We’ve been flirting with expanding to more Western territories for a while now and Italy was one of the countries that caught our attention already last year. 2020 and pandemic hasn’t stopped us from our plans of going South, but…
The last 8 weeks have been a huge shift, shift in the way we live, eat, drink, and work. More importantly, one of the basic human urges to learn has been completely changed. Isolation and quarantine have re-ignited the primal…
We have fully kicked off our brand new Impact aka Hack the Crisis online pre-accelerator with 28 teams working on various solutions to tackle immediate and longterm Corona crisis challenges, as well as additional teams working in the impact direction….
Second year in a row EIT Digital and Startup Wise Guys are running a Venture Program, where non incorporated idea stage startups can compete for up to 25K eur financial support per startup, along with 8 weeks online pre-accelerator program….
Not much of an intro is needed, The World is different today. You might have thought that fundraising is something easily approachable, and now there are many open questions – to fundraise or not to fundraise, what to do with…
Hack the Crisis has sparked mentoring enthusiasm in hundreds if not thousands of people. It was magical to see people from private and public sectors, as well as doctors, social workers, politicians, hackers joining hands at hackathons to help teams…
More than 53 online Hack the Crisis hackathons have taken place around the World since the first one in Estonia on March 13-15. Inspired by the global #hackthecrisis movement, we have launched an online pre-accelerator to help teams coming from…
For VC backed tech companies, a good board can make a huge difference, especially when it comes to dealing with crisis. Among many other factors such as management capabilities, financial health, operational efficiency, companies with better boards and board meeting…
Just a week after the lockdown of all 3 Baltic countries due to Coronavirus threats, this region took its tech-savviness to new heights, launching a positive snow-ball effect all over Europe and beyond running Online Hackathons to tackle COVID-19 crisis…
It’s that time of the year, when we, Startup Wise Guys, together with our long term partners EIT Digital publish probably the most comprehensive overview of Baltic Startup Scene. While there is plenty of research per country, we feel that…