EIT Food Hub – operates as a coordinator of EIT Food activities in Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) countries.

EIT Food is Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, working to make the food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted by consumers. EIT Food Hub seeks to implement numerous agri-food related activities, transfers the best practices of EIT Food to their respective countries/regions, working with local agri-food stakeholder networks to strengthen their innovative capacities, promotes the brand visibility of EIT in targeted countries and carries out localized activities as part of the EIT Food RIS portfolio. EIT Food Hub targets talents and stakeholders from the three different knowledge triangle pillars – research, education and business. EIT Food is seeking to engage consumers in the change process, improve nutrition and make food system more resource-efficient, secure, transparent ant trusted.

Fields of interest: agrifood.

Waiting for startups with: team, MVP, incomes.

Benefits for startups: access to EU knowledge and innovation communities, networking, industry events, community, training, mentoring, special programs, partnership with accelerator programs, investment, finding potential partners and clients in Europe.

Fund range per team: 10 000 Eur.

Investment conditions: equity free investment (conditions may vary depending on different program).

The accelerator which is a unique and proven entrepreneurship promotion methodology aimed to help young people to create new promising businesses. CREAzone works by combining innovative knowledge economy driven ideas with business models in traditional industries thus contributing to the long-term and sustainable rise of employment in the Lithuanian Latvian cross-border region. The organization is an entrepreneurship development methodology designed to connect entrepreneurial individuals together with new business models and creative inventions – to empower them to organically become perspective entrepreneurs with new high-growth businesses. Fields of interest: all innovative ideas. Waiting for startups with: team, MVP. Benefits for startups: training, team building, mentoring, networking.

The Startup Wise Guys acceleration program will provide an optimized approach that delivers tailored guidance and support from world-class mentors and experts. Our accelerator program will help you navigate the bumps in the company-building road, revolutionize your go-to-market strategy, and encourage you to bring your A game. 

We know you’re passionate about what you do and this program will provide you access to a constantly expanding network of like-minded founders, practitioners, and investors and encourage value-driven partnerships with people who see the world just like you do!

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. 

Aims to attract PropTech companies from around the globe to test and pilot their products at no cost.  

Vilnius-based Realbox accepts applications from PropTechs around the globe wishing to make use of the sandbox and is looking to increase the number of companies that make use of it. Realbox gives PropTech startups the opportunity to test their concepts, improve their technology and showcase their product in a real-life environment they would otherwise not have access to, shortening the time needed to reach market readiness and facilitating exposure to large, international companies. 

 

 

Fields of interest: proptech. 

Waiting for startups with: team, MVP.  

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

The program aims to increase the attractiveness of Kaunas city as a destination for startups.  Kaunas Startups focuses on raising the level of entrepreneurship, providing necessary skills to launch and operate one’s business, consolidating different parts of the startup ecosystem, and preparing startups for funding rounds. The program consists of two parts: pre-acceleration and networking.  Fields of interest: healthcare, education and B2B SaaS.  Waiting for startups with: idea, team, MVP.  Benefits for startups: training, mentoring, networking, events, workshops, community. 
Northtown Vilnius – a public Vilnius City Municipality institution, developing modern infrastructure and providing specialized consulting services necessary for the establishment and growth of innovative business in the Lithuanian capital. Northtown Vilnius started its activities in 2002 as the Northtown Technology Park (NTP) - a public institution established on the initiative of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania and Vilnius City Municipality. For more than 18 years, Northtown Vilnius has been contributing to the development of the Lithuanian innovation ecosystem for business by providing specialized innovation support, incubation and acceleration services, promoting business and science partnerships, implementing entrepreneurship education initiatives and innovation infrastructure development projects. Currently, the institution focuses on two strategic areas: the development of innovative R&D investment zones and individual innovation objects, and the provision of business incubation, acceleration and technology transfer services to businesses with innovative potential. Since 2018, Northtown Vilnius has become the operator of Vilnius City Innovation Industrial Park and is developing a unique innovative research and experimental development (R&D) investment territory in Vismaliukai, where Lithuanian and foreign companies are establishing and developing activities in high technology and smart specialization.

A technology park which aims to help companies grow and build a professional community. 

VITP main activities are rendering consulting services on innovation, finance, R&D to innovative companies. VITP organizes information events for professionals and during innovation workshops, help to develop insights for initiating and creating new products or services. 

 

 

 

Fields of interest: fintech, innovation, research and development. 

Waiting for startups with: team, MVP. 

Benefits for startups: infrastructure, consulting, networking, workshops, attracting investment. 

Public institution with a goal to promote the development of knowledge-based companies.  

Panevėžys Science and Technology Park (PSTP) is a non-profit public institution that was founded by Panevėžys City Municipality and Kaunas University of Technologies. PSTP was founded for companies that work in areas such as Research and Development (R&D), Innovations, Startups. It acts as a business incubator. 

 

 

Fields of interest: research and development, innovations. 

Waiting for startups with: team, MVP. 

Benefits for startups: consulting, networking, workspace. 

Sandbox which is made to be used for testing and development purposes. 

Swedbank’s Open Banking Technical Documentation and Testing Platform (Sandbox) enables third parties, including financial technology companies, gadgets and web solutions developers, to develop innovative online payment solutions for clients in all Swedbank home markets with the bank. Swedbank sandbox clients can register to the developer portal and test their ideas in Swedbank's API sandbox environment. 

 

 

Fields of interest: fintech. 

Waiting for startups with: team, MVP. 

Benefits for startups: mentoring, networking, access to sandbox. 

Regulator of financial service providers in Lithuania. 

The regulatory sandbox provides an opportunity for developers of innovative financial products and business solutions to test them in a real-world environment, under the supervision and consulting of the Bank of Lithuania – the regulator of financial service providers in Lithuania. 

 

 

Fields of interest: fintech. 

Waiting for startups with: team, MVP.  

Benefits for startups: networking, mentoring.