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Start up your business
UIC Startup is a business development program for innovative business ideas that want to progress in their development. Here you get to work on developing your idea and ensuring it has the prerequisites for success. You get help in identifying and segmenting customers and then test your idea on those customers.
From idea to customer in three months
The UIC Startup program runs for three months with one meeting a week; between these occasions you are expected to work on your idea on your own.
In the program, you become acquainted with Lean Startup and the Customer development process, and we are supported by the Lean canvas tool to systematically test and develop your idea in the direction the market demands.
UIC Startup is free of charge
Guest lecturers from the business world
During the course of the program, we invite guest speakers who offer inspiration and valuable feedback.
At the end of the program you get to present yourself and your idea, together with other UIC companies, to an audience of investors, contacts and partners from the business world at the UIC Demo Day.
“Some of the insights I gained at UIC would have taken me at least five years to come up with on my own.”
– Andreas Dahlin, founder, Visualize Your Science
About UIC Startup
Contents of program
- Vision, problems & customer segments
- Sustainability & customer interviews
- Unique value proposition & Channels
- Build Measure Learn loop
- Solution/Product
- Pitch training 1 min
- Revenue model & cost structure
- Key Metrics & competitive advantages
- Teams
- Financing
- Business reviews
- Inspiration former UIC company
- Pitch 10 min & Finale
- UIC Demo Day
Previous knowledge
No prior knowledge is required, only an innovative business idea that you want to develop. Feel free to attend the UIC Startup Bootcamp first. The Lean Canvas that you develop there can then be attached to your application to UIC Startup.
Important dates
Program start: Autumn 2025
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Apply to UIC Startup
Fill out the form to apply to the program.
We received better support than expected and a lot of opportunities thanks to UIC. I have met experts who have opened many doors for us and given us support and security all the way from idea to finished product.
Liza Löf, grundare och vd på Readily