Health Founders is an international, fully online early-stage Health Technology accelerator, based in Estonia. We connect teams with clinical partners, financing opportunities and get teams investment ready.
🦄 Jaunaragiai - Backing Lithuania’s youngest founders with capital, opportunities, and network Jaunaragiai is a philanthropy-powered startup fund that supports youth (16–29 y.o.) with their first capital, network, and growth opportunities. Whether you're still in school/university or fresh out, we believe your startup idea deserves a chance - no matter your background. We invest in very early and early-stage, youth-led teams with small tickets, co-investment support, mentorship, and programs that help turn ideas into businesses. We're especially excited to support Junior Achievement alumni! What we can help with: • Early-Stage Investment – €10K–40K from Jaunaragiai, plus intros to VC funds and angels • Pre-Accelerator – programs to help you build & validate (first edition launched, more coming soon) • Hackathons/Bootcamps – our annual startup event for young creators • Mentorship – from experienced founders & operators • Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs – up to 6 months abroad with EU funding • Equity-free grants – coming soon Waiting for Startups with: Idea, Prototype, MVP, or First traction stage – led by youth (aged 16–29). Fund range per team: • Investment – €10K–40K per team • Co-investment support – up to €500K rounds with partners • Grants – coming soon Investment conditions: Equity (standard or convertible), often co-investing with angels/VCs Support from our board: • Martynas Kandzeras (Entrepreneur, Investor) • Vladas Lašas (Investor, UPS Lithuania Founder) • Milda Mitkutė (investor, Vinted Co-Founder) • Greta Monstavičė (Katalista Ventures Co-Founder) • Tomas Moška (Turing College Co-Founder) • Andželika Rusteikienė (LJA CEO) • Marijus Andrijauskas (FIRSTPICK Partner)
Project "Startuolis": Building The Startup Highway We help startups to grow through the hackathon, pre-acceleration, and incubation programs in central and western Lithuania by offering a mix of mentorship, peer support, and networking opportunities. Effective innovation framework establishment for the creation, acceleration and development of startups and promotion of product idea development through hackathons and incubation services (SEIV system) (STARTUOLIS) No. 02-025-K-0001 Implementation period: 2024 Feb. - 2027 Feb. Project Objective: To create a coherent system for promoting innovation in central and western Lithuania. Project Description: The project aims to assist startups in central and western Lithuania in their growth and development, establish a sustainable, resilient, and thriving innovative business community within the country, and reduce innovation disparities between the capital's business environment and other regions. Building on ROCKIT’s success in cultivating a dynamic innovation ecosystem in Vilnius, we are now poised to extend our expertise to central and western Lithuania. Our program offers a comprehensive suite of services including acceleration programs, training, and networking opportunities, designed to support the growth of startups across the country. We invite innovative individuals, teams, and businesses interested in open innovation to join us in this program. Expanding to the Kaunas and Klaipėda regions, ROCKIT will provide incubation services, hackathons, and pre-acceleration programs, leveraging our proven experience to build a supportive startup community nationwide. Our mission is to lead in financial technology and sustainable innovation, ensuring startups across Lithuania have the resources, knowledge, and network to thrive. Financed by European Union funds for 2021-2027 Project value: 979 567,09 Eur Project funding: 832 632,03 Eur
Have a business idea or started a venture recently? Want to succeed in the comfort of your hometown? StartupLAB Alytus got you covered! StartupLAB Alytus, part of Sunrise Tech Park business ecosystem, is a hub for entrepreneurs of all backgrounds. A perfect place to transform your ideas into reality with free workspace, expert guidance, and a welcoming community to help your ideas thrive. Submit your application for a chance to join the StartupLAB Alytus entrepreneurial community: https://forms.gle/zYXXns2tRCQ5qDFF8 We can’t wait to welcome you and help your business to take off!

The Startup Lithuania Accelerator powered by Plug and Play is a unique industry-agnostic program designed to support early-stage startups that wish to be based in Lithuania. The program's primary goal is to provide startups with a global experience and a worldwide network from the starting point.

