UT Startup Lab

AccelerateEstonia

You have an idea, strong team and ready to lead high-potential developments? Well, then you're the one we're searching for!

❗️Read about the program from the link below and submit your idea no later than 1️⃣5️⃣.0️⃣1️⃣.2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ at 1️⃣8️⃣.0️⃣0️⃣! #aestonia

Here you go! Full STARTER team preparing for the new awesome season! See you in Tartu, Tallinn, Pärnu and Narva. We had a lot of fun at Vein ja Pintsel

Packing day! 📦
Soon we will be moving to University of Tartu Delta Centre. Can't wait to start working there. 🤩

UT Startup Lab is featured in Lufthansa magazine.😍😍😍

Hard to imagine a better start to the year. Happy and proud to be a part of Tartu startup team where the spirit of innovation starts. Also bringing to its readers the biggest business festival in Baltics – sTARTUp Day 2020, stories with local startups and much more about what the Tartu linn and the sTARTUp Tartu ecosystem has to offer.

sTARTUp Lab manager Maret Ahonen „It is heartwarming that these stories are now read by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.“

While traveling with Lufthansa in January, be sure to take a closer look. ✈

sTARTUp Day

sTARTUp Day 2020 is less than a month away. 🚀
Are you ready for the biggest business festival in the Baltic? ;)

sTARTUp Day 2020 is just around the corner and the mission to get to the entrepreneurship festival has begun! 🚀

The sTARTUp City will lure you with all of it's glory, so make sure to be prepared to join us on January 29-31. Our first try didn't go exactly as planned, but learn from our mistakes and see you at the venue.

Check out our hero's journey 👇🏻

With Verner Läll, Rein Lemberpuu and hilife. 🙌

Happy New Year 2020 to all entrepreneurs and who made 2019 more exciting and are working towards making 2020 the same.🥳🎆

Söödav pakend tõi Eesti idufirmale koha finaalis

Congratulations Decomer Technology on being selected to the Extreme Tech Challenge finals! This is another big step forward.

We are so proud that you participated in our STARTER Advanced programme a couple years ago. It is so great to see that now you are conquering the world. We wish you all the best in the upcoming competition.

bestmarketing.ee Söödava pakkematerjali välja töötanud Decomer Technology pääses ainsa Eesti ettevõttena suure auhinnarahaga konkursi Extreme Tech Challenge finaali.

Overview | Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2020

Hi! 👋

Cisco is looking for students and recent graduates who have a technology with social or environmental benefit to join Global Problem Solver Challenge. Send your application by January 17, 2020.

$350,000 USD in prize money will help accelerate the adoption of breakthrough technology, products, and services that drive economic development and/or solve social or environmental problems.

Read more: https://cisco.innovationchallenge.com/cisco-global-problem-solver-challenge-2020

cisco.innovationchallenge.com Submit your 90-second video to @CiscoCSR about how you’re using technology to benefit people, society, or the planet for a chance to win a share of US$ 350,000! Learn more at cisco.innovationchallenge.com

Happy Holidays from the sTARTUp Lab team 🎁🎄

UT Startup Lab's cover photo

⚡ LAST DAY to get your sTARTUp Day 2020 tickets at an affordable price!

120+ speakers, matchmaking, large demo area, side events and so much more – join us at a celebration of entrepreneurship! General Admission tickets are available until midnight Estonian time (GMT+2).

👉🏻 Get your ticket now: www.startupday.ee/tickets

⚡ LAST DAY to get your sTARTUp Day 2020 tickets at an affordable price!

120+ speakers, matchmaking, large demo area, side events and so much more – join us at a celebration of entrepreneurship! General Admission tickets are available until midnight Estonian time (GMT+2).

👉🏻 Get your ticket now: www.startupday.ee/tickets

sTARTUp Day

Christmas is a time for giving 🖤 Instead of buying your friends, loved ones or colleagues things, we call upon you to gift an experience.

