September, 15th 2015 – €2.2 Million to accelerate further 22 European FIWARE-based startups. IMPACT Accelerator launches today its third and last Open Call for innovative ideas and projects based on FIWARE technology related to the Mobile Internet. Start-ups and Web Entrepreneurs interested in the program can submit their projects up until October 15th through the Funding Box Platform: www.fundingbox.com/p/impact-accelerator/. The most innovative and high-growth ventures will receive around €100,000 per project without equity consideration (split into €90,000 funding + €10,000 in services) and a 6-month specialized Mentoring & Training program.

Since the beginning, IMPACT, the EU consortium composed by Buongiorno (via its accelerator b-ventures) ISDI, Seaya Ventures and Teknologiudvikling ApS., has accelerated 42 projects in total and the aim is to be accelerating up to 64 startups by the end of 2016, for a total amount of €6.4M.

IMPACT accelerator is consolidating an acceleration process based on transparency and high performance which has been satisfactorily evaluated by the Startups participating in the first wave. The training program has been evaluated with 8,2 points out to 10, and the Mentoring Program 9,4 out to 10 and, in general, IMPACT has gotten a Net Promoter Score of 84% which means that more than 80% of startups  participating are really satisfied with IMPACT. In the two past Open Calls, IMPACT received the highest number of proposals among all the accelerators.

Find more information about the Open Call at their webpage or submit your project here.