For strengthening and growing our ecosystem is undoubtedly important to have strong collaboration and partnership with ecosystem community members. Those are the organisations, providing a wide range of services at all stages of the startup’s life, where we try to supercharge the value of their activities.
What benefits do I get?
Community meetups
For developing our startup ecosystem, we gather bimonthly to share experiences and open discussions.
Access to community chats
Quick information and knowledge sharing is the key to get informed about what is happening around the ecosystem. We mainly use Slack for that.
Marketing help in Startup Estonia channels and network
We issue a monthly newsletter, share news our social channels (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) and blog.
Study trip for active members
To value the effort of our superactive community members we organizing study trips to other countries on purpose to learn about their ecosystems life.
Grants for new services and projects
Startup Estonia funds organisations by giving out grants to develop new services, events, and smaller projects that support startups in their growth. Look out the application conditions in Estonian or in English.
State Aid (VTA) instructions can be found here.
State Aid (VTA) instructions can be found here.
Invitation to participate in a small procurement:
Kutsume Teid osalema väikehankel “Eesti äriinglitele suunatud arenguprogramm“. Hinnapäring ja tingimused on leitavad SIIT. Pakkumiste tähtaeg 3.05 kell 10:00.
So you will be definitely well informed to know what happens in Estonian startup ecosystem!
What else we offer?
For partnering with others you might need the following:
- We keep an updated list of our community partners. So, it is easy for you to find a partner for cooperation
- We keep an updated list of Estonian startups
- We share the initiatives by our community e.g the funding data of Estonian startups
How to become our community member?
If your organisation does the following, then you are welcome to join our startup community:
- Services, eg consultation, trainings, mentoring, events for startups
- Startup mindset programs
- Accelerating and incubating startups growth
- Investing and funding startups