Access to Talent - Early

Fekretak sherketak entrepreneur center offers specialized individual guidance sessions in various areas, including technical expertise, legal advice, preliminary feasibility studies, marketing and digital marketing, financial management and funding, and government support. These sessions are designed for university students and entrepreneurs to assess market suitability during the expansion and growth stages. We provide specialized support and professional advice to help you achieve success and realize your vision in the business market. Whether you need to improve your product or service, identify opportunities and risks, develop effective marketing strategies, or manage financial resources, our mentorship sessions will assist you in making informed decisions and achieving excellence in a competitive market. Gain the skills and knowledge you need to succeed with your idea and start your project. Book a mentorship session with our specialized experts.

Service Link: https://www.gafi.gov.eg/Arabic/Howcanwehelp/OneStopShop/Pages/default.aspx

These are Mentoring and counseling programs for entrepreneurs who are about to establish medium/small/micro projects or owners of existing projects to contribute to the success, continuity, and development of these projects. Mentoring is done through long, medium, and short-term programs that are conducted through mentors approved by the MSMEDA’s experts, and MSMEDA starting from Q1/Y2024, by coordinating the provision of Mentoring and counsel from entities/individuals outside the MSMEDA.

Service Link: https://www.msmeda.org.eg/Service/ServiceDetaile?ServiceDetaileId=8

Separate units established inside bank branches, universities and youth centers under the auspices of the “NilePreneurs” initiative by the Central Bank of Egypt. It works under a unified brand image, internal work procedures manual, and operating system in all branches, and aims at providing Business Development Services (BDS) to enhance the working environment of SMEs and entrepreneurs, transform the youth’s innovative ideas into feasible projects, enable young people who want to start their own business to choose a project that is appropriate for their capabilities, provide financial and banking literacy, and support banks in achieving their main goals of financing entrepreneurs and MSMEs

Service Link: https://np.eg/bds-hubs/

It is a hardware pre-incubator that aims to integrate design into the development of diverse products by graduating a new generation of professional designers who can create innovative products that compete effectively in local and international markets.

Service Link: https://np.eg/incubate/hardware/creative-design/

It is a hardware incubator whose aim is to support innovative and technology-driven startups that depend on sustainable strategies

Service Link: https://np.eg/incubate/hardware/engineering/

It is a software as a service (SaaS) incubator. It allows B2B software startups in Egypt to launch products aiming to help SMEs automate their workflow. Consequently, it leads to achieving digital transformation while equipping incubated startups with gamification modules to produce engaging software with high usage and low churn rates.

Service Link: https://np.eg/incubate/software/launchsaas/

It is a technology-focused business incubator that supports Egyptian startups in building sustainable business models that operate and compete in high potential industries’ markets such as banking, retail, insurance, corporate applications, and health tech. It also helps startups with high-tech factors like machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, blockchain, etc.

Service Link: https://np.eg/incubate/software/techspace/

The CODE2E center strives to support the industry through the design and manufacturing of dies and molds that are necessary for competitive mass production. It also aims to build the die design community’s capacity to improve industry competitiveness.

Service Link: https://i-d.tech

The program attempts to co-operate with SMEs to translate their needs into a real-world product. The Design House works to develop new products and modify existing ones through re-engineering, if needed, with the aim to achieve a successful locally manufacturable product.

Service Link: https://i-d.tech

The Value Chain Development Centre (VCDC) is one of the key programs developed under the NilePreneurs initiative with the aim to promote SMEs’ growth through a value chain development approach. The center works on diminishing gaps among a certain chain range, including activities such as design, production processes optimization, marketing, distribution, and support services to the final consumer, or often beyond that, when recycling processes are taken into consideration.

Service Link: https://np.eg/compete/training-centers/value-chain/

The NP Accelerator is an educational startup accelerator that provides business founders with a 6-month intensive program to work closely with technical experts and analyze the pain points in their business to develop their capabilities and drive their business growth.

