Deadline: 11 August 2025
Fit 4 Start provides entrepreneurs with intensive coaching and mentoring, attractive equity-free funding and access to key networks that help them succeed with launching their business venture and scaling it on the European market.
To enter the market and get off to a strong start, startups need quality support that is relevant to their stage of development. The international coaches, high-quality jury members and experts of Fit 4 Start, Luxembourg’s leading startup acceleration programme, offers precisely this. Coaching sessions, thematic expert sessions and feedback from the jury – notably including experienced entrepreneurs and investors – provide participating startups with all the components needed to put together a concrete business plan, assess the viability of their company as well as its attractiveness to potential investors, and identify the right business partners.
Fit 4 Start combines a group approach with personalised coaching adapted to each startup. Participants become part of a vibrant and international community of startups that often use Luxembourg as a launchpad for reaching European and global markets.
Key Benefits
- Fit 4 Start offers high-potential startups the following advantages:
- 6 months of coaching and mentoring by startup experts
- Up to €150,000 of equity-free funding
- Free access to co-working space
- Valuable networking and funding opportunities in Luxembourg
Eligibility Criteria
- The programme is open to innovative projects or young innovative startups from around the world that meet all the following criteria:
- There is no prerequisite for applicants to have incorporated a company at the application stage
- If the applicant already incorporated a company, it should be no older than 5 years at the opening date of the Fit 4 Start call concerned – for non-autonomous entities the assessment is performed at group level
- If the applicant already incorporated a company, it must meet the small enterprise criteria
- The applicant team must be composed of a minimum of two people, with at least one person working full time on the realisation of the project, attending all sessions during the coaching phase of the programme and being responsible for developing the startup’s Luxembourg substance and operations
- Participants must be at least 18 years of age or older as of the starting date of the programme
- The applicant may be any early-stage and/or more advanced startup/project. Although it is not necessary to have a minimum viable product (MVP) at the application stage, for the healthtech domain, products or services in preclinical proof of concept or MVP will be preferred
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