TechYouth

Incubator 2023

TechYouth Incubator is the first student-led incubator in Vietnam that focuses on nurturing young Vietnamese tech startups with the most elite resources in the startup ecosystem.  The application for our 2023 batch has closed - please stay tuned for more information about our 2024 batch and other programs!

WHAT WE OFFER

Elite Partner Network

Connections with elite founders, VCs, C-Levels (our past partners are leaders at Google, AWS, Momo, Grab...)

Structured Program

Tailored to provide founders a roadmap with required weekly deliverables and constant feedback from experts to reach the milestones needed for investments

Supportive Student Community

Community events and post-incubator Fellowship program to offer sustained assistance, cultivate bonds among young founders (Vucar, Finful, LEAN Social...) and exceptional students in Vietnam (Cornell University, VinUniversity, FTU, McKinsey, ThinkZone...)

OUR PROGRAM

TechYouth Incubator Weekly Program

To accelerate startups’ success, TechYouth Incubator 2023's 6-week program focuses on maximizing founders’ experience and

essential startup skills through hands-on advice from Industry Mentors and Peer Collaboration 

C-Level Workshop Series

Interactive workshops on startup skills, hosted by C-levels from prominent startups, with topics directly related to weekly themes.

Every week, 3 teams would have the chance to submit their outcomes relating to the workshop’s topic & get feedbacks from the speakers 

Personalized Mentors

Prestige ecosystem-insiders, including young founders that has successfully raised pre-seed/seed fund, or are backed by prestigious VCs.

They would accompany startups throughout the 6-week journey, advising the team in strategizing and goal-setting.



Ad-hoc Mentors

Domain experts that advise the teams about their raised up problems,

usually concerning industry-specific question or domain skills and knowledge.

OUR VC NETWORK

IDEAL CANDIDATES

Profile requirements

The team must have at least one Vietnamese co-founder from 18 to 25


Product Idea

1. Are you making something people want?

2. How can you do it better than others?

3.  Why now?


Founding

Team's Capacity 

1. Are you or any member of your team understands the problem you are solving deeply?

2. Do you have the technical capability to turn idea into reality?

3. Can your team operate efficiently and get things done quickly?

Founder's Commitment

Do you have strong commitment to build your startup from 0 to 1, though you might encouter lots of hardship along the way?

PROMINENT STARTUPS FROM

TECHYOUTH INCUBATOR 2022

A comprehensive agricultural product purchasing solution for restaurants and food stops, an online order management platform with customer consulting support, and store debt management

  • 40% growth every week
  • Top 10 Excellent Startups - Startup Wheel 2022
  • Winner - Kawai Business Startup 2022

     Chợ Deli on news:

Vucar is an e-commerce marketplace for car buyers and sellers to have a verified, fast, and integrated used car trading experience

  • Successful fundraise 2 rounds of fundraising
  • Youngest team to get investment from Antler in South East Asia

Finful is a financial education solution based on gamification and learn-to-earn model that helps Gen Z to gain financial knowledge and Banks to acquire financially literate customers

  • Joined Antler - a famous
    investment fund in 600+ startups across Asia, Europe and America
  • Champion Finnovation 2022
  • Top 2 Zone Startup Bootcamp

     Zinance on news:

A learning ecosystem for students to learn to earn tokens or rewards; for schools to assign homework, reward tokens and track students' progress

  • Ranked 6th out of 1000 teams at the Hult Prize Asia Summit 2022
  • Received $12,000 in funding from Cyberport, the 2nd largest incubator in Hong Kong
  • Top 100 Global University Startup World Cup

Mr. Jake Long Vu

Co-founder of VUCAR

"The best thing about UpYouth - Tech Startup Ecosystem is its people

I will forever admire the dedication and passion of all UpYouth's members. For other fellow startup teams, I'm inspired by your growth and transformation since we first started. Startup is a very lonely road, you can not imagine it until you are in it. I'm grateful to have you guys along the road. Vucar leave the program more confident and sure of who we are. Thank you!"

Mr. Ky Nam Nguyen

Co-founder of LEAN Social

"UpYouth is the best resource in Vietnam for students interested in startup

Three months with tireless support from UpYouth - Tech Startup Ecosystem, the incredible tech, product, and marketing pioneers of the LEAN team, and the countless doubts from Vietnam's venture and early startup support community in Vietnam, we got support from one of the largest incubators in Hong Kong (boasting 5 unicorns and dozens of 50-500 million startups)."

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