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"Should win that category"

"Should win that category"
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Lithuania Tech Weekly #164
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Job board - early-stage Baltic startups - here (Leya AI, RSI Europe, Perfection 42 and others)

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  • Not Bored. Tomas is turning Bored Panda towards animation, starting with his own scenarios – forget baby shark and try Fire Spike, they got 14m views last month! In games, Nordcurrent expands its portfolio with the acquisition of the legendary Cinemaware catalog.
Bored Panda new venture
Finfra in Indonesia, choosing right sports

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Cloudvisor [AWS partner dedicated to startups], Vinted [largest C2C European marketplace, always hiring], Tech Zity [tech hubs and campuses], Presto Ventures [investing in early-stage B2B startups and marketplaces], 15MIN Group [all the news you need to know], Wargaming [award-winning game developer, careers].


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ecosystem

  • Talent. Unicorns Lithuania makes a strong case that talent attraction is underperforming – the numbers are very low. Inevitably, the largest players are diversifying and building up teams elsewhere, Vinted already has 500 people outside LT, although they inherit some through acquisitions.
    • No European country comes close to US with regards to talent immigration: 58% of doctorate-level computer and mathematical scientists in the US were born in a foreign country.
  • Talents within Government. Monika Merkyte, Head of Create Lithuania programme, is among Top 35 Government Talent Trailblazers. One of those programmes that will get proper recognition after another ten years.
  • Marketing. Vilnius introducing itself at MIPIM in France.. seeing this – that's some confidence and humour combined.
  • Advantage. Accelerate Estonia is "selling" regulatory arbitrage for UK scaleups – or at least an effort to quickly change laws.
Enables experimental collaborations between high-growth tech companies and the Estonian government, one of the world’s most digitally forward administrations, which can quickly change restrictive legislation

roleplay

Early-stage startup jobs, Baltics
Join the leadership team before Series A

Sanobiotec -- CEO
Nord Security -- Head of Corporate Controlling
Cloudvisor -- SDR
OBDeleven -- Product Owner
Billo -- Senior Product Manager, Senior Designer, other
HeavyFinance -- Sales Project Manager
Syntropy -- Business Development Lead
Surfshark -- Senior PR Manager