February 16 marks the official birthday of Startup Wise Guys. 9 years ago, on (probably a cold) February day one of Europe’s oldest and currently one of the largest European startup accelerators was born in Estonia — a country known for Skype success and tech-savviness. The accelerator was one of…

We did it again and this time with higher definition. We updated and published a complete map of the players operating in the Italian startup ecosystem. You may remember our previous map, well.. this one accommodates a greater deal of information. What happened? Has the ecosystem actually grown bigger in…

Barely 6 million inhabitants, but already 6 startup unicorns — that’s the story of Baltics, this small region by the Baltic sea with tech-savvy people, who like to build, grow and sell their ideas. Estonia is also the birthplace of Startup Wise Guys, and currently, we have home offices in…

It might seem like there are more and more women founders and investors in the startup world, and that there are more initiatives than ever to bring women into the tech scene. However, the numbers show only slight progress in this area. …

You might think that the global pandemic has hit startup funding very hard. …

We tried something different this year and asked for your input within a Startup Scene Survey about the impact of 2020 on startups, investors and ecosystem players and their outlook ahead. We have analyzed the data and are gearing up for the launch of the Baltic Startup Scene Report 2020…

With certain caution among traditional funding sources in 2020, we saw an increased interest among startups in crowdfunding and digital fundraising. Last month we organised a panel on Crowdfunding from the platform’s perspective talking with Seedrs, Funderbeam and Crowdfundme about how they see current trends and also overall success and…

This spring Baltic region proved the “power of small” in the face of crisis and became the origin of the global movement “Hack the crisis.” …

Crowdfunding has been around for a while now but never before has it been as actual as it is now when everyone is encouraged to stay at home. Covid-19 is not the initiator of moving important tasks such as fundraising into the digital world, but it definitely is a great…