Boost your idea with up to 35 000 euro financing

SUBMIT YOUR IDEA
until Sept 15
Deadline is coming closer:
98
Teams supported
1 218 000 €
Given for prototypes
72 000 000 €
Raised by alumni teams

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SUBMIT IDEA
Tähtaeg läheneb:
98
Teams supported
1 278 000 €
Given for prototypes
82 000 000 €
Raised by alumni teams

Up to 35 000€ equity free funding and mentoring. We help you create a functional prototype and start a successful business!

Support for ideas with potential

Prototron was created to help turn smart and innovative ideas into tangible prototypes to grow into major businesses!

A versatile prize

Equally important to the 35 000€ funding is the mentoring, trainings and useful contacts made during the Prototron program.

Anyone can participate

Applicants may be individuals as well as businesses with ideas from all the technical verticals.

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Prototron round timeline

ACADEMY

Get Ready! Go to the Prototron Academy to get acquainted with startup development materials and prepare for a successful application.

APPLICATION DEADLINE
Think through your idea, read our tips and until the midnight
BATCH

Selected teams participate in intensive acceleration program covering financing, intellectual property, prototyping, communication and sales. Teams get mentoring sessions with field experts and investors. Following with Pitch-training and innvest-readiness program.

FINALS

Final presentation to the Prototron’s Expert Committee, which will decide the winners.

And Go! WINNERS

Winner takes it all: up to 35 000€ equity-free funding for prototyping, incubation at Startup incubator, mentoring from TalTECH and legal aid form law firm Hedman Partners, useful tools from Meta Advisory, Avokaado, Veebimatus etc.

Prototron round fund is baked by Swedbank Estonia, TalTech, Tallinn Science park Tehnopol and the city of Tallinn – up to 100 000€ in total!

SUBMIT YOUR IDEA

Expert Committee

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Heidi Kakko In
EstBAN

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Liisi Himma In
Swedbank

madis_raukas

Madis Raukas In
EAS

yrjo-ojasaar

Yrjö Ojasaar In
Change Ventures

jaanus-tamm

Jaanus Tamm In
Defendec

andrus-oks

Andrus Oks In
Tera Ventures

priit-rohumaa

Priit Rohumaa In
Nutshell

Indrek Orav In
Tehnopol

Kristjan Maruste In
Comodule

Mart Maasik In
Tartu Uni ventures

Prototron Alumni

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Name of the team: Lingvist
Grant from Prototron: 9,900 eur
Year of investment: 2013

Lingvist is the first language-learning tool to harness the potential of technology and computational science to decrease learning time significantly and help you learn effectively.

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Global Reader
Name of the team: GlobalReader
Grant from Prototron: 5,600 eur
Year of investment: 2015

GlobalReader provides real-time monitoring of manufacturing machines helping to boost productivity of critical equipment and reduces downtime.

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Name of the team: coModule
Grant from Prototron: 10,534 eur
Year of investment: 2012

a vehicular platform, monitors the battery parameters of electric vehicles and displays the information on its users' phones.

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Shaka
Name of the team: Shaka
Grant from Prototron: 11,640 eur
Year of investment: 2012

A portable battery-less device that connects via 3.5 audio mini-jack to smartphone providing information about the weather.

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3DprinterOS
Name of the team: 3DPrinterOS
Grant from Prototron: 9,560 eur
Year of investment: 2012

A cloud 3D Printer system allowing to manage 3D files, 3D machines and users across a business.

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Flydog
Name of the team: Flydog
Grant from Prototron: 11,242 eur
Year of investment: 2012

Flydog creates software and hardware monitoring solutions for the marine sector, enabling real-time data acquisition and data analysis.

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Last night, the three best business ideas that passed the 29th batch of the Prototron fund created by Swedbank, TalTech and Tehnopoli were revealed. According to the expert panel, the ideas of BatCycle, Smarif, and Wayren are the most innovative, the team of each of them received 20,000 euros in non-participation funding to further develop […]
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This week, mentors selected 47 outstanding business ideas from the Prototron Fall patch, whose teams will be eligible to participate in the 6-week Prototron Mentoring Program. Triin Preem, mentor of Prototron and head of Swedbank’s startup segment: “The presented ideas varied a lot both in terms of topic and maturity. Those ideas whose team and […]
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