THE 3rd FINNO PITCHING ACADEMIA is finished!

During this September, 15 start-ups from 7 countries (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Latvia, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Spain):

  1. A2S Projects & Engineering I A2S Integrated Wastewater Solutions I Andrija Avramović I Serbia
  2. Beointech I Highly Active Zinc Oxide I Aleksandar Janackovic I Serbia
  3. Ride & Stride I Ride & Stride I Uros Arsenijevic I Serbia
  4. NoxAvis Tech Solutions I HeliDoc I Magdalena Druml I Austria
  5. QMS Business Consulting d.o.o I @Block.ba I Nedzad Oruc I Bosnia and Herzegovina
  6. ai I WellPet.ai I Nikola Milanovic I Serbia
  7. Loomee I Loomee Health I Francisco J. Tavira, PhD I Spain
  8. AgrO3 I AgrO3 backpack sprayer I Milos Stankovic I Serbia
  9. Presta – Digital Product agency I UCPhub I Vladeta Radovanovic I Serbia
  10. AI® I The Glogosphere Platform I Anja Pleskonjic I Serbia
  11. Smartbrain I Smartbrain I Juan Ramón Llorente I Spain
  12. Enigma I ENTRAINER™ I Gjorgji Dimovski I North Macedonia
  13. SIA Miljonāra prāts I The Millionaire Mind I Lauris Lauskis I Latvia
  14. LRK CAPITAL I lv I Rihards Lācis I Latvia
  15. CuraScript GmbH I CuraScript I Jurgen Werner I Germany

were guided by the 14 EEN mentors from 9 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Serbia, and Spain) under the FINNO Pitching Academia 2026:

  1. Vesna Raskovic Depalov I EEN Serbia – Enterprise Europe Network Serbia
  2. Justus Schünemann I EEN NRW / NRW.Europa
  3. Débora Monteiro Moretti I EEN NRW / NRW.Europa
  4. Wim Pappaert I Enterprise Europe Network Vlaanderen
  5. Janne Kindt I Enterprise Europe Network Vlaanderen
  6. Maja Arslanagic-Kalajdzic I Enterprise Europe Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina-BITNET consortium
  7. Lisa-Maria Grames I Enterprise Europe Network Austria
  8. Elisabeth Hauer I Enterprise Europe Network Austria
  9. Andreea Mighiu I Enterprise Europe Network Italia
  10. Eduardo Camina Paniagua I EEN_ Seimed
  11. Helle Vedel Friis I Enterprise Europe Network Danmark
  12. Agnieszka Tkacz I Polska Agencja Rozwoju Przedsiębiorczości (PARP)
  13. Natasa Vujnovic Sedlar I EEN Serbia – Enterprise Europe Network Serbia
  14. Giovanni Marcantonio I Enterprise Europe Network Italia

 

The FINNO Pitching Academia started on 7th of September with the kick off meeting between start-ups, mentors, and organisators. Success story of the FINNO Pitching Academia 2025 was presented by Kruna Ratkovic and Natasa Kovac from MoDrone.

During three weeks of the program, each start-up had a mentor and co-mentor working on improving their investment readiness based on IRS Report that each start-up did:

👉 Pitch deck for pre-seed / seed investors

👉 One pager for investors

👉 Scale hacker, an assessment of start-up’s growth stage with KPIs needed for the next stage

 

The FINNO Pitching Academia ended up with an online closed pitching sessions in front of:

🎤 Investors:
Nina Dremelj I Vesna deep tech Venture Fund
Audra Elena Shallal I INNIVIA VENTURES

🎤 EEN jury members:

José Vilar Gonzálbez Fot. I EEN_ Seimed I TG Start-up and Scale-up chair
Raffaella Bruzzone I Enterprise Europe Network Italia I TG Access to Finance chair
Julia Richter I Bavarian Research Alliance (BayFOR) GmbH

 

This year, the FINNO Pitching Academia 2026 was organizated by Enterprise Europe Network – FINNO, managed by: Vesna Raskovic Depalov, FINNO Coordinator and Justus Schumenamm, TG Start-up and Scale up co-chair, and supported by EEN communication correspondents: Barbara Dmitrovic I Enterprise Europe Network – Slovenija and Aida Kapičija I Enterprise Europe Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina-BITNET consortium, and Edina Babnik, PhD I FINNO Deputy Coordinator I Enterprise Europe Network – Slovenija.