We want to thank our gracious judges (Dory, Luka and Nikola), mentors and presenting partners, as well as congratulate all of the teams for their selection and especially Luccid for taking the first place in the competition.
TLDR
AI Startup Demo Night is a mentoring and prize programme for AI startups who want to boost their path to success.
The mentoring is remote and will take place between 19 – 25 March, with the final pitching event at 18:00 on 26 March at Startit Center Belgrade.
Apply with your startup to get mentoring from Startit’s team and our mentors and compete for the 1st-place prize of 500 € for the best pitch.
Are you a founder of an AI startup in Serbia?
AI startup = you are building a product that uses AI to deliver value in a way that was not possible before the LLM revolution.
Will you benefit from a bigger network of experienced AI people and mentoring?
If the answer to both questions is yes, then this is the thing for you.
Half an hour of your time for selection, 2 hours for mentoring and another 2 for the pitching event if you’re selected.
If selected, you’ll receive assessment and pitch training from Startit’s team, connections to mentors, and PR through Startit’s channels. First place wins 500 €.
Organized by Startit with support from Solflare, Altlabs, Zuhlke, Streamflow, Mihailo Bjelić, Mališa Pušonja, and Aleksandar Bijelić.
Startit is one of the longest-running ecosystem support organizations in Serbia. Over 17 years we’ve organized 100+ pitching events, the first back in 2011, and have been recognized by Google and the European Commission.
Milan is a tech executive with deep experience running large enterprise departments. As Country Manager for Nortal he is spearheading the team’s transformation into the AI-first era.
Nikola has been building solutions for six years within Belgrade’s MDCS, working on Copilot-style solutions before the name was invented.
Head of AI Engineering at Goodnotes, previously at Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and the Serbian Institute of Nuclear Sciences.
After earning a PhD in machine learning, Miloš has held leading roles in data science and AI. His research focus is generative-AI and LLM security.
A Serbian tech-scene OG since 2000, 15 years in leadership at Levi9; currently CTO at 2 000-person consulting firm Nortal.
Entrepreneur & CTO with 20+ years of experience, creating and leading teams from startups to corporates.
Improving products with AI for more than a decade; built ML/DS teams and guest-lectures at Belgrade’s ETF.
Product designer with 10+ years in local startups; designed multiple text-interface products including Orgnostic (acquired by Culture Amp); co-hosts the Zalet podcast.
Product designer for 15 years, focused on AI products since 2021 with Instapage and Zendesk.
Two decades in tech; last six years as CIO at Karanović & Partners, integrating AI into legal workflows.
Director of European operations for Martian, the startup that created the first LLM router. Recent interview (Serbian).
Seasoned entrepreneur and co-founder of Connect the Dots, which uses AI to leverage organizational connections.
If you need any additional inputs — [email protected], and we’ll get back to you promptly.
