Romanian Startups: Tigers of Europe – documentary and panel

The Romanian and CEE startup ecosystem evolved in the last 20 years. During How to Web, Start-up.ro will present a glimpse into the “Romanian Startups: Tigers of Europe” feature documentary where they will tell its story.

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Fireside: Building the next generation of European breakouts

Atomico is a leading European venture firm, with investments like Aiven, Graphcore, MessageBird, Pipedrive – and recently Digitail and Dexory both built by Romanian founders. Atomico has been an active catalyst of the European tech ecosystem and authors the State of European Tech report annually. In this talk, Irina will discuss her perspective on European… Read more »

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Spotlight Awards

Awarding the record investment prize for the winner of the Spotlight competition.

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Spotlight Finals

Welcome to the leading startup competition in Eastern Europe! Spotlight fuels early-stage tech startups with unique opportunities for matchmaking, collaborating and scaling. Join us for the Spotlight finals – where the best startups pitch and answer the questions of the jury.

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Panel: What makes the best founding teams deliver

Apart from articulating a big vision, most successful startups are relentless execution machines. In this panel, we explore what are the ingredients of the best founding team that help them build amazing products, and have an amazing trajectory.

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Fireside: What should you know about startups when you are acquiring one?

Romanian-born cybersecurity giant Bitdefender has been, in the last years, highly active in acquiring both cybersecurity companies (ex. Horangi) and distributors. In this candid conversation, we discuss with two of the company leaders about how acquisitions happen, and what other plans the company has in this space.

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Panel: What matters when building B2B startups

B2B startups have their own universe – from the fly/mice/rabbit/deer/elephant denomination to the specific metrics you need to track in order to deeply understand your product. In this panel, joined by experienced B2B investors, we discuss what are the elements that help B2B startups stay on the right track from the early days.

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Panel: Building deeptech products and startups from Eastern Europe

Breakthrough technologies aim to solve really meaningful problems, but don’t always turn into useful products. How should founders with a deep technological background build succesful products, and from where can they get the support they need?

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