Blockchain partnership programme for helping blockchain/ DLT startups & SMEs to introduce their solutions to market, bringing impact at scale.

Connecting top DLT/ blockchain startups and SMEs with great and challenging real case scenarios is our priority and focus. You’ll meet some of the most thoughtful investors, corporates and likeminded entrepreneurs and gain valuable exposure. Selected companies receive funding (no equity) of up to €20 000 and are offered business coaching/ mentoring to scale up their solutions.

Fields of interest: Fintech, Enterprise software, Transportation, FoodTech, Security, Telecom, Semiconductors, IoT, Hosting.

Waiting for Startups with: Idea, team, prototype, first incomes, growth.

Benefits for Startups: Mentoring, investment, community, networking.

Fund range per team: €4 500 - €20 000

Investment conditions: Grant

Size of total funds: €795k; 75 startups/SMEs

Market focus: EU

Strategy consultancy with proven expertise helping organizations grow, not merely financially, but in their impact, reach, and overall value-add.

Whitecap Consulting is a leading strategy consultancy operating across multiple market sectors in the UK, serving domestic and international clients. Helping to aspire SMEs, growing mid-sized organizations and divisions of corporates analyze, prioritize and implement business, growth and innovation strategies that deliver P&L and enterprise value. Based on our commercial backgrounds and client experience, we have developed a reputation for being pragmatic, hands-on, transparent, supportive and challenging.

 

Fields of interest: fintech, marketing, health, enterprise software, education, security, telecom, iot internetofthings, hosting, robotics, government

Waiting for startups with: Growth

Benefits for startups:  Mentoring, Investment, Networking, Strategic guidance and advice, UK market knowledge

Type cooperation: Fee-based services

Market focus: UK

MIT Enterprise Forum CEE mission is to Educate, Connect and Empower technology startups from Central and Eastern Europe (“CEE”), enabling them to rapidly transform ideas into world-changing companies.


The MIT Enterprise Forum CEE delivers a CEE-based, equity-free startup acceleration program. Participants benefit from a proven approach that has led to fast and efficient scaleup for dozens of startups. The accelerator is affiliated with the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Participants get training based on the strategies and tactics taught at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. We provide high-value support in finance, law and business via consultants from the CEE region and beyond. The mission is to help you to build a robust value proposition, then enter and scale in international markets, primarily in the United States. MIT Enterprise Forum CEE is a member of the global MIT Enterprise Forum network, joining 10 US chapters and several international chapters, including those in Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Spain. Our headquarters are in dynamic Warsaw, serving Poland and fourteen other CEE countries including Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, and Ukraine.

Fields of interest: fintech, marketing, health, energy, transportation, security, travel, iot internetofthings, construction, robotics, hardware, Insurtech, Waste Management, Sustainability

Waiting for startups with: Team, Prototype, First Incomes, Growth

Benefits for startups:  Mentoring, Community, Networking

Fund range per team: up to 50 000 Eur (Grant)

Market focus: CEE Region 

 

Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder VC Creates, develops and supports promising technological projects in the fields of Esports, IoT, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Mining, AI and Marketplace.


The fund is co-financed by and private investors. We’re looking for projects with tech advantages, unique products or services, rare know-how, solid business models and strong founders.

 

Fields of interest: fintech, enterprise software, food, jobs recruitment, gaming, iot internet of things, robotics

Waiting for startups with: Team, First Incomes

Benefits for startups:  Mentoring, Investment, Networking

Fund range per team: 1 000 000 Eur (Equity based funding)

Size of the total fund: 10 000 0000 EUR

Market focus: CEE REGION

LIC provides public (free of charge) innovation support services and promotes innovation culture in Lithuania. 

The Public Institution Lithuanian Innovation Centre (LIC) is a non-profit organization, providing innovation support services to enterprises, research institutions, industry associations and business support organizations.

Lithuanian Innovation Centre activities are organized on a project basis. LIC takes part in various tenders, calls for proposals announced by the European Union, other international organizations and Lithuanian Government. Activities are carried out and services provided after the applications are approved and financial support is ensured.

Lithuanian Innovation Centre consuls on various topics of innovation funding: how to attract the support from public (EU funds, Horizon 2020, COSME progammes etc.) and private (venture capital, business angels, loans etc.) sources.

Who can apply: entrepreneurs from Lithuania. 

Benefits for companies: business consultations how to attract funding. 

ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest green business ideas competition. ClimateLaunchpad offers training, coaching, and support in order to unlock the world’s cleantech potential that addresses climate change. Your idea can be an innovation in renewable energy, a sustainable transition in the food chain, a mind shift in urban mobility or any other idea with environmental impact.

