Investors Relations Support for Early Stage Eastern European startups. 

The accelerator offers two intensive 8-week programs per year. The program’s primary focuses are business model design and go-to-market strategy development. Selected startups are mentored by experts in their industry as well as potential investors. 

Fields of interest: fintech, SaaS, deep tech. 

Waiting for startups with: team, MVP. 

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

Tech-Park Kaunas is a science and technology park that creates the best experience for startups. We help startups and already growing tech companies to increase transnational competitiveness, consult companies on business development issues, provide innovation support services, develop an innovation community, and foster an innovation culture in the Kaunas region. As a member of Integrated Science, Studies and Business Centre (Valley) “Santaka” Tech-Park Kaunas stimulates science and business collaboration. The Park organizes a business incentive program for health technology developers called Medaccelerator.lt. The program helps startups to develop innovative products and services, increase sales and prepare to attract investment. The team has also created a program for entrepreneurship and new product development called Evolut 4.0. In 2024, the Tech-Park Kaunas Accelerator program package was strengthened and renewed, startups participated in the digitech and medtech solutions hackathon Tech_Champ, preacceleration programmes and business incubation activities. Tech-Park Kaunas currently hosts more than 100 deep-tech-oriented companies operating in the fields of deeptech, medtech, IT, spacetech and urbantech. These include medtech, defencetech and dualtech and ICT. More than 100 professionals from Tech-Park Kaunas ICT cluster “Digital Rocket LT” are providing cutting-edge ICT services for local and international customers. Since 2019 Kaunas STP is a part of CERN Business Incubation Centre in Lithuania and supports the development and application of innovative ideas outside the field of high-energy physics. Since 2021, Tech-Park Kaunas has been a partner of the European Space Agency Business Incubator in Lithuania (ESA BIC Lithuania) and supports the development of innovative products in the space sector. Tech-Park Kaunas contributes to promoting innovative technologies for defence by participating in the NATO Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic Region (DIANA) program as an Associated Test Centre.

Incubating early stage startup teams. 

Incubator is open for overall society and new entrepreneurs who has business idea and considering for its implementation and development. KTU Startup Space for incubating teams provides working space, access to incubator network: inner and external. This startup space waits for young entrepreneurs with innovative ideas, products or services.  

 

 

Fields of interest: marketing, health, enterprise software, education, food, security, real estate, travel, job recruitment, legal, telecom, gaming, music, construction, kids, hardware. 

Waiting for startups with: prototype. 

Benefits for startups: mentoring, networking, working space, business consulting, links to investors. 

Risk capital fund together with angels invests in innovative and export oriented companies in Lithuania.  

The Fund will invest only together with Business Angel.  The Fund and Business Angel will participate in business development together with founders of the company. The key driver – invest into the profit generating projects. 

Fields of interest: lasers, IT, agriculture, fintech, entertainment, production, energy. 

Waiting for startups with: team, MVP, incomes. 

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

Sunrise Valley Science and Technology Park initiates business and science collaboration.  

Sunrise Valley Science and Technology Park is a place for new science and business environment, successful cooperation of high technology and other knowledge-based economy kernel functions related business. Sunrise Valley works with development of entrepreneurship, promotion of business and science collaboration, provision of infrastructure and other innovation support services. The Park operates in the Sunrise Valley - the biggest knowledge triangle (study, research, and business) in the Baltic States. 

 

Fields of interest: fintech, health, energy, security, telecom, gaming, IoT, robotics, hardware, innovative, technology-based companies (e.g. related to clean technologies, artificial intelligence, IT, lasers). 

Waiting for startups with: prototype. 

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

Practica Capital is a dedicated Baltic venture capital (VC) investor focusing on investments in the Baltic (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) and Baltic-origin (e.g. Baltic diaspora) ventures in Europe.

Founded in 2011, the firm invests and follows on from €200k to €2m+ in seed, early (series A) and select growth stage ventures in lead and non-lead role focused on backing great teams behind the tech-driven businesses from the region across various industries and verticals. With 3 funds, €46m under management, over 45 investments and over 30 co-investments with local, regional and international investors to-date, Practica is one of the most active VC investors and syndicate partners in the Baltics.

It’s portfolio and exits include Trafi (world’s largest mobility as a service), TransferGo (one of the leading fintechs in Europe and beyond), CGTrader (world’s largest 3D model marketplace), NanoAvionics (one of the leading nanosatellite missions integrators in Europe exited to AST&Science), Gaudrė (leading Baltic lighting company exited to Würth).

Fields of interest: cross-industrial, tech-driven ventures. 

Waiting for startups with: (i) problem-solution-fit, team-solution-fit, minimum viable product, early traction in seed stage; (ii) product-market-fit, early growth in early/series A stage; (iii) business-model-fit, growth-/scale-fit in growth/series B. 

Benefits for startups: investment, experienced local team and established platform, active involvement when needed, advice, networking, community, local VC partner helping launch, develop and grow the business with regional, international, global ambition.

Funding range per team: from 200 000 to over 2 000 000 Eur. 

Investment conditions: equity-based investment.