Build the Future: Applications Now Open to Founder Institute Serbia Virtual 2022

Founder First, Founder Always. Join us in 2022: Founder Institute is the #1 place in the world to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses.

Today’s economic 'New Normal' is full of reshuffling industries, and new problems in need of solutions - now is a time for entrepreneurs to act.

Whether you need to test and validate early hypotheses before making a large financial commitment to your startup idea, or you are ready to push your startup to the next level through aggressive weekly growth sprints to refine your vision, improve key metrics, and prepare for investor diligence, Founder Institute has the proven processes and network to help you do it.

If you could use a structured process that tells you what to focus on when, and a lifetime of support from Serbian and international top investors and entrepreneurs, then apply to the Serbia Virtual 2022 Founder Institute today.

We will be hosting several free startup events in Serbia over the coming weeks, where you can learn from top entrepreneurs all from the comfort of home:

Serbia Events:

Founder Hotseat: Pitch Your Startup to Investors & Advisors on 6:00pm, Jun 26, 2023 (Europe/Belgrade): https://FI.co/e/325480

Global or Regional Events:

Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
How to Build a Community for Your Startup on 7:00pm, Jun 12, 2023 (Europe/Belgrade): https://FI.co/e/322065
Founder Showcase: Pre-Seed Startup Pitch & Networking Event (Online) on 7:00pm, Jun 14, 2023 (Europe/Belgrade): https://FI.co/e/322565
How to Delegate Tasks and Remain Focused as a Startup Founder on 7:00pm, Jun 21, 2023 (Europe/Belgrade): https://FI.co/e/323228
How Large Organizations Can Launch a Successful Venture Building Program on 3:00pm, Jun 22, 2023 (Europe/Belgrade): https://FI.co/e/325073
Why Founders Should Care About Branding on 12:00pm, Jun 26, 2023 (Europe/Belgrade): https://FI.co/e/324941
Adopt an Experience Mindset as a Startup Founder with Tiffany Bova on 7:00pm, Jul 12, 2023 (Europe/Belgrade): https://FI.co/e/324540
The Startup Founder’s Guide to Finding Prospects on LinkedIn on 12:00pm, Jul 19, 2023 (Europe/Belgrade): https://FI.co/e/322151

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Make better, faster business decisions in 2022 by sharing your latest progress, challenges, and strategies for constant feedback and evaluation from our expert mentors and advisors, every step of the way–scale your team, develop new business opportunities, and recruit an amazing advisory board with the world's largest network of international startup founders, CEOs, advisors, and investors.

The Serbia accelerator is led by some of the region's top startup leaders, including Đorđe Ćelić, Nedeljko Milosavljević, and Tamara Čolić Milosavljević. In addition, some of Serbian and international top entrepreneurs and experts will be participating as mentors in the program, including:

