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Center for Food and Beverage Innovation (CFBI) is powered by Restaurant Association Vietnam in partnership with KisStartup as a key operation partner. With a smooth combination of a strong network of food and beverage suppliers, restaurants, and investors with years of experience in innovation, CFBI offers food and beverage-related projects, startups, and existing enterprises a unique resource to accelerate their companies. The CFBI will be officially launched at Asia Food & Beverage Summit 2020 in HCMC this year with series of exciting activities. 

OUR MISSION: 

• Seek and nurture food and beverage-related innovative projects, startups, and existing enterprises that are rooted in the Asian region and dedicated to making their community a better world. 

• Connect food and beverage-related innovative projects, startups, and existing enterprises to essential resources and network 

RESOURCES for INNOVATION

• Mentors

• Experienced Advisors in Intellectual Property, Accounting, and etc. 

• Innovation Coaches 

• Business Matching between startups and investors, enterprises, suppliers, corporates

• Events

FOCUS 2020

In 2020, CFBI centers its focus on: 

• PARTNERSHIP:  As we all understand, we can not commit to our mission alone. This year, we aim to collaborate with universities, associations, corporates and supporting organizations at the local and international levels. 

• INCUBATION & ACCELERATION: As part of CFBI, we are eager to seek potential projects for our Incubation and Acceleration Program 2020 which is the first-of-its-kind program for projects in food and beverage industry in Vietnam
  
  To be qualified for CFBI Incubator and Accelerator, you have to: 

  • Be a food and/or beverage-related project/startup/existing enterprises
  • Have a team with at least two people 
  • Seek for funds or scale-up

• CONNECTION: After years of experience in business and investment matching, at CFBI, we continue to act as a trustworthy connector between innovative projects and corporates, suppliers, and investors who are keen on partnering with and/or invest in creative food/beverage-related solutions. Business and investment matching sessions are going to be organized throughout the year, ending with DEMO DAY where showcase innovative F&B solutions. 

CONTACT

For any inquiries, feel free to contact us via: 

Email: hello@kisstartup.com 

Mobile: +84.978.137.894 (Thao) 
 

On December 3, 2019, KisStartup assisted Vintech City in selecting and training projects within Vintech City's competition for university students as a part of Techfest 2019 in Quang Ninh.

The competition aims to find potential projects that need specialized support and resources to develop. Those projects came from universities that won support from Vintech City and other ones. As an Advisory partner, KisStartup helped the students redefine the business model, analyze the current state of the product and help you participate in pitching and interacting with the judges in the Q&A session.

Projects driven by scientific researches done by students, new models proved that innovation that comes from scientific research needs to be further strengthened.

On December 29, 2020, SME Mentoring 1on1 Hanoi operated by KisStartup organized Gala Diner to goodbye Year 2019. We would like to sincerely thank everyone for an emotional and wonderful evening. Thank you, Mai Pham and Huong Thao for your hard work for an interesting evening. Thank you for sharing and / or sending affection to the program.

Thanks to the special sponsors, the Nguyen Hong Oanh and Nguyen Tuan Linh, for the event.

Thanks to the beautiful voice of the mentee Hà Minh - Ha noi ngay tro ve

Thanks to the sincere sharing of all mentor-mentee. Thanks to a gift from Nguyen Phuong Lan 2 years ago, a mentee of the program, the book The Go-Giver, is a message of the program. We hope the mentees will find something useful in the book. Give-and-take is creating new and better values ​​together. Thank you, everyone, for everything.

In order for everyone to interact and learn from each other, please fill in this form

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 In 2019, KisStartup cooperated with the University of Salento in Italy (Università del Salento) in bringing graduate students majoring in innovation and entrepreneurship to intern at KisStartup. The first trainee went through an internship at 3 startups.

Within the framework of the activity, trainees will be introduced through various innovative start-up models in Vietnam, from which they will learn about the model and support start-up groups in some areas such as international marketing and networking.

During the past 3 years, KisStartup has tested and developed trainee models at creative startups. These activities have received support from businesses and students. We hope to bring this program to a higher level. 

Neta_Internship Planet, initiated by KisStartup in 2020, will promote effective networking of startups, universities, and job markets in the near future.

Innovation Mindset & Tools at Hanoi University of Industry is part of a cooperation program between the Youth Union of Hanoi University of Industry (SIP HAUI Club) and VinTech city. In this program, KisStartup acts as a professional training unit for not only students who have a startup project or idea but also teachers in the school with the desire to create core lecturers who can sponsor, support and directly supervise ideas or projects coming out of Hanoi University of Industry.

The intensive training program took place in 04 sessions and ended in the afternoon on November 17, 2019. The end of this training program is the opening of the next 03 months of support for the 05 most potential projects selected under the direct supervision of the source lecturer and KisStartup.

KisStartup hopes this is the beginning of the university's journey in fostering innovation and strong support for the students themselves.

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60 is not a big number, but it is a great number compared to the first 8 mentor-mentee of December 2015 when the SME Mentoring program started in Hanoi. As people are welcoming 2020, a new decade, a community becomes more and more mature and bring true values to mentors and mentees after 4 years of operation.

The founders who participated in the program, the youngest one is 21 years old while the oldest one is 72 years old, shared the joy of belonging to a community that brings values, continuous learning and mutual support.

