A new edition of Techsylvania will take place in early June 2015.Īnother event, but this time dedicated to students was 3 Day Startup Cluj ( ). An interesting part of the event was the hackathon on wearables and connected technologies, in which teams could develop solutions to various problems based technologies mentioned above. Techsylvania ( ) positioned itself as an event with international perspective, focused on innovation in hardware technologies (examples of devices that could be tested at the event: jawbone, Google Glass, Pebble, Sphero, Onyx Beacons, Leap Motion, Withings, EyeTribe Tracker). Each edition has gathered around 10 local startups invited to pitch.
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Transylvania Demoday ( ) has counted two editions last year (in April and in December) and consisted of a session of 5-minute pitches plus questions from the jury. Beyond the large number of participants, surprising was that all the 4 winning teams were led by women, which could mean a step towards a maturing ecosystem and a gradual increase of female involvement (frequently discussed issue in more advanced ecosystems, there even exist investment funds focused on supporting female tech entrepreneurship) In March we had the well-known Startup Weekend Cluj ( ), at its third edition. Basically participants came with startup ideas and during the event they worked on developing it under the guidance of those 20 mentors. The following topics were addressed: business model, customer validation, pitching, marketing for startups and investment. It was a week-long event with international mentors and workshops designed to give participants a clear vision of what lean startup is. Startup Pirates Cluj ( ) - its first edition took place in February 2014.
Regarding events we should note the emergence of several new concepts, so that almost every month was taken by one of them: In the following lines, I tried a classification based on the size and overall purpose of these initiatives and, then, a reminder of several startups that got noticed in the last year.
In general, I feel that Cluj ecosystem is settling down the “brownian movement” with support initiatives for startups seems clearer now and I believe we’re entering a phase of growth in which the “actors” are already known and they will keep on playing and improving their role. As in the previous 2 years, it’s time for a review of the past 12 months.
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