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INSEAD Startup Bootcamp
The INSEAD Startup Bootcamp is an intensive and interactive weekend of training designed to test one’s entrepreneurial appetite and jumpstart the entrepreneurial adventure. Participants learn the building blocks of what it takes to create their own venture from the ground-up, including idea generation, team formation, business validation, pitching to investors and more. Set early in the INSEAD experience, the Startup Bootcamp is an invaluable first step in a student’s entrepreneurial journey at INSEAD.
Registration for the Online Startup Bootcamp are now open :
- Europe Campus Startup Bootcamp - FULLY BOOKED (online based on the CET time zone) : 17 - 19 February, 2023 : INSEAD Online Startup Bootcamp 17 - 19 February 2023 Tickets, Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
Asia Campus Startup Bootcamp (on-site on the SGT time zone): 17 - 19 February, 2023: INSEAD Startup Bootcamp for MBA 23D Tickets available here.
Asia Campus Startup Bootcamp (on-site on the SGT time zone): 24 to 26 February, 2023: INSEAD Startup Bootcamp for GEMBA 24A.
Europe + Abu Dhabi Startup Bootcamp (online based on the CET time zone) : 3 - 5 March 2023 : INSEAD Online Startup Bootcamp 3 - 5 March 2023 Tickets, Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
Note: The content of the bootcamp will be delivered and lead by different set of bootcamp leader(s) on the respective campus. There will be a time difference for the online version of the bootcamp. Please be aware of the correct timezone before confirming your registration and payment.
How can you register?
INSEAD Startup Bootcamp for GEMBA 24A - Asia Campus, Singapore | 24 to 26 February 2023.
Sign up for a weekend of intense learning with experienced entrepreneurs as they take you through the process of ideation to building a business towards a final pitch in front of real investors, all in 48 hours.
Kick off on a Friday night, understand how to ideate, kill a few ideas in search of the final bright spark that will be turned, twisted and teased into a real business proposition, ready to be served up to an experienced jury by Sunday night.
You will discover new concepts, markets, value proposition together with a team that you will choose to be part of. You may have an idea that may or may not make it to the final round. However, you will learn how to develop, structure, solidify your story into a pitch and you may well feel a tiny sense of the adrenaline rush that entrepreneurs face while building a new venture! You will walk away from weekend with hands-on venture building experience, tons of confidence, and possibly a real cheque.
Online Bootcamps, Fontainebleau | 17 - 19 February 2023
Learn the tools and start-up thinking to equip you to start and accelerate your entrepreneurial journey. Whether you are a start-up novice or an entrepreneur with some experience, book your tickets now for the ONLINE INSEAD Centre for Entrepreneurship Start-up Bootcamp and be prepared to:
• sanity check start-up ideas
• build teams that deal with uncertainty
• practice managing internal conflicts
• validate start-up risk appetite
• practice idea generation to pitch
• take-away frameworks
• test entrepreneurial acumen
• pitch to investors and entrepreneurs as the grand finale
This is "minimum viable product" throughout – identical to the start-up world. There won’t be time to fully validate your theories or fine tune your outputs – we encourage you to explore other activities offered by ICE to further your entrepreneurship experience. This workshop will inspire you to explore entrepreneurship more deeply or encourage you to pursue entrepreneurship in a more structured environment - such as Corporate Innovation, Venture Capitalism or Angel Investing. Many past participants have gone on to found ventures and still quote the Start-up Bootcamp as the moment of both igniting and crystallising their entrepreneurial mindset; come and join the gang!
Online Bootcamps, Abu Dhabi | 3 - 5 March 2023
You will discover new concepts, markets, value proposition together with a team that you will choose to be part of. You may have an idea that may or may not make it to the final round. However, you will learn how to develop, structure, solidify your story into a pitch and you may well feel a tiny sense of the adrenaline rush that entrepreneurs face while building a new venture! You will walk away from weekend with hands-on venture building experience, tons of confidence, and possibly a real cheque.
Testimonials
Recent winners
Startup Bootcamp Winner - GetIn
25 - 27 November 2022, Europe
GetIn helps tech companies recruit fast and precise.
Team : Ali Badr (GEMBA23), Janet Tong (MBA23D), Ann Liao (MBA23D), Guillaume Edery (GEMBA23).
Startup Bootcamp Winner - WePlan
16 - 18 September 2022, Europe
Myalo is a full-stack mental health solution for the workplace that leverages technology for engagement, personalization and efficacy.
Team (MBA23Js): Harshvardhan Mehta, Mikael Berthiaume, Adil Haider, François Elvinger.
