We have announced another round of recruitment for the ORLEN Skylight accelerator program
As part of the next round of recruitment, ORLEN, together with companies from the ORLEN Group, will be looking for startups that respond to over 20 technological and business challenges. We are also looking for entities that have solutions in the early stages of technological development, i.e. PoC, MVP, prototype. Applications for the acceleration program can be submitted from July 8 to July 28, 2025 inclusive via the application form.
ORLEN Skylight accelerator is a corporate program addressed to young technology companies from Poland and abroad that want to scale and commercialize their innovative solutions. As part of the recruitment rounds conducted so far, over 900 startups from Poland and abroad have applied to the program, over 300 challenges have been announced, and 40 companies have qualified for the implementation of pilots.
Entities participating in the program can obtain many benefits, which include:
- testing their solution in real operating conditions within the ORLEN Group infrastructure,
- financing the costs of preparing and implementing the pilot implementation,
- gaining practical knowledge through the support of experts and mentors in the development, improvement or adaptation of their solutions to specific operating conditions,
- the possibility of scaling the business and a real option for further commercialization of solutions after the completion of the pilot implementation.
Below we present sample technological challenges, applicable within the current round of ORLEN Skylight Accelerator recruitment:
- autonomous catering solutions,
- a system for managing energy in energy communities,
- a tool for analyzing the operating conditions of the low-voltage network based on data from remote reading meters,
- detection of fuel residues in road tankers based on AI and thermal imaging.
The application form and all information regarding the ongoing recruitment can be found on the website orlen.pl.