The Wellbeing Incubator

The Program 

Enter the Wellbeing Incubator in partnership with Joy Ventures - a ten-week program dedicated to immersing you into the exploding field of consumer products for wellbeing, and helping you lay the foundation for a successful new venture.

This is not just another program! We have carefully designed each and every session with one goal in mind: providing you with the essentials tools, resources, and network to walk away with an initial team and a high potential product ripe for further collaboration with Joy Ventures. You will receive 360 degree support and hands-on mentorship from the Joy Ventures investment team, intensive workshops and weekly sessions with some of the best lecturers and entrepreneurs, helping you go through the stages of concept development, prototyping, initial user validation all the way to building a strategic business plan and roadmap.

About Joy

Joy Ventures is a startup studio dedicated to building, funding and supporting companies developing science-backed consumer products for wellbeing. Founded in 2017, the Joy Ventures philosophy is that life-changing companies are born at the intersection of science, technology and human-centered design. 

Joy Ventures offers a unique investment model: funding and supporting founders and startups at various stages, seeding ideas and collaborating on new venture creation, and advancing academic research and early technology development. 

Joy cultivates a community of entrepreneurs and innovators to help people across the globe live more joyfully, with long-lasting positive impact on wellbeing.

Why Wellbeing? Why Now?

There has never been a more important time for wellbeing innovation  

With more trend predictions showing that the new norms of social distancing, work-from-home and remote learning will become permanent aspects of our lifestyle, we will need to reckon with a continuing rise in loneliness, stress, anxiety and associated challenges to our wellbeing.

On the flip side, the events of 2020 have accelerated trends from the last few years showing individuals taking advantage of unprecedented access to information to become more diligent and informed about their wellbeing and investing in positive self-care habits and wellness products. Today consumers accross practically all age groups are increasingly making their purchasing decisions through the prism of wellbeingand are open to experimenting with new products and experience that improve their quality of life.

While demand is at unprecedented high and investor attention has grown, the wellbeing product landscape is still in its early stages, creating huge, untapped opportunities for new startups to enter this market.

How can we infuse wellbeing into the small moments of our day - from the morning commute to the coffee break to the evening wind-down and beyond? This program is all about building joyfulproducts that enrich our dailyl life experiences.

Opportunity 

At the end of the program selected teams will receive an "acceleration package" from Joy Ventures to help them develop their product concept and vision further. The package will include: financial support, mentoring, access to relevant and more (amount will change based on each project).

Modern-day life challenges and possible solutions we are looking for:

Who you are?

You are a final year bachelor student or studying for a Master degree in any faculty.

You're passionate about entrepreneurship, interested in developing innovative wellbeing products for the consumer market, and excited about working on ideas within a multidiciplenary team.

Have a great idea?

Excited about the wellbeing space but don’t yet have an idea?

 * Teams and individual students are welcome to apply

Join us!

What’s the schedule?

Submit your application here 

If chosen you’ll be invited to a personal interview 

The sessions will take place on Wednesdays 18:00-20:00 (excluding exam season) 

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