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    5 Accelerators.
    €5m in funding.
    Global Scale.




  • About

    CEED Tech is a consortium of five startup accelerators building and scaling global companies from Central and Eastern Europe. Since 2011, we have launched 111 technology companies from around the world, and helped them raise over €11M in seed and venture capital.

     

    With our network of over 450 mentors, we guide and connect ambitious entrepreneurs building businesses in data, cloud services, analytics, transactional technologies, fintech, e-commerce, B2B technologies, IoT, location-based services, and security software.

     

    Our passion is to help young companies build viable products, launch them quickly and successfully raise capital.

     

    Our five 3-6 months acceleration programs are based in vibrant technology hubs:

    • Startup Wise Guys (Estonia)
    • Open Coffee Club (Lithuania)
    • The Spot (Slovakia)
    • Startup Yard (Czech Republic)
    • Digital Factory (Hungary)

     

    Each team accepted to the accelerator will receive initial seed financing in the form of a grant in total of up to €30,000. In addition, the most promising companies with the highest potential business ideas, will receive follow-up funding of €30,000 - 250,000 after the programme. See more details about our offers here.

     

    CEED Tech is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013).

     

    All investments made are co-financed by private angels and venture investors with proven track records of cooperation with our accelerators.The private investment will be made in return for 5% to 15% of equity stake in the startup.

     

    All of our accelerators are backed by private investors and the European Commission, which enables us to offer unique access to financing, mentorship and FIWARE technologies.

     

     

    Key Dates:

    Mid-August, 2015 - Applications Open

    November 11, 2015 - Applications Closed
    January 2016 - Programs Begin


  • Accelerators

    Startup Wise Guys BusinessTech

    Focus: B2B, SaaS, Cloud, Payments, Fintech, CyberSecurity, Data
    Tallinn, Estonia

    Startup Wise Guys BusinessTech is the leading B2B, SaaS accelerator in Europe. We connect innovative and ambitious startups from around the world to experts from Europe and US.

     

    We offer a 3+1 month, mentor-driven startup program that utilizes corporate partnerships for successful pilot programs, while emphasizing sales and product development. An extra month focuses on going to market and fundraising. Our key specialties are embedded in a B2B sales driven curriculum, reflecting the expertise of the Estonian business landscape.

     

    2015 Cohort - 9 Startups from 7 countries.

    Digital Factory

    Focus: SaaS, Smart data tools, Digital marketing tools, Marketplaces, Cross-border ecommerce
    Budapest, Hungary
    The objective of our incubation program is for you to arrive at product / market fit: the state of grace where your product pretty much sells itself. Our biggest value added is the intensive mentoring to get you there. You can also work 3-12 months out of our offices in Budapest to speed up learning and product cycles. There are services available to help you validate demand and build product. Finally, you must get out to the market as quickly as possible and we will help you with market and investor access to do that.
     
    2015 Cohort

    Startup Yard

    Focus: Data, Analytics, Mobile, IoT
    Prague, Czech Republic
    StartupYard is a seed accelerator for technology startups. Its goal is to help companies to build a viable product, launch fast and prepare to attract funding. Since 2011 StartupYard has accelerated 29 companies, of which 19 are still active, 9 have raised angel capital, and 4 were acquired. StartupYard is a member of Global Accelerator Network and is based in Prague, Czech Republic.
     
    2015 Cohort

    Open Coffee Club

    Focus: Wide Scope
    Vilnius, Lithuania
    OCC Vilnius is an entrepreneurs-enabling organization with broad national and foreign partnerships and multifold activities. OCC Vilnius has assisted hundreds of startups so far, driving them towards raising capital, gathering team, winning of international competitions, and to various other goals.
     
    2015 Cohort

    The Spot

    Focus: Security, Fintech, Gaming, SaaS
    Bratislava, Slovakia
    The Spot Booster is hands on accelerator programme, where the teams work for 4 months under everyday guidance of skilled entrepreneurs-in-residence along the external domain expert mentors. The goal of the programme is to maximise startup's value by gradually developing entrepreneurs’ skills and finding the elusive product-market fit. By the end of the acceleration phase, startups will be at the stage to pitch to VCs.
     
    2015 Cohort

  • Offer

    BUSINESS ACCELERATION
     
    If you are an ambitious and amazing team with a world-beating idea, apply for full business acceleration at one of the CEED Tech accelerators.
     
    Discover more about our business acceleration programs here.
     
     
    FIWARE
     

    Startups interested in only testing and developing their applications using FIWARE technologies can apply for an equity-free FIWARE grant.


    Check our FIWARE grant offer here.

     
     
    For more information, read the full open call text.

  • Technology

    FIWARE

    Open APIs for Open Minds
    CEED Tech provides you first-hand access to FIWARE technologies – open, public and innovative APIs, which allow you to build completely new applications or improve your current business. FIWARE APIs cover the fields of Big Data, Media, Context Management , Cloud Hosting, IoT, Security and many others. Find out more at fiware.org.
     
    The FI-WARE Catalogue is the central repository for implementations of Generic Enablers (GE) that are part of the FI-WARE platform. Apart from the Generic Enablers, you will also find tools and best practices which will help you develop the applications of the Future Internet.

