The 3rd edition of Santalucía IMPULSA is here!

Good news for entrepreneurs and startups: Since last Wednesday, December 19, you can sign up for the new edition of Santalucía IMPULSA, the acceleration program of Santa Lucía. If you are interested, don't miss it, you have until February 15, 2019 to sign up. Present your project!

After the success of the last two editions, the insurance company has launched the 3rd edition of Santalucía IMPULSA, the acceleration program that seeks entrepreneurs and startups with less than 5 years of incorporation. Requirements? To have a minimum viable product, an innovative approach, scalability, international vision and, of course, a vocation for growth.

When and how to enroll

The registration period opened on December 19, 2018, and will remain open until February 15, 2019. Is any project valid? This time, the insurance company focuses on finding startups in the Insurtech ecosystem, especially valuing projects related to topics such as Home, Seniors, Life, Emerging Technologies, Deaths, and Digitalization of processes and services. Another factor that Santa Lucía It will take into account that it is an idea capable of offering solutions and advantages to a common problem in a large group of users and future customers in the sector.

How projects will be selected

Of all the applications received by the insurance company, 10 projects will be shortlisted. Those selected will have the opportunity to present their idea to a jury made up of the company's management. Said jury You will select at least 4 of the projects, who will enjoy the acceleration program Santalucía IMPULSA. The acceleration program will begin in the month of March and will end in June. During those months, winning startups will have specific training sessions and individual mentoring. In addition, they will be carried out Meetings with the Different Departments Of Santa Lucía, which allow entrepreneurs to obtain more metrics through pilots, as well as to promote and enhance the possibilities of collaboration with the insurance company.

Benefits of participating

One of the new features of this 3rd edition is that startups that manage to be part of the acceleration program will have access to the coworking space Utopicus Prince of Vergara (Madrid), and to value-added services such as IBM cloud technology credits and IBM Watson, as well as Microsoft's own tools, technology credits in Amazon Web Services and technology credits in SAP ERP and Cloud tools, thanks to collaboration with Innsomnia.

2nd edition of Santalucía IMPULSA employees

In the 2017-2018 call Santa Lucía added a new feature to its acceleration program: the program for entrepreneurs “Santalucía IMPULSA employees” which turned out to be quite a success. For this new call, the insurance company has once again involved its employees and this month of December the 2nd edition of the Santalucía IMPULSA employee program, in which all company employees who have an entrepreneurial spirit or ideas that can become disruptive projects for the sector and are profitable for the sector can participate Santalucía Group. Of all the candidates, a 25 employees Who throughout the program will work on 5 different and innovative projects that provide added value to customers and are profitable for the insurance company.

Both the program Santalucía IMPULSA, like Santalucía IMPULSA employees have been Winners of different prizes, like the Ideas4all Innovation Innovation Award 2017, so there is no doubt that the new edition of this acceleration program will be a success.