About
Founded in 2021 by the Impact Hub Tbilisi initiative team, the Startup Accelerator was developed after completing a premier international acceleration training. Leveraging this expertise, the team created a tailored local acceleration program designed to address the specific challenges of the regional startup ecosystem.
Since its inception, the program has nurtured four cohorts, involving 81 startups in total, with participants securing up to $2 million in investment and grants.
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During the past ten years, while working in various international business organizations, Elene gained extensive experience in partnership building and start-up facilitation. In 2016 she co-founded Impact Hub Tbilisi to contribute to the development of entrepreneurship in Georgia and put the country on the global entrepreneurial map.
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Ketevan Ebanoidze is a co-founder and co-CEO of Impact Hub Tbilisi. She currently manages the Impact Hub Tbilisi team and the constantly growing community. She is responsible for fundraising, designing, and implementing programs aimed at promoting entrepreneurship among diverse communities. Ketevan is a lecturer at Business and Technology University, where she is leading a course on Introduction to Entrepreneurship. She has experience mentoring startups of diverse industries.
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Mirian Khomeriki has nine years of project and executive management experience in diverse sectors of government, education, banking, private, and non-profit. Previously, he was managing digital projects as a Scrum/Agile master and digital projects lead at one of the UK's largest charities, Marie Curie. Before that he was leading the mobile development team in Georgia’s biggest digital-creative agency, Leavingstone. Under his supervision, more than 40 mobile and web solutions were delivered to the British, German and Georgian markets. Currently, he is head of engineering at Clientela, creating digital platforms for brands like Chloe, Chartier, Carolina Herrera and others. He also teaches at Geolab, delivers talks and mentors startups.
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Nino Nanitashvili has ten years of experience in the field of human capital development and social transformation via her roles in private, public, and non-profit sectors. She has spearheaded business development and product design for AgriTech, EduTech, and CivicTech projects and has engaged more than three thousand Georgian youth and women in tech and entrepreneurship. She is currently working for Google for Startups Accelerator programs across Europe and consults on the topics of startups and innovations.
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Vaska Chubinidze is an entrepreneur and founder of two successful, innovative start-ups. After graduating with a degree in Business Administration and Marketing from the Free University, he started a career in advertising and became the strategic planner of Georgia’s leading advertising company Windfor’s. In addition to his many entrepreneurial projects he also teaches marketing at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.