Our Impact

975+

Entrepreneurs Trained

28

Countries Engaged

$500k+

Funding Invested


Program Overview

 

GIST Startup Trainings are in-country intensive business training courses designed to empower young science and technology innovators and entrepreneurs through hands-on training and mentoring delivered by top U.S. experts and conducted in partnership with in-country ecosystem partners. As a result of GIST support, many participants have moved their ventures forward. At least two GIST Startup Trainings winners have exited their startups and others have incubated at Google’s startup accelerator in Silicon Valley and 1871’s entrepreneurial hub in Chicago.

 

GIST Innovates


Born out of a need to take our Startup Trainings program virtual, ‘GIST Innovates’ is a ten-week, in-person/virtual hybrid training program focusing on pre-accelerator stage innovations and is modeled after the Lean Startup methodology. Through an in-depth customer discovery process, early-stage entrepreneurs identify and evaluate opportunities for their venture and make informed decisions on how best to move their idea forward. GIST Innovates provides participants with the training, mentoring, and resources they need to build their entrepreneurial skills and bring their ideas out of the university lab and into the market.

What are GIST Startup Trainings?

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Current Opportunities

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Startup Training Success Stories

 

 

Rahinah Ibrahim, Oceanori | Malaysia

Oceanori's from Malaysia has created an independent sewage treatment plant (also known as iSTP) for rural communities that do not have centralized sewage collection and treatment. The treatment plant is one of the smallest on the market, easily transportable by boat, can fit underneath the toilets of rural water-based communities and treats sewage to meet the specs of Malaysia’s National Water Services Commission.

Gustavo Becker, Box Synergy | Argentina

Box Synergy designs creative, innovative and sustainable products. The products provide safe water, electricity, connectivity and thermal sources for heat water and cooking, where services do not reach. Box Synergy developed autonomous, self-sustaining, resilient, versatile and portable conceptions. Their differential factor is the synergy, as a concept that allows us to move towards the future, to minimize the environmental impact and maximize the social impact, to generate more with less.

Nataliya Limonova of GIOS

GIOS is designing an interactive platform for the delivery of remote and blended learning. In addition to keeping students engaged in the educational process, the platform aims to support teachers in organizing remote and hybrid teaching by providing them with a flexible course builder, interactive material library, assessment, and analytics.

Previous Startup Trainings

July 2021

Innovates Ukraine 2021

This program completed in summer 2021 Click here to learn more.

ukraine 2021
December 2020

Innovates Ukraine 2020

GIST Innovates Ukraine, underway since mid-2020, completed their extensive virtual training in early 2021 with GIST experts and concluded with an exciting Demo Day presentation from the cohort.

Ukraine 2020
June 2019

GIST Startup Training North Macedonia 2019

1st: Elevate Global | 2nd: Stringershub
Spirit of GIST: Imprinit

Programs, Mentors, and Participants

north macedonia
June 2019

GIST Startup Training Argentina 2019

1st: Box Synergy | 2nd: Arbacia
Spirit of GIST: Innomy
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argentina
May 2019

GIST U.S.–Pakistan Startup Training 2019

This training did not feature a competition.

pakistan
March 2019

Startup Training Caucasus 2019

1st: Elven Technologies | 2nd: ThermoNorth
Spirit of GIST: Eco Cone

Programs, Mentors, and Participants

caucasus

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