Startup Bootcamp Winner - WePlan
9 - 11 September 2022, Asia
60% of marriages fail in Shanghai. One of the main reasons is their inability of discussing and planning finances together. WePlan helps Chinese couples navigate financial worries to achieve their dreams through budgeting, advisory, and having meaningful conversations as a team.
Team (MBA23Js): Angel Liu, Danny Murthi, Eng Hwee Tan, Katherine Kaiser, Mohammed Siddiqui &
Sunny Sun
Startup Bootcamp Winner - ClaraC
10 to 12 June 2022, Europe
The winning venture ClaraC revolutionises the global food industry through transparency of climate impact data and empowers food consumers to make climate impactful decisions.
Team (MBA23J): Nico Hutton, Iris Zhao and Carel van der Linden
Startup Bootcamp Winner - PolarSocial
25 to 27 February 2022, Asia
PolarSocial is a B2B platform that brings frictionless, personalized matching experience to facilitate employee engagement. It strives to empower organizations to create a more engaged, cohesive and transparent workforce through career development, mentoring, friendships, activities, cross functional skilling, culture building and social dynamics analytics.
Team: (GEMBA23A) Jack Feng, Jyane Quek, Kedar Gutikkar, Kristin Unbehend and Meizi Yan
Startup Bootcamp Winner - Nellie Box
18 to 20 February 2022, Europe
Nellie Box is a toy rental service that helps parents to structure pre-school development for their children in a fun and engaging manner
Team: Nikitha Mannam, Kirren Senivassen and Agnes Li (MBA'22D)
Startup Bootcamp Winner - Near & Dear
18 to 20 February 2022, Asia
Near&Dear brings people apart together - by digitally connecting long-distance relationships. Watch movies together, synchronize your calendars, buy curated gifts, and never forget your anniversary again! All in one easy-to-use and intuitive platform.
Team: (MBA'22D) Jasmen Yew, Kam Chow, Nathalie Beken and Tanuj George
Startup Bootcamp Winners - Sprout & Careero
3 to 5 December 2021, Europe
Sprout empowers households and enterprises to own and maintain indoor gardens.
Team Members: Ammar H Malik, Jerome Clavel, Liyun Wang, Mishti Vora (MBA'22D)
Careero provides access to high quality career role models to improve job happiness
Team Members: Fadi Azzi, Magdalena Hijaz-Ferreira, Windy Des Nadian (GEMBA'23), Miguel dos Santos Godinho (MBA'22D)
Startup Bootcamp Winners - VOA & SENSATE
24 to 26 September 2021, Europe
- VOA is a ready to drink meal replacement that will allow Latin Americans to have a nutritious meal when they are time-pressured. It is plant-based, organic and contains the perfect mix of nutrients needed to live a healthy life.
Team members: Cadu Mendes De Almeida, Kathia Saavedra, Darragh Hyland (MBA'22J) And Patrick Pfeiffer (MIM'22)
- SENSATE is a subtle tracking sensor placed underneath the traditional watch and an elegant app with pairing capabilities and real-time information sharing.
Team members (MBA'22J): Amaya Mugica Ortiz, Maximilian Ebner, Anjum Rangwala and Janine Bacher
Startup Bootcamp Winner - Smooothie
24 to 26 September 2021, Asia
Smooothie understands that talent is the only differentiating factor in business. It’s mission is to foster strong relationships in the workplace though fun activities and creating awesome work communities. The Smoothie app will create synergetic connections and engagement between companies, employees and service providers.
Team members (MBA22J): Christopher Wong, Harry Lee, Pearl Sun and Takuya Hata
Startup Bootcamp Winners - ZIZOO & PRUDENT HEALTH
13 to 15 August 2021, Europe
- ZIZOO is an online footbal shirts resale market place
Team members (MBA'22J): Alberto Marega, Ivan Suriady, Koffi Koumi andFerdinand Issels
- Prudent Health is a wearable medical biosensors can provide monitoring of patients vital signs via wirelessly capturing transmitting physiological data over a 5-Day duration, with remote data access in hospital, ambulatory and home settings.
Team members: Nancy Li, Kelly An (MBA'22J) and Vignesh Pitchiah (GEMBA'23)
Startup Bootcamp Winner - Convivial
29 to 31 January 2021, Asia
With the rise of remote working culture and the recent demographic shifts to the suburbs, Convivial proposes to take advantage of the current surplus suburban mall space by creating private co-working spaces in shopping malls. Finding a productive place to work should be as easy as finding a Starbucks.
