Startup Wise Guys

Latitude59 is on! 🔥 Here are some highlights from our network and our plans for today!

📍 11:05/Blue stage - Our CyberNorth mentor Kieren Niĉolas Lovell will share his thoughts on Cyber security update.

📍 12:15/Blue stage - Tõnis Arro, Batch 6 alumni from Teamscope, will share his thoughts on Leadership 4.0.

📍 13:30/Yellow Hall - Marite Aleksandra Silava from Swedbank Latvia will be moderating a panel on “Perks vs Purpose: Winning solutions for talent attraction” with our legal mentor Valter Vohma as one of the panelists.

But between these speakers head over to the Demo area and chat with our alumni - Sport.id (Batch 2), Wiserstate (ex-Motivio Fintech I) and Zelos Team Management (Btch 12)! Rumor has it, that Zelos, has planned some volunteering game for you to try out that might lead you to our red corner as well!

[05/15/19]   Next week our first CyberNorth program startups and our team is going to check out Paranoia Cyber Security Conference for the first time. We’ve heard it’s awesome! Apart from CyberNorth batch, we will be bringing along some alumni from previous Fintech programs. If you are curious about, what cool cyber/fintech products and services they are developing, look for some SWG hoodies at the conference or join our side-event on May 20 with e-Estonia: E-Estonia Cybersecurity Evening.

#CyberNorth, #SWGMafia, #roadshow, #techconference, #cybersecurity, #startups, #networking

🚀 Startups are often born from personal experience. One of our first CyberNorth batch teams, Cyex, co-founders was once tricked into buying a golden ring and that sparked his deep interest in understanding the logic behind tricking people and after a while it linked to cybersecurity.

Cyex is a 4 people team of 4 PhD candidates, and its 2 co-founders actually met at a PhD summer camp (we had no idea such thing exist). But don't let the academic background scare you, the other founder has been basically born with a computer by his side and has found a way to turn his hobby into business.

Cyex is a B2B service for organizations who want to manage and develop the cybersecurity knowledge of
their non-technical workforce. They let their clients find, track and improve human readiness in one place.

Btw, they are throwing a meetup on May 23: Human side of cyber security in organisations. Make them happy and join at Startup Wise Guys Tallinn office.

#SWGMafia, #CyberNorth, #startuplife, #startupstory, #Tallinn, #cybersecurity

Our team mates Alexandra, Dima and Karina are in Amsterdam and ready to meet you at The Next Web conference! 😎

Grab them for a coffee to hear about our upcoming autumn B2B & Fintech programs or introduce them to startups, corporate's or VC's we should know. 🔥

Btw, Alexandra will be taking over our Instagram stories, so make sure to follow her journey there! 😏

And our portfolio startups are also around. They are eager to meet growing startups and scaleups, HR managers, hosting providers, bankers, heads of innovation and VC’s, as well as looking for contacts from the logistic space, construction companies and e-commerce platforms. If you have any relevant leads catch up with Currencii, Expact, Fractory, Hive.id, Motivio, OROCON, tarla.in, WebTotem, ZITICITY!

10 Startups take the spotlight at the Latitude59 2019 Pitch Competition – Latitude59

🎯 We are getting ready for Latitude59 and it's exciting to see that our current batch teams and alumni's need to polish their pitches to battle it out during Latitude59 Pitch competition finals!

Fingers crossed Cenos platform, Expact, Portal365.org, Virtuaalne töökeskkonnaspetsialist - VITS, WebTotem & Zelos Team Management! 🔥

#SWGMafia, #startuplife, #pitchcompetition

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10 Latvian startups to look out for in 2019 | EU-Startups

🎯 Look out for these 10 Latvian startups! It's great to see our alumni Zeew and Cenos platform in this list, as well as our Fintech mentors Nordigen!

eu-startups.com Latvia-Startups10 Latvian startups to look out for in 2019 By Mary Loritz - January 30, 2019 Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter Latvia has a budding startup ecosystem, with the word “startup” having become an everyday term. A low cost of living, fast Internet, and new laws lowering employee taxe...

Top tech events this spring - Startup Wise Guys on the road

Spring is here and so is the tech event season! And it's going to be hot! 🔥

Startup Wise Guys and girls are hitting the road to step on the stage and meet people. Catch us around the Baltics and beyond in the upcoming months and make sure to have these events marked down to meet startups, investors and inspiring people.

#SWGMafia, #startuplife, #techevent, #keynote, #startups, #events, #TheNextWeb, #Latitude59, #Podim, #StartupFair

startupwiseguys.com Spring is here and so is the tech event season! And it’s going to be hot! Startup Wise Guys and girls are hitting the road to step on the stage and meet people. Catch us around the Baltics and beyond...

🚀 Jaanika worked in health and safety field in Estonia for 8 years. During that time she learnt all the struggles and difficulties that companies face while dealing with health and safety questions. But she was convinced that there’s a more efficient way how to do this.

And now a team of two is working on VITS (Virtuaalne töökeskkonnaspetsialist - VITS) - a platform for health and safety specialists to manage health and safety activities effortlessly. The platform shows exactly what needs to be done and how to be compliant with health and safety regulations.

