Call for applications

Benefit from an Ailleurs support!

We are looking for project holders with innovative solutions that stand out on the market.

Are you a start-up in its early stages ? An innovative SME / SMI ? Do you want to reinvent society and produce innovative solutions ? And do you dream of being ranked and referenced among the brightest start-ups ?
Ailleurs Shift & Scale is made for you !

The incubator application is open to any person with an innovative project that meets the social, technological or environmental needs of the African continent.

With Ailleurs Shift & Scale, benefit from support adapted to your maturity stage.

1. Choose
your start
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Our applications are all submitted online

Submission deadline for the next session is July 15, 2021


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2.How to
prepare your
application ?

Watch the demo video to learn more about the application steps. Take your pen, take notes and don't miss a thing. On your mark, get set, Ailleurs!

3. Fill in the form
and join the Ailleurs
experience…

Do you want to challenge yourself, to boost your project, to share values, to challenge your ideas, to expand your network and benefit from Ailleurs support?

Apply here !

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Personal email address of the founder who is filling out this application
Please enter an email address that you check often and that you will have access to for a long time.
If you have a demo, what's the url? Demo can be anything that shows us how the product works. Usually that's a video or screen recording. (Please don't password protect it; just use an obscure url.)
(List as City A, Country A / City B, Country B.)
Please provide the personal email addresses of the other cofounders in the startup. No need to add yours again. Founders must have at least 10% equity in the company. We will send an email to each founder to fill out additional information about themselves.
Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing the founder(s). This video is an important part of the application. (Follow the Video Guidelines.)
Introducing the founder(s) *
How many founders are on the team ? *
(Fill out this number of founder profiles)
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Which category best applies to your company ? *
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How far along are you ? *
How long have each of you been working on this? How much of that has been full-time? Please explain. *
Are some people using your product/sevice ? *
Do you have any revenue ? *
If you are applying with the same idea as a previous batch, did anything change?
If you applied with a different idea, why did you pivot and what did you learn from the last idea?
If you have already participated or committed to participate in an incubator, "accelerator" or "pre-accelerator" program. please tell us about it.
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Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area ?
How do you know people need what you're making ? *
What's new about what you're making ?
What substitutes do people resort to because it doesn't exist yet (or they don't know about it) ? *
Who are your competitors, and who might become competitors ? Who do you fear most ? *
What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get ? *
How do or will you make money ? How much could you make ? *
(We realize you can't know precisely, but give your best estimate.)
How will you get users ? If your idea is the type that faces a chicken-and-egg problem in the sense that it won't be attractive to users till it has a lot of users, how will you overcome that ? *
(e.g. a marketplace, a dating site, an ad network)
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Have you incorporated, or formed any legal entity yet ? *
(like an LLC)
Have you taken any investment yet ? *
If you have not formed the company yet, describe the planned equity ownership breakdown among the founders, employees and any other proposed stockholders. If there are multiple founders. *
Be sure to give the proposed equity ownership of each founder.
Please provide any other relevant information about the structure or formation of the company.
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Are any of the founders covered by noncompetes or intellectual property agreements that overlap with your project? If so, please explain.*
Who writes code, or does other technical work on your product? Was any of it done by a non-founder? *
Please explain.
Is there anything else we should know about your company? *
(Pending lawsuits, cofounders who have left, etc.)
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If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, please list them. One may be something we've been waiting for. Often when we fund people it's to do something they list here and not in the main application.
Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered.
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What convinced you to apply to Ailleurs Combinator ? Did someone encourage you to apply ? *
How did you hear about Ailleurs Combinator ? *
Please ensure that this application is complete and all founders have filled out their profiles before submitting your application for review. The answer to this question must match the number of profiles filled. Once you submit your application you will not be able to edit it. It will be reviewed, regardless of whether the deadline has passed or not.
Applications must have at least one founder to be submitted. A valid YouTube video URL is required in order to submit. Number of founders stated does not match number of profiles filled.

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