Doha – University of Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) officially initiated its presence in station f, the world’s largest startup campus, on Thursday. The event also marked the start of NextAtrica, the UM6P in station F.
NextAtrica is the first transcontinental Europa-Africa acceleration program, which is dedicated to Greentech, Incorrectand Healthtech. It offers a hybrid approach that combines immersing in station f with access to the infrastructure of UM6P in Morocco and enables startups to develop, test and structure their innovations.
“NextAfrica reflects our ambition to create an ecosystem in which African and European startups work together. innovationAnd grow together, ”said Fahd Benkirane, managing director at UM6P France.
“Due to our presence in station f and UM6PS strong foot in Africa, we offer entrepreneurs a unique framework to accelerate their development and to cope with the technological and social challenges of tomorrow,” he added in a press release.
The inauguration of topics “Innovation together: a bridge between Europe and Africa to form the future”, emphasizes the vision of UM6P, an intercontinental ecosystem that drives the development of groundbreaking solutions.
Over a period of six months, selected startups benefit from the state-of-the-art entrepreneurial environment of station f and receive access to the advanced technological infrastructure of UM6P via start gate, the start-up campus.
The participants also receive mentoring from African and European experts and strategic connections to investors and industrial partners.
As part of this initiative, UM6P ventures will also be available at station F to promote the financing options for startups and synergies between European and African risk capital ecosystems.
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“Due to the change between station f and starting gate, startups will experience a double immersion – and anchored in an African innovation center on the European market,” said Yassin Laghioui, director of entrepreneurship and venturing at UM6P and CEO from UM6P Ventures.
“This initiative reflects the UM6P vision: talent, infrastructure and capital to promote the next generation of African tech scale-ups,” he continued.
The event demonstrated the first NextAtrica cohort with twelve promising startups from both continents on two key sectors: Healthtech -represented by Pelican Health, Sensebiotek, VG2D Pharma, Inn’ppulse, Neuraltecs, Blocreg -Löungen, Ivicenne and Rosetta Omics, and Rosetta Omics, and and Omics, Omics, Omics Omics Omics, and Agrofa, Agrofa, Agrofa, Agrofa, Agrofa, Agrofa, Agrofa, Agrofa, Agrofa, Agrof, Agrofa and Agrof, Agrofa, Agrof, Agrof, Agrof, Agrof, Agrit, Agrit, Agrit, Agrit, Agrit, Agrit.
This inauguration builds on the partnership announced on January 29, as UM6P and Station F first unveiled Your cooperation to promote innovations during the bridging of Europe and Africa.
At that time, the UM6P President Hicham El Habti stated that the Allianz Start -ups would make it available in tools to “tackle Africa’s technological, economic and ecological challenges and strengthen this bridge between the two continents”.
Station f, in the 13th district of Paris, located, open in 2017 and is located in a former railway depot over 34,000 square meters.
The facility supports over 1,000 startups and has set up partnerships with large technology companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Ubisoft and Zendesk.
