Sap / http://sindikata.

org/
At first sight it sounds like the tech giant focusing on enterprise software but in
fact the story around Kosovos S.A.P, starts around the Syndicate of Independent
Algorithms, which is a joint venture between Trembelat, founded by Visar Arifaj,
and Yll Rugova, Tripika, founded by Valon Badiviku as well as Jetmir Mehmetaj,
as an adventurous startup focused on design and web development. In 2013
they worked under the radar, while 2014 its the year when well get the chance
to see their big clients, since they are also working on outsourcing.
Solaborate / https://www.solaborate.com/
Solaborate_web
Founded by Kosovar diaspora entrepreneur Labinot Bytyqi, Solaborate is a
combination of the words social and collaboration and comes as a social
network for technology professionals. Solaborate uses quite some interesting
technologies like HTML5, peer-to-peer video communication for quick chat inside
the platform without any additional plugins, SAP HANA for real-time business
analytics, etc. In April 2013, Solaborate announced it raised more than $1 million
from investors, and at TechEd Las Vegas, the company officially announced the
availability of its public beta. Solaborate is part of of the SAP Startup Focus
program, which supports startups in developing new applications on SAP HANA.
We hear about new upcoming investments in the platform in 2014, and we
expect to break the news here as well.
Bitacademy

Bit Academy Intro from Granit Halili on Vimeo. / http://bit-academy.com/

A case study on ICT trainings in Kosovo performed by Cisco Networking Academy
(NetAcad) states that there is an educated and experienced workforce as a
whole, but its searching higher salaries and better working conditions abroad. In
this study NetAcad revealed that Kosovo makes a perfect ICT Outsourcing
country, and time difference between USA makes it more appealing for the U.S.
market. BIT Academy founded by Korab Osmanaj, tries to fit in those market
gaps and deliver quick and professional training courses in networking as
primary focus, but also on other fields, and deliver professionals to the market.
Even though there are other competitors in this field as well, we have selected
BIT Academy since its new, fresh and has invested in having a fantastic brand
that represents and stands more strongly than the others.
Shpejt.me / http://new.shpejt.me/
Ordering food online is not an innovation nor a novelty, but we like the team and
approach of Shpejt.me and thats why they fully deserve to be on the list of
startups to follow for 2014. Founded by Darsej Rizaj, Gezim Berishaj, Edon
Bajrami and Aridon Hasimja, Shpejt.me is becoming quickly one of the most
reliable products on the market to purchase food online through your
smartphone and have it delivered on time and location with ease. Their solution
includes the web app for businesses as well, and we are excited to see their
quick expansion throughout Kosovos market and soon the regional market.

Shpejt.me not long ago joined the business incubator of Innovation Centre
Kosovo.
Smart Squared / http://www.smart-squared.com/
Even though we are still expecting a product from Dijon Vulas and Dren Imerajs
startup, we are still believing in them especially since the team after being
establishedpitched at the famous Rockstar Accelerator in The Netherlands. We
hear some interesting projects coming up in 2014, so stay tuned. The engineers
behind Smart Squared are making sure to put some interesting surprises for their
customers from time to time, while they are still a bit shy to show the market
what they have been working on thus far.
TekFuze
Tekfuze / http://www.tekfuze.com/index
TekFuze was established in July 2012, while it made its breakthrough debut
during Balkan Venture Forum 2012 in Skopje, being being selected as one of the
best pitches. Fast forward a couple of months later, the startup has established a
stronghold focused on designs and manufacturing of embedded control systems
based on its innovative Modular Configurable Architecture (MCA) approach.
TekFuze designs and manufactures modular electronic control products for
industrial control applications.
Kutia / http://kutia.net/
Arianit Fazliu and Faton Selishta, quickly managed to overcome their challenging
professional journey and establish a startup which has positioned itself in the
market as a unique company in offering web solutions for more creative clients.
Their work is quite impressive and unique in many ways, while every time we
meet clients of them, we hear a lot of positive feedback. A bright future for them
in 2014.
Mandeta / https://www.behance.net/mandeta/

