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Creative Pre-Incubator
Creative Pre-Incubator (CPI) is a program conducted at universities in Lower Austria, providing professional support and consulting to selected groups of students, alumni, and staff for developing business ideas and startups.
Overview
What Creative Pre-Incubator does
What Creative Pre-Incubator is
Creative Pre-Incubator (CPI) is a program conducted at universities in Lower Austria, providing professional support and consulting to selected groups of students, alumni, and staff for developing business ideas and startups.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports program host and community capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Incubator
- Founded
- Founded in 2014
- Approximate age
- About 12 years
- Structured capabilities
- Program host · Community
- Last reviewed
- March 16, 2026
What Incubator means
An incubator is a support environment for turning a nascent idea or early company into a startup that is more ready for customers, funding, or an accelerator.
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Capability profile
Creative Pre-Incubator as a program host
Program thesis
The Creative Pre-Incubator (CPI) is designed to provide professional support for the development of business ideas, targeting students, alumni, and employees of various universities in Lower Austria.
Focus narrative
The CPI focuses on supporting innovative business ideas from students and recent graduates. It offers workshops, coaching, networking opportunities, and access to funding bodies. The program aims to facilitate the transition of participants into entrepreneurship, particularly in sectors related to sustainability and technology.
Value and support
The program offers workshops, coaching, networking opportunities, and access to funding bodies to support participants in their entrepreneurial journey.
Availability
- Application state
- Accepting
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Regions
- EuropeNorth America
Alumni and track record
Alumni context
Notable startups that have emerged from the Creative Pre-Incubator include Farm-Ing, which specializes in sustainable and digital agricultural technology; VRASQA, providing acoustic design solutions; and Digicust, offering software for customs clearance. Other alumni include Backmari, which develops gluten-free baking mixes, and Ordito/Circly, focusing on e-commerce solutions.
Capability profile
Creative Pre-Incubator as a community
Community overview
The Creative Pre-Incubator (CPI) is a program operated by accent Inkubator GmbH, established to provide professional support for the development of business ideas. It is based in Lower Austria and targets students, alumni, and employees of various universities in the region, including the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, and others.
Community focus
The CPI focuses on supporting innovative business ideas from students and recent graduates. It offers workshops, coaching, networking opportunities, and access to funding bodies. The program aims to facilitate the transition of participants into entrepreneurship, particularly in sectors related to sustainability and technology.
Member value
Members benefit from workshops, coaching, networking opportunities, and access to funding bodies, facilitating their transition into entrepreneurship.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Students · Founders
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- incubator and community
- Selection criteria
- open
- Stages
- Pre-seed
- Regions
- Europe
Community activity
Events and activity
The Creative Pre-Incubator hosts workshops covering various aspects of starting a business, individual coaching sessions, the NÖ Summer School for exposure to Silicon Valley's startup culture, a business plan development program (i2B), and a Midterm Review & Demo Day for teams to present their progress.
Notable members
Notable startups that have emerged from the Creative Pre-Incubator include Farm-Ing, VRASQA, Digicust, Backmari, Ordito/Circly, Quickspeech, warrify, APOCRAT, and Insight.trips/Dryven.
Common questions
What to know about Creative Pre-Incubator
Upseed classifies Creative Pre-Incubator under the Incubator organization type. Its current public profile includes program host and community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
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Last reviewed
March 16, 2026
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