Shape the Future App Economy of Europe Workshop / Brussels, Belgium / 14th June 2013 Eiso Kant is co-founder and managing director at Tyba, a platform for junior talent to showcase their professional potential and for recruiters to connect with the candidates. He also founded the Twollars service in 2008, and has previously worked with Booz & Company and AkzoNobel. His passions include entrepreneurship, startups, and solving real world problems by building useful internet applications.

1. Tyba’s measures for success and barriers to achieving them
Prepared for Eurapp, June 2013

3. Tyba is an early-stage startup based in Madrid
• Opened our offices September 2011 in
Madrid, Spain
• 10 person team from 6 different
countries
• Growing to 20+ people this year
• Currently in the process of closing a
>1mm seed round (announcement
coming soon)

4. Key measures for success
• Viral growth factor
• # of people placed in jobs & internships
• Key companies on board per geography
• Penetration rate within key universities
• Key people in Tyba’s talent pipeline
• Securing public funding

5. Tyba’s #1 challenge in Madrid is recruiting
engineering talent
• Top talent in Spain is difficult to reach
out to and attract to startups
• We see a switch in mentality that more
young engineers choose startups vs.
corporates, so that they “can have an
impact on the product”
However, it is still early-days

6. We see huge potential to build talent-bridges
between countries in the EU
• To expand our talent pool we decided to
start building talent bridges:
Starting with Portugal-Spain:
• Hosting hackathon events (first
Oporto
one 4-7th July in Lisbon)
• Reaching out to local developer
communities
• Improving communication
between the cities
Lisbon
Madrid

7. Our team

8. Thank you
Eiso Kant
Co-founder & Managing Director
Write me!
eiso@tyba.com