WebFest.ME — apply with your startup
WebFest.ME is a startup conference that’s taking place on 20. and 21. September in Budva, Montenegro. Apart from the cool speaker lineup, the winner of the startup challenge will be presenting their company at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY in 2013.
Semaphore — helping Ruby devs make quality apps
Semaphore is a hosted continuous integration sevrice for Ruby apps, a fresh startup hailing from Novi Sad, Serbia. The service will allow it’s users to automate testing with the goal of improving the quality and saving time.
SEE – home to successful startups and great talent
South-East Europe is already home to many successful and promising tech companies such as Farmeron, Nordeus, Manage WP, Vox.io, Celtra, and many, many others. This blog will be covering these statrups and the ones that are sure to follow in the coming years, be sure to stay in the loop.
Manage WP: a master dashboard for WordPress
Manage WP is a Belgrade company whose product allows its users to manage multiple installations of WordPress through one dashboard. This bootstrapped startup already has more than 30.000 users and is profitable since launch. For more info see our coverage plus an interview with the founder.
Farmeron’s $1.4 million seed round
Farmeron, a startup from Croatia that helps farmers from all around the world to track their farms’ performance, has gotten a 1.4 miliona dolara seed investment for business development from Soft Tech VC and New Ventures.
Toshl: partying into 500 Startups
Slovenian Toshl, a mobile app for tracking and managing expenses, recieved a 500 Startups investment last month. See more about the product, about this investment and the plans for the future from the interview with the CEO Matic Bitenc.
Seedcamp firsts: New format, coming to Belgrade and hosted by the Royal Family
BY Alex Čović ON April 8
The first Mini Seedcamp event in Serbia took place last Friday, and it was a collection of firsts for the London accelerator. Their first visit to Belgrade, the premiere of the new format (scroll for our take) and the first time they have been hosted by a Royal Family. Not bad.
The event was attended by 100 entrepreneurs, investors, and other startup people from Serbia, the South-East Europe region and elsewhere from Europe. As far as the Serbian startup community is concerned, it is a shared feeling that this was a pivotal moment, especially in junction with Startup Standup the day after (to be covered separately).
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Techpeaks wants you to spend 6 months in the Alps (and build a startup)
BY Alex Čović ON April 3
A new kind of startup accelerator is launching right around the corner from SEE region – in the Italian Alps. The picturesque city of Trento, Italy will be the home of TechPeaks, the “people accelerator“, which is taking place from late May to November. If you are looking to spend six months in the Alps honing your entrepreneurial skills and building a startup, this might be right up your alley.
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Nine startups to pitch at the first Seedcamp Belgrade
BY Alex Čović ON April 2
In case you’ve missed the news, the inaugural (Mini) Seedcamp Belgrade will take place at a very special venue – the Royal Palace, on April the 5th. The event will coincide with the biggest startup event of the season, the Startup Standup event which takes place day later, on the 6th.
Seedcamp is almost unanimously recognized as the most important seed fund in Europe, and event in Belgrade will be held in the revamped, “Mini Seedcamp” format, in partnership with SEE ICT and Startit.
Belgrade is the first stop in their 2013 European tour, and we are positive that Seedcamp’s visit will have a big impact and help to further ignite the Serbian startup community – which is definitely gathering momentum and picking up pace.
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José Mourinho is the new face of Top Eleven: Two of the best football managers united
BY Alex Čović ON March 21
Top Eleven Football Manager, one of Serbia’s top tech products and a game that’s well on it’s way to 10 million monthly active users has a new face – the legendary José Mourinho, one of the most popular managers in the history of the sport.
The head coach of Real Madrid has signed an exclusive contract with the Belgrade-based company Nordeus, making him the face of their best known game – Top Eleven Football Manager.
Since today’s update, Mourinho’s image will be featured on the cover of the game, on it’s Facebook page, Android and iOS icons, and will be a major part of the visual identity of Top Eleven.
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Eleven, the €12M Bulgarian accelerator, to bring in a cohort of gaming startups in its next batch
BY Vukašin Stojkov ON January 16
Eleven, the €12M accelerator venture fund from Bulgaria, has confirmed that it will be upgrading its third batch of startups this spring by bringing in an additional cohort made up entirely of — gaming startups.
The young accelerator which started up last year with the help of EU funds currently houses its second batch of startups in their coworking space in Sofia.
At “The Roof” they provide them with mentorship and the sort of support customary to startup accelerators in the EU and the US, yet quite unique to the region of South-East Europe.
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