Building bridges in the V4 region
Get first hand feedback from the market and see if you're ready to take the next step!
Supercharge your B2B company’s growth with our comprehensive accelerator program. Apply now to gain invaluable contacts, personalized mentoring, and access to potential business clients. Join likeminded people and take your company to the next level!
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Benefits
Business meetings
We'll link you up with companies, experts and investors to give you relevant feedback about your product. All meetings are tailor made for you and meant to give you insight on your specific progress.
Workshops & Mentoring
Learn from the best. Mentors, experts of their respective fields will help you with your journey with workshops, speed-mentoring - and for the final four - even exclusive one-on-one mentoring sessions.
Networking & Community
Access a colorful community of like-minded entrepreneurs and grow together.
Scholarship
The four winning teams each receive a scholarship up to 1000 EUR
Timeline
The V4 Business Sprint lasts for four weeks – the first few weeks are held online, and the final week is offline in Budapest. -» The V4 Business Sprint lasts for six weeks – the first few weeks are held online, and the final week is offline in Budapest. For the finalists we offer:
Mentors
Emese Agg
Global Growth Marketer and Founder at Do it right marketing, ex-LinkedIn, ex-Nokia
Martyn Eeles
Executive Coach, International sales expert
Bence Juhász
Economist by trade, but a public speaking & negotiation coach by vocation.
Elvira Kalmár
Founder of The Go Beyond Project, CODP
Pavlína Louženská
Trendspotter / Google for Startups Lead Mentor / Startup Scout
János Pap
B2B SaaS sales, Data, Automation, Performance coaching
Zoltan Vardy
Startup Mentor, Founder-The Launch Code
Daniel Vitary
Co-Founder, Chief Revenue & Sales Officer at Makery
Valentino Megale
CEO of Softcare Studios, XR & healthtech expert
Daniel Racz
People's Swiss Knife, passionate about pitching and time.
Application Criteria
Apply now if,
Questions?
We love our startups
David Suslik
OnSinch
Acquiring many new clients since 2021, OnSinch is currently present in 10 countries in Europe and in the Middle East.
“Surprisingly great and enjoyable 3-week journey.”
Matej Liptak
Airlogy Labs
Since 2022, Airlogy Labs is cooperating with Daikin Central Europe, the market leader in the field of air conditioning and the Airlogy Kit is available on the Czech and Slovak Alza webshops.
“Great opportunity to get to know ourselves and our company even better. Also, the networking, workshops and potential business cooperation are the great bonus out of this V4 experience.”
Mateusz Kierepka
BioMinds Healthcare
BioMinds was finalist in the category Best Newcomer at ViennnaUp’22 startup festival, paving its way for further European expansion, while their system is already available on various industry-leading virtual reality softwares.
“Transfer of knowledge and great fun.”
Lia Menyhárt
Merova
In the V4 Startup Force program, we aimed to learn more about regional markets and engage with local industry players to understand the local structure in medical pedicure-podology, receive feedback on our current system (how it fits local needs), and explore potential partnerships.
“ We are very happy because the feedback was excellent. We have initiated several negotiations in V4 countries and even started a pilot project in southern Slovakia.”
V4 Startup Force in numbers
We launched the program in 2018 and since then we had 100+ startups of which,
92%
survived
46%
grew their business
25%
got an investment
FAQ
Any startup with a B2B (business to business) solution (above seed stage) registered in any V4 country (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland or Slovakia) with at least one founder having citizenship in the aforementioned countries.
The entire program is free. What’s more, the 4 teams selected for the Startup Force program will receive a scholarship.
The bootcamp will take approx. 2,5 days, including the pitching event. You'll get workshops, mentoring and we'll prepare you for your pitch -the these will come handy down the line even if you don't make it to the program. Attending the Bootcamp will be imporant because we'll monitor your activity and aim to get to know you better -these criteria and the pitch will determine if you make it to the Business Spring part.
The Business Sprint will last a total of 6 weeks. During the first 4 weeks, we'll have workshops on Thursday and Friday mornings. These will delve deeper into business related issues, you'll explore and help overcome each other's obstacles and get on-one-one, tailored advice from experts. During this time, we will also organize meetings for you with relevant entities (e.g. corporates, clients, investors, etc.) to get you relevant feedback and even find your first clients from a new market.
The last part will be a community and networking event in Budapest, where everyone travels in person (your costs are on us) and get further workshops, meetings but it's really about community. Your time will be worth it, we promise!
The whole programme will be in English.
We are happy to help out with any questions! Just drop us a message at v4suf@designterminal.org.
About the organizers
The V4 Startup Force program is funded by the International Visegrad Fund and is a joint effort of Design Terminal and its partner organizations. Our partners in the startup acceleration are:
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