News
2024/11/07
Call for Applications] Students are invited to participate in the GTIE Student Entrepreneurship Program (GTIE-SEP) 2024 Silicon Valley Training Program!
The Greater Tokyo Innovation Ecosystem (GTIE) is a platform for 13 universities in the Tokyo metropolitan area to foster entrepreneurial talent and create university-launched startups that will change the world. GTIE will implement the “GTIE Student Entrepreneurship Program 2024” (GTIE SEP2024), an entrepreneurship program for all students from GTIE participating universities*.
The Silicon Valley training program is designed for students who want to start or expand their business overseas (in the United States). Students are required to make their own plans for what they would like to do to start a business overseas, and GTIE will cooperate with them to realize their plans. Students will also brush up their own ideas and seeds through exchanges of opinions and actual proposals with local (West Coast) venture capitalists and others.
-Sponsored by GTIE:
GTIE
-Program outline:
1. Preparatory training in Japan, on-site training in Silicon Valley: about 1 week (tentative) 2.
Number of teams: 2-3 teams, 2 members per team (required)
3. Eligibility: Teams of 2 students enrolled at GTIE University (undergraduate and graduate students)
*The GTIE universities are 13 universities: The University of Tokyo, Waseda University, Tokyo University of Science, University of Tsukuba, Chiba University, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Ochanomizu University, Kanagawa University of Health and Welfare, Yokohama National University, Yokohama City University, Keio University, Tokyo Metropolitan University, and Shibaura Institute of Technology.
**Teams of students from different universities are also welcome.
-Dates and times of training (tentative):
Pre-training in Japan: Saturday, December 21
On-site training in Silicon Valley in early March 2025
-How to apply:
(1) Please register in advance. (Not required if you have already registered)
Click here for registration
(2) Documents to be submitted
1. Application form
2. Presentation materials (English, free format, no more than 10 pages including cover page)
*Please submit by the deadline.
*The presentation will be 8 minutes in length.
*Please send the application form as an email attachment with [GTIE-SEP SV Training Application] in the title to
GTIE Secretariat gtie.tt.admin@sangaku.titech.ac.jp
-Application deadline: Monday, December 2, 2024 at noon
-Selection Method:
Selection Process: -Written screening: Results will be notified in early December.
Interviews: Saturday, December 7, 10:00-13:00 (tentative)
Venue: Toranomon (tentative)
*Details of the interview screening will be provided to those who pass the written screening.
*You will be required to present your presentation to the screening committee members. The presentation will be 8 minutes long.
-Participation fee:
Free of charge
*Participation fees other than the program participation fee, such as application fee, correspondence fee, domestic transportation fee, etc., are to be paid by the applicant.
-Others
Meet-up: Saturday afternoon, February 15 (tentative)
Demo Day (presentation of training results): March 2025 (tentative)
*Participation in the Demo Day is mandatory for Silicon Valley participants.
-For inquiries, please contact
GTIE Secretariat gtie.tt.admin@sangaku.titech.ac.jp