About

Azores Accel is an accelerator tailored to foster scientific and technological transfer in the agri-food and biotechnology sectors, offering expert mentoring and support to startups that valorize the potential of the endogenous resources of the Azores.
Our aim is to foster value creation & early-stage launch, helping innovators focus on market facilitation and development. The selected startups will be trained, mentored and benefit from several services, accessing an ideal test-bed for the implementation of pilot projects in the Azores. This program is financed by the Regional Secretary for Culture, Science and Digital Transition from the Azores Regional Government, managed by Terinov, the Science and Technology Park from Terceira Island and powered by BGI, the leading Portuguese Business Accelerator.

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Why Azores Accel?

  • Expert national and international trainers and mentors
  • Pilot-oriented program with access to local infrastructures: 12-month free incubation period at TERINOV Science and Technology Park facilities
  • Unique entrepreneurial-friendly ecosystem: companies incorporated in the Azores can benefit from special regional tax regimes: IRC 20% lower and IRS up to 30% lower
  • Internationalization opportunities: TERINOV and BGI can provide a soft-landing in the United States and other markets, unlocking access to capital and global customers
  • Access to TERINOV and BGI’s investors network
Read our manifesto

Who?

  • Teams of entrepreneurs in the agri-food or biotechnological sectors based in Portugal or other countries
  • Strong focus on sustainable development and climate change mitigation
  • Early-stage companies that wish to incorporate in the Azores at the end of the program

When?

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Our Startups

  • BEESAGE

    BeeSage is a beehive monitoring system that maximises honey production by eliminating risks and enabling informed decisions. They give beekeepers new insights and optimise their workflow to make them more effective in taking care of their colonies and reducing bee mortality.

  • Boticário dos Açores

    BDA is a group of local citizens and permanent residents who are working to bring the almost-lost and “crushed” cultural heritage of herbal medicine back to life in the Azores.

  • Core Protein

    Core Protein is developing an isolated protein, using whey that is wasted during cheese production, and using “ugly fruit” as the flavour instead of a synthetic molecules. Therefore, this product would be 100% natural, benefiting the entire supply and production chain, providing customers with good quality whey protein, with the added benefit of consuming actual fruit, and, therefore, being able to personalize the nutritional value with the intake.

  • Plant on Demand

    Plant on Demand is the e-commerce, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), traceability, and logistics management platform for organic producers and the short food supply chain.

  • FHLUD

    FHLUD is an online platform where you can buy, sell and donate fresh vegetables and fruits. From local farmers to local consumers and institutions, their goal is to improve overall farming conditions and consumers health while reducing food waste.

  • MY WATER

    MYWATER rethinks urban hydration and reinvents cities’ public taps by offering contactless and seamless water refill service. With their solution, they want to achieve ZERO water, energy and plastic wastage!

Read our alumni testimonials

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I met BGI team after winning EIT Digital Venture Program and they have been exceptional in helping startups to thrive, providing startups with a valuable network of contacts. BGI is like a swiss army knife for startups in seeding phase: whatever you need they have it and gladly will help you to make the best use of it
Paulo Zoio
alumni of EIT Digital Venture Program from the 2020 edition
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The meetings with the mentors are being fenomenal and the networking & exchange of knowledge are one of the key things that we are taking from this week.
André Glória - CTO at genviot
Participant of BGI Accelerator 2019 edition
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One of the highlights we like the most I would say that are the mentoring sessions. It is the most crucial for us: to check our product and to think "what kind of story are we going to tell to our investors?"
Iwa Pawlak - COO and Founder at Smart Forest
Participant of BGI Accelerator 2019 edition
CONTACT

For more information and eligibility criteria, click here.

Have questions? Please send an email to: sofia.fernandes@bgi.pt

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Partners

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