Barcelona - May 2015. Tractivus project was enrolled in the I-CORPS program from the National Science Foundation (NSF, US Goverment) for 3 months between San Francisco (Berkeley UC) and Barcelona. This progam was organized by Fundació Catalana per la Recerca i la Innovació, Generalitat de Catalunya (FCRi) and consist on a set of activities and programs that prepares scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and broadens the impact of select basic-research projects.

The Bay Area NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) is a collaboration between the University of California Berkeley, University of California San Francisco and Stanford University and funded by the National Science Foundation that offers an educational program to accelerate the commercialization of science and fosters technology entrepreneurship.

I-Corps training is propelling early stage startups to success and to help to find a scalable business model for a startup through a rigorous Customer Discovery process. The course is based on the Lean Launchpad methodology pioneered by UC Berkeley and Stanford Faculty member Steve Blank. Companies that complete this training, improve their chances of getting sizable, non-dilutive grants from 16% (without course) to >65% (after course).