The Central European Startup Awards (CESA) is a series of events throughout the Central and Eastern European region, which has … Continue reading Central European Startup Awards – let’s put our region together on the global startup map!
The EU’s app sector has gone from zero to digital superhero in less than five years. By 2018 it could employ 4.8 million people and contribute €63 billion to the EU economy according to a report presented in Brussels today. The study, carried out by GIGAOM for the European Commission, shows that Europe’s app developers are up to the challenge of taking the global lead. Currently, EU and North American developers generate the same levels (42% each) of app revenues in crucial EU and US markets. Although the future is bright, developers have raised concerns about the skills gap, connectivity and fragmentation which could put the app boom at risk.
The LAUNCHub accelerated startup StorPool announced the closing of a Series A funding round on February 5, 2014.
StorPool signed with IT Web, an investment company related to SiteGround, one of the global web hosting leaders and server optimization software company 1H. The deal comes in as an important milestone for StorPool and will provide additional resources to address the fast growing demand for the company’s innovative data storage solution. According to IT Web CEO, Tenko Nikolov, the StorPool solution is expected to change the way businesses thinks about data storage, as it will allow companies to achieve performance and scalability that are currently hard to imagine when it comes to storing big amounts of data. Continue reading “LAUNCHub Startup StorPool Closes Series A Funding Round”
AIRTAME, a Copenhagen-based startup which offers a wireless HDMI dongle, has just been “Best Startup” at CES by Engadget and looks to quickly build their brand upon the upcoming completion of their wildly-successful Indiegogo campaign. Launched in September 2013, the startup aims to introduce one of the first internationally-available, cross-platform wireless HDMI dongles. In order to find out about about the startup’s origins and the founding team’s plans for the future, we spoke with Attila Sukosd, who founded the company with business partner Jonas Gyalokay and currently works as its CTO.
Continue reading “AIRTAME Emerges As Startup To Watch”
Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator is currently open for applications to their third web/mobile accelerator and invites CEE entrepreneurs to apply for their 6 month program that kicks off in March 2014. Founded in 2011, Rockstart Accelerator has had a strong international focus since its inception and has already invested in startups from 10 different countries. Application deadline is close: tomorrow, Friday, January 17.
Rockstart Accelerator is looking to expand its connection to the Eastern European market Continue reading “Rockstart Accelerator is looking to invest in CEE entrepreneurs”
In this section we are going to introduce you entrepreneurs, opinion leaders from the CEE tech space. We are starting with Ivan Burazin. Ivan is the CEO of Codeanywhere – a cloud coding and collaboration platform and the Founder of the Shift Conference that is held annually in Split, Croatia.
1. What are you up to nowadays?
Every startup would like to know what’s in their customers’ brain. Synetiq has the tool for this. Synetiq provides businesses with valuable emotional insights about their marketing material directly from their customers’ brain.
Synetiq is building the world’s first crowdsourced neuromarketing platform where companies can test how people react to their ads, movies, branding on a global pool of testers in a fast and efficient way. They deliver clear results to help them improve their marketing and communication which will lead them to more sales. Meanwhile Synetiq creates a way to earn money from home for a wide range of people with minimal effort.
We have had an interview with David Ottlik, the co-founder and CEO of Synetiq after their successful accelerator program in Helsinki at Startup Sauna where they have received seed funding worth 40 000 EUR. Synetiq has been awarded at How To Web Bucharest as well, right after the Slush conference that also resulted in a lot of great opportunities for the team. Continue reading “Synetiq: A Startup that Knows What Customers Need”
Building a successful company and a great company culture is not a science… it’s rather an art. You can’t learn it from management and leadership books or at MBA courses. The know-how is given through tough experiments, hard work, a lot of lessons learned from life by failures. One thing is definitely needed in order to be successful: the ongoing commitment towards people. Continue reading “How To Build Up a Company From Scratch?”
Guest post by Max Gurvits Partner of Teres Capital
One guy walks up to another, and says: “Hey, I got this great idea! We can hack a little prototype for a mobile app this weekend, call a few tech blogs and investors next week, and ship to thousands of users in the course of next month. What do you say?” His friend looks at him with disbelief: “Are you pitching me a startup? Dude, it’s 2013. If you’re starting something, better start an accelerator”.
I heard this joke in Tel Aviv this spring, as we were talking about the explosion of accelerators and accelerator programs with a couple of Israeli tech insiders. And as with many good jokes, there’s a considerable degree of uncomfortable truth in it. As Robin Wauters recently wrote in Tech.EU, Europe now boasts around 100 accelerators, with the whole scene so awash with mentorship, mini-equity and grants, as well as co-working spaces, that people start talking about the “accelerator bubble”. Continue reading “5 Ways to Make the Best Out of Your Accelerator Experience”
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