What began in 2023 as a bold idea to connect ambitious founders across Europe has evolved into a 5th international acceleration experience and a new investment.
After two intensive, fully online months, the latest AceON Accelerator´s program officially concluded with Demo Day. Each start-up was evaluated on its potential and team strength by AceON Investment Committee:
- Ján Kasper, Co-founder & Managing Partner at ZAKA VC, Co-founder of AceON Accelerator
- Peter Pašek, Managing Director & Partner at Accace Slovakia, Co-founder of AceON Accelerator
- Andrej Petrus, Partner & Head of Investment Committee at ZAKA VC
- Ján Búza, Partner at ZAKA VC
25 start-ups, 16 countries, 1 shared ambition
This batch brought together 25 start-ups from 16 different countries, including Romania, the UK, Ireland, the US, Czech Republic, Spain, or Poland. Once again, it proved that innovation knows no borders, and we fostered strong collaboration and discussion, and facilitating 80+ connections between start-ups and expert mentors, alumni founders, and other members of the AceON community.
We covered essential hands-on topics through lectures on pitch deck, fundraising, venture capital, valuation & dilution, market, business models, term sheet, AI, and more, followed by pitch training with feedback from our investment committee for every start-up.
Founders joined the program from various industries and at different stages, yet all were aligned by a single goal: building scalable, investment-ready companies.
Meet the start-ups that pitched at Demo Day
Below is the list of 23 start-ups that pitched at our Demo Day. Check them all out:
- Aeda Wallet (based in Czech Republic) - a digital wallet that helps migrants, freelancers, and remote workers send and receive digital money across borders instantly, easily, in any currency, and almost for free
- JST Medics (based in Italy) - using AI to create interactive 3D virtual models, helping medical professionals with treatment planning and surgical support.
- Scorespots (based in Slovakia) - digital marketplace for European sports venues
- Partenit (based in Spain) - humanoid-first memory OS that helps with transformation of empty robots to skilled workers in days
- COR3 (based in Germany) - makes laws understandable with an end-to-end regulatory noise-canceling platform
- TrustPass (based in Romania) - an innovative decentralized identity management solution paired with advanced password security measures, providing a comprehensive approach to digital security
- YourSkills (based in the UK) - Skills-First AI Platform that helps businesses identify skills, matching talents to the right projects and upskill them with AI
- Finduo (based in Poland) - a marketplace connecting accounting offices with entrepreneurs
- Opinio AI (based in Czech Republic) - a unique solution that helps businesses de-risk decisions with relevant data from synthetic respondents & segments
- KnowledgeVerse AI (based in the USA) - offers a middleware that connects the documents to AI and automates workflows with precision and scale
- DATA SWEEP (based in Romania) - AI research platform curating global knowledge from 250M+ scientific papers and 3.1M quantitative indicators
- Talent Square (based in the USA) - transforming the recruiting with AI-driven job ads adjusted for the social media era that generates high-quality candidate leads
- URBNED (based in the UK) - an app for immigrants to save money and time
- Green Things (based in Slovakia) - bringing technology to the golf course management with a smart monitoring platform
- NEREID (based in Greece) - a management platform connecting marinas, boaters and marine service businesses
- Tapaya (based in Czech Republic) - an universal software terminal component to power any merchant, business or fintech mobile application
- Know Your Dosh (based in the UK) - the finance management platform helping families across 60 countries take control of their financial wellbeing
- Aivis (based in Morocco and Netherlands) - a platform transforming fleet management from monitoring to automated decision making with AI-Agents
- Deliverance Enterprises (based in Spain) - the ultimate robotics solution for asset management
- Shemha Health (based in Bulgaria) - AI-powered clinical decision support system utilized to analyze complex oncology cases, providing evidence-based diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations
- Garnet AI (based in Ireland) - AI-powered platform transforming vendor compliance from a weeks-long process into hours
- Emotrace (based in France) - AI platform transforming data into personalized experiences that truly enhance well-being
- Seniority (based in Ukraine) - B2B SaaS platform that turns employee growth into gamified adventure
At the end of Demo Day, the committee selected a start-up for a €40K investment from AceON Accelerator. Congratulations to JST Medics and the team behind this innovative company! 🎉
