Seedstars World [SSW] is hosting the annual Seedstars CEE Summit in Kyiv for the second time. This year’s edition is organized in partnership with Luminate, from December 12th to 14th. If you are enthusiastic about technology and entrepreneurship, you are welcome to buy your ticket at the event’s website.
The Seedstars CEE Summit will kick-off with the Seedstars Growth Bootcamp, where the finalist startups from across the region will receive a mix of theoretical and practical content, with input provided by the Seedstars investment team on growth models and acquisition channels. There will also be an Investor Forum, aimed at bringing the top-tier investors from CEE & Central Asia together to discuss the investment climate in the region and at providing potential investment opportunities during one-on-one meetings with entrepreneurs.
Community builders will have a place of their own this year: at the Game Changers Forum, they will address the main development issues for startup ecosystems based on their real life experiences. Finally, the Civic Tech Workshop is designed to address up to three burning issues in that specific field, in a think tank interactive format. The Summit’s climax will be the Conference on the 14th of December, featuring the startup pitches and keynotes with top-notch entrepreneurs. Amongst the prominent names already confirmed to participate are Runno Allikivi, Head of Scandinavia at Funderbeam, Jeffrey Donenfeld, Investment Manager at Boomtown Accelerators, Eveline Buchatskiy, Managing Partner at One Way Ventures, Till Ohrmann, Co-Founder & CEO at Pirate Summit and Christoph Sollich, aka. The Pitch Doctor.
“In 2017, we managed to bring together more than 450 attendees, between entrepreneurs, corporates, investors, mentors, government authorities and startup enthusiasts. We organized around 350 meetings between startups, investors and mentors and we felt overwhelmed by the positive feedback we had from all participants. This year we aim to grow and offer a unique disruptive hands-on experience to over 500 attendees!”, says Agahuseyn Ahmadov, Regional Manager for CEE & Central Asia at Seedstars.
For this edition, organizers are looking into going deeper on the role of civic tech role in the region’s ecosystems, the importance of investing in products and solutions that enhance citizen communication and promote public decision, and the impact it can have in terms of improving the government’s activities and efficiency.
“We are excited to support Seedstars competitions back to Central and Eastern Europe. As an impact investor, we recognize that the quality of local teams, product and technology are more than competitive on the global market. What could make the teams stronger is the improvements on soft skills and business presentation, and so the system of local to regional competitions encourage the entrepreneurs to advance in such skills. The regional summit in Kyiv in December 2018 that would bring together so many impactful teams across 10 countries of the region will provide them the opportunity to learn further, to network and to experience real time investor negotiations”, explains Olena Boytsun, Investment Director for CEE Region at Luminate.
The event is also supported by our venue partners – Unit City & Chasopys, and Seedstars local ambassador team Radar Tech.
