Georgia’s tech agency reveals winning startups of co-financing grant programme
Eye2Eye, Roommate Georgia, Retain, Horsetours, Zeussing, Adviso, Connect, Data Studio, metric.ge, Mirimex, Wiggly AL, Promofy, Sfero, tasteit, Herio, Student Hunt, SmartSense, ArenaGames, Compound, and ARREALLY were named as the winners of the grant project. Photo: The Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency
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Startups for raising employment efficiency, improving students’ access to accommodation and enabling individuals and businesses to find qualified freelancers are among projects unveiled as winners of the Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency’s grant programme.
The GITA on Thursday revealed 20 winners had been selected to receive ₾150,000 ($55,393) each, noting the startups were chosen by an investment committee composed of “high-level international venture investors”.
The selected projects also involve initiatives enabling horse riding guides to digitise their services, offering a digital space for medical consumers and providers, and more.
Eye2Eye, Roommate Georgia, Retain, Horsetours, Zeussing, Adviso, Connect, Data Studio, metric.ge, Mirimex, Wiggly AL, Promofy, Sfero, tasteit, Herio, Student Hunt, SmartSense, ArenaGames, Compound, and ARREALLY were named as the winners of the grant project.
Announced in July by the GITA, the programme involved funding for 159 projects across 10 rounds hosted so far, while the top 20 startups in the 11th round were chosen by foreign experts, with the finalists, trained by international professionals, pitching their ideas to the jury.
The programme aims to develop innovative products and services of “international potential” in Georgia, their commercialisation, and stimulation of creation of innovative enterprises.
Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency has announced a ₾25,000 ($9,264) co-financing grant competition for eastern Kakheti and central Kvemo Kartli regions with the aim of promoting and strengthening local innovative and technological ecosystems, the Agency said on Monday.
Avtandil Kasradze, the Chair of Georgia's Innovation and Technology Agency, held meetings in Japan to brief the Japanese partners about the development of Georgian innovation and technology “ecosystem” and to internationalise the country’s startups in the Japanese market, the Agency said on Saturday.
Projects for improving efficiency in small and medium-sized businesses, reducing cost of management, promoting healthy lifestyle and more have been unveiled as winners of the Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency’s grant programme.
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Georgian Deputy Economy Minister Irakli Nadareishvili and Georgia's Innovation and Technology Agency on Wednesday signed an agreement the German KfW state development bank to support Georgia's innovative startup ecosystem with about ₾15 million “over the coming years”.
Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili on Friday said the Government would continue to support of technology and innovation sector due to its importance for a “transformation” of the economy.
Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency and Partisia Blockchain, a company specialising in privacy-preserving, interoperable and sustainable blockchain solutions, on Thursday signed a memorandum to promote innovative technology using multiparty computation and blockchain in Georgia.