GLS Spain and Menttoriza launch Lab4Logistics to boost startups in logistics and transport

 

GLS Spain y Mentorize They have presented the challenge at the Monday Cibeles Building in Madrid LAB4LOGISTICS, an initiative aimed at innovative projects in the logistics and transport sector. The main objective of LAB4LOGISTICS is to drive business progress through ideas and projects that address key challenges such as robotics, artificial intelligence and sustainability in the logistics models.

 

This challenge is open to disruptive proposals from any geographical location, coming from the business, university, vocational training and innovation and research centres. GLS Spain and Menttoriza thus begin an open innovation collaboration to promote new startups in logistics and operations, joining forces to generate synergies in co-financing and business consolidation, with special emphasis on academic and research projects.

 

Menttoriza provides a growth environment with a solid structure of area management, specialized mentors and benefits that enhance business ideas. In addition, it facilitates access to public and private financing, and connects companies with a broad entrepreneurial community. For its part, GLS Spain promotes the innovation open to the professional world, developing programs that promote the growth of talent, the development of ideas and the connection of innovative projects, thus promoting the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

 

José Luis Nieto, president of Menttoriza Hub, says: “The logistics sector is facing a key moment with great challenges that require us to invest in technology and innovation. This alliance with GLS Spain represents a great synergy that decisively reinforces the search for talent and new business and production models. The sector demands it and we, with impulses such as that provided by this challenge, want to promote and crystallize these brilliant ideas into viable and successful projects for the entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

 

Roberto Martinez, Managing Director of GLS Spain, says: “The collaboration with Menttoriza will help us connect the academic and innovation ecosystem with entrepreneurship, in order to detect and promote talent and projects that respond to the pressing and global logistical challenges we face today. It is an open, transversal and cooperative collaboration. We aspire to be able to add, in a very flexible format, anyone who is willing to add value.”

 

The LAB4LOGISTICS process will be carried out in several phases. The registration phase will be open until March 14. Subsequently, and until April 4, the evaluation phase will take place, in which the most promising proposals will be selected. From April 7 to 11, the immersion and mentoring phase will take place, where participants will receive specialized training. Finally, the Demo Day will take place on May 22, when the finalist projects will present their proposals to a jury.

 

The winners will receive the creation of a Strategic Plan, Business Plan or Marketing Plan for their project. In addition, they will have the support of Menttoriza mentors for several months to achieve the final push for the project.