184 Unicorn Battle in Tbilisi, February 25 2020
Startups
TTM-Total Traffic Management
Irnero
Phubber App
Vault Wines
Biliki App
Tripify.co
Tene
Wely LLC
SAKARTVELO DISTRICT
BARBALE
Judges
Irakli Kashibadze
Aieti Kukava
Sandro Kandelaki
Tengiz Tkeshelashvili
George Loladze
Nikoloz Alavidze
George Jakhutashvili
Mikheil Nadareishvili
Nino Zambakhidze
Sergo Nozadze
Vladislav Turiashvili
George Simongulashvili
Aleksandre Kuridze
Speakers
Irakli Kashibadze
Aieti Kukava
Sandro Kandelaki
Agenda
16:30 – 17:00 – Registration (please, bring your ID and a ticket)
17:00 – 17:10 – Organizers presentation
17:10 – 18:00 – Panel discussion with Venture Industry Experts
18:00 – 18:15 – Coffee break
18:15 – 19:30 – Startups presentation
19:30 – 20:00 – Networking: a great opportunity to establish the right and reliable personal contacts
About:
Meet the winner of the 184 Unicorn Battle in Tbilisi that took place on February 25 in an amazing place - The University of Georgia!!!
The first-place winners are:
TTM-Total Traffic Management - Dynamic speed regulation of a car in real-time https://startup.network/startups/409664.html
Irnero - self-cleaning window with integrated ventilation system https://startup.network/projects/409618.html
Congrats to the winners who will join the Unicorn World Cup on the 22nd April 2020, Silicon Valley, California, USA.
We are very pleased that Unicorn Battles are taking place around the world and our global partner ICU Ventures plays a great role in that!
ICU Ventures is a Kyiv-based venture capital fund that invests in technology companies with strong ties to Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Focused on helping ambitious founders build global businesses, ICU Ventures makes late seed and series A investments across the tech spectrum.
ICU Ventures is part of the ICU Group, an independent asset management firm founded in 2006 by senior investment professionals from ING. With significant allocations to venture capital, private equity, alternative energy & distressed debt, ICU is one of the largest and most diversified asset managers in the CEE region.
The second place went to:
Phubber App is a digital marketplace that connects people who want to buy & sell clothes and accessories https://startup.network/startups/409383.html
And the third one got:
Vault Wines - Fight fake products across food and beverage industry https://startup.network/startups/409962.html
Learn more about presented startups at https://battle.startup.network/events/407726/#startups
We greatly appreciate the support of the Venue Partner - The University of Georgia and Co-organizers of the event - UG Startup Factory, Future Laboratory.
Startup.Network is extremely happy that experienced and influenced VCs and Angel Investors, as well as a great number of guests, attended the 184 Unicorn Battle in Tbilisi.
Many thanks to our amazing event host Mariam Avakova.
We thank all the judges for their time and active participation in the evaluation of the projects.
Please stay tuned not to miss the announcement of the next battles!
Partners
Venue
The University of Georgia, IV, 77a Merab Kostava St, Тбилиси, Грузия
Testimonials
I am so happy that I have participated in Dubai Unicorn Battle. Winning the 1st place of this prestigious award is one of many excitements. As an entrepreneur I am actively raising funds and super busy scaling my startup, therefore I was looking for battles with cash prizes! but after I attended the Unicorn Battle, the benefits were more rewarding than immediate cash. All the 18 judges were active investors or consultants who help raising investment, their feedbacks and advices were impressive and helpful to scale to the next level. The organization by Lena and Kateryna was great, the networking and coffee breaks allowed me to make new connections, and we got approached by two interested investors right after the award ceremony.
Will definitely participate again in the future.
Ok, yes I'm excited that we won the Startup Battle this week. But mostly I want to let my other entrepreneur friends out there know that this event is really great. The Judges were all very impressive active investors - and all super engaged with Q&A and feedback - the programming beforehand was excellent, and all the companies that pitched were outstanding. If you have an opportunity to participate in one of these events, do it!
The main thing I would like to share is the event went beyond our expectations.
The venue was really full of interested people and even overcrowded, and that created the right emotional state for the pitching startups and for the audience. We met a few potential investors and made very valuable connections during networking.
After 1 month we are still in connection with the attendees of that Startup Battle. We are working on the Third Opinion Care development together.
We will definitely consider participating in the next events organized by the same team.
Thank you Startup Network for giving Fanalyze the opportunity to pitch at your event! I met some awesome founders and was able to network with several investors. I enjoyed pitching and learning about the other startups in different industries.
After participating in the Startup Battle, which was held by Startup.Network in the Silicon Valley, we gained tremendous amount of experience on how to build the startup and attract investments. Especially it was very cool to talk with MS. He gave us a lot of advice. If it were no it for this event, we would not be able to get such advice. Then we actively worked on searching for investors which we did. We began due diligence but we realised that we did not want to take any investments on the early stage. Again, useful advice from Mike Sandler, his criticism to be precise, helped us to find the way. At this point, we have several investors from among the surgeons, but for now, we are managing on our own.
Now we have an MVP that is not just a set of tools but a surgical robot. The manufacturing of the primary product is taking place in Taiwan. At this point, it is on the stage of being certified.
If somebody asks me whether I need any investments in the early stages, I will say no. It is significantly more important to develop the right network and to get proper advice.
Everything that happened is the credit to Startup.Network!
I want to thank Statup.Network for precious experience and help we've got during startup battles in USA and Berlin.
Mentors your team chooses for jury on battles are always very professional and ready to help.
We got valuable feedback and a good quantity of insights.
Raccoon.World team continues communication and builds relationships with several investors we met on the battles.
Hello!
We took part in several Startup Battles, organised by Startup.Network, in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Minsk, Almaty, Kharkov and attended Startup Battle in San Francisco.
I believe that it helped us to be selected from more than 1000 competitors for acceleration program in the Netherlands, where we were the only startup from Eastern Europe.
Attending the Startup Battles is very beneficial for expending networking and gaining useful feedback. In particular, the feedback, what we got on Startup Battle, from the investor form the Silicon Valley helped us to find new and more perspective niche and make the pivot. We would be glad to collaborate with the Startup.Network team again.
We took part in two Startup.Network events: Startup Battle in Moscow and Startup BAttle in Silicon Valley.
We won the 1st place in Moscow and got a lot of attention from the media and investors. After that event, we received lots of useful pieces of advice and attended meetings with investors.
And we won the 3d place in Silicon Valley, and right after the pitch Marvin Liao
(Partner 500 Startups) offered us to join 500 Startups accelerator. Being acquainted with Marwin helped us one more time in Moscow in some time.
We would be glad to pitch at Startup Battles again!
Thank you.