Request for Applications: Digital Dragons Accelerator Program (Poland)

In addition to the usual accelerator services such as support in finding a publisher and attracting partners or mentors, they also offer the prospect of funding your projects.

When working with studios that have entered Digital Dragons Accelerator, they use proven methods practiced during seven previous editions of the programme organized by the Krakow Technology Park. They are also constantly looking for new forms to increase the effectiveness of their activities.

Why is it worth becoming an Accelerator’s dragon?

• Individual acceleration programme:
  • a practical approach to the development of your project and/or business
  • mentoring from industry experts who know the topic from the practical side
  • access to unique know-how
  • direct feedback
  • global networking and the opportunity to establish contacts with developers from all over the world
  • community learning and work based on individual case studies
  • participation in industry events with the goal to acquire business partners (B2B)
  • increasing the number of international game users or building a community (B2C)

Funding Information

• Grants
  • The most important values that you can find during acceleration programmes are unique know-how from their mentors and ecosystem partners, networking opportunities, faster product development. But they also have grants for you. These financial resources are financed by EU-financed Operational Program European Funds for a Modern Economy.
  • You can receive up to 80 000 PLN. You can spend them on foreign expansion costs: international B2B lub B2C events, study visits, business partners acquisition, localization, product development etc. The most important goal of this grant is to go global and expand abroad.
  • Their team will help you prepare all details in Schedule and Budget sheets, everything according to the rules of Polish Agency for Entreprise Development.

Eligibility Criteria

• Their grants come from public funds so they have some formal requirements.
• They can support:
  • companies registered in Poland no longer than 5 years on the market
  • with capacity for de minimis public aid
  • with all intelectual rights to the product
  • with micro-entrepreneur or small entrepreneur status

Ineligibility Criteria

• They can’t support:
  • a company related by capital or person to Digital Dragons
  • projects which received support based on funds obtained under 2.28 Startup Booster Poland activity of the European Funds for a Modern Economy programme
  • a company that conducts activities excluded by the European Union under relevant regulations
  • a company that conducts activities in:
    • manufacturing, processing or marketing of tobacco and tobacco products
    • production or marketing of alcoholic beverages
    • producing or marketing pornographic content
    • trading in explosives, weapons and ammunition
    • games of chance, mutual betting, slot machine games and low prize slot machine games
    • production or marketing of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or precursors
  • a company that is excluded from the possibility of receiving EU support, in accordance with the Implementation Act
  • an entrepreneur who is in a difficult situation within the meaning of EU regulations or is during restructuring proceedings
  • an entrepreneur who is obliged to return aid resulting from a decision of the European Commission declaring the aid unlawful
  • an entrepreneur as to whom there is justified doubt as to whether they have the rights to dispose of the notified product

For more information, visit Krakow Technology Park.