Cdp launches accelerators for startups and businesses, all the details
Cdp accelerators are born to integrate the financial offer with new tools to support the development of the human capital of companies: the Business Accelerator, a professional services platform, and Digital Xcelerator for the training of entrepreneurial skills in the world of start-ups
The group of accelerators "most articulated in Italy". Thus was presented the novelty of Cdp for medium-large companies already on the market and startups still to be built, namely the accelerators Imprese and Digital Xcelerator . To do the honors Giovanni Gorno Tempini , president of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, a group controlled by the Treasury and participated by the banking foundations. “It will be an important step in the path that companies make from the idea to the market”, echoed the Minister for Economic Development, Stefano Patuanelli (M5s) . "The world of micro-enterprises must follow the changes and challenges that the world poses and Covid-19 has been an extraordinary accelerator in this".
PATUANELLI: "CDP IS A GOOD PART OF THE COUNTRY SYSTEM"
“The accelerators and services made available by CDP”, continued Patuanelli , “are an important resource because being able to select and train the managers of tomorrow will allow our companies to scale, grow and deal with the rest of the world”. “We must – underlined the holder of the Ministry of the MISE – Recover the points of competitiveness lost in recent years. CDP is playing a central role in all of this, especially since the pandemic has started to threaten the productive fabric. It's the good part of the system ”.
WHAT THE BUSINESS ACCELERATOR IS
The Business Accelerator is a professional services platform for the growth of high-potential companies, "which aims to provide companies with support in terms of the adoption of a managerial culture aligned with market best practices and better use of resources to face with greater solidity and flexibility the unpredictable challenges that the economic and social context reserves ", says Cassa Depositi e Prestiti:" Cdp will make available to companies wishing to join the program its own team of professionals able to provide a personalized consultancy aimed at identifying the priority guidelines on which to build the company's development path. The latter will therefore have the opportunity to access the professional services offered by international consulting firms, leading Italian universities and a network of excellent companies and other stakeholders with whom to share experiences and opportunities ".
PALERMO: "HUMAN CAPITAL IS IMPORTANT"
“CDP is dynamic and patient capital, but it is also an emblem of human capital”, said Fabrizio Palermo , CEO of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, speaking at this second online meeting of CDP. "We want to launch 1000 startups by 2022". "We will support human capital by supporting it and allowing it to accelerate its growth path with a 360 ° program that allows it to invest in people". “Coaching paths can be very useful for bringing entrepreneurs to upgrade”.
"GOAL 200 STARTUPS PER YEAR"
"To access the program, you just have to submit a request to the site," explained Palermo . “The program also provides opportunities for discussion to create a system with other companies. We want medium-large companies to become even more important ”. The backbone of the startup program Digital Xcelerator will instead consist of over 120 free courses for students and entrepreneurs of tomorrow. “Each stage will allow you to access a training certificate”. "The goal is to reach 200 startups, seeds, pre-seed-scaleups per year between digital platform, with unlimited capacity, and physical".
WHAT IS DIGITAL XCELERATOR
Digital Xcelerator is the first free e-learning platform for existing Italian start-ups and for those who want to start their own start-up, says Cdp: "The platform was created with the aim of providing free training courses, aimed at providing adequate tools and techniques to successfully face the challenges currently underway, acquiring entrepreneurial skills ".
The Digital Xcelerator platform is an online e-learning space designed to stimulate the growth of the entire ecosystem – explains a note from Cdp – “by providing ad hoc courses, tools and contents for all stages of the development of an innovative company. In this way, especially start-up founders, they will be able to benefit from a complete education plan, with materials designed to accompany them from the conception phase, to growth up to that of scale-up and international expansion ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/cdp-lancia-gli-acceleratori-per-startup-e-imprese/ on Tue, 20 Oct 2020 05:04:25 +0000.