ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Investors joining Startup Touch conference

These are the investors and accelerators joining us this year for the online conference Startup Touch. Their representatives will be doing mentorship sessions, conducting workshops or sitting in the jury panels during the pitching contests.

bValue VC

Operational seed-stage venture capital fund from Poland. Some of the startups in their portfolio - Tidio, PushPushGo, CallPage, Landingi, Deligoo etc. Will help companies from the CEE region to scale to Poland and other EU markets.

500 Startups

One of the top 3 global accelerators, based in the US, investing in early-stage startups from around the world. They’ve already invested in hundreds of startups, and have a vast community of business angels. Some of the unicorns from their portfolio: Udemy, Talkdesk, Grab, Canva, GitLab, Bukalapak, Intercom…

Techstars

Second of the top 3 global accelerators, doing startup programs around the world and present in many ecosystems. We will have representatives from their mutual program with Barclay’s from Tel Aviv, joining our jury panel for Pitch Night.

MIT Enterprise Forum CEE

Once, initiative entrepreneurs in Poland decided to start a collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and leverage their knowledge and network for the programs in Eastern Europe. Now they are running several programs for the teams from the CEE region, and the top founders are invited to Boston.

PwC Polska

PricewaterhouseCoopers is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms, with a wide customer network. In Poland, they also have a department that is looking for new solutions to offer to the customers of the company, This is where we can recommend the startups to them. They will join us at the event.

Funderbeam

The global investing and trading platform for investors to buy and sell equity stakes in private companies. Great marketplaces for startups to be in. They open the doors to various funding opportunities for startups and will talk about them at Startup Touch.

Genesis Investments

“Venture capital fund that takes care of everything,” as they say. Because they help startups with digital marketing, product building and recruiting. You might know some of their portfolio startups quite well: BetterMe, Hacker Noon, Vochi AI, Redtrack.io, Amazing Apps and others.

Baltic Sandbox

The right people to connect if you are building fintech, insurtech, edtech, HR tech or martech solutions and need to boost your development. They have access to all business angels in the Baltic region and beyond.

Blue Lake Accelerator

A gateway to the UK market. Firstly born as the acceleration program in Kyiv, to help local startups, now it’s a whole cross-border investor community that works with early-stage startups from the CEE region.

Palta (ex-Haxus)

Surely you know about Prisma Labs, Flo App and Wannaby. Palta is a co-founding company founded by Yuri Gurski, who has successfully built and scaled tech products valued at a combined $1 billion.

Nextech Ventures

Early-stage venture capital firm from the Czech Republic, offering advisory and entrepreneurial support on top of the funding. Companies they have invested in are Lafluence, SatisMeter, Wilio and many others.

More investors to be announced soon.
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