When Luca Stirbat, CEO and Program Manager of ReaKtorX , launched their winter startup accelerator program in 2024, he had a clear mission: find five standout founders in less than two months from Central and Eastern Europe to fund and send to the U.S. What he didn’t have was time—or a marketing budget. “We’re a small team, and our audience is huge. Startups across half a continent. We couldn’t afford to run targeted ads across all these markets, and honestly, we didn’t wa