Accelerate your business with real projects and customers from world-leading Industry 4.0 companies
We’re looking for startup companies developing Industry 4.0 solutions
The fourth edition of our highly successful acceleration program connects you with leading Industry 4.0 manufacturing, energy, healthcare and food tech companies and contracts worth up to €150,000
Apply today and join one of the strongest industrial ecosystems in Europe (Basque Country) a top-rated location for market opportunities and growth
Industry 4.0 Corporate Partners
BIND 4.0 corporate partners are market-leading innovators in manufacturing, energy, health and food technology.
These Industry 4.0 partners become customers of our startups, offering paid contracts worth up to €150,000 and serving as references.
They can also offer access to networks, people, and tools to help build a startup’s business. BIND 4.0 startups and corporate partners grow together.
Industry 4.0 Technologies
Since the first edition, 108 startups have accelerated their businesses through the program. If your start-up company has completed product development or recently launched a solution based on one of the following Industry 4.0 technologies, you’re ready to take the next step.
Focus Areas
Accelerate your commercial development and go-to-market strategy in the following areas.
Advanced Manufacturing
Insert innovative solutions into advanced manufacturing products, processes, management techniques, or systems
Smart Energy
Deliver innovation to renewable energy production, infrastructures, and services across industries
What You Get
Contracts worth up to €150,000
Our corporate partners award contracts to start-ups for developing Industry 4.0 projects with their solutions. The contract can reach as high as €150,000. Corporate partners also become reference customers for you.
Support Services
We provide world-class mentoring; free workspace, training, and tech support; access to funding, subsidies, and investors; demo day; and participation in a top Industry 4.0 event.
Networking
Gain visibility with industry leaders, executives, and business contacts in the Basque Country, including Basque Digital Innovation Hub. We can arrange visits and networking meetings.
No equity taken
Your company retains all equity and pays no participation charges. Our sole goal is to attract and accelerate startups in the Basque Country and help you succeed.
Timeline
Key dates of the 5th edition of the BIND 4.0 Acceleration Program
2020/07/03
International call for applicants
2020/09/11
Application submission deadline
2021/01/08
Participating start-up selection
2021/01/25
Acceleration Program Kick-Off
2021/01/25
2021/07/02
Acceleration Program & Industry 4.0 Projects In-Process
2021/07/02
DemoDay
FAQs
BIND 4.0 is an acceleration program aimed at startups with tech products or services with application in Advanced Manufacturing, Smart Energy, Health Tech and Food Tech fields. It’s a public-private initiative that promotes the development of promising industry 4.0 startups through training, mentorship, and connections to the main industrial players in the Basque Country.
The fifth edition of our highly successful acceleration program connects you with leading Industry 4.0 manufacturing, energy, healthcare and food companies and contracts worth up to €150,000. Your company retains all equity. We provide support services, networking opportunities, and mentoring. Apply today and join one of the strongest industrial ecosystems in Europe—Basque Country—a top-rated location for market opportunities and growth.
BIND 4.0 is addressed to startups from all over the world proposing the use of new technologies in the Industrial, Energy, Health and Food fields. Since the first edition of BIND 4.0, 70 startups have accelerated their businesses through the program. If your start-up company has completed product development or recently launched a solution based on one of the Industry 4.0 technologies, you’re ready to take the next step.
BIND 4.0 is led by the Basque Government and its business development agency SPRI. It collaborates with the main industrial companies in the region and is supported by the three Provincial Councils of the Basque Autonomous Community.
Nothing. Our corporate partners pay for the development of your project and you will not be asked to transfer part of it in return for your participation either.
No. Startups from any country can apply for BIND 4.0.
The participating startups are chosen by corporate partners. Startups that overcome the selection process and reach a collaboration agreement with at least one of the industry’s corporate partners will join BIND 4.0.
BIND 4.0 encourages participating startups to spend as much time as possible in the Basque Country, with the aim of promoting their immersion and development in the Basque industrial ecosystem. In this sense, at least one member of the startup is required to attend the mandatory activities described in the Terms & Conditions
The Program provides financial support to foreign startups in order to support its living expenses during the program. Also, BIND 4.0 helps you to find the perfect accommodation and workspace for your team, so you can focus on what really matters.
If you have any doubt or query, do not hesitate to contact the BIND 4.0 Coordination Team at info@bind40.com. We will be happy to help you!
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BIND 4.0 Acceleration Program and The Basque Ecosystem
BIND 4.0 is a public private accelerator program located in the Basque Country (Spain) focusing in Industry 4.0 startups with solutions applied to Advanced Manufacturing, Energy, Health and Food sectors.
BIND 4.0 offers the best support services and guarantees the development of projects and the signing of contracts with high-level industrial companies in order to accelerate their business in what we call the Basque Country Industrial Ecosystem.
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