Service Link: https://np.eg/accelerator/

Guru is NilePreneurs’ first e-learning platform, It tailors and customizes learning tracks for entrepreneurship according to self-assessment that determines vulnerabilities and needs. Moreover, it connects experts and consultants with the entrepreneurs and startup founders to share their experiences, success stories, and the learned lessons.

Service Link: https://guru.np.eg

The Central Bank of Egypt launched Egypt’s first “Digital Academy”, aiming to empower entrepreneurs and employees with the right skills in the banking, financial and FinTech sectors. This will be achieved through offering educational programs with global recognition on a variety of topics and qualifications, while offering accreditation with top-tier institutes either virtually or physically.

Service Link: https://fintech-egypt.com/digital_academy/

The Central Bank of Egypt in collaboration with various banks and organized by Startup Factory launched a 6-week pre-accelerator program, designed to support high potential entrepreneurs and startups who have FinTech and FinTech enabled solutions located in the Egyptian governorates outside Cairo. The program’s objectives are to speed up startups’ growth through extensive knowledge and mentorships from world-class experts; lead them to become ready for investment opportunities; while providing matchmaking between different ecosystem enablers.

Service Link: https://fintekrs.com

The Central bank of Egypt developed the program to support the FinTech solutions throughout their various stages, from ideation to deployment in the market. The program includes solution development advisory, matchmaking with banks for deployment in the Egyptian market and regulatory guidance & navigation for licensing purposes.

Service Link: https://fintech-egypt.com/digital_Solutions_Matchmaking/

The Central Bank of Egypt believes in keeping up with rapid developments in financial technology and striving to achieve an optimal balance between ensuring financial stability and consumer protection while advancing beneficial innovation to serve the banking and financial sectors in Egypt as well. To this end, the Regulatory Sandbox offers a live testing environment for FinTech innovators who are developing new business models that are currently hindered by stringent authorization requirements and regulatory uncertainty. The purpose of the Regulatory Sandbox is to pave the way for faster and easier access to new financial solutions and embed compliance within the FinTech ecosystem at an early stage. This will not only allow FinTech innovators to focus on their core offering but also ensure that consumers and other players in the market are not adversely affected by the regulatory uncertainty of the disruptive FinTech activities. FinTech startups and financial institutions can apply to test their innovative applications in a live environment under the guidance and supervision of the sandbox team in the Central Bank of Egypt.

Service Link: https://fintech-egypt.com/sandbox/

Provision of Business Development Services to Startups through the "Contribution Ratio" System. The center covers 95% of the value of the services provided. Targeted Companies (According to Economic Sector):
• Crafts and Cultural Industries
• Fashion Industries
• Technology Transfer and Digitalization
• Design and Industrial Design
• Renewables, Energy Efficiency & Waste Management
Business development services offered to companies include the following:
First: Management and Business Planning Services:
• Business Strategic Planning
• Mentorship Services
Second: Marketing and Export Services:
• Promotional design and development
• Website design & development
• Export costing and pricing
• Export Documents and Procedures
Third: Productivity Services:
• Product Design
• CAD/CAM Applications
• Visual Management & 5S
• Factory layout
Fourth: In-House Services:
• Budgets Planning
• Budget Plan & Feasibility Study
• Cost and Pricing Program
• Designing Accounting Systems
• Designing Cost Control Systems
• Finances of Non Financials Program
• Financial Analysis Consultations
• Financial Analysis Program-Training
• Export Readiness Audit

Service Link: http://www.imc-egypt.org/index.php/ar/2020-12-14-09-59-08/2020-12-30-11-39-38

The project is an innovative initiative by the Government of Egypt and MCIT and a unique solution, as it simultaneously addresses a compilation of root causes of youth unemployment in realistic and pragmatic ways by uniting different vital services for the growth of any business in one location, easily accessed by youth seeking to develop their business plans or already in business, yet, still struggling or in a start-up phase.

Service Link: https://tiec.gov.eg/English/Programs/Innovation-Hubs/Pages/default.aspx