Last week, we held a fun event at our Kaunas office - Game Pitching Battle! Anyone from the team could pitch their game idea and compete for a chance to get it produced and published! Have a glance on how it was. No TutoTOONS event is complete without a poop plushie 💩 We will not give away too much about the winner concept, but it is going to be super cute, involve adorable animals and collectibles! ;)

Last weekend, a 48-hour hackathon for game, software and hardware enthusiasts took place in Vilnius, Lithuania. We are very proud of TutoTOONS CTO Arvydas Burdulis who supervised and mentored the most popular Games track with 12 projects (out of 24). Also, we can’t get enough of our team member Deividas Baumilas ideas at the hackathons. Last time his team created a stop motion game. Now he decided to revive his SkyRider game - a free-time project created in 2012. Read more about Hacker Games: Vilnius and the winner projects here.

First time in Kaunas, The Founder’s Day invited TutoTOONS co-founder Mantas Radvila to join and share the ups and downs of the startup business. It was a great evening, don’t be afraid to shape your ideas and always test things! View more photos by BZN start and download TutoTOONS deck (in Lithuanian).

WATCH the winning pitch from HandsOn.TV Startup Tour Finals in Paris with Damien Bruneau, TutoTOONS co-founder & growth hacker, on stage!

HandsOn Startup Pitch Contest yesterday in Barcelona went perfect - TutoTOONS won! What comes next is pitching in Paris with finalists from major European cities on November 26. Grand prize - a week in Silicon Valley! Just a day before, TutoTOONS was about to compete with 7 best Barcelona startups: Chilikids, creative apps for kids developer Braingaze, mind tracking technology developers The Social Coin, engaging good deeds & social responsibility Hellotrip, Europe’s first prediction tool for flights Sharing Academy, platform for tutoring between university students Unplis Delivery, purchase in BCN & receive order in 1 hour Signaturit, sign documents online without any additional apps The judges had to select 2 winning startups that will continue HandsOn Startup Tour, and we really like their decision to announce Signaturit and TutoTOONS the two winners of Fest-Up BCN 2015! Big applause for Damien from the whole team, congratulations to Signaturit and thank you everyone for your support! See you in Paris! More photos from Fest-Up Barcelona

TutoTOONS co-founder Damien Bruneau has a big day today - he will pitch TutoTOONS at Fest-Up, Barcelona talent and startup festival. As Barcinno announced in #FestUpBCN agenda, we will compete with 7 other early stage startups. The best two startups will win a business trip to Silicon Valley, read more here. Keeping our fingers crossed for Damien! Thank you HandsOn.TV for a nice photo!

Yesterday we had a visit from a popular TV programme for business Pinigu karta (”The Money Generation”), bringing economic highlights, tips, experiments and observations.Thank you for the opportunity to present our startup and show how we work!

May 7th and 8th were busy days. We went to LOGIN 2015, the largest tech conference in the Baltics, showcased TutoTOONS at the Startup Fair together with 64 other startups, and competed in the Startup Pitch Challenge. Here are some of the best moments from the event! LOGIN Startup Fair As you may know from our previous post, we had a booth in the exhibition area of Startup Fair where we could present TutoTOONS for all visitors both event days. LOGIN Startup Fair view from above: Llama character from our new game Animal Hair Salon and the updated Sweet Baby Girl Emma helped us attract more people to our stand. However, the real center of attention was stickers with our game characters. We handed out almost all of them in just 2 days of Startup Fair! Speakers & Presentations In addition to startup exhibition, we had a chance to listen to some very interesting presentations. Vaidas Bagonas from RedLynx Ubisoft shared his experience in creating concept art for Trials Fusion and Trials Frontier games. Amazing art and beautiful presentation! By the way, Vaidas revealed us that he likes TutoTOONS! We also went to see Adas Griškevičius, co-founder of Pepi Play game studio. He shared the story behind Pepi Bath, a popular game helping kids to learn about personal hygiene in a fun way. Startup Pitch Challenge The most exciting part of the whole event was probably the Startup Pitch Challenge. Practicing the pitch on the way to event is almost TutoTOONS tradition. In the semi-final on Thursday, 33 teams pitched their startups on stage to investors from all over the world. Only 3 minutes to present your business and 3 more minutes for questions. 9 finalists were selected: Pipelinepharma, CGTrader, BranchTrack, TutoTOONS, Hello Hungry, AtoID, Plate Culture, Pinfishing and Sorry as s Service. Even though there were some really strong competitors in the final and despite the fact that slides didn’t work properly at the beginning of our final pitch, TutoTOONS took the 3# place and won €600 cash prize (powered by Triniti)! We were the only gaming startup in the final so you may think about us as the 1# gaming startup! :) Special thanks from our team goes to all amazing people that we met during the event. We were super happy to hear that you like TutoTOONS and know that you support our startup! Photos: Startup Lithuania, TutoTOONS, 2015