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Seedcamp invests smart capital into pre-seed and seed stage startups. In 2014, they announced a €20million Seed fund, which enables investments up to €200,000 into rounds between €300,000 and €2M. As of September 2015, Seedcamp has a portfolio of 192 companies and is backed by over 30 institutional Venture Capital firms and angel investors. Participating VCs and advisors in Seedcamp's launch included Index Ventures, Atomico Investments, Atlas Venture, Balderton Capital, TAG, Forsyth Group and Brown Rudnick. The fund focuses on providing investment for startups looking to scale globally, rather than focusing on the initial hurdle of getting up-and-running.
Startup Poland is a grassroots organization created by Polish startup founders with the goal to help build better conditions for Polish startups by influencing policy-makers, educators, academics and media. Warsaw is one of the largest startup hubs in the CEE region. This was why Google launched their third European Campus in Warsaw, following Madrid and previously London in 2012. Poland has a few startup centres apart from its capital city, including Cracow, Poznan and Gdansk. Startup Poland hopes to highlight all those cities. The purpose of the Foundation Startup Poland is to create better conditions for the development of start-ups in Poland with local or international founders.

betahaus | Berlin
Berlin is one of the best cities for startup founders in Europe, and at the same time cheaper than many of its European counterparts. According to the statistics a new start-up is founded every 20 minutes in Berlin and the industry is set to produce 100,000 new jobs by 2020.
If you need a space to work and spend nice time, you can find betahaus|Berlin in Kreuzberg - the fav place of creative minds in the city! Feel free to use the wifi, work, and meet people. Last November, officially was launched the betahaus|Academy: speciality courses in the fields of business & marketing, web & design, and crafts & DIY. If you’re “too cool cool for school”, join it! Everyone says, Sofia is the little sister of Berlin. The wall is down and Berlin meets Sofia at WEBIT.FEST'16...
Techhub is the global community for tech entrepreneurs. They work with over 600 companies around the world to help them scale.
TechHub members can work, meet, collaborate, learn and have fun at any of our locations under our global membership. Its network enables members to work smarter, develop faster and increase their chances of startup success. It has programmes and spaces in London, Madrid, Warsaw, Riga, Bucharest, Bangalore and Swansea where we help startups go global.
Reaktor is a place for Warsaw-based startups and freelancer to work, collaborate and network. The Polish market of 40 million residents seems big enough to scale a business even if you’re not looking to expand outside of the country. However, the situation get a different picture and the globally oriented business rise up in Warsaw, elevating the city up as one of the European startup-friendly capitals.
Reaktor was created in 2011 by a number of local startup founders in cool old-fashioned house to be the place where people and ideas collide and where disruption is born. Overnight, the house became an epicenter of the Warsaw startup community.
Startup Hub Poland is a non-profit foundation, which aims to facilitate technological development in the CEE region and increase its global presence as a place where disruptive technologies appear. Their financing arm, StartVenture@Poland is a seed fund for technological projects at the early stages of development, which invests up to €50.000 in one round. The fund operates in strategic partnership with Giza Polish Ventures – a Polish-Israeli venture capital fund and supported by the National Centre for Research and Development of Poland (NCBR). Visa and legislation support is available for founders outside the European zone.
The verticals of investment include Biotechnology in agriculture, Food processing, Innovative food distribution channel, Using information technologies to support the management of animal farms and plant nurseries, Automatics and robotics in agriculture, Biotechnology and Medical Devices New Materials and Nanotechnology, Big data , Artificial intelligence, natural language processing, algorithms, Knowledge management, Internet of Things, Mobile technologies in industrial applications, Corporate mobility.
WEBIT.FESTIVAL 2016 welcomes founder & CEO of Startup Hub Poland, Maciej Sadowski. Join his Investor Talk (webit.bg)

Starters Hub Istanbul is a unique platform based in Istanbul serving EMENA and CIS regions, providing startups with extensive know-how and network, multi-stage funding, hands-on mentorship and an inspiring workplace. The hub is the regional arm of Startupbootcamp’s accelerating program with no geographical or vertical limitations.
For 3 months, 10 selected startups are being provided with funding and incubation space along with intense mentoring. At the end of the program, the founders join Demo Day to pitch their product.




Mojo Capital manages the European Digital Opportunities Fund that integrates investments in European Venture Capital funds, secondaries, co-investments and direct investments in startups focused on digital opportunities.

Starburst Accelerator provides seed funding from the top business angels and venture capital firms dedicated to Aerospace, Defense and Security as well as access to the largest aerospace group stakeholders to get your first 1M$ contract. The accelerator program offers startups an opportunity to showcase their business to leading corporations in the aerospace, aviation and defense industries. American sponsors for the Starburst USA program so far include: Boeing, Panasonic Avionics, Millennium Space Systems, Raytheon and Booz Allen.
The program provides also access to office space located in the center of Paris and Los Angeles.
You can meet Starburst’s founder Francois Chopard at WEBIT.FESTIVAL’16.

Intel Capital is a division of Intel Corporation, set up to manage Corporate venture capital, global investment, mergers and acquisitions. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of hardware, software, and services companies targeting computing and smart devices, cloud, datacenter, security, the Internet of Things, wearable and robotic technologies and semiconductor manufacturing.
Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested nearly US$11.6 billion in over 1,400 companies in 57 countries. The VC fund has 26 offices around the world. Countries include Belgium, Brazil, China, India,Germany, Ireland, Japan, Israel, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, USA.
Marcin Hejka is a vice president at Intel Capital and managing director for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for leading Intel Capital's investment activity in the region, which also encompasses Russia.
You are welcome to meet him at WEBIT.FEST 2016, during the Investors Talks (webit.bg).








Don’t take too much advice, risk & enjoy the entrepreneurship: 12...
- “A ‘startup’ is a company that is confused about – 1. What its product is. 2. Who its customers are. 3. How to make money.” – Dave McClure, 500Startups co-founder
- “What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.” – Dave Thomas, Founder, Wendy’s
- “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO
- “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” -Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder
- “If you’re going to put your product in beta – put your business model in beta with it.” – Joe Kraus, Google Ventures partner
- “You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.” – Russell Simmons, Def Jam founder
- “There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.” -Phil Libin, Evernote CEO
- “Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.” – Ben Silbermann, Pinterest founder
- “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder
- “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” -Rob Kalin, Etsy founder
- “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” -Ray Kroc, McDonald’s founder
- “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” -Seth Godin, Squidoo founder, author and blogger
Accelerators Alley at CEEDS’15
“It’s always great coming to events like this and seeing the diversity of startups from around the world. You learn about the local problems they are trying to solve and challenges that they have”, said Rahul Sood, Microsoft Ventures regarding the Accelerators Alley at Webit Global Congress 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey.CEEDS’15 by Webit will have its Accelerators Alley as well. There you will be able to present your own startup and receive feedback from all the attendees. If you are not going to present any idea, this is completely fine because you will see many new ideas and maybe receive inspiration for the next time.
“I don’t believe that the only good technology comes from the Silicon Valley or some of the other places but good technology and good people come from everywhere. So this is a very good mix, so we can get and understand and talk about what’s going on and where the innovations are coming from and what are people working on, so it’s been fantastic to have that diversity at the event,” said Jonathan Wisler, SoftLayer, again at Global Webit Congress 2014.CEEDS’15 by Webit will meet entrepreneurs with investors from the whole CEE region. If you have a promising idea with a passionate team behind it, at CEEDS’15 you can meet your business angel who will invest in it. Take advantage of the tickets with early bird prices of 100 EUR now and prepare yourself for launching your idea in the best way possible. It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience!