Where ideas
become businesses

We encourage the integration of academia into the startup ecosystem by building an academic mentoring community and support programmes for student startups.

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20+ student startups

21Student
startups
33Mentors
46Student
founders
13Faculties
$350kFunds raised so far

From a student idea to a startup launch

Through startup mentoring programmes developed at FON, we support students in growing from student teams into sustainable startups. With continuous mentoring, we give teams the knowledge, skills and contacts they need to launch into the startup ecosystem.

Mentoring support
The mentors in our programme are teachers with domain expertise trained for mentoring, working together with external experts.
Access to resources and the startup network
Teams have access to resources and to a network of contacts in their industry, which helps them develop faster and present themselves to the startup ecosystem and investors.

Results achieved

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Artemi Studios

Nov - Oct 2024

Raising Starts

Received mentoring support and funding of 15,000 Swiss francs.

NavBlind

Jul - Oct 2024, Belgrade

SIA – Social Impact Award

Winners of the Social Impact Award, a programme that helps young people discover the field of social entrepreneurship and take their first steps towards building a social business. Since 2009 it has supported young social entrepreneurs in more than 25 countries. SIA includes incubation and mentoring that help ideas come to life.

NavBlind

Jun - Aug 2024, Skopje/Remote

GIST Innovates The Balkans

Participants in a pre-acceleration programme run by Arizona State University using the Lean methodology, aimed at exploring the US market through intensive Customer Discovery.

par.co

Jun - Oct 2024, Belgrade

SIA – Social Impact Award Serbia

Won first place in the grand final of the Social Impact Award Serbia programme.

Support programmes for student startups

Join one of our programmes and start your path to the market with the support of experienced mentors and a community of entrepreneurs.

“Studying while working on your own idea sounds really exciting, but it is just as hard. We set off on that path on our own and never imagined how much taking part in Route2Launch would speed it up and make it easier. On paper it is only 4 months of mentoring. In practice it means countless hours of quality work with mentors, meeting investors and successful entrepreneurs, socialising, constant growth and preparing for big steps. Conclusion: not to be missed!”
Sava Pavlović
CEO, Co-Founder
“We are very grateful for the opportunity and for the great mentors. The workshops really helped us and opened our eyes to things we hadn't thought about or had been looking at from the wrong angle. Above all, we redefined our target group, which is very important for us. Thank you for the guidance from the very beginning. It's good to know we have great support from great people right at the start.”
Anđela Kanjo
CEO
Filip Oketić
CEO
"If you want to enter the world of startups, I warmly recommend Route2Launch. The knowledge you will gain at the workshops, the feedback you will get on your pitches and the communication you will have with your mentors are invaluable. All of this will help you turn your idea into reality. :)"
Lazar Cvetković
CEO