Ticklio’s CEO Jurij Oblak attended Slovenian Startup Forum 2026 to connect with founders, investors, and policymakers and reflect on the next phase of growth.
The Slovenian Startup Forum 2026 brought together key members of the Slovenian startup ecosystem to discuss progress, ambition, and the direction toward 2030. Ticklio joined as part of the community — to listen, reconnect, and exchange perspectives through informal conversations and networking with peers building across different industries.
One takeaway stood out. A startup is focused on discovery — testing assumptions, refining the product, adjusting positioning, and searching for product–market fit. Speed and flexibility matter most in this phase. A growth-up, on the other hand, has already validated its model. The fundamentals work. Customers see value. Revenue is repeatable. The focus shifts from experimentation to execution: scaling operations, strengthening long-term partnerships, improving reliability, optimizing margins, and delivering consistent results at larger volumes.
In practical terms, this means moving from “Does this work?” to “How do we make this work everywhere, reliably and at scale?” It means clearer processes, stronger integrations, predictable onboarding, and operational maturity that supports bigger events and more demanding environments.
Ticklio is a production-ready ticketing software, proven at live sports and large-scale events. We deliver reliable ticketing and entry systems designed to scale with growing audiences.
From startup to growth-up — the focus is no longer on proving the concept, but on scaling what already works.
