Startup Wise Guys

February 16 marks the official birthday of Startup Wise Guys. 9 years ago, on (probably a cold) February day one of Europe’s oldest and currently one of the largest European startup accelerators was born in Estonia — a country known for Skype success and tech-savviness. The accelerator was one of…

Meet the 12 startups that have been selected for the Wise Guys Fintech 4 acceleration program run in partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) through its TaiwanBusiness — EBRD Technical Cooperation Fund. The program will be led from Vilnius, Lithuania with online and on-site modules, and…

hey folks, I’m so excited to announce that we applied to one of the largest early-stage investors, Startup Wise Guys, online pre-accelerator program. And today is the first day of the six weeks run 🥳🥳 Almost one year ago, we had an idea to build a product that fosters data-driven…

For the seventh year in a row, Startup Lithuania is organizing an international startup conference in Vilnius. This year Qpick had the pleasure of being selected among the top 10 startups in the race with 44 innovative companies that entered the shortest circle! The competition was quite strong, given…

Startup Wise Guys, an accelerator operating throughout the Baltics and a catalyst for much of the CEE tech ecosystem’s growth and development in recent years, will team up with Google Developers Launchpad to support the growing Baltic startup industry. The “Startup Wise Guys Powered by Google Developers Launchpad” initiative will…

Sales week is one of the toughest for our accelerator teams, as they work up to 4 days non stop with our sales coach Mario Krivokapic. One of the stereotypes Mario crashes early on is the concept of sales people just being charismatic story-tellers. At least in B2B sales, he…

Having trained as an actress, our long term pitch coach Ginny Radmall uses techniques from screen and stage to help founders learn the art of ‘storifying’ their pitch. She has worked with companies like Microsoft, Google, Techstars and Startupbootcamp being part of Amplify team. We caught her for “5 wise…

Johan Lorenzen: second wave of Fintech startups We are launching a video series “5 wise minutes” to talk with some of the top experts in our network about trends and advice for early stage startups. In our first episode we caught Johan Lorenzen during his visit to Startup Wise Guys…

Usually startup accelerators raise their capital from business angels or venture funds, which then sit on their investments for years, waiting for an exit. Estonian accelerator Startup Wise Guys took a different approach with it latest batch — raising around 350,000 euros on Funderbeam crowdfunding platform, which enables investors to…