Boost your idea with up to 35 000 euro financing
Teams supported
Given for prototypes
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.
Prototron round timeline
Get Ready! Go to the Prototron Academy to get acquainted with startup development materials and prepare for a successful application.
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.
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, mentoring from TalTECH and legal aid form law firm Hedman Partners.
Prototron round fund is backed by Swedbank Estonia, TalTech, Tallinn Science park Tehnopol and the city of Tallinn – up to 75 000€ in total!
Prototron Alumni
Name of the team: Antelope
Grant from Prototron: 8,500 eur
Year of investment: 2013
Antelope Surgical unites a team of skilled programmers, software architects and designers that closely co-operate with surgeons and doctors to create high-precision medical imaging software
Name of the team: Heelosophy
Grant from Prototron: 1,380 eur
Year of investment: 2013
Heelosophy creates perfectly fitting insoles that support feet in exactly the right places, based on podiatric principles.
Name of the team: Organic Filters
Grant from Prototron: 8,463 eur
Year of investment: 2013
Vetikatel baseeruv õhupuhastusseade
Name of the team: Ultrinia
Grant from Prototron: 50,000 eur
Year of investment: 2014
Ultrinia develops a nano-technological method for the detection of diseases and dope.
Name of the team: Wise Velocity
Grant from Prototron: 9,000 eur
Year of investment: 2014
Wise Velocity activity tracker works with all vehicles: cars, motorbikes, go-karts and anything else with an engine. Collects and saves driving data from different motorsport types (circuit racing, autocross, drifting, drag racing etc.) Recorded data is saved to the internal memory and transmitted via Bluetooth to any smartphone, tablet, smart watch or computer.
Name of the team: BlindSense
Grant from Prototron: 8,106 eur
Year of investment: 2014
BlindSense targets blind people along with educational institutes and blind organizations to enhance the blind people’ life in different fields. The device consists of a touch head along with one refreshable Braille unit, the blind user can use this device to point into anything over smartphones and tablets so the information will be shown in Braille with voice feedback as an option.
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