The EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator is the only EU accelerator programme focused on climate impact by cleantech commercialisation – now coming to more countries across Europe. The EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (EIT RIS) is EIT Climate-KIC’s outreach programme to increase the innovation capacity of European regions that don’t yet benefit directly from the EIT and its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). The programme connects EIT Climate-KIC with selected partnerships from business, higher education and research, as well as regional policy-makers, public entities and other stakeholders to ..read more

Lithuanian startup Tipi, launched in January 2017, raised its second round of capital and is on a mission to make organizing and sharing team knowledge easier.  Local VCs “Open Circle Capital” and “Startup Highway”, a Silicon Valley-based VC “Sway Ventures”, and a group of experienced private investors from Europe, Singapore, and USA invested a total of 350,000€ into the rapidly growing knowledge organizing and sharing tool. The money will be used to further develop the Tipi platform and to accelerate its expansion into the international markets. “The Tipi team is very strong, they have alread ..read more

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JANUARY 18, 2018 RAIMONDS KULBERGS CEO OF FUNDERFUL The trend is clear – alumni participation in charitable giving is on the decline. It’s not like the universities have trouble reaching them. Universities have been quick to adopt new channels – such as email and social media – when they came along. Nowadays, the problem is getting the alumni to respond. Only 1 in 4 alumni read emails from universities, but more importantly – and only 2.76% end up responding. The result? This among other factors has contributed to a continuous decline in alumni participation – the percentage of alumni t ..read more

Pioneering real estate tech startup PlaceILive.com has re-branded, unveiling a new name and logo to showcase its development of innovative technology for the real estate industry. Now named Hyperb, the company has also launched a new website, www.hyperb.io, that highlights its extensive software development capabilities and real estate domain expertise. The company’s revolutionary open-data platforms—PlaceILive.com and Match.PlaceILive.com—have gained considerable media attention for their valuable insights into neighbourhoods in New York, Chicago, London and other cities. Praise from the New ..read more

San Francisco, 8 February, 2017. Funderful, alumni fundraising software for universities, is excited to announce it will be a part of the 500 Startups batch 20 in San Francisco, California. Including 500 Startups investment of 150,000 USD Funderful has already attracted 360,000 EUR investment from Imprimatur, StartupHighway and angel investors. Funderful is a fundraising software that helps universities increase alumni engagement and donations up to three times. Funderful clients span across 8 countries worldwide, among them Oxford colleges, Cambridge colleges, London Business School, America ..read more

This week, on 6th of December, Lithuania’s startup support platform Startup Lithuania together with partners announced “Let’s put Lithuania on the global startup map” week. According to organisers, the initiative will help to build a broader and up-to-date Lithuania’s startup database. During the announced period, representatives of national startups were invited to check if the company is registered on the current startup list. In case the startup is not on the list, the owners of new technology companies can sign up by completing a short form and let the whole startup community know about t ..read more

Funderful, the web-based alumni fundraising management platform developed in Latvia, successfully raised €150,000 from Lithuania’s StartupHighway, the leading investor in this round of funding, and two angel investors. According to the founder of Funderful Raimonds Kulbergs, the funds will help to accelerate the pace of product development and help establish a foothold in the US market. R. Kulbergs started the company in 2014 to provide universities and colleges with a software solution to manage alumni fundraising. Funderful is already successfully used by Oxford, Cambridge university colleg ..read more

Last week StartupHighway business acceleration fund successfully completed this year investment round. The investment agreements have been signed with two Lithuanian startups – BeScouted and InPeak. The StartupHighway investment portfolio manager Martynas Matekonis says, that the astonishing number of applications for the investment has been received this year. It is a good sign, according to M. Matekonis. „ The startup ecosystem is growing. Ideas presented are more specified, entrepreneurs are coming with larger store of knowledge and experience. Precisely due to these reasons it’s much easie ..read more