We are a Tech & Innovation Hub located in Tunis and operating all over the world. Our aim is to create, and co-found ventures in E-Health, Gaming, Blockchain & Digital Transformation.
Factory 619 bootstrapped the first fully operational startup studio in Tunisia & North Africa. So far, We founded/co-built, and nurtured 7 startups. To ensure effective venture building our factory is fueled by the synergy that exists between its four divisions.
Our journey started one year ago, with the aim of bringing 20 project ideas into the light during our first 3 cycles. By the end of our first cycle, we have reached the milestone of 7 created startups (5 were fully and solely founded by our Startup Studio)
The Studio is the first division created within the Factory 619. It carries one of our most important DNA components : Build, Repeat & Release. By leveraging technological innovation, it focuses on validating business ideas and converting them into scalable tech startups.
The Studio's core team is a pluridisciplinary, multi-skilled set of people : Product builders, business hustler, and talented engineers. Through their combined performance and expertise, they build the products that propel our startups off the ground and into the market.
The Product/Market fit quest goes through resources pooling, rapid iterations, and customer design. We rely on our failure-proof process : From Idea to Prototype to Product ! Allying the perks of our industry expertise with Lean product management and Agile principles.
It is really what drives our passion and transforms it into ambition. We are a team of entrepreneurial minded doers. We waste nothing, we re-use every resource at reach, and we perceive risk-taking as an opportunity to disrupt and reshape industries.
Co-Founding Startups & Building Companies Altogether With Top Notch Entrepreneurs
As a future CEO, the candidate will be fully responsible for validating and converting an idea to a 10x-growing business, mastering every details of the market and knowing all the secrets to customer nurturing. Factory 619 handles the product building process and assists with business-wise efforts
As a future CTO, the candidate will be the architect of an outstanding product for the co-founded startup. Technical scaling, product building and features roll out will be the main roles to be fit. Factory 619 handles the business growth and market entry strategy.
They are Co-building with us
"When I joined The Foundry as a Business Co-Founder, I only had ambition, industry expertise and an idea in mind. They instantly weighed in with their insights and clear actionable steps. AfroStar is now live with over 35 000 users."
"It all started with a hackathon : Factory 619 provided the guidance and the advise at first, then it evolved into a full fledged partnership. Since I joined The Foundry, Hablo went from the stage of an ambitious idea to a serious business project"
Tailored services in Tech, Product building, and Innovation programs
We work with startups in order to build a Minimum Viable Product and release it into the hands of users and early adopters. We provide our own Startup Studio expertise and process to ensure that product viability and fundamental features releases are guaranteed.
Both user acquisition and customer retention are crucial to the survival and growth of a product. We boost the most promising channels and drive exponential growth of your conversion rates while we assist you to decrease your CHURN, and contain it as much as possible.
We provide Startups with well-structured and highly customized insights and consulting advice. We use a lean methodology in order to roll out a product roadmap with efficient prioritization as we leverage both our Studio expertise and our efficient I2P2P® process.
While we excel at MVP Lean development, we still deeply believe that Agile methodologies are a must when it comes to large project scopes. Our Forge team uses a modern tech stack and is best suited to handle your custom requests and your specific project ideas, whether you're a startup founder or a corporate business unit.
We build startups, we help others build their own, and we are connected to many startups and innovative ecosystems around the world. We can help streamline or reshape your industry. We offer our expertise in bridging the gaps of your ecosystem and allow you to roll out an actionable innovation framework.
Whether you are a university that's planning to run an incubation program on campus, or a corporate that's willing to plug an acceleration program or event (Ideation Camps, Hackathons, boot camps...) into your industry; We can provide you with the required resources and skills in order to innovate and prevent disruption.
Curating the Ecosystem & Enhancing Startups
We believe that a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem is a vibrant and evolving one. We work together not only with entrepreneurs and startups, but also other organizations like Accelerators, Incubators, and Tech Parks... We also provide the community with open Pre-Incubation series of events: Hackathons, Challenges, Ideations Camps, and Workshops.
An intensive 9-week pre-acceleration program that provides both first-time, and seasoned entrepreneurs with the necessary resources and support they require to recast their business ideas, build up their MVP, and become ready to join next stage accelerators. Our Pre-Accelerator runs one vertical program per industry and it has 3 main focus areas.
We kick-off our program by introducing you to the entrepreneurial mindset and startups ecosystem. You will then work on validating your business idea and perfectly understand your target market.
During the second phase of our Pre-Acceleration program, you will benefit from our resources and expertise to prototype or build an MVP that will accelerate your market validation effort.
