About Explorer
Explorer Innovation Fund is a program (in collaboration with MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund) that provides a personalized educational and business experience for innovators and entrepreneurs from the UM6P, GEP, MASCIR, 1337, YouCode, Cadi Ayyad, Hassan II, Mohammed V, and Al Akhawayn community (students, researchers, and postdocs) sowing the seeds for a real venture. The Explorer program provides, where applicable, seed resources for each team in the range of (5000 MAD to 250.000 MAD); being matched with globally and locally experienced mentors with knowledge of a vast array of technologies, businesses, and disciplines; and ushering the ventures through their various stages including business plans, customer discovery, early product definition, technology development, intellectual property, and legal structure. The Explorer program is a community of diverse innovators and entrepreneurs eager to impact the Moroccan, African, and/or Global entrepreneurship ecosystem and advance business, technology, product, and social endeavors in those systems. The Explorer program believes in the philosophy of learning by doing, need-based learning, and open access. The culmination of cohorts that last 4-5 months each is an Explorer showcase where groups can put their businesses on display and an opportunity to pitch to a funding board.