is the result of

20 years

of advising public & private entities in Morocco and Africa for their strategy, operations, and sales development.

UC lab partners capitalize on their long engagement in the Moroccan and African business environments as well as their strong experience founding and advising startups in Silicon Valley.





Morocco has become
an emerging industrial platform in Africa.

 

Many world renowned manufacturers and suppliers have joined the moroccan industrial hub in recent years whether it’s in the automotive, aerospace, or energy sectors.

This opens a huge opportunity for young Moroccan and African startups to address these emerging ecosystems.




Accelerator Program

A 26-week program focused on high performance training, personalized coaching and mentoring, and centered around an aggressive go-to-market process culminating with a demo day with leading investors and industrial public & private companies.



3
VERTICALS
17
WEEK PROGRAM
15+
EXPERTS
7
BATCHES PER YEAR


The team

adnane

Adnane BERBACHE

Adnane is the co-founder and Partner at the consultancy firm Ucotra, based in Casablanca. He developed a strong expertise while supporting organizations looking to anticipate major new trends. He also developed innovative business models and put them in motion to generate results that are immediately tangible and have a high impact. He has a proven know-how around corporate strategy, international development, digital transformation and change management. His skills were developed over two decades of experience around Manufacturing, Distribution, IT Offshoring, Banking and Financial Services, Tourism, Agriculture and the Public Sector.

salim

Salim BERBACHE

Salim is the co-founder and Partner at the consultancy firm Ucotra, based in Casablanca. He has a solid know-how in steering and conducting transformation projects, the implementation of holistic approaches to excellence and innovative management practices aimed at generating tangible impacts within organizations, in terms of sustainable growth and profitability. His areas of predilection are Innovation, performance in operations, risk management and compliance according to world standards. His career led him to conduct multiple missions across sectors, whether Manufacturing, Distribution, IT Offshoring, Banks and Financial Services and for the benefit of several public administrations.

karim

Karim GUESSOUS

Karim is the founder and CEO of Tradepal, Inc based in San Francisco, CA. He is responsible for the strategy and product design of all Tradepal products. He is passionate about working with students and routinely participates as a mentor and judge in product design contest when time permits it. Karim was a mentor and a judge at Stanford’s CS 247 (HCI Design Studio) as well as HackingEDU. Previously, Karim spent a decade on Wall Street as a proprietary trader and in executive search building quantitative trading teams. Beside his current responsibilities at Tradepal, Karim focuses on learning about new developments in artificial intelligence and augmented reality to apply them to the next generation Tradepal products.




Let’s Accelerate
Your Company

If your company is pushing the boundaries of an industry — particularly as it relates to harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence, advanced hardware or software, Robotics, the Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, or Quantum Computing — we want to hear from you


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