The program main goal is to help you, as a team or a startup to reach the expected quality level and requirements that allow you to join next-stage accelerators, raise seed stage funds and successfully incorporate your company.
Purpose
We aim to enhance startups and ready them for the next-stages of their journey, once they validate their business idea
Target
Between 4 to 6 Startups or teams. Ranging from very early-stage first-timers, to early-stage experienced entrepreneurs.
Length
The program is made up of 3 phases and it stretches over a period of 9 Weeks.
Focus
Lean Startup, Problem/Solution fit, Market validation, Legal Compliance & Accelerators role.
Themes
Our programs are purely vertical. We only focus on one industry at a time, sticking to our areas of expertise in E-Health, Gaming, Blockchain & Digital
Mentors
We aim to ensure the strong presence of experienced mentors, industry experts and coaches to guide and assist you through every cycle
Goals
Nurturing entrepreneurial mindset, validating business idea, a working MVP and joining an accelerator.
Demo
We have a Demo Day at the end of the program where the teams pitch their projects in front of investors, accelerators and potential customers.
During the first week of the program, you will get introduced to the other teams in your cohort. You will meet our team, our speakers and mentors. You will get a deeper understanding about the purpose and the planning of the program. You will discover what it takes to develop an entrepreneurial mindset.
Achieving Problem/Solution Fit is crucial for the existence of every startup. During the second week of the program, you will make sure that your idea has no more risky assumptions. You know who your customer is and why your customer needs your product after precisely defining the problem you're solving. Once you get the proof that your solution is solving the problem effectively, we will work together to validate the economic, technical and legal feasability.
Having a product that people need does not essentially mean that you have a sustainable business. During the third week of the program, you will learn how to size your market and how to break it down into segments to catch the right metrics of your potential customers. You will work on identifying your Serviceable Available Market and Serviceable Obtainable Market.
We believe that good product design, based on the previous weeks work on Idea Validation — ensures you build the right product in terms of viability. During the fourth week of the program, you will start representing your validated idea into a set of prototypes and representation, iterate around a second round of users feedback, and obtaining initial insights on what should be implemented in your product and how your product roadmap should be prioritized.
During the fifth week, you will get all the required tools and resources to start building your Minimum Viable Product. The crucial actions carried out during the past program's weeks will reveal themselves to be extremly valuable during the process of Product development. The expected outcome is to be able to put at the hands of your early adopters and customers the fundamental features of your product.
Half-way during the program, you will work on your product launch since it is the entry point of the Customer Acquisition process. Driving traction, rallying early adopters behind your product and gathering valuable users feedbacks. Setting up the right marketing channels and the top priority targeted users segment. Working closely with us on optimizing your conversion rates and analyzing the data collected afterwards.
During the seventh week of the program you will understand that there’s only one way to make sure you are achieving Productfit : Confirming the assumption that not only your product is usefull, but it is also wanted and users are ready to pay for it..more than once ! You will work on your scores for engagement, and retention and you will optimize your product effectiveness.
Just like any business, a startup needs legal conformity, team management and a culture. During the eighth week of the program you will learn from our network of experts and mentors about what it takes to incorporate a company, manage it, hire the right people for it and shape its culture around the core values that you wish to represent. Our program is a vertical one, it will deeply tackle the specifications and the required legal framework behind each industry.
Acing the art of showcasing any product is the key to gain the right exposure and attention from investors, potential clients and accelerators. During the final week of the program, we will work together on your pitching skills. You will figure out how to present a fulfilled, yet concise pitchdeck to your audience. We will ready you for the much expected demo day where you will showcase your startup product to angel investors, funds, accelerators and partners.
Pre-Incubator open program & Community-driven events
Workshops
Startup Events
Challenges
Startup events
Challenges
Challenges
Startup events
Hackathons
Hackathons
Hackathons
Startup events
Founding Partner
Mehdi loves pushing challenging ideas and converting them into feasible actions. He shapes new ideas into ambitious startup projects and he sets the pace for execution. He gets fully involved in every aspect of every product. As a Founding Partner, Mehdi is the engineer of the Factory 619, he is the one shaping it into the major innovation hub that it is.
Founding Partner
He's the founder of our first Startup: Katomi. Part-time surgeon and part-time experienced entrepreneur, he knows how to turn ambitious startups into real companies. Hédi founded his first Tech company back in 2003 and built multiple growing businesses since. As a Founding Partner, he is the engine that makes the Factory 619 takes off the ground.
Tech Partner
Hazem is a software engineer whose area of focus is full-stack JavaScript development & Game Design & development. He is both a techie and an artist. He brings his expertise onboard, Technical-wise and Product-wise. As a partner, he helps our startups build their MVPs.
