The 11-week structured program will be conducted in English, at Ho Chi Minh City, where you will be incubated at one of our partners’ incubation spaces.
The culmination is a Demo Day, where teams present their solutions to potential accelerators, venture builders and investors from all across our partners’ networks.
In the subsequent months, we bring investors to you from our partners’ network, with the goal of raising a seed round that sets you on the path to scale.
Gain access to our Partners' landing pad and incubation spaces, with networking opportunities and exposure
Access to our Program Partners' network of investors and fundraising opportunities
Gain connected to networkers in the local market and SEA for market expansion
Build your Minimal Viable Product (MVP) in the 11-week program, and implement your solution
Get assess to our Partners' network of talents to build your dream team!
Get dedicated mentorship from experienced industry experts and seasoned entrepeneurs
You should have a project team or startup of at least two, up to five, members with a nearly stage idea or a startup solution. All members should have basic understanding and command of English.
All participants will complete a Career Assessment Profile. It is designed to help you understand your career inclination and the manner you function.
A series of webinars will be conducted, where we will hear from domain experts and our partners in the innovation ecosystem. This will help you have a deeper understanding on the challenges identified.
Tell us about your idea or startup solution in a document and submit these questions with your team's application:
A panel, consisting of our partners, will screen through all the applications to select the Top 60 outstanding ideas, based on an internal rubrics.
The Top 60 teams will be invited to a half-day closed door virtual gamified pitching event, where you will be given 5 minutes to pitch to fellow Teams (no panel involved!) in the virtual room. The top 30 most-supported teams will proceed to participate in NINJA Accelerator in Ho Chi Minh City.
Successful teams will be invited to interview, where you will meet the NINJA team – the Chief Instructor, your mentor, and our program partners. The interview will help the NINJA team understand your solution.
You will be invited to a briefing at our partner’s incubation space, while the friendly incubation managers will help you to proceed with your on-boarding processes for the 3-month acceleration program.
Over the next 3 months, your team will go through a structured program, designed to help you build and validate your solution. The program adopts the lean methodology, and gets you out of your office building beyond the four walls to understand customer problems, iterate your solutions with potential customers, pivot or build new viable business models.
Here is where your discovery and building journey begins. The launch will kick-start the 3-month program with a 2-day boot camp, where you will be introduced to the pedagogy, which will help you build a viable business model in the Vietnam market. In this boot camp, you meet all other successfully selected teams for the Challenge.
Each team will be matched with a dedicated and experienced mentor. Our mentors are successful entrepreneurs, who are the domain expertise with networks to the industry.
Teams, Mentors and Chief Instructors will meet up weekly for check-ins on your progress. This huddle sessions help you gain inroads to the mentors’ and instructors’ networks. A bi-weekly networking session will also be held.
Customer Archetype
NTUit Business Model Canvas
Market Validation I
Probing and Questioning Techniques
Market Validation II
Building your MVP – Codeless App
Building MVP
MVP Validation I
Fundraising Fundamentals
MVP Validation II
Fundraising Approach
Pitch Preparation
Finalise BMC and MVP
Pitch Angle
Demo Day Preparations
Pitch rehearsals with Mentors and Chief Instructors
Demo Day kicks off your fundraising rounds. After 3 months of hard work, all teams will pitch to potential accelerators, venture builders and investors from all across our partners’ networks –Vietnam, Japan and Singapore.
Our partners will bring investors to you, with the goal of raising a seed round to set you on the path to scale in the next 3 months.