We are proud to announce the launch of CANnovate 2021 – Devless Heroes, Asiance’s first acceleration program in partnership with CAN (Community Alliance Network)

CANnovate – Devless Heroes is an acceleration program aiming to help startups or startup-to-be who pursue community-driven business models build and run a competitive online platform without heavy investment in development. 

If your startup is involved in developing community-based innovation, but you have yet to find the best solution to develop it online, this program is meant for you!

CANnovate – Devless Heroes is a 12-week online program, open to startups from all over the world! 

We invite startups who are pursuing community-driven innovation in different sectors such as:

• Community innovation in education
• Cooperation of decentralized community
• Governance innovation of traditional organization
• Journalism/media innovation using community power
• Participative local community
• E-democracy
• Responsible & conscious consumption
• Community commerce
• Community-driven innovation for small-medium businesses, etc.
• And more!

Selected startups will build their MVPs (Minimum Viable Product) during the 12 weeks period using CAN’s “plug-n-play” tools with tech consultation to launch their beta service. By the end of the program, the top 5 startups will be selected as Devless Heroes, who best showed their business potential through their initial beta service. The Devless Heroes will receive continuous tech support from CAN for an additional 12 months to refine their product and prove their business model while getting help to access venture financing opportunities.

We will be receiving applications until December 31st, 2020.


For more information, don’t hesitate to contact our team: cannovate@canfoundation.io

CANnovate 2021 – Devless Heroes is operated by

CAN (Community Alliance Network), as an alliance of startups and developers, collectively provides a comprehensive set of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) tools for communities, in order to let a variety of organizations, from traditional companies through nonprofits to virtual organizations, build and run a community without an in-house tech team. 

The first Brandtech partner in Asia, Asiance is an advanced model of Digital Agency. Since 2004 we help business leaders and world-renowned brands to create maximum brand value through creative use of technology and make a positive impact on the world.