Back in 2016, after visiting a university incubator in Estonia, I returned to Ukraine with a simple idea: our students also need a space to test ideas, fail safely, and build things that matter.
For the first two years, we conducted small pilots at various universities. Students volunteered, formed informal...
How do you turn a slow-moving, traditional economy into a thriving innovation hub? 🇦🇹 In this special ViennaUp Festival edition of The Recursive Podcast, we sit down with Awi Lifshitz, CEO of weXelerate – Austria’s largest innovation ecosystem – to explore how bold vision, strategic partnerships, and startup thinking can reshape...
I have been working with startups for a long time, including 3 years as a program manager at Challenger AI, an international acceleration program for AI startups, and as an advisor to other accelerators. Over this time, I’ve noticed that startup teams often make the same mistakes during acceleration...