We have nurtured our community by faith, a positive attitude, above all an open mindset. SME mentoring 1on1 Hanoi cannot exist as it is today without early mentors like Ms. Giang Do, Ms. Diem Anh, and Ms. Huyen Nga, and veteran mentees who would not accept mentors and their relationships will probably last a lifetime, through all highs and lows. Sincere thanks to Mr. Ted Nuyen - the inspirer and instructor, thank Tran Thanh Tung, Kha Vinh enthusiastically for sharing new experiences and perspectives, and especially mentor Phan Dinh Tuan Anh who accompanies SME Mentoring Hanoi.

The model of SME Mentoring 1on1 is initially being replicated in Northern universities.

This year all mentors and mentors of the program received a special gift, which is the book The Go-Giver by Bob Burg & John David Mann. In the book, there is an interesting saying, dedicated to mentor-mentee as a sincere thanks, wish everyone a new year of health, success and new discoveries.

“... even if you do not hold a traditional leadership position, does not mean that you are not in a position to influence others, to inspire and empower others. , to catalyze the greatness of others, to promote their success, to lift them up. In other words, it is to give away leadership, and in doing so it "pokes" the whole world in a positive way”.
 

The book published in 2019 is a result of gathering 10 case studies on business model innovation using IoT applications in Vietnam. 7 out of 10 case studies were conducted by researchers from KisStartup's research team in collaboration with lecturers and researchers of Ton Duc Thang University. The book was published as part of Silicon Valley Asia project, funded by the Government of Taiwan.

Case 1: IoT application in Smart energy in Smart cities – from idea to practice
Author(s)     Minh Nguyen Dang Tuan1, Thi Minh Ly Pham2, Nhan Nguyen Thanh
Case 2: IoT in hotel management – a local approach to empower managers in decision making
Author (s)    Pham Thanh Hang, Pham Thi Minh Ly
Case 3: Smart-home and its impact on real estate industry
Author (s)    Nguyen Dang Tuan Minh, Pham Thi Minh Ly, Nha Le Duc
Case 4: IoT application in child education– how it is changing the way children learn
Author (s)    Nguyen Thi Hanh
Case 5: IoT in agriculture – facing the scalability challenge    
Author (s)    Nguyen Hoang Giang 
Case 6: IoT in health care – a transformational challenge for startups in the field
Author (s)    Nguyen Dang Tuan Minh
Case 7: IoT and Big Data for Smart City Route optimization with big data and the support of existing IoT platform 
Author (s)    Long Nam Pham, Dang Tuan Minh Nguyen, Minh Tuan Phung

On November 18, 2019, KisStartup officially signed a cooperation agreement with Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund. Through this, KisStartup and the Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund will cooperate to either finance or sponsor the business projects of young people living or working in Cau Giay District. The collaboration aims to support projects with innovative business models located in the area and focusing on agriculture or service sectors.

In this role, KisStartup will assist in reviewing, selecting and connecting startup projects according to the criteria set out for the Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund . At the same time, KisStartup will help foster skills and capability in operation for the fund's staff, coordinate with partners to supervise projects when financial and / or investment support is received.

Forms of the Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund in Cau Giay District include:

• Financial support at a maximum of USD 2500

• Invest in implemented projects, have revenue, manage costs and are in need of capital to complete and develop. The total investment capital is from USD 5000 to USD 10000.

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About the Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund:

Minh Tri Fund was established under Decision No. 4656 / QD-UBND dated August 26, 2016 of the Hanoi People's Committee on the establishment and recognition of the Charter of Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund in Cau Giay District, Ho Chi Minh City. Hanoi. With the principle and purpose of operation is a social fund, Minh Tri Fund was born to encourage, encourage and provide financial support for ideas, production and business projects of youth (from 16 to 35 age) or youth organizations within Cau Giay District (Hanoi City).

See more information about the Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund at: https://www.quyminhtri.com/

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KisStartup has conducted training courses for managers, lecturers and communication officers in Tra Vinh.

In the framework of cooperation between KisStartup and Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project of Tra Vinh Province (SME Tra Vinh), KisStartup has conducted training on innovation and entrepreneurship for managers, media officers, lecturers from departments, agencies, and universities of Tra Vinh province.

The program aims to incorporate important concepts and thinking of innovative start-ups into the organization's current operations. Mr. Phan Dinh Tuan Anh and Ms. Nguyen Dang Tuan Minh exchanged directly with students about:

* Innovative ways of communicating about start-up innovation through understanding start-up innovation

* Designing and mentoring mentoring, incubating and supporting investment programs for startup projects

After the course, KisStartup and experts will continue to accompany the activities and support managers and lecturers to develop activities in the coming time as well as connect activities of Tra Vinh with network of Vietnamese and international startup ecosystems.

The 3-week of training and coaching for 9 teams participating in SDG Challenge 2019- The program organized by UNDP and NSSC of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

KisStartup team supported the teams in both two rounds to develop and clarify their business models. With the desire to improve the capacity of these innovative start-up teams for the purpose of serving the differently abled community so that the teams can answer questions of  customers, revenue streams, marketing strategy, KisStartup not only provided training but also coaching and networking the teams with experts on Intellectual Property - PhD. Phan Quoc Nguyen, Tax - Assoc.Prof. Dr. Ly Phuong Duyen, Impact Finance and Business Model - MSc. Do Thu Giang and capital support - Thriive.

Besides, 2 months after the training program, KisStartup's Volunteers continue to support communication and marketing for these projects.