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. Check out those who have already done this!
A versatile prize
Equally important to the 35 000€ funding is the know-how, trainings, advice and useful contacts made during the Prototron program.
Anyone can participate
Applicants may be individuals as well as businesses with projects from all fields, especially: greentech, digitalization of industry, new materials, health-tech and fintech.
Prototron round timeline
Get READY! selected 50 teams participate in a training covering financing, intellectual property, prototyping and sales. Experts from Veebimajutus will run landing-page building workshop to help you to validate your idea.
WOW – get STEADY! The selected TOP30 teams get a full-day of one-to-one mentoring sessions. Following with Pitch-training and crowdfunding pilot-campaign.
And – GO! Final presentation to the Prototron’s Expert Committee, which will decide the winners.
Winner takes it all: up to 35 000€ equity free funding for prototyping, incubation at Startup incubator, R&D mentoring from TalTECH and legal aid form Hedman. The winners will be announced on the startup conference Latitude59.
Prototron 2020 Autumn fund is baked by Swedbank Estonia, TalTech, Tallinn Science park Tehnopol , BuildIt Latvia, Swedbank Latvia, LMT, CoModule and Samsung Electronics – 50 000€ in total!
Prototron Alumni

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.

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.

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.

Name of the team: Shipitwise
Grant from Prototron: 7,000 eur
Year of investment: 2016
Shipitwise is automating the logistics domain and makes it possible for anyone to organise shipping of anything to anywhere. Making various logistics service providers virtually co-operate in side our platform, Shipitwise builds logistics chains from scratch with various first and last mile couriers, packaging facilities, transit companies, customs brokers and insurance companies.

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.

Name of the team: Qminder
Grant from Prototron: 3,100 eur
Year of investment: 2012
Qminder is a queue management system that improves that provides real-time data insights allowing more efficient queue planning.
News
TOP50 of the Spring Round 2021

Prototron has launched a spring call for proposals, with a deadline of 25 March

25th round: Prototron funded 8 teams with a record 120,000 euros

TOP50 teams of autumn round 2020

Prototron brings youngsters closer to business through a technological competition
A total of 70,000 euros was distributed in the 2020 spring round of Prototron

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