Co-hosted by the National Economics University (NEU)’s Centrefor Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Republic of Korea’s Nextransventure fund, and V-Startup, the programme aims to seek start-ups withpotential and provide them with capital, training, and market access.
The online training curriculum will feature interviews withCEOs and founders, as well as success and failure stories collected by foundersof successful start-ups and corporate executives of major tech firms.
A maximum of 100 start-ups with be entered into theprogramme, each with the chance of receiving 20,000 USD for their ideas. Oncompletion of achieving their original set goals, they could receive anadditional nearly 200,000 USD and enter the second round of funding fromNextrans’ global investors.
NEU Rector Tran Tho Dat said that in order to promoteentrepreneurship among students and new businesses, support from investors isneeded to turn their ideas into reality.
He suggested closer linkages between students and businessesto create products meeting market demand.–VNA