“Dear Startup,
As you know, we are happy to invite you to the selection days of [I] on 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 March. This is the first step towards a possible journey that we could start together.
We start with a brief description of our cooperation for the 2016 [I] program:
• [I] is organising a startup accelerator for the port sectors (maritime, energy, chemicals & refinery, transport & logistics) to facilitate the success of startups in these sectors. It’s prime goals is to organise all the expertise (sector and professional) and contacts (entrepreneurs, clients, investors) that startups in their pre-market entry phase would need. On top of this [I] aims to helps its partners to connect with the top performing startups in order to meet their business challenges and finding new markets.
• The Startup and [I] have the ambition to collectively accelerate the business of the Startup during the course of the 3 months program, and possibly an additional undefined period. The team of [I] will do whatever is in their capacity to organise relevant expertise and network contacts for the Startup:
- To find their launching customers;
- To find investors;
- To develop approaches for a relevant business model;
- To find their introduction market;
- To develop their IP strategy, etc.
To do this [I] will arrange for pitching event with different senior executives from companies in the port sectors. It will arrange for sessions with professionals out of the port sectors. And it will arrange for workshops on all these relevant topics.
• During the program (and for some time thereafter) the Startup gets access to office space (free of charge) at the [V] ( [V] )
• Access to about 150 mentors (lead mentors, network mentors and team mentor)
• Euro 15.000,- per team in order to be able to perform in an optimal manner.
• As part of this agreement [I] is also taking a share of 8% in the Startup. It is the intention for [I] to become a partner of the Startup, since the success of [I] fully relies on the success of the startups in the program. On top of this [I] sees this as a way to make the program sustainable for the future, and this way benefiting the partners in the program. If the startups are not successful, [I] won’t be sustainable in the future. If the Startups are very successful, [I] will have the opportunity to keep on facilitating startups in the port sectors.
• All cooperation between the Startup and [I] is intended on the basis of good cooperation and communication. This should be the basis of all shared activities. [I] believes this is the only way for a successful cooperation and a great business to be developed. A professional foundation of this cooperation can be found in the legal agreements made in these contracts.
To organise this journey in a proper manner, we have drafted three legal documents:
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Memorandum of Understanding; before the selection days (signing before 22 February 2016): we ask you to sign this MoU to confirm you and your Startup will participate in the program and agree on the terms, when you are selected for the final 10 participants.
• Participation Agreement; when selected on the selection days as one the final 10 startups that enter the final program (signing on 8 March 2016) we ask you to sign the Participation Agreement to confirm your participation in the program.
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Shareholder Agreement; after the selection days (signing before 5 April 2016): we ask you to sign the Shareholder Agreement, to confirm the participation of [I] in your startup with 8% of the shares.
Hopefully this clarifies the procedures with regard to participation. If there are still questions with regards to any of these agreements, please contact us.
We are looking forward to your participation on the [I] selection days! “