The deadline for entries for the ongoing SHi Accelerator Journey (SHi-VTS 2022) programme launched by the Da Nang-based Songhan Incubator (SHi) is March 31.

The programme is open to startups in three groups of fields, namely tourism, food, agriculture (Group 1); information technology, education and communications (Group 2) and consumer goods, commerce, services and logistics (Group 3).

Participating in the SHi-VTS 2022, startup project developers will have the opportunity to improve their capacity through intensive training courses, and one-to-one counseling sessions with experts and advisors.

At the same time, they are facilitated to participate in national startup events, do some networking with investors and partners.

In addition, participants are eligible for free workspace services for four months, have the chance to receive investment up to US$100,000 USD/project and get support from Amazon Web Services and access other preferential schemes.

The programme is the right fit for projects which boast ambition to conquer larger markets and have the potential to regionally and internationally expand their operational scale.

In particular, SHi will continue to accompany the projects continuously for two years after the end of the programme with the goals of supporting them on such issues as market development, appealing for funding and divestment.

It is known that, after five years of implementation, SHi-VTS has supported many outstanding startup projects such as Deepcare which successfully raised capital in the Pre-series A Phase and Liberzy that called for VND5 billion worth of investment capital and developed 200,000 users in 2 years.

This year, with the support of many new investment funds, training courses within the programme will be organised flexibly alternating between online and offline forms in accordance with COVID-19 prevention and control rules.

Reporting by P. LAN – Translating by A.THU