🎄 If you would like to put a sTARTUp Day 2020 ticket under the Christmas tree, do the following:

1. Purchase the ticket
2. Let us know via social media or [email protected]
3. We'll send you a branded ticket via snail mail! 💌

If you're in Tartu, you can also collect it from our office (Raekoja plats 16) during office hours*

👉🏻 Find out more: www.startupday.ee/tickets/gift-tickets

⠀

*startup office hours

Tartu wins second place at best living environment awards

Great news 😊
Tartu has one of the best living environments in the world! 🎉🎉

news.err.ee Tartu was placed second in the category of living environments of cities with 75,000-150,000 residents in the final round of the International Awards for Liveable Communities (LivCom Awards).

PROGRAM — sTARTUp Day 2020

The full program of sTARTUp Day 2020 is now live! 🎉

⚡️Four stages
⚡️tens of side events
⚡️40+ seminars
⚡️120+ world-class speakers

⚡️The ex-Googler Connor Swenson will talk about why you should forget productivity. ⚡️Farid Singh, the Managing Director at CyberNorth, will give you an overview of what the future will bring for cybersecurity. ⚡️Jay Johnson, the CEO of Coeus Creative Group, will give you a guide on how to deal with difficult people. ⚡️Andres Schabelman, the VP of International Expansion at Fiverr, will teach you how to scale companies with heart. And that's far from being all.

👉🏻Go see the full program: http://startupday.ee/program

The General Admission ticket sales is ending on the 20th of December. Make sure you are not missing out:
👉🏻https://www.startupday.ee/tickets

See you in January! ;)

startupday.ee The main program of sTARTUp Day sorted by dates, stages and themes.

On the 12th of December one of the biggest students’ business ideas
competition Kaleidoskoop Pre-selection round took place for the 13th time at the
SPARK HUB. 36 teams pitched their ambitious ideas to the jury who
selected 10 best to go to Kaleidoskoop Finals at business festival sTARTUp Day
on the 30th of January.

Thank you judges: Aivar Pere, Taavi Tamm, Ants-Oskar Mäesalu, Liis Järvamägi, Joosep Sild.

Read about the TOP 10 from here: http://startuplab.ut.ee/news/10-best-teams-to-kaleidoskoop-finals

The event was financed by the European Social Fund and EIT Health.

On the 12th of December one of the biggest students’ business ideas
competition Kaleidoskoop Pre-selection round took place for the 13th time at the
SPARK HUB. 36 teams pitched their ambitious ideas to the jury who
selected 10 best to go to Kaleidoskoop Finals at business festival sTARTUp Day
on the 30th of January.

Thank you judges: Aivar Pere, Taavi Tamm, Ants-Oskar Mäesalu, Liis Järvamägi, Joosep Sild.

Read about the TOP 10 from here: http://startuplab.ut.ee/news/10-best-teams-to-kaleidoskoop-finals

The event was financed by the European Social Fund and EIT Health.

UT sTARTUp Lab | 10 Best Teams to Kaleidoskoop Finals

TOP 10 teams have been announced🤩

We have put together a short article where you can find out more about Kaleidoskoop Pre-selection and 🏆 TOP 10 teams.
Read the article here: http://startuplab.ut.ee/news/10-best-teams-to-kaleidoskoop-finals

startuplab.ut.ee On the 12th of December one of the biggest students’ business ideas competition Kaleidoskoop Pre-selection round took place for the 13th time at the SPARK HUB. 36 teams with pitched their ambitious business ideas to the jury who selected 10 best to go to Kaleidoskoop Finals at business festival sT...

📣TOP 10 teams to Kaleidoskoop Finals have been selected!

Congratulations to:
🏅CommuniCare
🏅DLC
🏅LunchToGo
🏅Münt
🏅RDV
🏅Ropotty
🏅SafeCharge
🏅Spectra&Mass
🏅Vapour Therapy
🏅VOOK

The competition was very tough and the jury discussed long before picking out the TOP 10 teams. Congratulations again to the finalists and we wish you the best of luck! See you at sTARTUp Day ;)

SEB is opening a new Innovation Centre in Tartu University's new Delta Centre. They are now hiring a person to run the show there - build tons connections to add value to businesses and science in Estonia!👇

📢 Särasilmne, aktiivne, ettevõtlik ja avatud 👉 kui tundsid selles lühikirjelduses ära ennast või mõne hea sõbra, siis Tartu Ülikooli uues Delta majas, University of Tartu Delta Centre, avatav SEB Innovatsioonikeskus ootab endale just sellist eestvedajat!

