WELCOME: Members of the incubator team Terje Handeland, Johannes Løyning, Jon Trygve Kjerstad, Lars Petter Eliassen, Anne Cathrin Østebø, Anne Klepp Andersen, Maren Ersdal og Marianne Fedde Lilland. (Photo: Hilde Garlid)

When you have signed the «Incubator agreement» each company gets one Validé advisor. That gives you access to the entire Validé team. We use our expertise and network for you to succeed as a start-up. 🚀

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What do I get as an incubator company in Validé?

Validé has extensive experience in developing companies from idea to commercial success. In 2022 we have 72 companies in our investment portfolio. We evaluate around 500 ideas each year, and take up around 50 new companies in the incubator annually.

Incubation is about entrepreneurs and startups receiving one-on-one advice and step-by-step guidance while the company is in its earliest phase. We do this to build a good foundation for good ideas to be developed into commercial products or services.

Validé operates the incubator on behalf of SIVA - the company for industrial growth, and with support from Rogaland County Municipality.

ITSAccelerator 🚀
We have 25 years of experience with the knowledge what startups need in terms of expertise. ITSA is our business development program specially designed for companies in the early stages. They provide intensive learning, networking and access to capital.

We have three separate programs, and one partner program:

🚀 ITSA Start: 5 weeks, 5 skills

🚀 ITSA Growth: three-month program for growing companies

🚀 GründerAcademy: 10-week program together with innovation companies in Oslo, Bergen, Kristiansand and Stavanger / Haugesund.

🚀 EIRAccelerator: Digital accelerator program designed for companies in the health business

🔔 More info about the next ITSA program here

🔔 More info about the next GründerAcademy here

🔔 More info about the next EIRAccelerator her

GründerAcademy
As one of Norway's leading incubators, we have entered into a partnership with SRbank Sparebank1 to operate the startup program GründerAcademy. Here, selected companies gain intensive business expertise through regional meetings, mentoring programs and national investor presentations. The companies participate in a regional competition with NOK 50,000 from SRbank, and regional winners then participate in a national final with NOK 250,000 in prizes.

Investments
Validé invests time and money in companies we work with. We have a diverse industrial and research network, as well as access to public and private capital that we use actively in the development of our incubator companies.

💰 Validé AS invests annually in about 10-15 incubator companies.

💰 Validé Invest II is a pre-seed fund where Validé AS and external partners invest in a bunch of promising startups.

Business clusters
Validé is a partner with 6, national business clusters (ArenaPro) that can provide you with a useful network and a professional innovation environment. Find your cluster environment:

• The health cluster: Norwegian Smart Care Cluster

• The energy cluster: Energy Transition Norway

• The Smart City Cluster: Smart City Innovation Cluster / Nordic Edge

• Aqua Clusters: Stiim Aqua Cluster

• Offshore wind cluster: Offshore wind cluster

• The transport cluster: Vital infrastructure arena

The incubator is located at Innovasjonspark Stavanger at Ullandhaug. We provide a dynamic start-up environment with a combination of office facilities, collaboration between incubator companies, incubator services, expertise networks, professional events and a social arena.

Where is Validé?
🏡 Our office is located at Innovation Park Stavanger. You find us in building i2, at the 3th floor. Do you want to get to know Innovation Park Stavanger and the possibilities for office rental? The innovation park offers a varied set of office space or drop-in space at favorable prices for the incubator companies.
Contact person: Trygg Bugge tb@ipark.no

Validé's address is:
Olav Hanssensvei 7A
PO Box 8034
4068 Stavanger

Validé in Rogaland
You find Validé incubators north and south in Rogaland
• Validé Haugesundregionen
• Validé Jæren (Bryne)

How do we keep in touch?
We encourage you to find out more about Validé via our websites www.valide.no and ITSAcceleator.com On the websites you will find news, practical information, events, updated contact information for the entire organization and links to useful pages.

Become friends and follow us on:

✅ Facebook: Validé and ITSAccelerator

✅ Instagram: @valideinnovasjon and @ITSAccelerator

✅ LinkedIn: Validé and / or ITSAccelerator and Technology Transfer Offices (research-based innovation)

Rescive our newsletters: Sign up via valide.no in the blue section «What happens in Validé?»

Validé offers useful events for startups

EAT, THINK & INNOVATE: Monthly theme lunch in the Innovation park Stavanger that adds knowledge, industry and networks.

• Incubator lunch: Knowledge and network gatherings in Validé's premises.

• Validé Day: We invite people from all over our network to get to know each other, and we present the latest in innovation and entrepreneurship. Good lunch, high energy, exciting presentations, useful information and effective networking.

• Eat, Think & Innovate: Monthly theme lunch in the Innovation park Stavanger that adds knowledge, industry and networks.

• Early birds: - get to know neighbors in the innovation park Stavanger. The first Wednesday of each month, Validé and the Innovation park invite you to a half hour with a nice breakfast and short company presentations.

• Kunnskaps_tørst: Do you wonder what is being researched at the university? We invite a researcher to the campus hotel Ydalir, to a popular science presentation of his own research.

• Join A Startup Night: Nordic Edge, Validé and University of Stavanger invite startups and students to meet each other.

• Ad hoc event: Lectures or gatherings, whether we have a visit, a summer, Christmas or other type of event. We inform via email and newsletter.

Benefit agreements
Together, Validé and Innovation Park Stavanger have negotiated good benefit agreements with discounts or free hours of advice. Some only apply to incubator companies and some only apply to tenants. Detailed information is available from your advisor.

If you have office space in the innovation park, you should check out benefit agreements for tenants.

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Do you need an office?

Innovation Park Stavanger offers start-up companies good office facilities; short-term or long-term rental. The innovation park offers professional activities that build networks between the companies and social meeting places.

STUDENTS AT WORK: Izaskun Muruzábal-Lecumberri wants contact with students who wants to work for a startup. (Photo: Hilde Garlid)

Validé collaborates with UiS to get students jobs and experience in our incubator companies. You can have a student, for free, at work for 25 to 50 hours. That gives the students useful experience from the start-up industry, and the incubator companies receive free assistance. Often the staff doubles during this period!

Do you want to know more about how you can get a part time job? You can apply and read more about Student Task Force