Seed-Funding
Money or financial resource is the life-blood of any business organization. Early stage entrepreneurs often find it difficult to acquire fund to start their business ventures. This is where BIC Startups comes into the picture. The startup teams who have a promising plan will get seed fund from the incubation center.
What is a Seed Money?
As its name suggests, seed money is the very initial stage fund that is provided to entrepreneurs. The purpose of the seed money is to enable the entrepreneur to explore their business idea, develop a business plan, create the first prototype of their products and test it in the market. Depending upon the type of businesses, seed fund will help to finance initial activities of launching a business venture.
The startup becomes eligible to receive the seed fund after being chosen on the demo day. The lucky startups will receive up to two lakh rupees on installment basis based upon the set milestones. As the milestone is achieved, the startup will receive another installment to work on another milestone.
We do understand that the seed fund will not be sufficient to launch full scale business of any sorts. This is very natural. In that case, BIC Startups will provide support to the ventures in acquiring bank loan as well as connect the ventures with investors who may be interested to invest in their businesses.
Seedfund is an interest free capital which has to be refunded to BIC Startups once the startup becomes successful in generating the revenue. The startups will pay back the seedfund on a monthly basis over the stipulated period agreed mutually in the ‘seedfund agreement’ contract. The seed-money is also known as a revolving fund which means that it will be utilized to finance another round of the incubates and their ventures. However, you will only refund the principal amount. BIC Startups will not charge any interest on the seed money.
We do understand that the seed fund may not be sufficient to launch a full scale business of any sorts. In that case, BIC Startups will provide support to the ventures in acquiring bank loans as well as connect the ventures with potential investors who can provide additional capital for scaling and growing the ventures.
how can we help you?
Contact us at the Consulting WP office nearest to you or submit a business inquiry online.
We are collaborating with Boston International College to jointly work in the areas of entrepreneurship, employment and fostering entrepreneurial culture in Chitwan district. The twenty-first century is all about achieving economic prosperity and Chitwan Association of Industries is actively working on this front by strongly advocating for the welfare of industries and business enterprises. World’s economic landscape is changing faster than ever and the economic hub is shifting towards Asia with the emergence of economic powerhouses like China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Vietnam, etc. Nepal is poised to take advantage of this emerging opportunity being at the center of two rising economies.
Industry and academia collaboration is instrumental to navigate this changing economic landscape. Academia and industry both have gone into trouble working in silos, because graduates are unable to secure employment and industries are struggling to find skilled employees vital for the operation and growth of the organization. We cowork on the areas of shared goals through Rojgar Bank – a portal that connects employees and employers, loan facilitation to BIC Startups’ incubatees from CAI’s cooperative, mentoring, seed-funding and investing in high potential ventures that originate from Boston International College (BIC Startups), collaborative research, job creation, internships, and field visit to the industries by students of Boston International College.
