Startup Your Point, the pre-acceleration of business ideas program of Startup Braga promoted in partnership with the Associação Académica da Universidade do Minho (AAUMinho), starts tomorrow, October 13th. The program will take place, for the first time, in an online format.

There are 10 projects in the areas of health, nanotechnology and digital economy that, for four days, will test, validate and define the business model through a set of workshops, taught by trainers linked to the Portuguese entrepreneurial ecosystem, and mentoring sessions, which include the participation of founders and CEOs of Startup Braga's community.

The workshops will be conducted by Pierre Gein, Executive Director of the Center for Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship of the Portuguese Catholic University, Manuel Fernandes, Business Advisor of EditValue, João Freitas, Head of Business Development HiJiffy, Tiago Almeida Nogueira, Marketing Manager of Follow, Nuno Ferreira, Head of Card Division of Uphold, Hugo Macedo, Founder and CEO of Smart Separations and Pedro Ferreira, Head of Delivery BJSS.

The mentoring sessions will count with the participation of entrepreneurs André Jordão, from Barkyn and winner of the award João Vasconcelos 2020, André Pimenta, from Anybrain, André Santos, from Nutrium, César Martins, from ChemiTek, Francisco Maia, from Keyruptive, Hugo Macedo, from Smart Separations, João Aroso, from Advert.io, João Marques, from Oscar, Pedro Almeida, from MindProber, Simão Soares, from SilicoLife and Vítor Soares, from Izirepair. Also, Elisabete Sá, professor at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Minho, and investment specialist Marcos Azeredo will join the work with the selected teams.

Remember that Startup Your Point is designed to help entrepreneurs who have a business idea based on technology and intends to encourage university students to create their own businesses, providing them with tools that allow the definition and validation of their business models.