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MSQRD
MSQRD
How to build an app that reaches 1 million users in less than two months and gets acquired by Facebook just 4 months after its creation? This is the story of the fun face filter app MSQRD that got started in Garage48 GameHack in Minsk, back in November 2015 and got more than 1 million downloads during the first month after the release. Now it is in the top free iPhone app in the USA, and the TOP-1 app in more than 50 countries. SHIPITWISE
SHIPITWISE
Shipitwise founders attended Garage48 Tourism Pärnu 2015 hackathon and started to build something out of the initial idea they had. It is a platform for travellers to book shipping for their sports equipment and other belongings around the world. After the hack, they applied to Startup Wise Guys accelerator and got accepted. They raised their first investment worth of €176,200 in a very short but effective time period. GOWORKABIT
GOWORKABIT
GoWorkaBit laid its foundation at Garage48 Women Special Hackathon in Pärnu in October 2013. Kei, the founder, had been working in HR industry and saw the need to connect companies that need urgent workforce for short periods and people who want to work for short terms, only for a bit so to say. She pitched the idea at Garage48 event and met Gerli and Ethel for the first time there. Kristjan, who is today CEO of GoWorkaBit, attended the event as a mentor. Their revenue in 2014 was 430K and 1M a year later. VITALFIELDS
VITALFIELDS
VitalFields founded at and awarded with “Best Innovator“ prize at Garage48 Tartu hackathon in August 2011. VitalFields helps you manage your fields at ease with a modern simplified tracking and reporting tool. The company is based in Estonia with clients from the Baltics, UK, USA, Poland and Ukraine and with plans to rapidly expand its operations to Germany, Hungary and Denmark. In 2016 the company was acquired by Monsanto, which merged with Bayer in 2018. FRACTORY
FRACTORY
Fractory is an on-demand manufacturing platform that streamlines outsourcing between engineers and suppliers. The founders built the idea during Garage48 Student Startup Camp
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A GARAGE48 HACKATHON is a 48-hour intense weekend marathon, where up to 150 participants gather in a big room and pitch about 20 to 30 ideas on stage, with the aim for turning those ideas into viable prototypes.
Our hackathons are shaped around diverse focus points varying from theme-based ones with IT skillset requirements, to MAKE-ATHON events where the main focus is on creating physical objects instead of IT-based prototypes (e.g. Wood, Hardware & Arts series, Defence etc.). Host a hackathon!
IDEA GARAGE IS A 1-DAY EVENT where participants from different fields come together and pitch various ideas, form teams and build paper-prototypes in an accelerated format. The main aim is to spread basic awareness about the given topic and get an initial validation on ideas. The event gathers together around 40 to 80 participants and lasts 8 hours. It is similar to our regular hackathon format with shortened time scale and even more intense set-up. It is the PERFECT EVENT TO PILOT-TEST YOUR IDEAS and lay the foundations of a viable business plan. Host an IDEA GARAGE! A STUDENT STARTUP CAMP IS A 5-DAY COURSE, dedicated to university students to focus on teamwork, intensive mentoring, hands-on experiences about specific topics in respect of launching a tech startup.
BY THE END OF THE WEEK, STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO SUBMIT A WORKING PROTOTYPE. All students are guided by top-notch mentors as a part of Garage48 format.
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BaseCamp is Garage48’s brand-new, exclusive hackathon format, built in cooperation with SUPERANGEL , in order to help young, future unicorns and provide them with the necessary care, funding and advice through SUPER ANGEL ALPINE HOUSE PROGRAMME - 12-month altitude training for startups. Learn more
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