The university, in collaboration with the Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority (Monsha'at), celebrated the graduation of 20 university startups from the Qassim University accelerator on Wednesday morning. The event was attended by His Excellency the President of the University, Professor Dr. Mohammed bin Fahd Al-Sharikh, His Excellency the Governor of the Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority (Monsha'at), Mr. Sami bin Ibrahim Al-Husseini, and a number of experts and specialists in the field of entrepreneurship.
The university startup accelerator program aims to support entrepreneurial projects by university faculty, students, and recent graduates, developing their capabilities, enhancing their market growth, and improving their attractiveness for attracting investment capital. Additionally, it aims to improve their organizational structure and competitiveness, enabling them to become successful startups that attract investment opportunities, and are capable of growth and expansion.<\/p>
The closing ceremony of the university startup accelerator, held in the main hall of the university city, witnessed the startups presenting their projects in the presence and participation of a group of investors, funding entities, and development service providers for the participating projects. The projects varied across several sectors, including technology, e-commerce, entertainment, tourism, and manufacturing, in addition to fintech and advanced technology.<\/p>
Throughout their 6-month journey, accelerator participants benefited from a range of programs and services tailored for emerging startups. These were designed to support and develop them into successful, economically viable companies. In addition to financial grants, workshops and mentoring sessions were provided, along with various financial solutions. Participants also gained opportunities to connect with investors and funding entities, and engage in enriching meetings with successful entrepreneurs.<\/p><\/p>
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احتفت الجامعة، بالتعاون مع الهيئة العامة للمنشآت الصغيرة والمتوسطة “منشآت”، بتخريج 20 شركة ناشئة جامعية من مسرعة جامعة القصيم، صباح أمس الأربعاء، وذلك بحضور سعادة رئيس الجامعة الأستاذ الدكتور محمد بن فهد الشارخ، وسعادة محافظ الهيئة العامة للمنشآت الصغيرة والمتوسطة “منشآت” الأستاذ سامي بن إبراهيم الحسيني، وعدد من الخبراء والمختصين في مجال ريادة الأعمال.ويهدف برنامج […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[427],"topofweek-line":[],"sdgs":[108],"post-setting":[],"departments-list":[],"class_list":["post-10925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-427","sdgs-sdg8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"topofweek-line","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topofweek-line?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"sdgs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sdgs?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post-setting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-setting?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"departments-list","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departments-list?post=10925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}