Startup ecosystems have no shortage of conferences. There are stages. Panels. Pitch competitions. Name badges. Carefully prepared presentations about innovation. Vilnius Founders is trying to create something slightly different. Its preferred description is considerably simpler: “No slides. No suits. Just honest conversations.” Launched in 2024, Vilnius Founders is a founder-driven community bringing together startup builders,…

A startup ecosystem is more than the startups themselves. It also needs investors, universities, accelerators, mentors, events, public institutions and, perhaps most importantly, people who make sure all of those groups actually know about one another. In Kaunas, one of the organisations trying to make those connections happen is Kaunas IN. Kaunas IN is a public…