{"id":40983,"date":"2019-04-24T09:40:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T01:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/magic-reopens-its-accelerator-programme-for-entrepreneurs\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:20:20","slug":"magic-reopens-its-accelerator-programme-for-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/magic-reopens-its-accelerator-programme-for-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"MaGIC reopens its accelerator programme for entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; el_class=&#8221;sec-inner-banner&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1703741584745{background-image: url(https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/contact-banner-bg.jpg?id=20253) !important;}&#8221; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; el_class=&#8221;inner-banner-row&#8221;][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">MaGIC reopens its accelerator programme for entrepreneurs<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=&#8221;normal&#8221; el_class=&#8221;red-separator&#8221; color=&#8221;#ee4023&#8243; transparency=&#8221;1&#8243; thickness=&#8221;2&#8243; up=&#8221;15&#8243; down=&#8221;15&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; el_class=&#8221;white-text&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">24 April 2019<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1703764846254{background-color: #f3f5f8 !important;}&#8221; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column el_class=&#8221;fade-in animate&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;120px&#8221; el_class=&#8221;height-x120&#8243;][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=&#8221;28813&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; el_class=&#8221;single-featured-image&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221; el_class=&#8221;height-x60&#8243;][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; el_class=&#8221;content-row&#8221;][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]The Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC) is having an open call to entrepreneurs to take part in its latest Global Accelerator Programme (GAP).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The largest startup accelerator in South-East Asia is looking for you to join their next batch! After an evolution from five successful regional accelerators, we would like to invite you for our community sharing session,&#8221; says MaGIC,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mymagic.my\/gap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on its site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Community Sharing sessions will be held in Penang (April 25), Sarawak (April 27), Johor (April 29), Singapore (May 2) and Selangor (May 3).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the four-month accelerator programme, MaGIC teaches new companies how to streamline its product, market it, consider the legal concerns involved, leading to a Demo Day where the companies get to pitch their services to investors, media and potential collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>The Government body says participants will be provided with flight reimbursement of up to RM1,000 for international flights and up to RM500 for flights from Sabah and Sarawak; accommodation for the duration of the programme; marketing allowance of RM2,500 and a monthly stipend of RM1000 per participant and a six-month professional visitors pass to join the programme.<\/p>\n<p>It says participants will have advice from experts and mentors, gain access to route-to-market partners and a MaGIC&#8217;s network of partners across all Asean countries.<\/p>\n<p>MaGIC assures no equity will be taken in exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Applications close on May 10, with an announcement on which companies made the cut to be released in June.<\/p>\n<p>Participants of the first cohort of GAP had raised US$11.03mil (RM45.52mil)\u00a0and had a valuation of US$275.77mil (RM1,13bil).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in its previous iteration the MaGIC Accelerator Asean Programme (MAP), the startups raised US$5.94mil (RM24.51mil)\u00a0with a US$148.55mil (RM613.15mil)\u00a0valuation (Cohort 1), US$6.574mil (RM27.11mil)\u00a0with a US$164.35mil (RM678.37mil)\u00a0valuation (Cohort 2), and US$1.713mil (RM7.05mil)\u00a0with a US$42.82mil (RM176.74mil)\u00a0valuation (Cohort 3).<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/tech\/tech-news\/2019\/04\/23\/magic-accelerator-programme-is-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Star Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: The Star[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;120px&#8221; el_class=&#8221;height-x120&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"events-time-box\">\n<h2>24<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Wed<\/p>\n<p>April \u201819<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":28813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"news_year":[271],"news_month":[222],"local_insights_alphabet":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40987,"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40983\/revisions\/40987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40983"},{"taxonomy":"news_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_year?post=40983"},{"taxonomy":"news_month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_month?post=40983"},{"taxonomy":"local_insights_alphabet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investpenang.gov.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/local_insights_alphabet?post=40983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}