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Who hasn’t heard about Pioneers Festival yet? Startups should apply by 7th of September 2012
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I was a couple of months into blogging last year when I attended Startup Week Vienna, organized by StartEurope (Startup LiVE), the team behind this year’s Pioneers Festival. The event was, how shall I put it, awesome (even though I might be too old to use such vocabulary).
How does it apply to Eastern Europe? Well, out of the 50 startups that went through the startup challenge, 19 came from Eastern Europe. Here is what happened to some of them.
The contest runner up, Hungarian PocketGuide raised over $2 million in Series A round, relocated to the US, and created more fabulous mobile city guides. The company appeared to be on the right track back in May at Next Berlin.
DoubleRecall, the Slovenian startup which significantly increases user engagement with online ads with its technology, graduated from Y Combinator raised $1.6 million earlier this year.
Serbian Newscurve got acquired by Neodata.
Hungarian Mixgar (social jukebox) won startup contest at Ukrainian IDCEE later that year and raised $80,000 earlier this summer.
Hungarian Dragontape (mixed video tapes) released Socialtape (similar to Shelby) and is working on new apps.
Polish SaveUp raised nearly 500,000 Euros from Polish Innovation Nest, Speedup group and others.
Croatian Mediatoolkit just made it to the shortlist of Webit Startup Challenge, Croatian folks behind Codeanywhere created Spotie and Belarusian Quoteroller’s functionality has been expanded, I hear.
As I was fresh on the startup scene last October, I was just starting to form my network with the entrepreneurs, investors and bloggers in the region, and the Startup Week Vienna was an excellent platform. It is a good place for Eastern European startups to get connected with the European ecosystem, and I cannot recommend it enough. What’s more, the conference will take place in a palace!
If you are a startup, apply by the 7th of September for a chance to win Euro 25,000 and present at the investor day.
For more events relevant to Eastern European tech entrepreneurs and investors please visit our updated events section.
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Natasha Starkell
Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Google+ Natasha Starkell is the founder and CEO of GoalEurope, advisory firm focusing on technology investment and software development in Russia and Eastern Europe. Prior to starting GoalEurope she has worked in the field of finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy and offshore outsourcing at Unisys Corporation in Switzerland and United Kingdom. She has an MBA degree from London Business School. She speaks Russian, English and German. She lives in Northern Germany.
Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Google+ Natasha Starkell is the founder and CEO of GoalEurope, advisory firm focusing on technology investment and software development in Russia and Eastern Europe. Prior to starting GoalEurope she has worked in the field of finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy and offshore outsourcing at Unisys Corporation in Switzerland and United Kingdom. She has an MBA degree from London Business School. She speaks Russian, English and German. She lives in Northern Germany.
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