Have an innovative idea and want to turn it into a startup? Doubt if you can? Lack experience, team members, mentors? Join us in the „TechHub“ pre-accelerator Info Day event and find out about the opportunity to turn your idea into a business. The event will take place on April 12 at 4pm on the Zoom platform.
During the event, program manager dr. Gediminas Rumšas will present the benefits of participating in the pre-accelerator, training plan, elaborate on how the selection of startups will be carried out and what awaits at the end of the program. Graduates of the program will answer your questions and share their experiences and success stories in the program. There will be two guests – CEO and Co-Founder of the startup „benme“ Irma Bučinskaitė and CEO and Co-Founder of „Corepetitus“ Tadas Jonaitis.
This will be the sixth cohort of the pre-accelerator - so far, in five cohorts, we have received more than 500 applications, 90 startups have already completed the program, currently, 25 more teams are participating. The pre-accelerator brought together more than 350 innovators, many participants have already received investment from private investors or received financial support from MITA, 15 of them took part in the accelerators abroad.
The program contains a total of twelve training topics. Startups will refine the target customer, perform market and competitor analysis, create market entry strategy, learn about business and product development, positioning, branding, team building, intellectual property, investing. All this – to help startups develop their idea into a minimal viable product.
Successful graduates will have the opportunity to present themselves to the investors at the final “Demo Day” event. In addition, the best performing teams will be awarded valuable prizes - tickets to accelerators abroad and trips to meetings with partners or events in the EU countries.
Startups (small companies with high and innovation-based business development potential, operating for up to 5 years), as well as teams with an innovative idea intending to register a company during the pre-accelerator, can apply for participation. Each applicant team will have to provide information about the startup, team, and service (product). The received applications will be evaluated and the participants will be selected by the project experts.
The registration to the 6th cohort of the pre-accelerator will be available on April 4-17. The pre-accelerator is organized by the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology together with Vilnius university Tech Hub.
Learn more about the event and the program here: TechHub Info Day #6 | Facebook