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StartupHighway + Huge Thing are hosting a demo day in London

oday two seed funds and accelerators from the CEE region – StartupHighway and Huge Thing – are hosting their demo day at Google Campus, where they will show case 5 startups from Lithuania and 7 from Poland.

StartupHighway is a mentorship-driven and 100% funded-by-angel-investors accelerator which has just completed its second batch of startup development. During the last 12 months, StartupHighway has accelerated 10 new companies; it’s worth noting that 50% of the startups from the 2011 batch got funded, but this year the teams are stronger having already attracted more potential investors.

Huge Thing is a 6-month, two-phase, mentor-driven acceleration programme. During first 3 months teams get intense entrepreneurship training, with training pillars being Entrepreneurship, Strategy, People, Money, Sales and Marketing. Teams with the help of mentors validate their business model and create a Minimum Viable Product. For the last 3 months the teams with Huge Thing funding work on their products, establish key partnerships, acquire first customers and generate revenue. After the programme, the startups’ goals are to be ready for outside investment and for scaling with a proven business model. Here’s the lineup of the teams this year:

StartupHighway teams

Place I Live is a time-saving based web solution for home owners, sellers, buyers, empowering them to make smart decisions related to real estate (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). The offering includes relevant, objective, and systematic information about real estate quality (description of property, crime data, distances to important locations, ratings of the schools, taxes and fees, real estate transactions, etc.) and tools to manage this. Since its beta lunch in July 2012, placeilive.com has been visited by more than 9,000 users. The business model varies from advertising, to partnerships, to business-to-business service provision. The potential market is about 20 million in Eastern Europe.

Responsell is a proposal management tool with creatives in mind (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). The tool is aimed at simplifying and optimizing proposal generation processes. ResponSell directly addresses the main issues most sales teams face and offers an ultimate solution for solving them in one simple and easy to use tool. Using ResponSell, creative agencies and freelancers will be able to save time, money and reduce hassle generating proposals.

TV Backstage brigs users both news and gossip on the people on the TV screen (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). While users watch TV, the startup provides them with news about their favourite celebrities and athletes, straight to the iPad (and other tablet computers soon). Their short-term plans are to next up launch the service in UK market.

withEvent.com is a smart phone application for events (festivals or conferences) to help attendees with planning, orientation and social experience within an event (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). They are developing a self-care system that allows any event organizer to have an app and engage his attendees.

eGlesum generates leads on behalf of its clients, and distributes them according to the region they work in (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). They offer per-lead pricing, so companies can be assured that they are paying for real results, and not for abstract advertising. For consumers, on the other hand, they save time by providing only a short form to fill out, and sending their info to five companies in the area. Companies can then compete for the order themselves.

Huge Thing teams

Pocademy is a platform where anyone can learn how to play poker in a fun and engaging way (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). They offer students interactive courses and play specially designed poker hands on virtual tables; during the game they get them tips for strategy. Players are motivated by a system of badges and can collect up to $50 of starting capital in any of the participating Poker Rooms.

MoodUp is a set of mobile apps that prepare children for visiting a doctor (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). Firstly, MoodUp focuses on the problem of dentophobia – because meeting a dentist and oral hygiene is the biggest problem for most kids. It is a user-friendly tool that explains everything about visiting a dentist and everyday tooth decay prevention. The application will be soon available in the AppStore, and within a year you will find MoodUp on iPads in the waiting rooms of modern dental clinics in Europe and the US. MoodUp was created by Ola & Pawel – modern parents and young entrepreneurs.

Whalla is a cool new events sharing application (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). Whalla helps people share their experiences from all kinds of events in shared, crowd-sourced albums full of pictures and videos – all from people who don’t know each other. Just like at a real concert or at a real conference! No need to force a ‘friend’ or a ‘like’ on anyone.

Subscrea is a turn-key platform for setting up a subscription-based business in less than a minute (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). They provide customers with a user-friendly shop creator with fully integrated recurring payments application. The platform has everything that is needed to run a subscription business. Retailers using Subscrea can focus immediately on customer acquisition which saves their money and shortens time to market.

Lorneta is a new way of advertising online (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). The team offers an engaging way of audience monetization for publishers, effective channel for advertisers and free access to quality content for users. Thanks to this simple solution, they increase ad awareness and increase revenue for publishers. Lorneta means advertising with love.

Sellbox is a service which allows you to sell any file that you have in your Dropbox (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). After signing up with a Dropbox account, users are able to pick a file they want to sell, add description and price. Sellbox generates a link which enables customers to buy the file and pay by PayPal. With this PayPal and Dropbox integration selling files just got easier than ever before. Sellbox’s tagline is ‘selling as simple as sharing’.

Transparent Choice is an online application for collaborative decision making. It helps teams in organizations to resolve conflicts and make informed choices faster (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). The product is scaleable and offered via a SaaS model. It addresses a large B2B global market, to help professionals in organizations making important decisions. The software is based on an Analytic Hierarchy Process, a scientifically proven methodology that was developed by the Wharton School of Business. Transparent Choice will help your team to reach consensus, save time and make better choices.

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Andrius Neviera
Andrius Neviera
Adrius Neviera is the person behind the biggest entrepreneurship conference in the region - Silicon Valley Comes to the Baltics which attracted over 2 500 people in 2013. His work with Lithuania's government and extensive network allows him to reach out to the most promising stories both in the region and across Europe. Feel free to contact if you have a great story to share, are excited about your startup or just feel like grabbing coffee!
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