Open Coffee Club Vilnius, together with partners from London (F6s), Dublin (Ryan Academy), Zoetermeer (Crosspring Lab), Madrid (BluSpecs) and Cartagena (Cloud Incubator Hub) has launched the second open-call for a 6 month Startup Europe’s IoT accelerator in Vilnius.

Startup Scaleup is a 6-month soft-acceleration programme offering entrepreneurs interested in Internet-of-Things (IoT) the practical knowledge and advice needed to build a successful IoT startup. It provides help with prototyping, licensing, access to mass manufacturers and IoT specific fundraising as well as an access to a pool of international mentors.

The programme offers:

• no cost to the startup – no fee, no equity;
• one week of intensive IoT trainings in Vilnius June 2016;
• monthly Ask-me-anything (AMA) sessions with Intel, Google & other corporates;
• all-you-need mentor support during the program;
• a chance to receive co-funding biggest IT confferences in Europe.

Previous batch featured such Lithuanian IoT startups as Nanoavionics, Sidewalk and SVA. Previous speakers included: Philip Moynagh, Vice President, Internet of Things Group at Intel, Dan Marom, crowdfunding expert, Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President of Google, and Jerry Yang, investor & founder of Hardware Club. In addition, each startup has a chance to inquire for aditional mentors and contacts that they need. “We were pleasently surprised by the quality of the services provided and by the names brought in by the accelerator not only in the context of Lithuania ecosystem, but comparing it to the international ones as well” – says Roman Drokov, CEO and co-founder of Sidewalk.

The programme for the second batch has been revised to bring even more value to selected IoT startup – more mentors, more global connections and more support to startups. Also, the batch size was expanded and will now accommodate 20 IoT startups. The Programme starts on June 23rd!

APPLY HERE before May 13th.

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