Everyone’s a winner at TechChill, or at least it seems so. Four startups divided well over half a million in prizes. SUBmerge Baltic from Latvia won the 10,000 EUR TechChill community cash prize, Salesforge from Estonia brought home 150,000 EUR of syndicate funding from BADideas.fund and 100,000 EUR of funding from DEPO Ventures. FleetFox from Estonia won 75,000 EUR in funding from BADideas.fund, and Silo Team from Sweden won a 250,000 EUR investment opportunity from Look AI Ventures.
Additional winners of Fifty Founders Battle prizes include:
- Sorsera – Fast track to startup academy by Genesis and Meta provided by TRMNL4
- FleetFox – Startup Brand Development Kit workth 5K provided by idealers
- Legal Nodes – 5,000 EUR worth of outdoor advertising provided by JCDecaux Latvia
- FleetFox – Snapchat Excellence Award, 10,000 EUR advertising credit
- RoboMed, Legal Nodes, EsaDres – Draper University Hero Program Tuition
- FleetFox – 10,000 EUR QA audit from TestDevLab
- Sorsera, Affire, eID Easy – 2000 EUR for product health checks from TestDevLab
The Fifty Founders Battle received 388 applications from 57 countries, a record amount of applications from around the globe. On day 1 of TechChill, 50 semi-finalists pitched on stage to the jury.
TechChill was attended by over 2300 attendees from 40 countries, 250 investors, 600 startup representatives, more than 60 media representatives, 110+ speakers, and more than 35 side events.