Btw they have launched their product in Estonia and are expanding, starting with Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. So if you are yourself or know any health and safety specialists in any of these countries, don’t hesitate to reach out.

#B2B, #SaaS, #startuplife, #startupstory, #Lithuania, #Batch14, #SWGMafia

[05/06/19]   📢 Latitude59 2019 is approaching, there is still time to get your tickets! Full agenda is available now with 4 stages and 15+ topic tracks spread over 2 intensive days full of everything future!

And remember if you need to recharge during Latitude59 and work, make sure to find the “red corner”, where we will be happy to host you. 😍

Last day to apply for EIT Digital Venture Program❗️

Apply to get access to 6-weeks long pre-acceleration program with Startup Wise Guys and up to 15k € for your startup from EIT Digital!

Apply here: https://www.eitdigital.eu/venture-program

How to hire the first marketer for your team or startup |

📚 While our long term marketing mentor Andrus Purde is sharing his knowledge with our CyberNorth batch, here's quite a list of good tips from him to you on how to hire the right marketing person!

"The aim of hiring is to bring someone aboard who is either smarter about an area than you, or more interested in area than you. As a leader, you have to find the optimal balance between being supportive and helpful, and getting out of the way."

#SWGMafia, #wisewords, #mentor

purde.net April 22, 2019How to hire the first marketer for your team or startup I’ve built 3 marketing teams, hired more than 30 marketers, made a couple of colossal hiring mistakes, been hired as the first marketer in a high-growth startup (Pipedrive), spent 5 years at the marketing team of global tech com...

🚀 Our Batch 14 members Jan and Matouš know each other since childhood and even though they’ve worked on other startups before, this is the first time they’ve put their heads together. As very technical guys they saw a place for improvement and now they are working together on Amio!

They believe that companies can leverage new messengers to provide faster and more accurate reply to customer inquiries. So imagine if you could postpone the package delivery from inside the Facebook Messenger with a click of a button or reschedule your bus ticket within WhatsApp! Amio as an omnichannel messaging API solves exactly this, by allowing companies to reach their customers on any messenger.

Btw, they are looking for junior sales person and an experienced developer. Maybe it's you?

#B2B, #SaaS, #startuplife, #startupstory, #Lithuania, #Batch14, #SWGMafia

📢 Apply for the The Next Web Startup Program with a 20% discount!
Startups can find strategic investors and meet with mentors at TNW Conference on May 9 & 10 in Amsterdam. Send us a DM to get a 20% discount now! https://buff.ly/2U5YyRy

📢 #Fintech, #Blockchain, #Cryptocurrency, #Cybersecurity, #AI, #Analytics, #Regtech, #Insurtech Startups & Scaleups!

Don't miss your chance to show of during London Tech Week!

If you meet these criteria:
📍 recurring revenue in Nordics/Baltics
📍 looking forward to expand outside the Nordics/Baltics
📍 looking for investment/support with market expansion

then follow the link to save your spot and pitch at "The best of Nordic/Baltic (Fin)Tech Summit"!

❗️Application deadline - May 3: https://startupincluder.com/#/company/application/new/16442/b5ldjxyyp7r6mz0fca9ylnn4hfglwg0j

Last week to apply for EIT Digital Venture Program❗️

If you are a team of two with a business idea and are eager to build your MVP, join this program the get a head start!

Benefits from the program:

📍 Financial support of up to € 15,000 from EIT Digital
📍 6 weeks online pre-accelerator mentoring program with Startup Wise Guys
📍 2 cool live events and community of other founders

Application deadline: May 5❗️

Find out more and apply here: https://www.eitdigital.eu/venture-program

#businessidea, #digital, #mvp, #startuplife, #mentoring, #investment

Estonian Cultural Days in New York

This year during the already traditional Estonian Cultural Days in New York a part of it was dedicated to Estonia's new treasures - it's startups and innovation mentality. Our long time mentor and friend James Samuel York was the leading force behind putting together this amazing event!

🎯 More than 40 startup founders, investors and ecosystem movers participated in different panel discussions. #SWGMafia was well represented as Consorto, Zelos Team Management, Wolf3D and VitalFields were participating on the panels along Transferwise, Veriff, SprayPrinter and other leading Estonian startups. Our CEO Cristobal Alonso Wiseguys was there as well taking part in a panel on ecosystem development and moderating the investors panel.

#Estonia, #startuplife, #SWGMafia

Have a look back at this year's opening event of the 2019 Estonian Cultural Days in New York, Innovating Disruption at the 59th Parallel!

With more than 20 Estonian startups and supporting organizations represented, this was the largest Estonian Startup Showcase ever put on in New York City!

And this is just the start, with planning for next year's program already in the works 🇪🇪🦄🇺🇸

See more @ unicornhatchery.org and estonianculture.org/culturaldays

Video Production by Matthias Markus

Jone Vaituleviciute of Startup Wise Guys, Europe's Most Experienced B2B Startup Accelerator: Women In Tech Lithuania | Women in Tech Podcast, hosted by Espree Devora

„We push a lot of mentors towards our startups. But we always say to them that they have to be ready to understand who the mentors is and that they need to be prepared, and don’t expect that mentors will come with big sheets of papers and ready ideas for their businesses.”

