Call for Applications: Pilot Photonics Business Bootcamp in U.S.A.

ENRICH in the USA is launching the Photonics Business Bootcamp to assist European Union and EU-affiliate headquartered, high-growth startups and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with the pursuit of US-based business opportunities. This Photonics Business Bootcamp, located at the NextCorps incubator in Rochester, New York, is the first of its kind of photonics entrepreneur support center in the United States. The entire Bootcamp provides hyper-focused programming, connections, and services designed to help identify appropriate US market opportunities, execute on said US market entry, and ensure a sustainable presence of the company within the bustling photonics market of Rochester.

Individual EU Member States/Associated Countries high-growth startup and SME founders who are interested in exploring the US market as a short to middle term vehicle for commercialising deep tech products and services in optical, photonic, and/or imaging (OPI) applications such as but not limited to: augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, machine vision, biophotonics, and other fields. EU R&I actors who are highly interested in introducing/exposing their OPI products and/or innovations to US vendors for customer deal flow, investors for feedback, potential opportunistic partnerships, and also as a long-term vehicle for commercializing their works/products in the US, may include:

Startup and SME founders or executives, who must be either responsible for technical sales and/or have invented and is responsible for the future development and scale up of the product.
Researchers seeking to commercialize their product, though it must have or be in the process of receiving intellectual property protection, and have been demonstrated beyond lab scale.

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Call for Applications: Pilot Photonics Business Bootcamp in U.S.A.