The project is co-financed by the Governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

About the V4 FireSide Chat

This program for startups from the V4 countries is dedicated to the pre-seed and seed stage high-tech projects. Thanks to V4FireSideChat startup get better prepared for working with international investors! 

V4 FireSide Chat (2023) was the first online program that invited startups from the CEE region to expose the quality of the Visegrad Region innovativness to the world. During V4FSC selected startups had a chance to gain hands-on experience tghrough mentoring, meetings with investors and demodays (4).

In every chapter 10 participating startups have expanded their knowledge about the CEE ecosystem and network in the region. During the program, startups have participated in a Role Playing Game where they have emulated Silicon Valley most legendary investors in order to express constructive criticism and understand better the VC point of view.

After every Fire Side Chat top 6 startups fro a given country have moved on to our meet-up stage with an specially crafted set of workshops fitting their needs. We have celebrated our top 6 from every chapter durign an online Demo Day! 

Discover all 4 chapters

Poland

Poland was the host of the first chapter of last year (2023). V4🔥FireSide Chat in Poland has brought a new toolkit and a startup catalog to remember from our inaugural chapter!

Hungary

In later 2023 the Program moved to Hungary. Below you will find the Toolkit with information about the startup ecosystem in Hungary!

Slovakia

Our third chapter took place in Slovakia, a home of top green-tech and cyber-security solutions. In the Slovak toolkit can find  some pro-tips from our Slovak Chapter!

Czechia

In the Czech Republic, we launched the project in early 2024, focusing primarily on AI-driven startups for the final phase. Check out our Czech toolkit and keynotes.

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