Team members (MBA21D): Alban Karila , Alexander Hoffman, David Lee, Mourad Mzah
ONLINE Startup Bootcamp Winner - ReTatters
11 to 13 December 2020, Europe
"ReTatters" is a service provider and application that collects used clothing from consumers & corporates and sells them to recycling operators.
Team : Elif Nisa Kaya (MBA'21J), Aditi Surana, Danielle Rodriguez and Raghav Gupta (MBA'21Ds)
ONLINE Startup Bootcamp Winner - EcoZaar
4 to 6 December 2020, Europe
"EcoZaar" is an online marketplace connecting conscious consumers & sustainable brands, featuring vetted retail partners and easy-to-understand sustainability ratings
Team : Vishakha Chopra, David Benito Viloria, Sahil Bahl (MBA'21Ds) and Kristin Binder (MBA'21J)
Startup Bootcamp Winner - Work Cocoon
20 to 22 November 2020, Asia
Work Cocoon’s vision is to Reinvent the future of the Work Place at home. As employees are forced to work at home during Covid-19, Work Coccon will work with employers to provide ergonomic office furniture for home use – with the aim of increasing productivity, employee retention, and comfort.
Team (GEMBA21A): Annalisa Dass, Borja Gomez, Carolyn So, Vibhor Gupta
ONLINE Startup Bootcamp Winner - Branche
6 to 8 November 2020, Europe
"Branche" provides a bio-inspired equipment for optimal traction movements (calisthenics), allowing
full body work out at home.
Team : Camille Cassard, Alexandre Barroux (MIM'21), and Keith Martin (TIEMBA'21)
Startup Bootcamp Winner #2 - Edutime
23-25 October 2020, Asia
During Covid-19 pandemic, as many parent struggle with work from home and having to take care of their children at the same time. EduTime provides the perfect solution to free up parent’s time through virtual and active child care in a meaningful way. EduTime will focus on children aged 2-6 years old and provide on demand virtual active and educational experiences as well as age specific modalized content.
Team (MBA21Js): Antonina Babych, Rebecca Kane, Carrie Li, Emanuel Berger
Startup Bootcamp Winner #1 - Seed Meadows
23-25 October 2020, Asia
Singapore produces 774 tons of food waste a year, and imports 90% of its food. This results in expensive and not the freshest of produce. The country is facing a major food paradox – the need for food but careless wasting. Seed Meadows attempts to close the loop by introducing a “Waste to Farm to Table” vertical farming system where food waste is converted into nutrients naturally with the help of earthworms and fish. 1% of Singapore’s food waste can produce 7.7 tons of basil lettuce, 3.6 tons of tomato and 150kg of Tilapia. Seed Meadows aims to be the market leader in helping Singapore achieve its goal of producing 30% of its food by 2030!
Team (MBA21Js): BingLing Xu, Matthew Janda, Nga Vu, Vivek Prekumar
Startup Bootcamp Winner - Top Spin
28 Feb to 1 March 2020, Europe
Athleisure brand that puts tennis back in the center of the industry by repurposing discarded tennis equipment into the manufacturing of clothing and footwear.
Team (MBA’20Ds): Guillaume Valla, Oriol Navales, Manuel Puig
Startup Bootcamp Winner - Mosaic Farm
21 Feb to 23 Feb 2020, Europe
Our network of urban, distributed hydroponic farms combined with a tech-enabled platform efficiently matches supply & demand within a city (<5 miles farm to plate).
Customers become urban farmers, we aggregate and sell their products.
Team (MBA’20Ds): Aleem Mawji, Aubrey Keller, Marcell Zambo, Marco De Grazia
Startup Bootcamp Winner - Beyond Tomorrow
14-16 February 2020, Asia
Beyond Tomorrow’s vision is to be the trusted partner to celebrate life and organise legacy. Beyond Tomorrow questions the problem of how can we gather the memories and logistics of our loved ones as they approach the end of their lives. Beyond Tomorrow will offer help to capture memories, centralize information, and deliver professional services for funerals, will execution and more.
Team: Ginny Fahs, Simon Pannatier, Alex Shmuilovish, Pedro Galindo (all MBA'20D) & Mehar Nangia (MBA'20J)
Startup Bootcamp Winner - ARTEK
13-15 February 2020, Middle East
ARTEK provides the highest quality digital frame available, coupled with a Fine Art digital marketplace, connecting consumers to museums, galleries and new artists around the world.
Team: Gabriela Nowak (GEMBA21), Matthew Nobles (GEMBA Partner), Dr. Axel York Poschmann (GEMBA21)
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