Adeo Ressi: Founder/CEO, Founder Institute
Aleksandar Celeski: Executive Director, DUEL Consulting
Aleksandar Bakoč: CEO & Founder, Algotech doo
Aleksandar Bijelić: President of the Board, Serbian Venture Network
Aleksandar Marić: Head Of Finance, Alt Labs
Aleksandar Hangimana: Advisor & Investor, Noordenster B.V.
Aleksandar Momiroski: COO & Co-founder, Comeunity Business Incubator
Aleksandar Matanović: CEO & Founder, ECD
Aleksandra Lazovic - Lønningen: Circular Economy Expert | Start-Up Founder | Entrepreneur | Mentor | MPhil. System Dynamics; CEO/CVO, co-founder/co-director of Eat Me App | CEO Founder@Ire Viride C&C | Alumni ( cohort 2022/23) and Mentor "Founder Institute", Eat Me App DOO
Aleksandra Vuković: Founder and Director | Nura digital & Singular Advantage, Nura Digital | Singular Advantage
Aleš Pustovrh: Partner, Fil Rouge Capital
Alex Migitko, UNIQUE.VC
Alexander Naydenov: Head of Sales, GraphCMS
Alexander Sumin: co-founder, Chief Marketing Officer, ClaimCompass
Alexander Martynov: Head of Bio-IT, Biovision Ventures
Almir Zejneli: CEO and Co Owner, ADRIA EXCLUSIVE LTD
Andrija Bednarik: Entrepreneur serving Humanity, Co-Founder and CEO at 9m Inc., 9m Inc
Anja Stanisic, Foundation Novak Djokovic - Original platform
Ari Veltman: Business Strategy Advisor | Board Director | CBDO@, Sparko.TV
Athanasios Ladopoulos: CEO | Founder, MOOCTORS
Ben Stacey: Regional Manager, Founder Institute
Benoit Doumas: Managing Director, BlackRock
Berg Moe: Owner, Berg Moe Media
Bilyana Dimitrova: Managing Partner, Dimitrova and Staykova Law office
Blanka Supe: Founder, Haos Community Space
Boris Kolev: Founder and Managing Partner, DigiMark Ventures
Boris Hristov: Founder and CEO, 356labs
Borut Čeh: Co-owner and CEO, Labena ltd
Boštjan Čeh: Head of Business Development, Labena
Brian M Pasalich: Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder, Syntoniq
Charles Cormier: CEO, TopLeads Agency
Chintan Oza: Founder, Anantam Ecosystems
Christophe Nègre: General Partner, Western Balkans Private Equity Fund
Clarisse Dr. Behar Molad: Board Advisor, ApplyWave
Dajana Džindo: Executive Director, F787
Daniel Lorer: Advisory Board Member, Quadrodynamics
Daniel Michael Böhi: Founder & Partner, Alphorn Venture Partners | TheForge | Swiss FoodTech Scaleup Factory
Danijela Matovic: CEO & Founder, Parlok Consulting
Darko Ivanović: CEO & Cofounder, Digital Den
Darko Vidakovic: Darko Vidakovic, EASME
Darko Burčul: Chief Marketing and PR, Infostud
Davor Sakač: Director, TS Ventures Fund
Dejan Dramićanin: CEO, Bitgear
Dejan Tonić: EBRD Associate, Regional Coordinator of Star Venture Programme for Western Balkans, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Dilyan Dimitrov: Partner, Eleven Ventures
Dóra Marosvölgyi: Founder & CEO, DARE Innovations
Đorđe Ćelić: CEO, Poslovni inkubator Novi Sad - Business incubator Novi Sad doo
Drago Gverić: CEO, Innovation Center Banja Luka
Dušan Karan: Enterprise acceleration consultant, Innovation Fund
Florin Grosu: Co -founder, Traderion
Frank Mertens: Founder & CEO, FM Consulting GmbH
Frank Petry: CEO, EuroTechInnovation
Gaia Montelatici: Founder, STUDIO X Ventures
Gajo Vanka: COO, Aim Cube Limited | UK
George Sidjimkov: General Partner , Sofia Angels Ventures
Georgi Malchev: Managing Partner, XploraBG
Georgi Kadrev: Co-Founder & CEO, Imagga
Glen Hellman: Glen Hellman - CRO & Business Development, CXO Elevate and University of Maryland
Gogo Rafajlovski: COO, SEEUTechPark
Goran Mladenović: CEO, Nis Cluster of Advanced Technologies (NI CAT)
Goran Ćulibrk: Community Lead, Serbian Entrepreneurs
Gregor Rebolj: Managing Partner, Silicon Gardens Fund
Hristo Hristov: CEO, Darik
Ingeborg Gasser Kriss: Board Member, Advisor , Founder Institute
Ivan Minić: Co-Founder, Pojačalo
Ivan Nonković: Partner, Karanovic & Partners Law Firm
Ivana Pesic Forbes: VP of design, Interactio
Ivaylo Ivanov: Director, Founder Institute Eastern Europe
Ivo Vasilev: Founder and CEO, Reloyalty
Jan Kobler: Managing Partner, South Central Ventures
Janet Todorova: Head of Expansion, Founder Institute
Janet Todorova: Head of Expansion, Founder Institute
Jasmina Knežević: Founder and Supervisory Board Member, Acibadem Bel Medic
Jasna Pejović: CEO , Flourish
Jelena Plavanski, Business angels association of Serbia
Jia Hong Shaw: Founder, Turn Off Turn On Ventures
Jivko Ivanov: Managing Partner, Simbula Ltd.
Johannes Benkhoff: Founder, innocellerate
Jovan Tišma: Co-founder, ALL-ART
Kamen Bankovski: Partner, Vitosha Venture Partners
Karina Sotnik: Founder/CEO, WorldUpstart
Lazar Lekić: Supercluster Manager, Serbia Innovates
