Athar Green Program – 2022

About the program

Athar Green is a program for startups that works on the green business in Upper Egypt. The program has two stages with a duration of four months, the first stage is Athar Green Boot Camp A one month program, starts with 20 green startups to help them work intensively on their startups through training and consultation sessions. The program will end by selecting six startups to join the second stage.

The second stage is Athar Green Acceleration, a two months for startups that have been selected from the first stage. During two months we will guide the startups to take their businesses to the next level through intensive training sessions and focused consultation.

You can join if your startup works on:

• Renewable Energy
  Energy that comes from replenished resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves,…. etc.
• Waste Management
  Any process that includes the collection, transportation, or handling and disposal process of dealing with removal of human waste.
• Food Production
  Food manufacturing that produces healthy, natural, environmentally friendly food or beverages.
• Agribusiness
  Any business that involves the steps required to send an agricultural good to market, namely production, processing, and distribution.
• Sustainable Tourism
  Energy that comes from replenished resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves,…. etc.
• Fishing Industry
  Any process that includes the collection, transportation, or handling and disposal process of dealing with removal of human waste.
• Water Industry
  Food manufacturing that produces healthy, natural, environmentally friendly food or beverages.

We help startups with:

• Financial grant of EGP 20,000
• Validate business model
• Build MVP
• Learn how to pitch
• Develop a scalable business model
• Plan financials
• Access to investment

Program benefits

• Intensive Training Sessions
  To walk you through the most important topics to develop your startup.
• Focused Consultation Sessions
  To help you work intensively on taking your startup to the market.
• Inspiring Fireside Chats
  To get inspired from other founders’ experience in different fields.
• Continuous Pitch Nights
  To get continuous feedback on your startup and the way you pitch.

Who can apply?

• Entrepreneurs should be between 21–35 years old.
• Startups should have a team of minimum 2 members.
• Startups should be based in any of Upper Egypt’s governorates.
• Startups should have the potential to create at least 3 inclusive jobs.

Timeline

• Accepting applications
  January 1st, 2022 – January 26th, 2022

• Filtration and selection for the first program
  January 10th, 2022 – February 3rd, 2022

• Start of Athar Green Boot Camp
  February 5th, 2022

• Panel Day, Selecting the nominated startups
  March 5th, 2022

• Start of Athar Green Acceleration Program
  March 12th, 2022

• Program Closing
  May 15th, 2022