Start-up, also known as nascent, firms are set up in an uncertain environment intending to bring a new opportunity to the market. These small and micro-businesses play a key role in the Egyptian economy.

The increasing surge of startups and venture capital has recently lined up with the rise of new players in a startup ecosystem. Startup accelerators increasingly receive great attention. Entrepreneurs commonly misunderstand accelerators with other entities supporting early-stage startups, such as incubators, angel investors, and early-stage venture capitalists.

A confluence of factors in information technology and capital markets helped drive a boom in venture capital-backed startups during recent years. Accelerators are playing an increasing role in startup communities throughout Egypt and the entire world.

The TIEC Accelerator is a startup accelerator program that supports early-stage, growth-driven companies through education and mentorship. Startups enter accelerators for a fixed period of time.

The accelerator experience is a process of intense, rapid, and immersive education aimed at speeding up the life cycle of young innovative companies, compressing years’ worth of learning-by-doing into just a few months.

The Accelerator program is available for entrepreneurs from any Egyptian governorate, and the whole program is delivered online.

Each Accelerator round consists of 10 working days devoted to workshops and mentoring sessions. The remaining weekdays are gaps for TEA involved teams to implement concepts and put learned techniques into practice so they can best develop their startups.

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Who should apply?

Those have an ICT-related/-enabled idea or prototype, e.g., websites, mobile apps, software programs, IoT projects, and want to get their startups off the ground, are eligible to join our TEA program.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​