Terms & Conditions

For Application and Participation

When you submit your application form to participate in the Protechting Program you agree to the following terms and conditions (Terms and Conditions) in relation to your application for, and if selected, participation in, the Program.

Section one: Conditions of Application

Eligibility Criteria

In order to eligible to apply for the Program, you must:

    • Be incorporated (in any country), and provide proof of that registration if requested by the Program Members;
    • Offer a product or service solution in at least one of the following recruitment categories:
      • General Insurance
      • Property and Home living
      • Cybersecurity
      • Mobility
      • Sharing Economy
      • Technology
      • Wellness and Lifestyle
      • Disease Detection
      • New treatments
      • Patient Care
      • Health Management
      • Sustainability – Environmental, Social or Governance
      • Have a prototype ready (not idea-stage).

        Note that start-ups with business models that are based solely on consulting are ineligible to participate.

Selection in the Program and Indicative Schedule

Applications meeting the minimum criteria outlined in these terms and conditions will be reviewed by Program Members for potential participation in the Program. Program Members will contact you if more information or clarifications are needed about application materials at any stage during the selection process. Based on application materials, start-ups will be selected by the Program Members for participation in the Program

The decision of the Program Members on the successful applicants is final and at the sole discretion of the Program Members.

Dates will be announced soon.

Selection Criteria and Evaluation

The criteria Program Members use and how the criteria will be applied will be decided by us in our discretion, but is likely to include our assessment of your:

  • Team – Credible team, quality CVs, relevant qualifications/experience;
  • Produt – Clearly innovative or disruptive, differentiated from existing solutions, scalable, exhibits sustainable competitive advantage potential;
  • Market – Large addressable market to facilitate significant sales growth;
  • Business Model – viable business model based on credit commercial and economic assumptions;
  • Program Fit – Fit with the program and the Program Member’s challenges;

Notifications

You will be advised in writing of any decision made with respect to your application promptly. There is no obligation for Program Members to provide reasons for acceptance or rejection of applications.

Conflict of Interest

You must identify and notify Program Members of any actual, potential or perceived conflict of interest that you have in relation to this application or your participation in the Program. If you fail to notify, or you are unable or unwilling to resolve the conflict as required by Program Members, your application may be excluded from further consideration.

An existing commercial or legal relationship with a Program Member is not a conflict of interest but you should include details of the relationship in your application.

Confidentiality

You agree to provide Program Members with information about your assets, business or other affairs for the purpose of or in connection with:

  • applying to participate in the Program;
  • allowing Program Members to consider your application;
  • a sua participação no Programa; e
  • your participation in the Program; and
  • allowing one or more Program Members to identify and commence separate discussions about potential commercial or legal relationships between you and the Program Member (Agreed Purpose).

The Program Members each agree to keep all information you provide to us for the Agreed Purpose (Confidential Information) secret and confidential and will not disclose the Confidential Information to any person without your prior consent or as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms and Conditions. The Program Members each agree to use the Confidential Information only for the Agreed Purpose.

This undertaking of confidentiality does not apply to Confidential Information:

  • which was known by the receiving party prior to the other providing the Confidential Information;
  • which is or becomes available to the public (other than by unlawful means);
  • which becomes available (other than by unlawful means) from a source other than the disclosing party and that source is under no obligation to the disclosing party to maintain the Confidential Information in confidence; or
  • which is required to be disclosed by the receiving party by rule or law or by regulation of a Stock Exchange which has authority over a Program Member.

You acknowledge that the Program Members may disclose the Confidential Information to their respective directors, employees and advisors for the Agreed Purpose, provided that such persons have first been made aware of the confidential nature of the Confidential Information and have agreed to comply with this confidentiality undertaking.

The obligations of confidentiality will continue for a period of 3 years from the closing time for applications.

Ownership of applications

All applications become the property of the Program Members upon submission.

Intellectual Property Rights

You grant each Program Member a licence to copy, adapt, modify or do anything else necessary to all material contained in your application for the purposes of:

  • evaluating and clarifying your application;
  • if selected, your participation in the Program; and
  • a Program Member considering potential commercial or legal relationships between you and the Program Member outside the scope of the Program.

You acknowledge that the management and protection of your intellectual property is your sole responsibility, both during the application phase and if selected as a participant, during your participation in the Program.

Section Two: Conditions Of Participation In The Program

Benefits for successful applicants

Participants will be able to partake in the Program will interact with the program partners to develop collaboration opportunities.

During or at the end of the Program, you may receive the opportunity to engage with the partners of the Program and/or receive strategic investment by one or more of the Program Members, however, this opportunity is not guaranteed. Any commercial relationships or opportunities you are offered are subject to separate negotiations and agreements with the relevant Program Member and do not form part of the Program.

Participation in the Program

If you are selected to participate in the Program your startup must:

  • give consent for your company name to be associated with this Program and used by Program Members to promote the Program or themselves;
  • share requested information about your company and products with all Program Members. Confidential Information will be protected by the confidentiality undertaking in section one and data protection processes explained in section three;
  • commit to scheduling and attending periodic inter-program calls with peer Participants in the Program and with mentors in the Program;
  • provide to all Program Members the details of relationships entered into with individual Program Members as a result of the Program, and output and results of such relationships. This information is to be provided during and after the Program.

Termination and variations

The Program Members reserve the right to terminate a Participants involvement in the Program at their sole discretion if:

  • the Participant breaches these Terms and Conditions; or
  • if the Participants employee(s) engage in inappropriate (as determined by Program Members) or illegal behavior or are disruptive to overall group cohesion.

Participants will be given prior notice before they are terminated from the Program.

Program Members may also terminate or make changes to the Program, in each case for any reason at any time. Participants will be given notice of such termination or changes.

Acknowledgment and waiver

Participants acknowledge that their participation in the Program is at their sole risk. Participants may withdraw from the Program at any time or make alternative arrangements for travel, accommodation or meals (at their cost). Program Members will have no liability to Participants for any loss or damage arising in connection with the Program, including personal injury, property damage or economic loss (except in relation to a breach of the confidentiality undertaking in section 1). Program Members must not make a claim against any Program Member for any such loss or damage.

Section Three: Data Protection

To know more about Data Protection and how we manage your data, please read our Privacy Policy.

Section Four: Definitions And Interpretation

Definitions

Unless the context requires otherwise, the following terms have the following meaning in these Terms and Conditions:

Participant means a start-up that has been selected by the Program Managers to participate in the Program.

Program Members mean:

  • Fidelidade
  • Fosun
  • Hospital da Luz Learning Health
  • Beta-i

 

Program Members may be described as us, we, or our throughout these Terms and Conditions.

You or your means an applicant or, after selection, Participant.