The Digital Freedom Festival together with the world’s biggest accelerator 500 Startups invites pre-seed stage startups from Baltic region, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and beyond to participate in a top-grade pitching competition. Startups can apply for a place at the ideas competition by buying a ticket to the Digital Freedom Festival by 13 October. The best startups will be invited to interviews for a possibility to join the 500 Startups accelerator program.

The Digital Freedom Festival and 500 Startups Pitch is an opportunity for pre-seed stage startups to gain unique experience, new skills, product assessment from industry experts and improvement tips, valuable contacts and potentially – a fast track to 500 Startups next batch in San Francisco, USA.

Application for competition will be open till October 13. To apply for competition at least one of maximum three team members should be the Digital Freedom Festival Startup Pass holder.

Use the Startup Lithuania discount code DFF10%STARTUPLT for an extra 10 per cent off.

The Digital Freedom Festival is a global technology, policy, startup and lifestyle festival, that will gather more than 1,000 new technology and startup entrepreneurs, policy makers, investors, experts, journalists and students from all over the world in Riga from the 27th to the 29th of November. The main events of the festival will be a conference, a Startup Pitch competition and masterclasses.

500 Startups is a leading global venture capital seed fund and start-up accelerator. The company manages $200M in assets and invest in 1300+ technology start-ups. It is a leading early stage investor and is voted as best start-up accerator program in the world, according to Forbes and its portfolio includes companies as Twillio, Sendgrid and Wildfire.