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The Balkan Venture Forum is a leading regional investment and innovation forum. It showcases innovative companies to active investors and promotes innovation, entrepreneurship, investment readiness and access to finance in the Balkans.
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Meet the 36 startups selected to pitch at BKVF Sofia
alektas | May 11, 2013After an intense evaluation by our selection committee, I’m happy to report that the quality of the startups that are pitching at BkVF is outstanding. This is partly due to the excellent Bulgarian eco-system, but also due to the quality…
The Balkan Venture Forum – A Test Case For Community Cooperation & Collaboration
Boyan Benev | May 1, 2013
Seeing a community come together is an uplifting sight. Bringing over two-dozen organisations from six countries together for a common cause is a challenging but extremely rewarding task. For me, the Balkan Venture Forum Sofia on the 21st and 22nd…
Apply for the Pitching Competition at BkVF Sofia
alektas | April 8, 2013Hello friends! As the SEE startup community continues to accelerate(no pun intended) throughout 2013, with new programs, events, and successes, the team at Balkan Venture Forum is keeping up the breakneck tempo and even kicks up a notch. Indeed,…
Award Winners – BkVF Belgrade 2012
alektas | November 26, 2012After an exciting two days of pitching, networking, partying in Belgrade, and another two days or recovering from all that, it is time to reveal the startup champions from the BkVF Belgrade. It is good to note that apart from…
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Balkan Venture Forum is one of the main objectives of the SEE Programme project VIBE (Venture Initiative in Balkan Europe) and is being co-financed by European Union.
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Entrepreneurs
Pitch your company to investors’ audience representing few billions in funds. Increase your investment readiness. Acquire experience. Develop professional network. Find strategic partners. Learn of newest development in policy and market trends.
Investors
Increase your deal flow. Access to partnership and potential co-investors. Meet most innovative and fast-growing companies from all countries in the Balkans.
Innovators
Increase your business skills and access investors. Capture the emerging technologies.
Corporate venture arms
Meet innovators at an early stage, reach out to venture capital and peer investors for partnering and investment opportunities.
Partners
Connect with Europe’s main innovation initiative and gain access to the largest Pan European active database of start-ups.
Goverment representatives
Network efficiently with the reference players in the industry – Capture the emerging businesses and trends.
Academia
Access to innovators, researchers and investors, with potential for joint research or commercial projects.
Pitch your company to investors’ audience representing few billions in funds. Increase your investment readiness. Acquire experience. Develop professional network. Find strategic partners. Learn of newest development in policy and market trends.
Investors
Increase your deal flow. Access to partnership and potential co-investors. Meet most innovative and fast-growing companies from all countries in the Balkans.
Innovators
Increase your business skills and access investors. Capture the emerging technologies.
Corporate venture arms
Meet innovators at an early stage, reach out to venture capital and peer investors for partnering and investment opportunities.
Partners
Connect with Europe’s main innovation initiative and gain access to the largest Pan European active database of start-ups.
Goverment representatives
Network efficiently with the reference players in the industry – Capture the emerging businesses and trends.
Academia
Access to innovators, researchers and investors, with potential for joint research or commercial projects.
Mini Seedcamp Sofia May 22nd
Mini Seedcamp is a half-day event aimed to accelerate up to 10 local startups through masterclasses, networking and immediate feedback to their pitches from the Seedcamp team and international investors.
Mini Seedcamp Sofia will take place on the 22nd of May. Applications close on the 13th of May so be sure to apply before that date.
Leancamp Sofia May 23rd
Learn from other founders – with hands-on experience in Lean Startup, Agile, Design-driven approaches. Leancamp is a fast-paced, knowledge-sharing day that gives you actionable feedback on current challenges from people in multiple disciplines.
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