Kandideerida saab kuni 2. jaanuarini:
✔️CV-Onlines http://bit.ly/2PAwuAQ
✔️LinkedInis http://bit.ly/3463fuQ
✔️CV ja motivatsioonikirjaga aadressil [email protected]

⚡sTARTUp Day is the biggest business festival in the Baltics, bringing together over 4000 startup-minded people to celebrate entrepreneurship in the smart city of Tartu.

⚡It’s a three-day festival with a marvelous stage program, effective matchmaking, hands-on seminars, exhibition area full of innovation and vibrant side events.

👉🏻Get your tickets today: www.startupday.ee/tickets

📣 Reminder: General Admission tickets are only available until 20th December – so it's the last chance to get your sTARTUp Day 2020 ticket at an affordable price.

The festival pass includes two full days of stage program, seminars, amazing demo area, organized matchmaking, parties and many more. 🖤

◾ Learn more: www.startupday.ee/tickets

Today is the last chance to register to Kaleidoskoop pre-selection!
Last chance: http://startuplab.ut.ee/calendar/kaleidoskoop-pre-selection-autumn-2019

Take a look what happened at last Kaleidoskoop in spring.👇

Yesterday we had Pitching Training workshop with Gleb Maltsev who is one of the best trainers in Estonia. Participants gladly rehearsed pitching in front of everybody and got important feedback on how to do it in a better way. It was great to see that at the end of the workshop everybody felt that they have improved their pitching skills. It was great preparation for our STARTER programme teams to pitch at our final event Kaleidoskoop.

The event was funded by the European Social Fund and EIT Health

Yesterday we had Pitching Training workshop with Gleb Maltsev who is one of the best trainers in Estonia. Participants gladly rehearsed pitching in front of everybody and got important feedback on how to do it in a better way. It was great to see that at the end of the workshop everybody felt that they have improved their pitching skills. It was great preparation for our STARTER programme teams to pitch at our final event Kaleidoskoop.

The event was funded by the European Social Fund and EIT Health

UT sTARTUp Lab | Take Part in the Youth Business and Project Ideas Competition

Take part in the youth business and project ideas competition!

We are inviting all student teams to participate in the pre-selection round of Kaleidoskoop, the biggest business ideas competition in South Estonia, which is held on 12 December in Spark Hub. Registration is open until midnight on 9 December on the University of Tartu’s Startup Lab webpage.👇

http://startuplab.ut.ee/news/take-part-in-the-youth-business-and-project-ideas-competition

startuplab.ut.ee To be eligible, at least half of the team members must be university students or study at high school. During the pre-selction ten best teams will be selected to the Kaleidoskoop Finals that will take place at the international business festival sTARTUp Day on 29 - 31 January.

UT Startup Lab's cover photo

UT sTARTUp Lab | Calendar | Kaleidoskoop Pre-selection

We have exciting news! 🤩

Registration to biggest business ideas competition in South Estonia is now open!
Go and register your team👇

http://startuplab.ut.ee/calendar/kaleidoskoop-pre-selection-autumn-2019

startuplab.ut.ee

UT Startup Lab's cover photo

In this workshop, participants gained basic knowledge about financial and legal aspects of a startups. Triin Kask From Nevercode shared her experience on how to manage finances from the beginning to the moment when you have contracts with big companies like BMW.
Kristina Viznovitš from Law Firm LMP talked about legal aspects of a startup and gave tips about property rights, ownership, confidentiality agreements and more. We are very grateful to Law Firm LMP for giving all STARTERtartu teams a chance to use 1 hour free legal consultation.
The event was funded by the European Social Fund and EIT health