🎧 Listen to Jone Vaituleviciute talk about her journey in startup world, Startup Wise Guys spreading to Lithuania and some good tips for startups.

#SWGMafia, #wisegirls, #podcast, #startuplife, #mentors, #womenintech, #wisewords

podcast.womenintechshow.com Today we get to know Jone Vaituleviciute of Startup Wise Guys. Startup Wise Guys is a mentorship-driven accelerator program for early stage B2B SaaS, Fintech, Cybersecurity & Defense AI startups, providing seed capital (€30K), office space and most importantly – world-class mentors. To support t...

🚀 How to go from a farmer to a startup founder? Gather all your knowledge about the grain trading process that you’ve done for seven years while managing a farm and build your own product that can change the culture of grain trading. That’s the story of our Batch 14 startup from Latvia AgroPlatforma. Industry specific knowledge has been reported repeatedly as a big part of the startup success story, so this might be the magic key for these guys.

SIA AgroPlatforma is a direct connection between farmers, grain buyers and stock market. They’ve moved the physical market to digital environment and made the grain deals effective and transparent.

They are expanding in the Baltics so if you know any grain growers in Estonia or Lithuania make sure to introduce them!

#SWGMafia, #B2B, #SaaS, #startuplife, #startupstory, #Lithuania, #Batch14

Online Q&A - Pre-accelerator & EIT Digital Venture Program

🔴 We are live!

Join our online Q&A session to find out about Venture Program that gives:
▶️ 15.000 eur investment in Idea Stage from EIT Digital
▶️ 6 weeks online pre-accelerator mentoring program with Startup Wise Guys
➕ 2 cool live events and community of other founders

This is your chance to get answers to all your questions!

Read more and apply for the program: https://eitdigital.eu/venture-program/

We've seen great teams emerging from hackathons and we are excited that Veezify, the winner of Garage48 Empowering Youth hackathon in Moldova, got a fasttrack to our Online Pre-accelerator program!

We are eager to see how will they move forward after the hackathon. Maybe some wise words from our mentors will give just the right boost. 😏

#hackathon, #startuplife

Time for cake and celebrations! 🍰🥂
The Winners of Garage48 Empowering Youth Chisinau are announced!📣📣📣

Here comes the 🤩crème de la crème🤩 with the most innovative and empowering solutions:
🥇WINNER 🎉🎉🎉 Veezify 🎉🎉🎉 - Unique platform for Moldovan startups. Helping to find team-members for their startups.
2nd place was a tie. Congratulations to:
🥈999+ Browser plugin that filters and organizers products by quality, price, etc
🥈Image Translator - Browser plugin that would translate texts into images
🥉3rd place: Rent IT - Platform that would allow people to rent anything.

The jury also decided to give out a special prize for the biggest effort and to the most dedicated team. Drummm-rolllllll please 🥁🥁🥁
Master Star - 3D aplication where people can build their own garden gazebos.

All the participants, mentors, sponsors, supporters and team - YOU ROCK!🤩

.tax Blockchain Hackathon

40 participants from 11 countries took part in the first Blockchain hackathon for the public sector in Latvia organized by Ministry of Economics in collaboration with State Revenue Service and Startup Wise Guys accelerator. 7 teams were formed on the first day of the event and all of the teams successfully finished the 48 hour hackathon.

Thumbs up to MDS, Paperles, Request, SmartBills, Tax4Crypto, WatchDog and Z Book! 🎉

[04/17/19]   40 participants from 11 countries took part in the first Blockchain hackathon for the public sector in Latvia organized by Ministry of Economics in collaboration with State Revenue Service and Startup Wise Guys accelerator. 7 teams were formed on the first day of the event and all of the teams successfully finished the 48 hour hackathon.

Thumbs up to MDS, Paperles, Request, SmartBills, Tax4Crypto, WatchDog and Z Book! 🎉

We launched the next vertical for Startup Wise Guys accelerator — defense AI and cybersecurity focused program CyberNorth. 8 international teams have been selected to receive investment and take part in a 3 month long acceleration in Tallinn, Estonia. Program is carried out in collaboration with Estonian defense industry.

📸 Rene Lutterus Meedia

Our startups are tough! And it turns out business ideas can grow out of even terrorist fact-checking.

🚀 One of FakesRadar’s co-founders used to be a freelance fact-checker for international media. In 2014 he went for a fact-checking mission to Eastern Ukraine. This part of the story ended with him being held in a concentration camp. When released from it, he decided to retire from intelligence operations on the ground and move online. That’s how FakesRadar was born.

FakesRadar is one of the first CyberNorth Batch teams and they bring independent fact-checking to the browsing experience.

Share the most visible fakes in your industry and FakesRadar will deliver your links to the Facebook and Twitter users exposed to the fakes: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjcjnsdiH-OBakpgcgxnxr1OwvOVHJ8ShNsaRgO2dJHo04kg/viewform

#SWGMafia, #CyberNorth, #startuplife, #startupstory, #facts