    Federico Travella

    Founder & CEO NoviCap
    "FIWARE lowers the barriers to entry for entrepreneurs who can take advantage of the availability of open data and FIWARE technology to efficiently create innovative products"

    Herty Tammo

    Co-founder of Startup Wise Guys
    "I am very pleased that we will be able to provide more support, both financing and services, to our startups in cooperation with the European Commission“
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    EVENTS

    Meet CEED Tech

    WhenWhatWherePartner
    7-Aug Garage48 Hackathon Prep Tallinn, Estonia Startup Wise Guys
    13-Aug Idea Garage Tallinn, Estonia Startup Wise Guys
    14-Aug ELTE Innolabs presentation Budapest, Hungary Digital Factory
    15-Aug Techminsk Minsk, Belarus Startup Wise Guys
    18-Aug Customer Discovery Live - US Study tour Budapest, Hungary Digital Factory
    19-Aug Hungarian American Medical Conference Lake Balaton, Hungary Digital Factory
    20-Aug Creative Cluj Cluj, Romania Digital Factory
    25-Aug ODF Vilnius Vilnius, Lithuania OCC
    27-Aug Idea Garage Tallinn, Estonia Startup Wise Guys
    28-Aug Hackathon Tallinn, Estonia Startup Wise Guys
    28-Aug Startup Bus Tallinn, Riga, Warsaw Startup Wise Guys
    29-Aug Meet SY Krakow, Poland Startup Yard
    1-Sep Meet SY Prague, Czech Republic Startup Yard
    1-Sep Meet SY Warsaw, Poland Startup Yard
    2-Sep Pirate Summit Cologne, Germany Startup Wise Guys
    7-Sep DLD Tel Aviv, Israel Digital Factory
    11-Sep Garage48 e-Residency Vormsi, Estonia Startup Wise Guys
    14-Sep Fintech Week London London, UK The Spot
    15-Sep Meet SY Budapest, Hungary Startup Yard
    17-Sep Meet SY Pristina, Kosovo Startup Yard
    19-Sep Black Sea IT Odessa, Ukraine Startup Wise Guys, OCC
    19-Sep Meet OCC London, UK OCC
    19-Sep Web Expo Prague, Czech Republic Startup Yard, The Spot
    20-Sep Garage48 TiP Tallinn, Estonia Startup Wise Guys
    21-Sep Venture Days Prague, Czech Republic Startup Yard, Digital Factory, Startup Wise Guys
    22-Sep Meet SY Sofia, Bulgaria Startup Yard
    22-Sep NextBank Europe Barcelona, Spain The Spot
    23-Sep JIC Expert Day Brno, Czech Republic Startup Yard
    24-Sep CEED_Booster_info day Bratislava, Slovakia The Spot
    24-Sep Meet SY Bucharest, Romania Startup Yard
    25-Sep #OCCVilnius Vilnius, Lithuania OCC
    25-Sep Fintech Forum London London, UK The Spot
    28-Sep Meet theSpot roadshow Bratislava, Trnava, Zilina Kosice The Spot
    29-Sep Internet Hungary Siofok, Hungary Digital Factory
    1-Oct Open Coffee @ Garage48 Tallinn, Estonia Startup Wise Guys
    3-Oct Startup Istanbul Istanbul, Turkey Startup Wise Guys
    7-Oct Ladies Pitch Night Paris, France Startup Wise Guys
    8-Oct Investor Day CEE 2015 Kiev, Ukraine The Spot
    9-Oct Hactivity Conference Budapest, Hungary Digital Factory
    12-Oct ITU World Telecom Budapest, Hungary Digital Factory
    14-Oct Failing Forward Brussels, Belgium Startup Wise Guys
    15-Oct Szek.org Conference Budapest, Hungary Digital Factory
    15-Oct Konzultacni den Inovajet Prague, Czech Republic Startup Yard
    20-Oct Academy Kurt Budaors, Hungary Digital Factory
    21-Oct Webrazzi Summit 21-23 Oct Istanbul Turkey The Spot
    22-Oct Huge Thing Poznań, Poland Startup Wise Guys
    27-Oct Traction Camp Odessa, Ukraine Startup Wise Guys
    27-Oct Fundraising Webinar online Startup Yard
    30-Oct #OCCVilnius Vilnius, Lithuania OCC
    Oct Balkan RoadShow Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Romania Digital Factory
    Oct Digital Factory Open Day Budapest, Hungary Digital Factory
    Oct Meet OCC Riga, Latvia OCC
    Oct Meet OCC Vilnius, Lithuania OCC
    Oct Meet OCC Warsaw, Poland OCC
    Oct Meet OCC Vilnius, Lithuania OCC
    Oct University RoadShow (Uni of Szeged) Szeged, Hungary Digital Factory
    3-5 Nov WebSummit Dublin, Ireland Digital Factory, Startup Yard
    11-13 Nov Slush Helsinki, Finland Startup Yard, Startup Wise Guys
    17-19 Nov EBAN Winter University Copenhagen, Denmark Startup Yard
    26-27 Nov How To Web Bucharest, Romania Startup Yard
    27-Nov #OCCVilnius Vilnius, Lithuania OCC
    18-Dec #OCCVilnius Vilnius, Lithuania OCC
    06-April Demo Day Prague, Czech Republic Startup Yard
    14-April Demo Day Tallinn, Estonia Startup Wise Guys
    19-April Demo Day Budapest, Hungary Digital Factory
    Late April Demo Day Vilnius, Lithuania OCC


  • News

    Updates from the CEED Tech partners

     
    Fortnightly summary. The first two weeks at an accelerator.
    February 27
     
    CEED Tech opens 2nd cohort
    February 1
     
    Kick-off. What do the first weeks look like?
    January 26
     
    CEED Tech programs summary
    January 10
     
    FIWARE so far
    January 10
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  • Management

    Civitta

    Consulting
    Tallinn, Estonia
    CEED Tech consortium is managed by Civitta. Civitta is the leading independent management consultancy in the Baltics with proven track record in startup support and innovation management. Find out more at www.civitta.com.

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