Accelerate Your Venture with a Leading Startup Program

Be part of one of the top acceleration experiences designed for startups, researchers, and global-minded innovators.

Applications for Startup Factory, Tech Transfer, and Global Growth are opening soon — stay tuned!

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We’re Focused on Your Growth

We provide leading support to startups and entrepreneurs. Our mission is to transform ideas into globally competitive products.

Our award-winning acceleration and incubation programs together with workshops, mentoring, state-of-the-art ZICERLab, networking and financing are here to simplify your startup journey. Ready to join us?

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incubator

Develop Your Tech Product

Once you join the incubator, you’ll be able to focus entirely on building your product and company. We’ll take care of everything else.

The support our startups receive is comprehensive. It includes a complete business infrastructure and assistance through all stages of tech product development. Our goal is to grow successful high-tech companies that will be sustainable in the long run.

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Our team has a double-digit number of employees, we use four connected modules and, I must say, we feel at home here. The ZICER concept, the employees and the positive atmosphere that radiates throughout the space are the reason we are still here.

~ Grid One

Being a tenant at ZICER has given us invaluable mentoring support and exclusive access to various workshops and events. This assistance has alleviated the stress of managing our business premises, and we are truly grateful for it.

~ Creative Fields

ZICER is not just a space where you develop your business idea—it is a perspective on the startup world, its successes, and its challenges. It is a community where people feel at home and a place where ideas become reality.

~ Flaster

accelerator

Startup Factory / Global Growth / Tech Transfer / Fintech Accelerator in collaboration with HPB & EFZG / Accelerator for students in partnership with EFZG

Your idea is just the beginning.

Startup Factory accelerates the development of tech-oriented teams and startups. It helps with validation, market entry and reaching first buyers and investors.

Global Growth helps with the international development of your startup and entering new markets.

If your project stems from scientific or university research and you’re looking to commercialize it, apply to Tech Transfer.

Fund for the winning teams and startups in 2025: EUR 300.000 & in-kind support.

Startup Factory, Global Growth and Tech Transfer take no equity or fees, and provide financial support to the top teams.

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Startups

Our goal is to be one of the top 20 innovative market research companies in the world by 2026.

Marin Mrša

Founder and CEO, Peekator

In the first six months of 2021, we transported over 2,000 cubic meters and 1,500 tons of goods and achieved last year’s turnover. We’re now planning to launch an improved version of our marketplace and enter new markets.

Dragana Lipovac

Founder and CEO, HUBBIG

At the moment, we’re implementing high-accuracy autonomous navigation solutions for our clients in Italy and Hong Kong. Simultaneously, we’re developing our own technology in this domain and will be licensing it to existing and future clients.

Damjan Miklić

CEO, Romb Technologies

Our team is focused on achieving fuel savings and reducing harmful emissions on large merchant ships via computer simulations of the hydrodynamic characteristics of the ship and its propeller. We’re also working on a new way of financing projects that reduce the risk for shipowners.

Inno Gatin

Co-founder, In silico

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financing

From Idea to Scaleup

We provide startups with convertible loans, pre-seed investments, business internationalization and tender application support, and connect them with potential investors.

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ZICERLab

Development Centers of the Future

State-of-the-art development centers for interface development, 3D modeling, digital forensics, electronics, environmental technology, the wood industry, and the Internet of Things are available to the academic and business community for product research and development.

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education

Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship

Learning brings us closer to our desired future. It helps build our entrepreneurial competencies and strengthens the confidence in our capabilities. At ZICER, top experts share their expertise and life lessons on more than 200 topics.

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Events