Connecting Blockchain innovation ecosystems.

The B-hub for Europe project targets deep tech startups in the blockchain domain. The initiative is aimed at discovering high-potential innovations, shaping suited proof of concepts and business models, providing specialized acceleration services to overcome current market barriers and assist the go-to-market process, unlocking new market channels with potential private/public customers and scaling up innovative businesses across five startups ecosystems in Europe.

Fields of interest: Any verticals.

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

Benefits for Startups: Mentoring, community, networking.

Market focus:  Italy, Germany, France, Romania, Lithuania.

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

Get the tools and resources you need to scale ideas and grow your blockchain business.

Block.IS is an equity-free accelerator for blockchain solutions in agrifood, finance and logistics sectors. During 9 months programme, the startups will receive up to €60 000 equity-free funding, professional mentorship and technical and business webinars for a successful product launch.

 

Fields of interest: Fintech, Enterprise software, Transportation, FoodTech, IoT.

Waiting for Startups with: Idea, team, prototype.

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

Investment conditions: Grant

Size of total funds: €2.8 million, aimed at funding 90 startups/SMEs

Market focus: EU

The European exchange programme for new or aspiring entrepreneurs.

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a cross-border exchange programme which gives new or aspiring entrepreneurs the chance to learn from experienced entrepreneurs running small businesses in other participating countries. New entrepreneurs gather an exchange knowledge and business ideas with an experienced entrepreneur, with whom they stay and collaborate for 1-6 months. The stay is party financed by the European Commission.

Fields of interest: Any verticals.

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

Benefits for Startups: Mentoring, community, networking.

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

By investing in the emerging science of happiness, Joyance Partners is the first venture fund focused on individual health experience, not process.

Delightful Moments such as these are part of all human experience: the small, but powerful, separations from the daily humdrum when we feel stronger, calmer, more joyful, more in control, more distant from pain and anxiety. Now, emerging science and technology have the potential to deliver these experiences. Science can help individuals be a bit happier, which can lead to greater health. Or a little healthier, which can lead to greater potential for happiness. It is a new, transformative cycle of human experience. This new science of health and happiness ranges from transforming the human organism (genetics, bioscience), to creating new forms of human chemistry (the microbiome), to reading, understanding or altering our minds (neuroscience), to expanding human experience (virtual and augmented reality), and even to alter what we eat and drink (next-generation food) and how we interact with one another (emergent community).

Fields of interest: marketing, health, education, energy, food, travel, gaming, iot internet of things, sports, music, kids, robotics, hardware

Waiting for startups with: Team, Prototype

Benefits for startups:  Mentoring, Investment, Community, Networking

Fund range per team: 100 000 - 400 000 Eur (Equity based funding)

Size of the total fund: 25+ in Europe 2020    

Market focus: US, ASIA, Europe

 

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

 

The mission of Kaunas IN Statups is to share, inspire, support, and help lead the Kaunas startup community and ecosystem to create a better future for all.

  • We host open, free gatherings like Startup Social Kaunas, Pitch Night Kaunas, and others with our partners. These monthly meetups are made to inspire, connect, and educate: www.meetup.com
  • Ecosystem visibility – We share startup news, success stories, upcoming events, and valuable resources from across Kaunas.
  • Startup resources – Explore the Kaunas startup ecosystem map and discover who’s doing what: kaunasin.lt
  • Your contact point – Don’t know where to start? We’ll help you find the right people: mentors, founders, experts, or support organizations.
  • Consultations – We offer advice and insights on both startup growth and ecosystem development.