MBS incubator

The pre-incubation period, for a maximum duration of one year, allows you to make your idea a reality: define a customer promise, a vision, an offer, but also values. Ours are global responsibility, respect for people and their environment.

What does being in pre-incubation mean?

• Be supported by a coach who will help formalizing your ideas and giving meaning to your project;
• Attend thematic workshops;
• Benefit from the coworking area, where entrepreneurs and our coaches/accompanying people team meet, who you’ll be able to exchange with, but also face and strengthen your project.

Once the idea is concrete (you know what you want to propose to your customer), it is time to go forward to the selection committee in order to take the next step and enter the incubation path.

Selection committee

When you and your referent coach feel that you are ready, you will present a consolidated project to the selection committee. You will have 20 minutes to convince and demonstrate your ability to lead the project of creating an innovative and responsible company.

For the 2020-2021 year, selection committees will take place on:

• Thursday November 12^th 2020 
• Wednesday December 9^th 2020
• Tuesday January 12^th 2021 
• Tuesday February 2^nd 2021 
• Tuesday Mars 2^nd 2021 
• Tuesday Avril 6^th 2021

You have passed the selection committee step! Well done! You are now incubated within the Montpellier Business School Incubator.

Your idea is approved and now begins the development phase of the project: build a coherent offer, know your market and competitors and create a viable business model.

A good idea is often not enough. A favorable environment, meetings, confrontations will challenge you, shake you up and in the end, advance and sharpen your project. We provide you with coaches specialized in business creation, with strategy consultants, experts (lawyer, accountant), but also with mentors specialized in YOUR business line, to allow you to consolidate your project.

Our strength: a network of expert partners and a specific targeting of your needs, throughout the process.

What does incubated mean?

• Be supported by coaches expert in strategy and commercial development, in financial agility, depending on the progress of your project.
• Benefit from an individual support by a lawyer and/or accountant;
• Be supported by an expert in your business line in refining your strategic positioning, understanding the applicable specific regulation and being networked;
• Attend thematic workshops;
• Be able to replace the 6 months internship period (or 6 months gap) by a 6 months working period on your project (Entrepreneur Track path);
• Benefit from the coworking area dedicated to MBS Entrepreneurship Center;
• Join the Alumni Entrepreneurs network upon graduation;
• But also, after being selected by an expert committee, join the 2021 cohort which will benefit from the acceleration programme of the MBS Entrepreneurship Center and be entitled to a funding up to 30,000€!

Join the 2021 cohort! Places are limited!

From May to June, a 6 weeks acceleration programme leading to the Demo Day, the big day! Pitch in front of the key players of our ecosystem: MBS Invest, funding entities, business angels, but also business incubators who will save a place for you! At stake a funding of more than 30,000€!

What does be accelerated mean?

• Benefit from an intensive support in order to provide you with a framework and objectives. You will be able to call upon a large pool of experts in various fields. Business plan, business model,  time-to-market speed, we use to talk about them every day with one goal in mind: a date, a launch, a window of opportunity to launch your business
• Multiply synergies through collective support for a 5 to 12 startups cohort
• Be supported in the search for investors
• Present your project in front of an expert committee who, depending on your performance and the seriousness of your project, may invest in the capital of your company, offer you start-up loans and guarantees, save a place for you in incubators and reputed incubators, offer a grant or free advice! Up to 30,000€ is at stake!

Beginning of the 2021 cohort:   Thursday April 15^th 2021

Demo Day :  Thursday May 27^th 2021