Stockfresh, the Budapest based affordable stock photo service used by tens of thousands of designers and small businesses all over the globe now has over 2.5 million images available for download. Stockfresh also increased sales three-fold during the last year.
Stockfresh, a popular provider of affordable stock images used by tens of thousands of designers and small businesses all over the globe added its 2.5 millionth image to its library. The collection now includes the work of over 3000 contributors, among them some of the most sought after stock photographers such as Andres Rodriguez and Irene Kurhan and world renowned production houses like Monkey Business Images and Wavebreak Media.Read more »
Startup Sauna held its annual event for the second year in Budapest on September 16, 2013. Meet all the startups that have been selected by the judges to pitch at the event, as well as the winner who gets invited to join the Startup Sauna accelerator.
Startup Sauna returned to Budapest on Monday to scout for local startups. The event started at noon with the pitches of the participating 16 startups. Based on their presentations, the best 10 startups were selected to attend the 1-on-1 coaching sessions. During the afternoon session the teams got the chance to received feedback and advice from international coaches, such as Juha Ruohonen, the former Head Coach of Startup Sauna, Aape Pohjavirta, Member of the Board of the Finnish Mobile Association, and Ilkka Kivimäki, Startup Sauna’s head coach.Read more »
ACME Labs makes investments in promising startups whose ambitions are international in scope, and who are best described as disruptive. The founding team believe helping early stage companies succeed happens by putting the entrepreneur's interests first.
ACME Labs, a new business accelerator opens with a focus on finding world class founding teams with disruptive technology ideas within Hungary and the rest of Central Europe. The region harbors a wealth of technical talent and ideas, but often lacks strong connections to global market and capital opportunities. ACME Labs bridges that gap by working with founders from the idea and vision phase through to a viable product and the next rounds of fundraising.Read more »
As European businesses sort out the ramifications of the NSA PRISM data collection controversy, it’s not a bad time to be a startup specializing in secure cloud storage. Meet Tresorit, which encrypts your data and transports it to the cloud for storage.
The Budapest-based startup Tresorit was founded by star computer engineering grads of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. It started building its secure cloud storage service with Java on Amazon Web Services, but decided its developers’ time was better spent brewing its secret sauce, not configuring servers and turning knobs, so they moved to Microsoft Windows Azure platform as a service.Read more »
Singularity University, the program which convenes executives to develop solutions for global challenges, will be holding its first ever Summit Europe this year in Budapest from November 15-16, as the founding director of the Summit, Botond Bognar tells us.
2013 is the year that Singularity University will expand its presence abroad. On November 15, SU will launch the Summit Europe - bringing together thought leaders and high octane doers in various technology fields. SU will convene thought leaders and breakthrough companies to explore exponential technologies and their impact on generating further advances.Read more »