Lazar Grujicic, Loop.rs
Luka Prišunjak: Ecosystem Facilitator, Swisscontact
Luka Pejović: Director, BDO Ventures (Ventu.rs)
Maja Križan: Investment Manager, Business Angels of Slovenia
Marita Price: Founder & Director, Hello
Mark Rogers: CEO, Futurist Labs
Marko Vučetić: PR manager, HelloWorld.rs
Marko Džombić: CEO, Net Zero Prototcol
Matej Rus: Head & Co-founder, PODIM
Max Gurvits: Managing Partner, Vitosha Venture Partners
Maya Zlatanova: Co-Founder & CEO, FindMeCure
Michael Kosic: Founding Partner, Loyal VC
Mike Lingle: Entrepreneur / Mentor, Rocket Pro Forma
Mila Milenkovic: Director of Sector for Strategy, Telekom Srbija
Milan Ranđelović: Managing Director, Science and Technology Park Nis
Milan Dobrota: CEO, Agremo
Milen Ivanov: Managing Partner, Sofia Angels Ventures, Co-Founder, CEO Angels Club
Milena Micanović: Director for Communications and Public affairs, OTP banka Srbija
Mili Ibrulj: Principal , Fil Rouge Capital
Miloš Milovanović: Co-founder & COO, Blinking
Miloš Lazović: Ecosystem Facilitator, Swiss EP - Swisscontact
Miloš Došen: CEO, Accounting and Tax Advisory Agency ‘Došen’
Miodrag Nenadović: Co-Founder, Brush Galaxy
Mirjana Perkovic: Founder & CEO, LookStyler
Miron Lukač: Co-founder, Portal World
Natali Delić: Director of the Directorate for Strategy and Digital, Telekom Serbia
Nataša Rađenović Živanović: Chief Innovation Officer, OTP banka Srbija
Nataša Filipović: Managing Director, OvationBBDO
Nebojša Đurđević: Partner, Vega IT
Neda Trifunović: Manager for Startup ecosystem, Digital Serbia Initiative
Nedeljko Milosavljević: Co-Director, Founder Institute Serbia
Nedžad Lomigora: Managing Partner, Falcon Venture Partners LLC
Nemanja Stefanović: CEO & Co-founder, HireApp
Nemanja Petrović: Co-Founder, Traken
Nemanja Zivkovic: Founder , Funky Marketing
Nenad Paunović: Co-founder, Serbian Venture Network
Nenad Novović: CEO and Founder, Amplitudo
Nina Dremelj: President, Business Angels of Slovenia
Olga Mirković Maksimović: COO, Videobolt
Oskar Marko: Co-founder, Cropt
Pavel Cholakov, Chief Ventures
Peđa Predin: Head of Apparel, Europe, Gelato
Petar Savić: Partner, Supreme Factory
Philip Zepter: President , Zepter International Group
Predrag Krupez: CEO, Blue Coast Brewing Company
Raanan Shenhav: Founder, RS-CPD
Rade Rakočević: CEO & Founder, Senzal capital doo
Radoslav Stankov: Head of engineering, Product Hunt
Rok Zorko: Co-Founder, Outfit7
Salim Virani: Founder, Source Institute
Sanja Brdar: co-founder, Cropt
Saša Popović: Co-Founder and CEO, Vega IT
Stavros Pavlidis: Chief Revenue Officer & CFO, Halo Investing Europe
Stefan Vladimirov: Creative Director, monolig.
Tamara Čolić Milosavljević: Co-Director, Founder Institute Serbia
Tatyana Mitkova: Co-Founder and CEO, ClaimCompass
Teodor Panayotov: CEO, CourseDot
Thibaut Taittinger: Founder & CEO, Puzl CowOrKing
Tilen Šarlah: Managing Partner, Feelsgood Capital
Vassil Popovski: CEO & Co-founder, Connecto.ai (Acquired by Leanplum)
Vedran Rašić: CEO, Founder LeadDelta Inc.
Victor Schiller: President, R Cubed Group
Viktorija Petrov: PhD, Faculty of Economics, University of Novi Sad
Vladan Todorović: CEO & Founder, Advanced Security Technologies ltd
Vladimir Nedović: Owner, Synemedia
Vladimir Pavlović: General Partner, Omorika Ventures
Vladimir Vojvodić: Director of operations, Fuller Vision
Vojin Šenk: Professor, University of Novi Sad
Volen Vulkov: Co-Founder, Enhancv
Voon Yee Ho: CEO, Techbridge Ventures Pte Ltd
Vuk Lau: Principal, Silicon Gardens Fund
Željko Ilić: Co-founder & General manager, InCentar
Zoja Kukic Dordevic: VP Digital Transformation, Signet World
Zoran Vasiljev: CEO, Centili

And many more to be announced.

Since 2009, Founder Institute’s highly-structured accelerator programs have helped over 6,800 entrepreneurs to grow quickly, know what to do next, and make key connections through the largest community of startup advisors in the world.

It all starts with our renowned ‘FI Core’ accelerator, which pushes founders at the idea and pre-seed stages to reach the milestones needed for investment and sustained growth. Alumni of FI Core then receive free access to our advanced ‘Founder Lab’ accelerators for years to come, and can get matched with prospective investors in the FI Venture Network - a collection of global funds actively investing in the earliest rounds of funding.

The results speak for themselves: FI Alumni have raised over $1.75BN in funding, and are building impactful businesses across 200+ cities and 100+ countries all across the globe. (see the FI 50 Report here).