A new startup, which launched in October this year but with a brilliant team
behind it. They started as a spin-off from Telegrafi.com and turned quickly into a
startup focusing on offering solutions for web and print for different clients. Their
name Mandeta stands for the power of the mind and of brilliant ideas, and we
expect many of such in 2014. Some known names like Leutrim Arifi, Ardian Lezi,
Shpetim Shala and Erdis Driza stand behind the team, the work of which is not
unknown to the market, while the other big name to mention is Gentian Lluka,
the CEO and owner of Telegrafi.com, who is also the biggest shareholder at
Mandeta.
Trigonom
trigonom_Game / http://trigonom.al/
Founded by one of the earliest and youngest entrepreneurs of Kosovos market,
Mentor Paarada, Trigonom is quickly moving ahead in the market with some
unique products that fit within the field of entertainment and education. Mentor
was one of the first owners of Telegrafi.com, which has now steeped up to be the

number one news resource for Albanians in the region and the world with around
to 1.5 million visitors per month , while his other company Frakton, managed to
launch amazing games like Haluci (still under development for mobile platforms),
and other creative stuff. He may be quite and not being known a lot to the
people, but Mentor is a hell of a serial entrepreneur of Kosovo, aiming big for
2014.
Appsix / http://www.appsix.al/
Who said that Startup Weekend events are there just for the 54 hour adventure?
Agon Avdimetaj, Esat Pllana and Dorjan Berisha, together with their crew of
young and brave developers and enthusiasts proved them wrong. They managed
to launch their venture in a Startup Weekend event in Prishtina in 2012, with a
product focused on math 4 kids (and called Math4Kids), which quickly become
the talk of the media. Soon after that they established a new venture called
Appsix, focusing on developing mobile applications for iOS and Android and they
managed to graduate from the business incubator, funded by the Norwegian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, Innovation Centre Kosovo. They managed
to be double winners of the App Camp Kosovo 2012 event with the game
Skenderman and with another application focused on fashion. Today the startup
has employed more than 12 people, with special focus on mobile application
development and design, and the base of clients is growing everyday with clients
like Telegrafi.com (Kosovo), Albafone (Macedonia), Vivoit (Italy), Shpejt.me
(Kosovo), etc. 2014 looks like a big year for them.
Bonus
ClleanC
Clleanc / http://www.clleanc.com/
You might have heard about them in many instances and in many ways, while its
quite hard to describe how is actually the founder or employee of ClleanC. In
general ClleanC is more like a movement of young and passionate designers with
speciality in 2D, may it be graphic design or animation. One thing worth
mentioning is that that when they post something on Behance, it makes noise
and people see it. And when they see it i means that their work gets mentioned
on AIGA as well. So beware of ClleanC, cause the next person sitting right to you
might be one, and in 2014 you may be amazed.
Umbrella / http://umbrella.al/
As an interactive agency focused in Web Design and Development, Umbrella has
managed to bring 11 products to live on Themeforest and sell between 100,000
and 250,000 dollars. The idea behind Umbrella was to create a small group of
designers and developers to produce high quality work. Their approach with the
clients is to keep them close and offer fast and reliable support. We were happy
to see them grow in 2012-2013, and it will be definitely and interesting year to
follow them in 2014.
Laborator / http://laborator.co/
They have over 4,000 sales on Themeforest and have managed to sell between
50,000 and 100,000 dollars. Every time we write something about them on

Digjitale, it means some creative work coming out of their lab. Laborator is a
creative team founded by Arlind Nushi and Art Ramadani, and their expertise
relies on good design and development of WordPress themes.
And in the end whats left to mention is that Digjitale is one to watch in 2014 as
well. In 2013 the name Digjitale popped up in big conferences like WebIT 2013,
How to Web 2013, Pioneers Festival 2013, IDCEE 2013, Pirate Summit 2013,
BitSpiration 2013, etc (see more here). Digjitale remains to be leading source for
news, information and resources, dedicated to report on startups and
entrepreneurs emerging from Eastern Europe, while also serving as one of the
best resources for entrepreneurs and investors to see what is going on around
here.