Pre-Incubation
Supporting entrepreneurs validate their
business concept using solar for the agri-fishery market
What is a Pre-Incubation Program?
It is a 6-week program to help your team validate your business concept using solar for the agriculture and fishery market.
  • The program includes
    4 Saturday afternoon sessions, a weekend bootcamp and a final Saturday afternoon to present your final concept.
  • The program will help you
    evaluate and validate your business model and develop a prototype concept.
  • We will provide business
    and technical assistance     with mentors and advisors.
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Why Pre-Incubation?
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Weekend workshops to help you and your team explore and validate your idea
  • Access to solar and agri-fisheries technical expertise
  • Supporting application process to enter the Incubation Program
Summary Activities
Numerous activities were conducted to support the startups to validate their business concepts.
Introductory Workshop
Refining the ideas on the problem statement, problem- solution fit, value proposition, existing solutions, and competitions.
2-Day Bootcamp
The bootcamp included product review, problem-solution fit, inspiring entrepreneurs in solar-powered agricultural technology, business model, and introduction to financials.
Marketing Workshop
Customer journey, market strategy, and marketing basics including 4Ps (Product, Place, Price, Promotion) were introduced in the virtual workshop.
Financial Workshop
Outlined the basic cost of goods, revenue from sales, gross profits, expenses, margin and selling price.
Final Workshop and Preparation
A guidance on pitch preparation and the adjustments of overall business concept.
Final Pitch
The final pitch from startup teams in front of public participants, mentors, and professionals of the sector.
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Meet Our Mentors
  • Buntong Borarin
    Director of Research and Extension
    Royal University of Agriculture
    Agriculture post-harvest
  • Ian Jones
    CEO, Mekong Inclusive Venture
    Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Impact ventures

    LinkedIn
  • Thida Kheav
    Director, Solar Green Energy Cambodia
    Solar, Water pumps, Component Manufacturing, Sales
    LinkedIn
  • Sebastien Pitot
    Solar Energy Specialist, SEVEA
    Solar and renewable energy business development

    LinkedIn
  • Vansonita Men
    Senior Consultant & Project Manager, Sevea
    Business development of SMEs, Energy, WASH, and Agriculture sectors
    LinkedIn
  • Boleap Born
    Senior Project Coordinator/Business Advisor, Sevea
    Startup business development, Agriculture and Clean energy

    LinkedIn
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Supporting your entrepreneur journey from early ideas, validation, prototyping, first customers and growth.
Hackathon
You are interested in agri-fishery market and want to explore ideas and meet others with similar interests.

The weekend hackathon process helps you form a team, explore the problems and ideate a business solution.
Pre-Incubation
You have a team or business idea that uses solar for the agri-fishery market, but you want to check if the concept is valid.

The 6-week business validation process helps you develop your prototype concept and explore the business fundamentals to decide if it's GO/NO GO
Incubation
You have a team with a valid business concept or prototype and you want guidance and support to succeed.

The 1-year incubation program gives you solar assistance, business training, coaching/mentoring and funding to help you reach your customers with the best product and business model to succeed.
Acceleration
A program supports an established business using solar technology as the core product value in the agri-fishery markets and would like to scale up.

The 6-month acceleration program supports startups or established businesses in the agriculture and/or fishery sector using solar technology to become investment ready with investment-readiness training, technical mentorship, and meetings with potential funders, investors, and MFIs.
Feel free to contact us. We really love to communicate with you or send us your business concept whenever you are ready and we can help you to build your application.
This SWITCH to Solar Startup Program is part of the SWITCH to Solar project, funded by the European Union (EU) through the SWITCH-Asia Programme and the Czech Republic through the Czech Development Agency (CzDA).
Khmer Enterprise provides seed investment grants in this Incubation Program under KE mandate to support the agriculture sector and use of solar.