Hungarian startup Antavo announced the appointment of Ben Pickering as an advisor to the company. The addition of the former CEO of a major social media marketing company is seen as a stepping-stone for the company’s expansion into the North American market.
Antavo is a turnkey marketing tool that empowers small businesses, marketing professionals and agencies to launch online promotion apps. Antavo launched in private beta back in September 2011 and managed to secure some early-stage funding through Seedcamp in 2012. Antavo doubled its team, expanded internationally, and increased its revenue significantly in the last 12 months.Read more »
TechPeaks is on an European tour to present their acceleration program based in Trento. The TechPeaks roadshow arrives to Budapest on January 15, as application deadline approaches for the program’s Spring batch.
TechPeaks is a program of Trento RISE – the organization that connects several of the major actors in ICT research, education and business in the Trento region in collaboration with Trentino Sviluppo. TechPeaks is a long-term initiative, set up and funded for 4 years with 13 million Euros.Read more »
Domestic issues were making their influence felt across the Hungarian startup ecosystem in 2013. Investments waned, accelerators opened, the State got more engaged with the startup ecosystem. Silicon Goulash is giving you a review of what happened in 2013.
The start of the new year gives a perfect opportunity to take a break, and gaze back into the past to assess how far one has come. From the perspective of the Hungarian startup ecosystem the following tendencies, mostly of domestic origin, have shaped the events in the technology industry.Read more »
Kitchen Budapest supports talented young students and their great ideas with a Talent and a Startup program in 2014. The Talent Program gives the chance for five teams to advance their skills and to create a proof-of-concept version of a product or service.
Kitchen Budapest - founded in 2007 - is a place where ideas come alive. It offers two potential ways to start out your idea. In the Talent Program young talents can bring their imagination and ideas to a phase of a proof of concept or prototype, while the Startup Program helps teams to develop businesses of the future.Read more »
NASA founded Singularity University launches its Global Impact Competition 2014 in Central and Eastern Europe. Applicants are invited to submit their projects aiming to improve the lives of at least a million people, leveraging the power of new technologies.
Singularity University (SU), is an organisation based at the NASA Research Park in the heart of Silicon Valley, California. The University is a central destination for scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, executives and government officials. Singularity University’s mission is to educate, inspire and empower bright minds to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges. Read more »
