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.
In 2023 GoBeyond will award the winning startup with a grant (equity free) of 50,000 euros, while the six finalist startups will be able to benefit from an advisory program: each will be able to choose one of GoBeyond's partners with whom to undertake a path of support, comparison and sharing of skills and know-how. Finally, for the 20 best startups, some mentions are provided by GoBeyond Partners. Important companies specialized in various fields collaborate with GoBeyond and represent a fundamental support for the finalist startups thanks to the sharing of threi consolidated skills: Carter&Benson, StartupItalia, Italian Tech, Mamacrowd, Google, La Carica delle 101, Startup Geeks, K&L Gates, FoundationC, frog-Part of Capgemini Invent, Social Innovation Teams, NTT DATA, A4W (Angel for Women), SheTech e Alkemy.
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GoBeyond 2022 Winner is PipeIn
DbGlove
Plick
Wiseair
Adam's Hand
Corax
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Voice Med
HTLab/sabreen
Ittinsect
Ysi
Optimens
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A predictive system that monitors the maintenance status pipes to prevent water waste, with the aim of safeguarding a precious resource of the environment.
GoBeyond Academy is a digital training platform created to increase entrepreneurial skills and to develop the mindset necessary for the creation of scalable, sustainable and socially oriented entrepreneurial projects. The Academy is aimed at the GoBeyonders community: startuppers, innovation enthusiasts and all those who want to go further to respond to the problems and needs of the community and the territory.
The GoBeyond Academy, developed in collaboration with Feltrinelli Education, has been online since March 2022 with 11 modules divided into 3 categories: entrepreneurial culture, business plan creation, impact analysis. The teachers of the GoBeyond Academy, among the top experts on the topics covered in the training course, come from the academic, innovation and business world.
