The Founder Institute, the World's Premier Startup Early-Stage Accelerator Program, is honoured to announce that Elyes Ben M'Rad (CEO, Crema App) from our Montreal chapter in Canada has been selected for the first batch of the 3-month intensive Shopify Partner Accelerator program.
The Shopify Partner Accelerator enables creative professionals from the ecommerce industry to come together, work on Shopify projects, and grow their technical and entrepreneurial skills faster than they would be able to anywhere else. Not only will successful applicants work in stunning WeWork co-working spaces, they’ll also receive exclusive mentorship, attend hands-on workshops, and meet with Shopify leadership, key members of our development team, and long-time Shopify Experts. This three-month intensive program has expanded to include four different locations across North America and Europe: New York City, USA; Montreal, Canada; London, England; and Austin, USA.
Crema App launched a few months ago and managed to have an impressive attention from consumers. They were recently featured by CBC TV News in Canada:
Canadian startup "Crema App", a graduate from Founder Institute Montreal, desires to develop a strong relationship with Shopify during the acceleration period. By leveraging Crema transactional app and marketing solutions with Shopify Retail POS (point-of-sales) infrastructure, Crema App can offer a competitive all-in-one solution for the growing and vast network of independent coffee shops across North America.
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Crema App, Founder Elyes Ben M'Rad Crema is the new digital reward program and payment solution for coffee shops. We are providing Starbucks Coffee Technology to small independent Coffee Shops. The app gives the ability to prepay coffee plans redeemable at the best coffee shops in town. Crema is available in Montreal, New York, Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin and Paris. |
The following partners of the Montreal chapter deserve recognition for their generous and continous support to our entrepreneurs: Spiegel Sohmer, Richter, Futurpreneur Canada, and WeWork.
Sergio A. Escobar is the Managing Director of our operations in Montreal. He has a diversified investment portfolio of companies ranging from Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Wearables, EdTech, Productivity Softwares, eCommerce, MarketPlaces, FinTech to Consumer Apps. Sergio is a tech entrepreneur having experience with Aerospace, eCommerce and Mobile Payment startups. Deeply involved in the international entrepreneurial scene through his involvement as Mentor & Judge for entrepreneurial programs such as Startup Chile, Startup Peru, Startup Bootcamp FinTech London, MSB Tunisia, Kuwait National Fund, Techstars Startup Programs and World Bank 'Tech Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Caribbean'.
