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The Startup Studio is designed to support science and technology backed startups as well as budding entrepreneurs with an aspiration to become a company founder. The Studio offers a full Coaching & Mentorship program and provides access to Coworking space in FAST HeadQuarters. The membership in Startup Studio is granted free of charge.

The Coaching & Mentorship program walks startups and budding entrepreneurs through the entrepreneurial journey with each module being specifically designed to cover the needs of startups and the budding entrepreneurs. Every module will have a practical part where the participants will exercise the learnt skills by applying them to their idea, product or company-related analysis. The program at the Startup Studio will consist of business and technical sessions, teamwork, panel discussions, mentor engagements, motivational talks, and company visits.

The program is designed to create and enhance the following capacities of each startup and entrepreneur to be hosted:

1. Intellectual: exploring individual and team competencies and plans that generate genuine value for people and the business,
2. Network: exploring access to relevant skilled people and to market,
3. Financial: exploring access to capital, and
4. Core: exploring proper individual and team motivation.

The coaches and mentors will be distinguished professionals from Armenia and abroad.

In the end of the program, a demo day will be organized during which the graduates of the Startup Studio will have an opportunity to pitch in front of a larger audience of investors, entrepreneurs, technology savvies and other related groups. The most promising startups will also gain an exceptional chance to pitch in front of the investors from Science & Technology Angels Network.

As for the budding entrepreneurs, the most promising ones will be invited to participate in Startup studios’s next batch for Startups.