In our eighth year of running the program, this is the first time that the entirety of it was held online. Since the official beginning of the acceleration program in August, the teams have participated in numerous learning sessions essential to building their startups—from effectual thinking, culture, and leadership; to marketing, finance, legal requirements, taxation, and data privacy; and even an upcoming month focused on tech and sales.  Alongside these sessions, they also have access

In September, different members of the IdeaSpace community gathered every Thursday to learn about social media content marketing, copywriting, marketing communications frameworks, email marketing, chatbox marketing, and messenger marketing.  These well-received sessions allowed founders to come together to learn from domain experts and culminated with a networking session on October 1.

IdeaSpace hosted the second installment of the GFS APAC Content Series on September 17, 2020. The talk, attended by GfS partners from all around the APAC region focused on startup sectors on the rise and opportunities for value creation during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recovery. Startups are constantly responding to the needs of our rapidly changing world. The growth and increasing impact of startups, especially as the need for digitalization was accelerated during the pandemic.

Edtech startup IOL recently shifted its focus from content production to tweaking its internally-developed systems to be used by schools in managing their operations from enrollment to online classes, financial accounts monitoring, and grades reporting.