2:50 pm - 3:00 pm: Registration.
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm: Introduction by Organizers.
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm: Jury introduction.
During this section, Jury will have 1 minute each to introduce themselves.
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm: Startups Competition.
Each founder will have 3 minutes for a pitch, and another 3 minutes for questions, comments, and suggestions by Judges.
5:00 pm - 5:05 pm: Winners announcement.
5:05pm - 5:30pm: Networking
Startup.Network team is grateful to all the participants, juries, partners, and guests of the Unicorn Battle in Balkans that was held online on July 2, 2020.
We have the winners of the Unicorn Battle in Balkans!
The winner is Stuey!
Welcome Damir Skoko with the team at the Summer Unicorn CUP Final
Stuey is the first innovative electronic device that helps people who stutter make phone calls.
https://startup.network/company/418434.html
The second place was awarded to the EPIDEMIC
We are taking the ever-old concept of word-of-mouth marketing online with nano influencers. Nano influencers are local, niche, creative opinion leaders, achieving unprecedented marketing results
https://startup.network/company/418408.html
And the third place was awarded to Vidict Media Server and Silver Monitor
Vidict Peer is Software as a Service product, peer-to-peer, a system distributing video content from many places, across devices.
https://startup.network/company/418244.html
Silver Monitor - Silver monitor is a software platform and wearable device for senior healthcare and safety telemonitoring.
https://startup.network/company/418527.html
Our congratulations!
All participating startups are listed here:
https://battle.startup.network/events/417414/
To find a startup's pitch deck please click on the startup logo on the event page.
Many thanks to our Global Sponsors:
Network VC California Seed Fund
ICU Ventures is a Kyiv-based venture capital fund that invests in technology companies with strong ties to Ukraine and Eastern Europe making 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. It is one of the largest and most diversified asset managers in the CEE region.
SILICON VALLEY Syndicate club
Special thanks to our Jury Expert Board:
Alexander Soroka, CEO & Founder at Startup.Network
Roman Nikitov, Head of ICU Ventures
Abhijeet Kumar, Co-Founder, ah! Ventures
Aleksandar Celeski, EBRD Consultant & Mentor for StarVenture Program Executive Director
Aleksandar Mircov, Entrepreneur and a digital marketing executive
Vesna Ivanoska, General Manager of Seavus Education, Development Center, Seavus Accelerator
Damjan Dano, Co-founder and managing partner of IWM Network, an ICT company
Bill Baker, Co-Founder & Inventor at NEWtritionIQ (NQ)
Ruchi Dana MD, MBA, Venture Partner of FundRx, Board Member of DANA Group Forbes Power
Arijana Koskarova,Founder of Creative Hub North Macedonia and Kosovo
Elena Unciuleanu, Founder&CEO at TechVentures.ro
Bogdan Coman, As Senior Product Strategist at Modus Create
Blaze Arizanov, Founder, StayUncle hotels for couples, LaunchInIndia, Inkblot Media
Yesika Aguilera, Co-founder at Tespack and Tech entrepreneur
Igor Madzov, Investment Facilitator Western Balkans at Swiss EP Igor is a passionate investor
Nina Nikolikj, Co-founder of Startup Macedonia Womenpreneurs Balkans Leader Storyteller
Pavle Zimbakov, Sales and Marketing Expert
Eli Zhabevska, finance professional with over a decade experience in the financial sector
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.