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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