Waiting for Startups with: No hard requirements for traction or product readiness
Fields of interest: Sector Agnostic
Benefits for Startups: Early stage sector agnostic accelerator program with benefits as individual mentorship; access to Plug and Play global network of corporations, VCs, portfolio startups and other partners; office space.
Fund range per team: 30k - 150k
Investment conditions: 2%
Market focus: CEE

The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organisation that offers a nine-month objective-based program to help deep-tech startups rapidly scale their businesses. CDL organises a series of full-day sessions (every eight weeks) and provides mentorship from world-class experienced entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, etc. The focus on setting three objectives for the next 8 weeks and experienced mentors volunteer to help startups achieve these goals. CDL-Estonia is a part of the CDL program 13 locations globally and presents the Digital Society stream. Focus is on data-driven startups of digital society, cybersecurity, and genomics & digital health. CDL-Estonia is located at the University of Tartu. Three sessions occur in Tartu or Tallinn during the program, and one is online. The program is free to startups (no equity, not fees). Applications can be submitted at the CDL-Estonia website. CDL is in the TOP 10 active startup accelerators globally according to the CB Insights report (October 2023).

Dual-Use Tech VC Fund & Accelerator with one of a kind in the region dual use pre-accelerator and accelerator programs. The programs identify technologies aligned with NATO emerging and disruptive technologies (EDTs) and provide pathways toward strategic partnerships, technology development, and funding opportunities, with access to both markets and networks in Europe and the United States.

We concentrate on supporting pre-seed and seed-stage dual-use startups led by pioneering individuals and teams. Our primary interest lies in backing those committed to research and development, aiming to tackle intricate technical issues that have substantial prospects for commercial deployment in the defense and security sectors. These startups are characterized by their ambitious drive for rapid growth and their dedication to resolving critical challenges in these crucial areas.

Waiting for Startups with: Various stages
Fields of interest: Dual Use
Benefits for Startups: Investment, one of a kind in the region dual use incubation and acceleration programs with partners from US, NATO and EU, mentorship, community, networking
Fund range per team: 50K - 1M Eur
Investment conditions: Equity
Market focus: Lithuania and other NATO countries

Startup Lithuania created a training program Startup Guide Pre-accelerator

The Startup Guide Pre-accelerator is designed for early-stage startup founders looking to kickstart their startup development. No matter if you have just a few or a thousand questions when it comes to building a successful startup and attracting your first investment, we will help and guide you through the process. 

In this virtual training program, you'll gain valuable knowledge on:
  • Refining your existing idea and creating a compelling value proposition.
  • Choosing the right business model for success.
  • Selecting target markets for your product.
  • Testing your product with potential customers and partners.
  • Attracting investment and expanding into new markets, and much more!

Best of all, upon program completion, you'll receive a certificate to showcase your newfound skills. 

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DÓBRA is an Impact Venture Studio that builds startups from the Idea stage till the Seed round. We focus on social impact issues, like habitat sustainability, climate change, health, safety, active longevity, social goods, future tech-lifestyle.

Fields of interest: Impact

Waiting for startups with: Ideation, Prototype

Benefits for startups: DÓBRA team works as a part of the brand new startup teams. All legal and operational tasks will shutting down. This support is bolstered by partnerships we forge with businesses and noncoms.

Fund range per team: 100-300k Eur

Investment conditions: Equity

Market focus: Baltic States, CEE

Bridgio is a hardware accelerator to connect tech entrepreneurs with market opportunities in the EU/US. Waiting for Startups with: MVP/Product, Team, Traction, IP (technological know-how); B2B, ex. B2C (only with distributor evaluation and support). Fields of interest: Smart&Eco environment: computer vision, and IoT; Green energy solutions and resource-saving technologies; Urban mobility, industry 4.0, smart office. Benefits for Startups: engineering, production, and sales support. Fund range per team: initial ticket starts at 50-250K EUR. Investment conditions: Equity and convertible. Market focus: Baltics, US, CEE.