Startup Grind is a global community where people who have founded startups, want to found startups, fund them, want to work for them, or just learn about them gather. Tbilisi hosts one of the chapters and is part of a million-person global community. Come meet Georgians, expats, and visitors who …
Read More »Tag Archives: Silicon Valley
Georgian Blockchain Startup Receives $1m Investment from Silicon Valley
The first Georgian Blockchain startup won the best-real world blockchain application award and a $1 million investment from Silicon Valley at the Frontier Innovation Awards. Frontier Innovation Awards 2018: Blockchain centre on finding the blockchain idea of the year. Presented by Calfounders, the first award ceremony was held in San …
Read More »Rector Mikheil Batiashvili from BTU on Using Tools of the Future
Silicon Valley Tbilisi is the first private high-tech center that combines a business and technology university with multi-million international employment platforms, a business incubator and accelerator, tech hubs, an IT Academy, and above all, carries out projects that enhance awareness of the country worldwide and demonstrate potential on global markets. …
Read More »Silicon Island of the Caspian region: can we make it real?
Azerbaijan, the cradle of the first democratic republic in Muslim world where women took off the veil for the first time in an Muslim majority country now has to prove to the rest of the world that it is no longer “a former Soviet republic”, but the nation the world …
Read More »Silicon Valley Businessman to Share His Experience to Georgian Startupers
Silicon Valley businessman Lauren Wright , co-founder and executive director of Launch Gurus, will visit Georgian TechnoPark. The visit is organized by Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency and the US Embassy in Georgia. The guest will see the space of TechnoPark and receive information on Agency projects and programs. He …
Read More »Belarus Is Emerging as the Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe
Belarus is run by a former collective-farm manager and is known for manufacturing tractors. Now, the former Soviet republic wants to be known as the Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe. The nation of 9.5 million people sandwiched between Russia and Poland has a well-educated population and relatively low labor costs. And …
Read More »American Companies Offer Mainly Vacancies to Silicon Valley Tbilisi
Silicon Valley Tbilisi high-technology center offers employment opportunities mainly at American companies, Mikheil Batiashvili, head of the center, told the Business Contract news agency. “A joint database has been created in the center to employ applicants. Currently, the main market is the USA, which provides 70% of vacant positions”, Batiashvili …
Read More »Jury From Silicon Valley Revealed Finalists of High-tech Component of Startup Georgia
High-tech component of the state program “Startup Georgia” that supports innovative business development has 51 finalists. More than 720 applications have already been submitted within the frames of Startup Georgia. International experts of Silicon Valley selected 51 best ideas out of around 150 applications. Out of 51 finalists 20 winners …
Read More »Silicon Valley Tbilisi High-Technology Center to Open in Tbilisi
In September Silicon Valley Tbilisi, the first high-technology center, will be unveiled in the capital city. The Silicon Valley Project of multi-million GEL will unite IT Academy, Business and Technology University, public school, laboratory and research centers, technological incubators within one space. The complex will be located on Chavchavadze Avenue …
Read More »US Silicon Valley Experts to Assess Georgian Startup Projects
The Georgian private sector may also join the co-financing component of the Startup Georgia state program. The private sector is demonstrating huge interest. They own capital and they want to become Venture Investors, Irakli Kashibadze, chairman of the Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA) told the Commersant. Supposedly, various foundations …
Read More »Global Start-Ups: Cut Costs! Think Tbilisi, Not Silicon Valley.
Without investors, funds, offices and especially without money: the entrepreneurs of the past, present and future. We all go through the same steps. Stop for a moment. Think Differently! Don’t run straight to raise investments, and don’t do what everybody else is doing. This is the biggest mistake you can make. …
Read More »Irakli Kashibadze: Our Aim is the Funded Startups to Move to Silicon Valley to Attract Investments
The Georgian Government is going to commence the startups’ funding project throughout Georgia. The Partnership Fund (PF) and the Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA) will implement this project. Accordingly, this is joint initiative that will support business ideas and gives them the chance to realize plans. It is known that the new institute will start …
Read More »