GoBeyond: the responsible innovation platform
The innovation platform conceived by Sisal to promote the development of innovative and socially oriented entrepreneurial projects and to stimulate the culture of doing business in Italy.
GoBeyond is:
A Call for Ideas that promotes the growth of startups with a social vocation and that responds to an effective need among startuppers: to find the necessary funds and appropriate mentorship paths to develop an innovative, responsible and sustainable business.
An Academy to develop the entrepreneurial skills and the mindset necessary for the creation of projects that have a lasting impact on the community and the territory.
A GoBeyonders Community: people who want to transform the world we live in and face the social, environmental and economic challenges of the present.
The contest conceived by Sisal was born in 2014 to encourage the development of new business ideas and to reward startups with a high impact on the community and the territory. The initiative was born with a pure purpose of social responsibility, aimed at generating value for the benefit of the community, young entrepreneurs and startups.
Over the years, the project has developed with the aim of offering continuous support to the startup ecosystem, transforming itself into an integrated platform in the company's business strategy. GoBeyond contributes to increasing and expanding the impact of ideas that respond to the problems and needs of the community and the environment.
The winning startup of the 2024 edition of GoBeyond will receive a €50,000 prize provided by Sisal and will have access to a mentorship programme reserved for all 6 finalists, guaranteed by the renewed network of partners who will offer expertise and know-how to meet all the startups' development needs. After last year's positive experience, the collaboration with Startup Geeks continues in 2024 to offer an online incubation path to the 3 most deserving ‘idea-stage’ startups, i.e. those entrepreneurial realities not yet established and without a tested product or service.
The 2024 edition of the call for ideas also introduces an important novelty: the Sisal Challenge, with a €10,000 equity-free grant for a startup already established with a product ready or on the market, whose offering falls into the following application areas in a Sustainable Retail context Green store (indoor air quality and pollution, energy and waste management, circularity and sustainable materials); Retail transformation (digital technologies, AI and predictive analytics, biometric technologies, AR, IoT); Customer experience (customer engagement and education); or Responsible and inclusive retail (community engagement and CSR, people's wellbeing).
Important realities specialised in different fields collaborate with GoBeyond and represent a fundamental support for the startup finalists by sharing their consolidated expertise: Carter & Benson, Mamacrowd, Google, Zest, Startup Geeks, K&L Gates, FoundationC, frog-Part of Capgemini Invent, Social Innovation Teams, Ntt Data, A4W (Angels for Women), SheTech, Alkemy and StartupItalia.
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GoBeyond 2023 Winner is MgShell
DbGlove
Plick
Wiseair
Adam's Hand
Corax
Chi odia paga
Voice Med
HTLab/sabreen
Ittinsect
Ysi
Optimens
PipeIn
A predictive system that monitors the maintenance status pipes to prevent water waste, with the aim of safeguarding a precious resource of the environment.
MgShell
GoBeyond Academy is a digital training platform created to enhance entrepreneurial skills and to develop the mindset necessary for the creation of scalable, sustainable and socially oriented business projects. The Academy is aimed at the GoBeyonders community: startuppers, innovation enthusiasts and all those who want to go beyond to address community and local problems and needs.
The GoBeyond Academy is available in the private area of the website with 11 modules divided into 3 categories: entrepreneurial culture, business plan creation, impact analysis. The lecturers of the GoBeyond Academy, among the leading experts in the topics addressed in the training course, come from the worlds of academia, innovation and business.
