Future Mobility
What will you get?
- A consortium of 7 strong international startup accelerators
- City match-making to test your solution
- Access to test and demonstration facilities
- One-to-one business coaching and mentoring
- Free co-working space in Munich, Milan or Copenhagen
- Access to EIT Urban Mobility investment initiatives and funding instruments
Why join?
Has your startup found the perfect solution to make city logistics more sustainable? Are you ready to scale up your company and test your solution in cities across Europe? The Sustainable City Logistics Accelerator is an international six-month accelerator programme for startups who are ready to scale up internationally and access a unique network of the leading deep tech startup accelerators across Europe.
In the Sustainable City Logistics Accelerator, your startup will get ready to kick off sales in international markets. You will get one-to-one business coaching, mentoring, and workshops. The programme offers city match-making to test your solution and facilitates an introduction to test and demonstration labs around Europe.
Is your startup facing the challenges of creating more sustainable freight and goods transportation in cities and overall sustainability in city logistics? Then this six-month online programme is your chance to get real product-market fit and enter international markets faster.
Natalia Tomiyama
CEO, Nüwiel, participant in the EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator Programme SPECIAL: COVID-19
"The most important things we got from the programme were support from the top-class mentors, exchange with other mobility startups, and access to the network of collaborators, investors, and potential customers. The programme helped us to establish contacts in Denmark and to set up the entry into the Nordics market in 2021."
Marko Šćepanović
CEO, Odo, participant in the EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator Programme SPECIAL: COVID-19
"We got network opportunities with investors and other startups in the programme, knowledge from the industry experts that were our mentors and exposure for social media platforms, and we’re grateful for this opportunity."
Eligibility criteria
- Scalable solution related to sustainable city logistics
- Less than € 1 million revenue to date (accumulated over startup lifetime)
- Startups must be incorporated in EU or Horizon Europe-associated countries. The registration certificate will be required to participate in the programme. No more than max. 5% of your shares are held outside the eligible EU or EU associated countries (no detailed cap table needed)
- A team with a least 2 FTE (not a single founder): minimum 1 team member pursuing the startup fulltime (not necessary connected to monetary compensation)
- Founders and employees (e.g., ESOP) should still own more than 70% of shares
Important moments
20 February – 21 April 2023
Open call for applications
22 April – 10 May 2023
Evaluations of applications
12 May 2023
Communication of shortlisted start-ups
May 2023
Pitches
June 2023
Communication of selected start-ups for the programme
June – December 2023
Execution of the accelerator programme
Partners
Futurebox
Futurebox is the leading deep tech incubator in Denmark. Futurebox supplies strong mentors, business developers, tech advisors, investors, acceleration programs, access to fundraising, and DTU (Technical University of Denmark).
Technion Drive Accelerator
As an integral part of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, DRIVE provides the entrepreneurs with funds, mentoring, workshops, working space, and a huge network of alumni, investors, and corporates.
TUM – Technical University of Munich
The Technical University of Munich, 2019, again confirmed as a “University of Excellence” by the German government, provides access to thought leaders in academia and its excellent network of industry contacts.
UnternehmerTum
UnternehmerTUM (UTUM) is Europe's largest entrepreneurship centre. With 240 experienced entrepreneurs, scientists and investors, UTUM offers a complete service: from the development of an initial idea to IPO.
ISBAK Istanbul IT and Smart City Technologies
ISBAK is affiliated to the technology section, especially in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems, of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. Its solutions are implemented across Turkey and abroad.
PoliHub
PoliHub, the Innovation District & Start-up Accelerator of Politecnico di Milano, supports high innovative startups with scalable business models, and fostering cross-fertilisation processes among university, startups, and consolidated innovation companies.
AZO Anwendungszentrum Gmbh Oberpfaffenhofen
AZO offers strategy/technology consulting, innovation advisory, support for entrepreneurs for institutions and industry in the Space domain, from the ideation, product development to successful market entry.
Selected startups from our batches
INSOFTDEV is the proprietary of a cloud based ecosystem, aPlug-and-play Mobility Technology that enables startups, corporates and SMEs and organisations to launch, scale and enhance ... Read more
Ducktrain is an automated, electric light vehicle system for sustainable and very efficient urban and industrial last mile logistics with a step by-step go-to-road strategy: ... Read more
Along with the benefits of new mobility solutions, cities face growing challenges as they integrate fast-developing modes of transportation. Vianova is the leading platform for ... Read more
Mileus guarantees a comfortable evening commute by a seamless interoperability between public transport and ride-hailing and taxi services. Our B2B2C API technology enables a deep, ... Read more
Gotikket provides transport solutions that are integrated into a single platform from which users can determine the best route and price across several end-to-end travel ... Read more
Vesputi develops smart tools for smart cities with the goal to create a sustainable mobility ecosystem. Our modular platform enables cities and train operators to ... Read more
Increasing the modal split for cyclists in order to reduce the problems caused by motorised transport, such as high levels of pollution & noise, is ... Read more
Laplandar builds the most powerful e-cargo bikes for businesses at the lowest price. We build exclusively in the EU. Read more
Buddy Service is a startup from Barcelona that has developed on-site service App to connect travellers who experience disabilities with other users and local service ... Read more
Roads and railways are the backbone of our civilization. Yet the infrastructure is prone to degradation in time which brings burden on public budgets, results ... Read more
Journify is the intelligent carpooling system for daily commuting, promoting connectivity, and sustainable efficient mobility. Read more
Reducimos un 30% los costes logísticos de empresas de distribución y logística mediante la mejora del proceso de planificación gracias a nuestra tecnología de inteligencia ... Read more
Have you ever wondered how much time you spend sitting in a trafic jam in your life? More than 200 days is wasted because of ... Read more
Fluctuo is an independent third-party data specialist focused on shared-mobility services (bikes, scooters, mopeds, cars). We help public stakeholders and private companies to make data-driven ... Read more
Tytovision is high tech company which produces artificial intelligence and machine vision algorithms to upragade mobility solutions. We make vehicles as intelligent as humans. The ... Read more
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