After the great success of the Balkan Venture Forum (BkVF) in Sofia in May 2013, VIBE – the ‘Venture Initiative for Balkan Europe’ announces the fourth Balkan Venture Forum to take place in Tirana, Albania, on November 14 -15, 2013.
The BkVF is a leading investment and innovation forum in the region created to facilitate access to finance, improve investor readiness for the region’s business community and to foster entrepreneurship development.
Participants will include start-up companies, established SMEs, new and experienced entrepreneurs, support agencies, innovation experts, policy makers and a wide array of high-level international venture capitalists and investors.
The diverse and rich programme of the event will also include a pitching competition.
The application deadline is October 25, 2013.
Additionally, a Venture Academy will take place on September 28-29 in Tirana for interested start-ups.
The BkVF is one of the main objectives of the SEE Programme project VIBE (Venture Initiative in Balkan Europe) and is being co-financed by the European Union. SEERC is the Greek partner in the VIBE project.