Demium Benidorm inaugurates its first AllStartup

Demium, business incubator, focuses its activity on assembling equipment and developing business models, helping in the initial phase. The challenge for Demium is the recruitment of talents and in this phase that has begun today in the Municipal building of Torrejó. Demium, once the talents are located, validated business ideas will be provided in other countries that can be implemented to solve previously detected issues.

The candidates selected after the presentation of the proposals on September 17 have joined the AllStartUp today and during this weekend, between October 25 and 27, they will develop the business proposals.

This incubation program aims to achieve both emerging companies that become the spearhead, and export the consolidated and viable idea with companies based in Benidorm to generate employment and structure in Benidorm. The objective of the initiative is to establish 5 to 10 companies a year so that in five or eight years we can have in Benidorm a business network of fifty or sixty companies that generate the order of half a thousand new jobs based on technology.

The AllStartup is an event organized by Demium in close collaboration with the Department of Innovation and Tourism of Benidorm City Council and with Smart Tourism consultancy.

It is a unique opportunity to learn the basics of entrepreneurship and to identify the committed and talented entrepreneur. Throughout this intense weekend, the participants organize themselves in balanced teams and develop a business idea proposed by the organization. This allows to live directly the emotion of creating and launching a Startup, constantly receiving specialized training and advice to achieve it.

In the first session the selected entrepreneurs were trained by Jaime Guillot, Territorial Director of the East Zone of Demium Incubator for startups.

At the end of the event, on Sunday afternoon, a winning team will be chosen that will be part of the incubation program for the next 6 months. In this program, innovation projects linked to the Travel-Tech sector will be created that will help drive solutions related to smart and sustainable tourism in the city of Benidorm.