session 03 there have been very significant results. For example, there are cooperatives who have received orders for up to 02 tons of coffee after 3 days training. 

At the end of the intensive training, cooperatives will meet 1: 1 with KisStartup to work out the action plan and KPIs implemented in the next 06 months with the goal of promoting Online Marketing to increase sales.

After the 5-session course, KisStartup is committed to continuing to support the cooperatives in 01 month. In addition, the most hard-working cooperative was also given a ticket to join the NETA batch 2 Internship & Recruitment Alliance 2. In June 2020, after studying and the online channels and customer database in way, the cooperative that receives the award will receive trainees to support and strengthen the Online Marketing part of its cooperative.

Center for Food and Beverage Innovation (CFBI) is powered by Restaurant Association Vietnam in partnership with KisStartup as a key operation partner. With a smooth combination of a strong network of food and beverage suppliers, restaurants, and investors with years of experience in innovation, CFBI offers food and beverage-related projects, startups, and existing enterprises a unique resource to accelerate their companies. The CFBI will be officially launched at Asia Food & Beverage Summit 2020 in HCMC this year with series of exciting activities. 

OUR MISSION: 

• Seek and nurture food and beverage-related innovative projects, startups, and existing enterprises that are rooted in the Asian region and dedicated to making their community a better world. 

• Connect food and beverage-related innovative projects, startups, and existing enterprises to essential resources and network 

RESOURCES for INNOVATION

• Mentors

• Experienced Advisors in Intellectual Property, Accounting, and etc. 

• Innovation Coaches 

• Business Matching between startups and investors, enterprises, suppliers, corporates

• Events

FOCUS 2020

In 2020, CFBI centers its focus on: 

• PARTNERSHIP:  As we all understand, we can not commit to our mission alone. This year, we aim to collaborate with universities, associations, corporates and supporting organizations at the local and international levels. 

• INCUBATION & ACCELERATION: As part of CFBI, we are eager to seek potential projects for our Incubation and Acceleration Program 2020 which is the first-of-its-kind program for projects in food and beverage industry in Vietnam
  
  To be qualified for CFBI Incubator and Accelerator, you have to: 

  • Be a food and/or beverage-related project/startup/existing enterprises
  • Have a team with at least two people 
  • Seek for funds or scale-up

• CONNECTION: After years of experience in business and investment matching, at CFBI, we continue to act as a trustworthy connector between innovative projects and corporates, suppliers, and investors who are keen on partnering with and/or invest in creative food/beverage-related solutions. Business and investment matching sessions are going to be organized throughout the year, ending with DEMO DAY where showcase innovative F&B solutions. 

CONTACT

For any inquiries, feel free to contact us via: 

Email: hello@kisstartup.com 

Mobile: +84.978.137.894 (Thao) 
 

On December 3, 2019, KisStartup assisted Vintech City in selecting and training projects within Vintech City's competition for university students as a part of Techfest 2019 in Quang Ninh.

The competition aims to find potential projects that need specialized support and resources to develop. Those projects came from universities that won support from Vintech City and other ones. As an Advisory partner, KisStartup helped the students redefine the business model, analyze the current state of the product and help you participate in pitching and interacting with the judges in the Q&A session.

Projects driven by scientific researches done by students, new models proved that innovation that comes from scientific research needs to be further strengthened.

On December 29, 2020, SME Mentoring 1on1 Hanoi operated by KisStartup organized Gala Diner to goodbye Year 2019. We would like to sincerely thank everyone for an emotional and wonderful evening. Thank you, Mai Pham and Huong Thao for your hard work for an interesting evening. Thank you for sharing and / or sending affection to the program.

Thanks to the special sponsors, the Nguyen Hong Oanh and Nguyen Tuan Linh, for the event.

Thanks to the beautiful voice of the mentee Hà Minh - Ha noi ngay tro ve

Thanks to the sincere sharing of all mentor-mentee. Thanks to a gift from Nguyen Phuong Lan 2 years ago, a mentee of the program, the book The Go-Giver, is a message of the program. We hope the mentees will find something useful in the book. Give-and-take is creating new and better values ​​together. Thank you, everyone, for everything.

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 In 2019, KisStartup cooperated with the University of Salento in Italy (Università del Salento) in bringing graduate students majoring in innovation and entrepreneurship to intern at KisStartup. The first trainee went through an internship at 3 startups.

Within the framework of the activity, trainees will be introduced through various innovative start-up models in Vietnam, from which they will learn about the model and support start-up groups in some areas such as international marketing and networking.

During the past 3 years, KisStartup has tested and developed trainee models at creative startups. These activities have received support from businesses and students. We hope to bring this program to a higher level. 

Neta_Internship Planet, initiated by KisStartup in 2020, will promote effective networking of startups, universities, and job markets in the near future.