There are three rounds to the competition: 

Step 1: Boot Camp. ClimateLaunchpad kicks off with a 2-day Boot Camp in your own country. Our trainers will teach you all you need to know about jump-starting your business.
Step 2: Intensive coaching and National Finals. The Boot Camp is followed by a period of intensive coaching. You’ll perfect your pitch, value proposition and business model. After that, you’re ready to rock your National Final where you’ll pitch in front of the National Jury. Winning teams of National Finals get to compete in the Global Grand Final.
Step 3: Global Grand Final. There is prize money to be won. The overall winner of the Global Grand Final receives € 10,000, the runner up gets € 5,000 and the idea that comes in third place wins € 2,500. The top 16 teams selected by the jury to perform in the Final Round of the Global Grand Final, will automatically get direct access to the Climate-KIC ClimateLaunchpad Accelerator, the renowned business school where great ideas grow into great businesses.

Fields of interest: health, enterprise software, education, energy, transportation, food, security, hardware

Waiting for startups with: idea or team 

Benefits for startups: mentoring, community, networking

 

Startup Wise Guys is one of the most active accelerator funds in Europe and Africa, with 400+ investments in early-stage B2B startups in SaaS, Fintech, Cybersecurity, XR, Sustainability, Web3, and Proptech verticals in more than 60 countries. Startup Wise Guys manages vertical-focused accelerator programs from offices in Tallinn, Milan, Bilbao, and Malaga, with strong representation in countries such as Denmark, Romania, Turkey, Baltics, and others. With a significant additional presence in the Nordics, Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Africa, and the Balkans, Startup Wise Guys aims to become the go-to accelerator program and investor for any B2B startup looking to scale globally. Startup Wise Guys was named Hottest Accelerator at the 2021 Europas Startup Awards and received the Best Accelerator prize in Global Startup Awards 2023.

Fields of interest: Fintech, Proptech, XR, Cybersecurity, SaaS, Web3, Sustainability, AI, Edtech, Logistics, Human Resources, Legal, IoT, Robotics, and others.

Waiting for startups with: MVP, team, initial traction.

Benefits for startups: mentoring, investment, community, and networking. 

Fund range per team: initial investment up to 150 000 Eur, follow-on investment up to 300 000 Eur.

Investment conditions: equity-based or convertible investments. 

The incubator is a platform that is on a mission to attract innovation to Lithuania’s transport and communications sector.
 
Mobility Innovation Center searches for innovative solutions in order to solve the problems of their center companies. The organization also coordinates a sandbox program which allows to test opportunities of technological solutions in company's infrastructure. Mobility Innovation Center promotes cooperation of startups and businesses inside the transport and communications sector of Lithuania to foster its growth.

 

Fields of interest: communication, transport.

Waiting for startups with: idea, team.

Benefits for startups: consulting, networking, access to a sandbox.

Incubator which focuses on generation and capitalization of scientific knowledge in applied physics, chemistry, and technological sciences promoting thus the evolution of high-tech industry.

Center For Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC) is the largest scientific research institution carrying out a unique fundamental research and technological development works in scientific fields of laser technologies, nuclear physics, organic chemistry, bio and nanotechnologies, electrochemical material science, functional materials, electronics, etc., in Lithuania. In the Center not only the innovative science but also high technologies expedient for business and society needs are developed.

 

Fields of interest: health, energy, transportation, security, telecom, semiconductors, IoT, construction, robotics, government, hardware, nano-technology.

Waiting for startups with: idea, team, prototype, first incomes, growth.  

Benefits for startups: mentoring, community, networking, working space, access to scientific and manufacturing equipment. 

EIT Climate-KIC is a European knowledge and innovation community and startup acceleration programme, working towards a prosperous, inclusive, climate-resilient society founded on a circular, zero-carbon economy.

Our unique startup Accelerator programme offers structured business and commercial support to European start-ups in the new climate economy. It is a real-world business school for entrepreneurs with rapid development for maximum climate impact, transforming great ideas into successful climate-positive businesses. Climate-KIC brings together partners in the worlds of business, academia, and the public and non-profit sectors to create networks of expertise, through which innovative products, services and systems can be developed, brought to market and scaled-up for impact.

Fields of interest: energy, food, cleantech, mobility.

Waiting for startups with: team, prototype, first incomes, growth.

Benefits for startups: mentoring, investment, community, networking, working space, coaching.

Fund range per team: up to 50 000 Eur.

Investment conditions: grant.