Kaunas

We are the largest platform for Eastern European programming services and products, bringing together over 1,250 companies with over a hundred thousand developers. Over 200 companies are active members of customer exchange, exchanging the unsuitable customers for the right ones. Although we only launched it a year ago, Aciety TAP coupon is already accepted by over 30 companies with over 70 products; we have signed more than 7 million Euro TAP coupon commodate contracts. Aciety is one of the first crowd-funded companies in Eastern Europe. We unite about 50 investors who have provided approximately 150 thousand euros to finance us. In 2014 we won the Brilliant Young Entrepreneurs competition (15 000 EUR) and in 2017 and 2019 we received the European Union cluster export activity financing. In 2016, when the business was just beginning to accelerate, we won the Kaunas startups competition (18 000 EUR) and this year, we thank the city with the same amount of money as the founders of the prize. I am very pleased with the work done by Tadas Stankeviius and his team - the ability to unite Kaunas startups and raise the city internationally. We feel honored to be able to contribute. Why did you choose Kaunas as a home for your startup? After living in the US, England, South Korea, Kazakhstan, and Latvia it became clear that each place has its pros and cons in terms of personal and professional life. Although we were developing Aciety with Dovydas Bulanaviius and Tomas Pagirys while living in different countries, later we gathered in Kaunas to continue our work. In my view, Kaunas offers a "buzz" of a city that is big but not too big, a rapidly developing startup ecosystem and slowly-emerging yet untapped talents.