In this workshop, participants gained basic knowledge about financial and legal aspects of a startups. Triin Kask From Nevercode shared her experience on how to manage finances from the beginning to the moment when you have contracts with big companies like BMW.
Kristina Viznovitš from Law Firm LMP talked about legal aspects of a startup and gave tips about property rights, ownership, confidentiality agreements and more. We are very grateful to Law Firm LMP for giving all STARTERtartu teams a chance to use 1 hour free legal consultation.
The event was funded by the European Social Fund and EIT health

Swedbank Eestis

Time to hunt sTARTUp Day 2020 tickets! 🤩

Swedbank Eestis together with sTARTUp Day has hidden 150 black envelopes with secret codes all over Estonia. The first 30 people to find them win a free ticket!

Hint: Some envelopes might be hidden near to us ;) At Tartu Ülikooli majandusteaduskond

Act now! ⏰🏃‍♀️

Tahaksid olla sTARTUp Day 2020 pileti omanik? 🎉 Sellisel juhul liigu neljapäeval, 28. novembril tähelepanelikult ringi Tallinna, Tartu, Pärnu, Narva, Haapsalu, Viljandi ja Kuressaare üli- ning kutsekoolides. Oleme sinna peitnud 150 Baltikumi suurima ärifestivalil sTARTUp Day loosipiletit! Vaata kindlasti videot, et leida vihjeid ümbrike asukohtade kohta 😉

Esimesed 30, kes neljapäeval salapärase ümbriku leiavad ning seal sees olevate juhiste järgi toimivad, saavad võimaluse minna 29.-31. jaanuaril sTARTUp Day'le tasuta! Kes 30 hulka ei jõua, saab enda valdusesse sooduskoodi, millega lunastada festivali pilet soodsamalt.

University of Tartu Tartu Ülikool TalTech - Tallinn University of Technology Tallinna Tehnikaülikool Tallinna Ülikool Tartu Ülikooli Narva Kolledž Tartu Ülikooli Pärnu kolledž TÜ Viljandi kultuuriakadeemia Kuressaare Ametikool Tartu Ülikooli Raamatukogu TTÜ Mereakadeemia Meremajanduse keskuse grupp TalTech Eesti Mereakadeemia Haapsalu Kutsehariduskeskus Tallinna Ülikooli Haapsalu kolledž

🔹Financial and Legal Aspects of a Startup workshop🔹

If you have seen Chasing Unicorns / Ükssarvik then you know how important the legal side of a business is. ;)

Kristina Viznovitš is jurist at Advokaadibüroo LMP and on a daily bases she deals with different fields of law, mainly IT- law and data protection, business law and Intellectual property law. Kristina has consulted different start-up companies to help them with entering the market and Update their documentation.

Kristina will touch the subject of documentation that every startup should consider having and the subject of defining and protecting your intellectual property.

https://www.facebook.com/events/796492517477803

🔹Tomorrow's Financial and Legal Aspects of a Startup workshop🔹

Nevercode co-founder Triin Kask will share her experience how to manage finances from the beginning to the moment when you have tens of employees, collaboration contracts with Google and Amazon, paying companies like Toyota and BMW and shareholders and investors from different countries on board.

https://www.facebook.com/events/796492517477803

Day 2 in Kyiv - UT sTARTUp Lab is together with partners from Yep at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. It is a privilege to feel the support and contribute to changes in entrepreneurial education and innovation in Ukraine. At the end of the day Lift99 Kyiv Hub provided meeting rooms with heartwarming names :)

Volunteers — sTARTUp Day 2020

sTARTUp Day 2020 is looking for heroes to volunteer at the event in January! 🦸‍♀🦸‍♂

This is the last chance to sign up for the opportunity for a lifetime. Come be a part of the sTARTUp community and meet hundreds of like-minded people who can literally change your life! Tasks range from help with speakers to parties – there’s something for everyone. 🌟

Applications are open until Sunday, 1 December!

More information: www.startupday.ee/about/volunteers

startupday.ee Volunteers are the face of sTARTUp Day. Last year we had about 110 bright-eyed volunteers that made the business festival as amazing as it was and this year we have even bigger and more exciting plans which means we really need your help to pull it all together.