Entrepreneurial Support Program
about GTIE GAP Fund
GTIE has established the GTIE Search Fund (GSF) based on its vision of "fostering university-launched startups that change the world. The GTIE Search Fund consists of the following five functions in order to nurture global startups that will play an active role in the world and solve social issues.
- Matching Support for Management teams and Researchers (Team Formation)
- Providing GAP funds
- Mentoring and customer development
- Assistance with seed stage financing
- Matching Support for Large Corporations
- Supporting the formation of teams between independently searched management personnel and researchers.
- We will offer the GAP Fund, a grant from JST, and the GAP Fund, which accepts funding from the private sector.
- Mentoring and customer development models will be provided to teams selected for the GAP Fund by entrepreneurship experts selected from the GTIE network.
- Provide ongoing support for university startups after their launch by helping them raise seed-stage funding from university VCs in the GTIE network.
- We actively introduce university-launched startups to large domestic and foreign companies and support the formation of partnerships, acquisitions, and other deals.
GTIE GAP FUND
Explore Course(for 2 or 3 years)
Advanced course for researchers and students who would like to launch start-ups from universities.
It evaluates and demonstrates the potential as business and aims to solve the issues on its launch (Proof of Concept, PoC). Eventually, the project is expected to grow to the higher level VC could invest.
Oversea market pioneer practice course(for 1 year)
International course for researchers and students who would like to launch start-ups from universities. Based on acquired deta and prototypes, it seeks to find oversea market practicaly.
Entry course(for 9 months)
Entry level course for researchers and students who would like to plan start-ups from universities.
It investigates the business development of university research seeds.
GAP Fund 2022(for 6 months)
GAP Fund in 2022.17 teames were selected.
GTIE VC (Explore Course)
Along with the researchers selected for GTIE GAP Fund,
it works on supporting startups and their business developments acquiring the R & D grants for the further step.