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Monday Achivements
1. Achievements (in chronological order)
I. Won InnovationLabs 2015 - Best Business
Innovation Labs is a 3 month mentorship program, the biggest pre-acceleration program in
Romania now held in 4 cities around Romania. The event was hosted by Tech Lounge with
the help of Orange, Carrefour România, Microsoft YouthSpark, Romanian-American
Foundation and their partners: Ixia, FotoNation, Adobe, Intel Software, Electronic Arts,
Microchip, Cisco, Onyx Beacon, Asociaţia Patronală a Industriei de Software şi Servicii
(ANIS), Spherik Accelerator, Techsylvania, with the media help of Ziarul Financiar, Forbes,
Electronica Azi, Today Software Magazine.
More info:
- http://www.innovationlabs.ro
II. Selected as one of 32 finalists of Startup Spotlight 2015
Monday was selected as one of the “Early stage” companies
32 tech startups that have been selected to attend How to Web Startup Spotlight this
November. The 4th edition of our competition and mentoring program will bring together
teams from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Latvia, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and
Hungary. They are working on tech products with disruptive potential in fields such as
software, hardware, Internet of Things, mobile, fintech or medtech and it’s now time to
congratulate them all.
More info:
- http://2015.howtoweb.co/startup-spotlight/
- http://2015.howtoweb.co/whos-coming/
- http://blog.howtoweb.co/2015/11/32-tech-startups-from-9-countries-will-attend-how-to-web-
startup-spotlight/
III. Selected for ETHOS II program in South Korea
ETHOS is a World Bank Group activity funded by the Korea-World Bank Group
Partnership Facility(KWPF) and implemented by State University of New York, Korea
(SUNY Korea) and National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA).
State University of New York (SUNY) in partnership with World Bank developed a two
weeks program in order to provide extensive consultation and follow up feedbacks to
guarantee the sustainability of ICT ventures and small business enterprises. In addition, it
arranged numbers of visits to successful ICT enterprises and provide opportunities to
enhance networking with professional ICT experts. Furthermore, ETHOS contributed to
2. the overall expansion of the development of ICT entrepreneurship in developing counties
to invigorate economic development.
More info:
- http://ethos.sunykorea.ac.kr/?page_id=189