Start-ups and scaling-up

This March, we join the world in celebrating Women’s History Month, a special occasion to recognize and appreciate the remarkable achievements of women across various domains of human activity. At Dex Innovation centre, we are passionate about research, science and innovation, and that is why we have chosen the theme of “Women in Science” for this month. We want to showcase the outstanding contributions of women who have enriched our knowledge of nature, technology and society through their scientific discoveries and innovations.

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You have a brilliant idea that can make a difference in the world. You have a passion for solving problems and creating value. You have a dream of becoming an entrepreneur and building your own business. But you also have some challenges. You don’t know how to validate your idea, develop your product, find your customers, pitch your solution or raise funds. You don’t have enough resources, connections or support to make it happen.

Four innovation agencies, the Hungarian Design Terminal, the German Spinlab, the Estonian Technopol and the Czech DEX Innovation Centre, will launch their joint pan-European initiative on March 8, on International Women's Day. The main goal of the program is to make way for female entrepreneurs on the continent.

The winner of V4 Startup Force shared with us his feelings and experiences from the programme. 

We asked WisePorter, the successful finalist at V4 Startup Force Programme and winner of the autumn edition 2022, to find out her experiences with the program full of workshops, business meetings, and tailor-made mentoring as well as team building activities and social events during the final 7 days they spent in Budapest.

We are very excited to share with you new startup programmes - the V4+ Innobooster and V4 Startup Force. These programmes are now open and you have the opportunity to apply for them.

We also offer programmes coming up, such as Womenture and new programmes from EIT Health. Read more below!

The V4 Startup Force scholarship program helps companies in building a network in the Visegrad region. The main goal of the program is to build bridges between the four countries, which became even more crucial in our current economic situation. Startups can apply for the fall semester until 11 September.

EIT Jumpstarter helps promising teams to start their entrepreneurship journey. Is your startup going to be the next unicorn? 

EIT Jumpstarter helps promising teams to start their entrepreneurship journey. Is your startup going to be the next unicorn? 

4DigitalHealth is a partially personalized program that supports digital healthcare startups through mentoring and networking. Check out the winner and other startup pitches.

Find out about currently opened or upcoming calls and opportunitites - pre-acceleration and acceleration programmes for startups, educational programmes or events for students. 

The Czech Republic has chosen its startup champion to represent the country at the Grand Final of the PowerUp! Challenge. Pocket Virtuality is the winner, which, along with advancing to the June Grand Final, also won the prestigious InnoEnergy Startup of the Year. Pocket Virtuality will compete with the winning startups of Country Finals from another 23 European countries.

The overall winner will receive a prize of 50,000 euros, the possibility of investing millions of euros and the title of European leader. PowerUp! Challenge is an international startup competition, which takes place under the auspices of InnoEnergy and offers the opportunity to become another unicorn in the organization's portfolio.

The 1st round of Primer is over, 2nd round coming soon! We have opened applications for the next, 100% online pre-acceleration programme for early-stage startups.

The world is currently fighting the coronavirus in the best possible ways. Many companies, startups and universities are joining forces to empower the medical staff and other people fighting in the first line. So, how do we and companies around us respond? 

After careful internal evaluation and due to the given circumstances, we have decided to cancel all planned EIT Health roadshow stops. We still want to meet with you virtually - we will be happy to answer all your questions regarding the support from EIT Health.

On Wednesday, January 15th, InnoEnergy opens applications to PowerUp! 2020, challenge for Energy, Mobility, CleanTech, CyberSec, Smog or SmartCities startups in Central-Eastern Europe! 

If you are working on an idea or product beyond initial thought in fields of energy, healthcare, mobility or other that positively impacts society, we have an offer for you! For the very first time, we are organizing a pre-acceleration programme in the Czech Republic - Primer.

EIT Health Innovation Day took place on Friday, November 1, in the premises of the Czech Technical University, CIIRC in Prague. Almost 40 visitors have attended the Health Innovation event where they learned how to develop and present an innovative product. And in the end, they designed different kinds of smart glasses for seniors.

Have you been wondering, what interesting Health startups do we have in the Czech Republic? Startup Campus V4 Roadshow - Prague brought together 5 startups from Health or Medtech background and let them pitch in front of an expert jury.

As in the past two years, the Regional Startup and Innovation Day (RSID) 2019 focuses on the V4 countries. This year we were selected as a partner in the Czech Republic. What is it all about?

We are happy for InoCure, who is among 15 finalists of EIT Health InnoStars Awards programme. Now, they are in the middle of the programme and awaiting 2nd BootCamp.