Primary Job Title Mentor Primary Organization 
SeedSumo
Location Slovenia, Europe Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Blaz Kos has spent past ten years of his career developing start-up, entrepreneurship and venture capital ecosystem in Slovenia and Central and Eastern Europe. He establish university incubator at the biggest university in Slovenia, established first and biggest angel network in Slovenia, helped to establish business angel network in Croatia,
Serbia and Macedonia, raised 6.000.000 mio € seed VC fund and helped to film Slovenian Dragons' Den. He has also established first co-working space on 7 locations and was in management board of the biggest technology park in Slovenia (66.000 m2).
Blaz Kos is currently acting as COO of Initiative Start:up Slovenia, which runs two public national start-up accelerators Start:up Geek House and Go:Global Slovenia and is organizing one of the biggest two day CEE conference for entrepreneurs PODIM. He is also director of consulting firm VentureLab (his private consulting company), adviser at Business Angels of Slovenia Club and professional web content author of the www.AgileLeanLife.com blog.
He had also co-organized and lectured at more than 600 events, mentored over 200 start-ups, written over 1,000 pages on entrepreneurship, and worked on 30+ investments. Blaz Kos is also Ready for Equity Accredited trainer for business angels and entrepreneurs.
