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.

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

 

Supporting program which unites all kind of game developers including professionals and amateurs.

Lietuvos žaidimų kūrėjų asociacijos main goal is to unite Lithuanian games creators, encourage the cooperation between them and to represent games creators' interest. Also the organization  initiates, promotes, supports and cooperates in creating with game development related educational programs, implements ethical and professional behavior  standards, helps to maintain connections similar foreign organizations and spreads the news about Lithuanian game developers abroad.

 

 

Waiting for startups with: team, idea. 

Benefits for startups:  mentoring, promotion, networking.

Supporting program which is the first mentorship and counselling programme in Lithuania for women seeking careers in technology sector.

Women Go Tech was launched by Association INFOBALT and World Economic Forum initiative Global Shapers Vilnius in 2016. Their goal is to empower women to seek for professional careers within tech sector and to strengthen gender equality in the labour market as well as women leadership. They help women to find a job, get promoted in tech industry and establish a technological startup.

Waiting for startups with: team, idea. 

Benefits for startups: consulting, mentoring, content sessions.

TGS Baltic UP HUB is an online platform aimed to assist startups on legal issues by providing them 2 hours of free consultations as well as plenty of legal resources and documentation.

Guided by experienced TGS Baltic professionals, startups become more attractive for investments taking this way their business to the next level. Access to a free of charge package of services, such as both online and face-to-face consultations on various legal and business development topics, wide investors network and professionally tailored templates of documents provided by the UP HUB platform help young companies to face their daily challenges without losing the focus.

 

Waiting for startups with: team, idea, legal issues.

Benefits for startups: consulting, guiding, legal advice.

Supporting programs which helps for foreign startups to relocate talents in Vilnius. Go Vilnius Workshop and Relocation Guide programs are created by Go Vilnius which is the official development agency of the City of Vilnius – provides visitors, investors, relocating talent, entrepreneurs and businesses with everything they need to know about the city. Go Vilnius Workshop covers an array of themes, from the most important legal issues to integrating smoothly into the local community. Relocation Guide was created in order to make relocation an easy task.  And Relocation Guide is based on the experiences of people who have already made the move to Vilnius.  It contains essential information on the steps you need to take to settle in, as well as helpful advice you may not have thought you needed just yet.  Waiting for startups with: team, idea.  Benefits for startups: community, networking, support. 

CEP is considered to be one of the leading organisations in Lithuania – fostering entrepreneurial mindset, implementing creative and experience-based methods into the curriculum; and creating innovative academia – business – city community ecosystem.

The center creates a community, who lives and breathes the ideas of entrepreneurship and is wholeheartedly interested in them. CEP unites over 1000 alumni of their Entrepreneurship Academy, 160 of their current students and a network of over 90 companies well known in Lithuania and abroad, 100+ solved challenges of companies and organisations, and over 40 academics and professionals that help students solving the problems along the way. 

 

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

Waiting for startups with: idea, team.

Benefits for startups: mentoring.

EIT Climate-KIC is a European knowledge and innovation community and startup acceleration programme, working towards a prosperous, inclusive, climate-resilient society founded on a circular, zero-carbon economy.

Our unique startup Accelerator programme offers structured business and commercial support to European start-ups in the new climate economy. It is a real-world business school for entrepreneurs with rapid development for maximum climate impact, transforming great ideas into successful climate-positive businesses. Climate-KIC brings together partners in the worlds of business, academia, and the public and non-profit sectors to create networks of expertise, through which innovative products, services and systems can be developed, brought to market and scaled-up for impact.

Fields of interest: energy, food, cleantech, mobility.

Waiting for startups with: team, prototype, first incomes, growth.

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

Fund range per team: up to 50 000 Eur.

Investment conditions: grant.