Project: Future Verticals
Initiator: launchlabs in cooperation with Vitosha venture Partners, Kaufland, DS Smith and Ocado Technology.
Concept: an innovative accelerator program that is: designed with corporates in mind, attractive to startups and open to the whole vertical.
Results: 17 participating startups, 15 new partnerships built between startups and corporations, 400K EUR raised and more - check the full report here link to report.
Quotes:
Sustainability and innovation can only go hand in hand. That’s what we do at Kaufland and that’s why we support Future Verticals mission - to accelerate sustainable innovation. The best part is that there are actual results in the form of partnerships and pilots between Kaufland and the startups.
- Ivan Chernev, CEO Kaufland Bulgaria
Future Verticals accelerator introduced us to the amazing startup companies. By working closely with them we peeked into their ways of working and picked up their speed. It forced us to accelerate our own innovation processes.
- Zvezdelina Lacheva, CEO DS Smith Bulgaria
Future verticals accelerator programme allowed us to get positively infected by the startup energy. The contact with people who are there to change the world was amazing and it fed right into our own efforts to promote Ocado innovation culture. Innovation is in our DNA and I truly believe that we cannot predict the future, but we can create a culture of innovation.
- Stanimir Hadzhiev, CEO Ocado Technology Bulgaria & Greece