Kočevje has around 16,000 people. It's not where startup tools usually land first. Capital cities get the tools, the events, the investors. Everyone else gets what trickles out. We think that's backwards. A founder in Kočevje is solving problems as real as any founder in Ljubljana, with less noise around them. They just don't get handed the same tools.

Now they do.

Two parts.

PIK's mentors get HolyShift's market research. When a founder walks in with an idea, the mentor can pull up what people are actually saying about that problem: the words buyers use, where the complaints pile up, whether anyone is paying to solve it. The session starts from that instead of from opinion.

Startups in the programme get the full platform through the incubator: research, website builder, lead generation. Most early-stage work is guessing. This removes a chunk of it.

Kočevje is the first of several incubator partnerships we're setting up in the region. If you run a programme and want the same setup for your founders, write to us at rok@holyshift.ai.

Hvala, Adem.