About

Foment Up is an initiative from Foment del Treball to connect established companies with startups. To this end, we design corporate accelerator programs in which new business initiatives can sharpen their viability and grow more rapidly, allowing corporates to access very attractive forms of innovation and diversification.

Our objectives:

Foment del Treball Nacional is the confederation that has represented entrepreneurs and the powerful Catalan industry since 1771. As an independent, private, non-profit organization under the constitutional and legal right of association of employers, it is governed using democratic criteria by freely elected representatives.

Our principal mission is to identify startups that promote innovation in a specific sector, to which end we offer tailor-made programs which include the participation of mentors in leading corporates in their sector.
 
In these programs, each startup has access to a tutor who tracks the global acceleration process and expert mentors in different areas, such as finance, marketing, product, technology etc., who offer their expertise as top director in leading corporates.

Each program´s startups will have 4 months either in the headquarters of Foment de Treball or in the offices of the leading company, simultaneously receiving a training program created ad hoc, and a regular assessment linked to the corporate. In the last month startups receive intensive training focused on Demo Day, in which they present their project to potential investors.

The aim is to create excellent, highly scalable business models which enable the possible growth of the selected startups.

Foment de Treball has historically held solid, long-standing working relationships with the most well-established companies in Catalonia. Barcelona is home to one of Europe’s most dynamic Startup ecosystems.  
 
Foment Up is in the unique position of being able to directly connect the two"
 

Maria Mora - FomentUP Director