🦄 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!

About: Unicorns Lithuania is Lithuania’s startup founder association, bringing together more than 110 technology startups that altogether account for more than half of the sector’s workforce. The association has a clear vision: to make the country “the best place in the world for startup unicorns”. To achieve this vision, Unicorns Lithuania also follows a strategic goal: to grow the ecosystem 3 times by 2025 compared to 2020. 

Key areas: Community Building; Highlighting the value of startups for innovation and economic growth; Enhancing domestic talent and attracting global expertise; Promoting transformative initiatives in education and business.

Mission. To mobilize and encourage startups and the public to build the future of Lithuania - a successful modern country based on a high value-added economy.

 

In order to help export companies to scale their business in foreign markets, iMarketings.eu created a special program “The Power of Export”. Within its framework, they provide marketing and sales support to its participants, including extensive advertising budgets. In a nutshell: they pay Ads budget, create strategy and marketing materials, manage channels, you pay for results.

Who can apply: startups from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark that are export-oriented, have initial sales, have not reached a turnover of EUR 5 million in the export market, and have strong potential for product scalability.

Fields of interest: E-commerce

Benefits for Startups: money for advertising budget, support in achieving results.

Read more about the program on the website or apply here. 

You've just developed a killer product. All you need now is just that pinch of sales salt. That's why we are here. To season your current setup with a reliable B2B sales playbook.


Who can apply: MVP, early stage (bootstrapped, pre-seed, seed) startups

Fields of interest: B2B SaaS, , selling in Europe/US

Benefits for Startups: mentorship, network, training, workshops, community.

 

JA Lithuania is the largest non-profit organization in Lithuania dedicated to preparing young people for entrepreneurship and employment.

JA Lithuania designs experiences that spark the entrepreneurial spirit and teach the practical day-to-day skills required to run a viable, long-term business or startup. Launched in 1919 globally, our flagship programme the JA Company Programme in Lithuania offers students aged 12-18 the opportunity to learn how to move a business idea from concept to reality. The programme provides teachers with a series of learning-by-doing business, economics and entrepreneurship activities, a great way to help students succeed in a global economy.

Waiting for startups with: idea, team.

Funding opportunities: during the finals of the program teams are awarded with cash prizes of 200-1000 EUR.

Benefits for participants: mentoring, networking, community, education for very early stage youth teams interested in creating startups.

GovTech Lab Lithuania is a team in the public sector that acts as a connector between public sector challenges and innovative tech solutions.

GovTech Lab works with public sector institutions to identify the most pressing challenges, encourages startups and SMEs to create GovTech solutions, and seeks to innovate public sector.
The team organizes GovTech Challenge Series and invites startups and innovative teams to submit the solutions to solve GovTech challenges. After the submission, the best teams are selected to participate in GovTech Accelerator, where they will have an opportunity to create, test and commercialise their solutions.

GovTech Lab Lithuania is currently a part of the Innovation Agency Lithuania. 

Fields of interest: GovTech, EdTech, HealthTech, LegalTech, RegTech, MobilityTech, CleanTech, UrbanTech, CivTech. 

Waiting for Startups with: Teams with ideas or solutions on how to solve public sector challenges. 

Benefits for Startups: Helping startups to connect with the public sector. GovTech Accelerator programme: sandbox, mentoring sessions and assistance in product development. After the GovTech Accelerator, teams can continue working with the public sector, where their solutions might be procured.

Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Microsoft for Startups program  - from technical resources and free Azure cloud to selling alongside Microsoft salespeople and partner channel, we invite you to apply now. If you are interested in the program and would like to get more specific information, feel free to write to Startup Program Manager ("Send email" button on the left).

 

Fields of interest: fintech, marketing, health, enterprise software, education, energy, transportation, food, security, real estate, travel, jobs recruitment, legal, telecom, gaming, IoT, sports, music, kids, hosting, robotics, government, hardware.

Waiting for startups with: first incomes, growth.

Benefits for startups: mentoring, community, networking, tools, intensive and personalized consultations/support on tech, co-selling with Microsoft to our customers.

Fund range per team: up to 120k of credit on Microsoft platforms.

Investment conditions: no strings attached.

Region: Baltics

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.