Stretch is conference on leadership skills and learning from those people who have reached important milestones, taking place in Budapest on December 5-6. Watch the conference to learn from about the challenges of building a team and scaling a startup.
The Stretch Conference is a good place to focus on consolidating your leadership skills and learning from those people who have reached important milestones. It takes place in Budapest over the next two days, organized by the teams behind some of Hungary’s most successful startups; Prezi, LogMeIn and Ustream, and you can watch it live on Ustream.Read more »
Hungarian startup Sighter secured €50,000 investment from Enterprise Ireland’s Competitive Start Fund. The fund is also the gateway to EI’s High Potential Startup Funding. This is the third round of investment for Sighter, raising their funding to €110,000.
Hungarian startup Sighter have been really busy growing their startup over the last 6 months. Back in May they won third place at the Budapest Bank Startup Competition, where their new advisor Sean Murphy gave the presentation. In June they finished Ryan Academy’s Propeller Venture Accelerator programme. The team learned a lot there and gained loads of great contacts in the Irish Ecosystem. Also in June Sighter selected to participate in the StartupChile program (among the best 100 out of 1570 applicants) - receiving 40k USD equity free seed capital.Read more »
The concept of business incubation went on a victory tour, and governments realized that they needed to step in to help innovative ideas turn into global businesses. The State Accredited Technology Incubators could turn out to be the draft print for success.
The concept of business incubation went on a victory tour from Israel and Finland where governments realized that they needed to step in to help embryonic innovative ideas turn into global economic success. Hungary strives to become a regional startup giant by playing the same card. The recent award of Accredited Technology Incubator (ATI) titles could turn out to be the draft print of a bestselling story.Read more »
After graduating from Startup Sauna and pitching at Slush earlier this month, Hungarian startup received €40,000 investment from Tekes and Startup Foundation. Synetiq uses crowdsourced neuromarketing to show brands how customers will react to their next ad.
Every company wishes that they could test their adverts and marketing materials before serving them up to the public. Focus groups and market research are notoriously expensive, but Hungarian startup Synetiq is offering an alternative: Crowdsourced neuromarketing.Read more »
The guys at Hungarian startup Tresorit have put a higher bounty on their own heads to lure the most talented “white hat” hackers in the world. Starting December 11, Tresorit is offering a $25,000 prize to anyone who can hack the layers of their defenses.
Tresorit is intended to be a cloud-based, secure version of Dropbox. The Budapest-based startup was founded by computer engineering grads of Hungary’s top technical university, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and counts Levente Buttyan, a professor of cryptography and the head of the CrySyS Lab, among its advisers. The founders often boast that their infrastructure is complex and potentially even “indecipherable.” Tresorit leverages patented encryption methods, incorporating the AES-256 protocol (which government agencies use), to protect its software from hackers.Read more »
