Help Us Take Customer Engagement to New Heights
We’re looking for startups that leverage the latest technology to help increase customer engagement.
Our business partners:
Enhance Your Customer Engagement Solution with StartSmart CEE’s Accelerator Program
Customer engagement is one of the biggest business challenges for any business.
At our Accelerator Program, we’re looking for startups looking for ways to boost sales, activate customers more efficiently, and build lasting relationships by seamlessly integrating and synchronizing interactions across various touchpoints.
During the Program, you’ll work alongside one of our corporate partners on building your proof of concept and scaling your idea.
You’ll also get access to resources, R&D support, networking opportunities, and expertise you need to turn your idea into a business and establish its market position.
Why join our Customer Engagement Accelerator Program?
Work alongside business professionals and industry experts. Get marketing, business, and tech insights and advice and leverage it to scale your business faster.
Leverage your partner’s vast resources to test how your innovation performs in a real business scenario.
Get access to a wealth of customer engagement and behavior data from your accelerator partner. Use it to optimize and improve your product.
Tap into your corporate partner’s R&D resources and get the support you need to speed up the development of your solution.
Work alongside the biggest names in your industry. “Borrow” their brand credibility and build a trust-worthy brand even before your product hits the market.
Join an MIT-affiliated Startup Accelerator Program, access a wealth of resources, and grow your startup while keeping 100% ownership over your startup.
Get a chance to win tickets to our Berlin or London Startup Expansion Week. Network with potential investors and service providers, and scale your business internationally.
Get a chance to get your first high-value client even before you finish the accelerator.
Our Corporate Partners
Novartis
Novartis is a multinational healthcare and pharmaceutical company employing around 110,000 people around the world with three manufacturing facilities in Poland alone. Every year, its products reach around 800 million people globally. Novartis is constantly looking for ways to bridge the gap between online and offline channels, enabling it to deliver personalized and consistent experiences to customers throughout their journey. As our partner in the Customer Engagement Accelerator Program, they’re looking for startups that can help solve the following challenge:
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Piątnica
Piatnica is a dairy processing cooperative located in north-eastern Poland. With revenues exceeding €500 million, it is Poland’s third largest dairy. Its product portfolio is comprised of over 150 packaged consumer products including cottage cheese, cream, yogurts, curd cheese and fresh milk marketed under Piatnica brand on domestic and international markets. The cooperative holds leading market positions in multiple product categories and is regularly purchased by over 90% of domestic households.
Who should apply?
There are thousands of startups operating in the customer engagement industry. What makes your idea different from all those looking to scale?
Your idea should address one of our corporate partner’s key challenges (and be able to potentially solve it).
To get admitted, your idea needs to have market traction or at least a functioning, testable prototype.
You’re open to bringing the idea to market by entering a commercialization agreement with your corporate partner.
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Help Our Corporate Partner Skyrocket their Customer Engagement
High customer engagement is the key to building long-term brand loyalty and increasing sales.
At StartSmart CEE (formerly MIT Enterprise Forum CEE), we’re working with established businesses that are looking for innovative startups that can help them solve their customer engagement challenges.
If you have an innovative idea that can help our partners improve their customer engagement in areas that are critical to them – apply today to Poland’s only MIT-affiliated Startup Accelerator Program
Application Guide
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Grow your Customer Engagement Innovation with StartSmart CEE Acceleration Program
Years of experience and 300 success stories have taught us a lot about scaling startups.
Apply today to one of our Accelerator Programs, let us help you scale yours, and become our next success story!