Danielius Stasiulis

Danielius is a Co-founder & CBDO of BitDegree (an online education platform aiming to revolutionize learning), Founder & CEO of Startup Division (pan-European startup ecosystem development organisation) and a Partner responsible for startups and innovation at Civitta (the leading management consultancy in CEE). It is characteristic of him to run many initiatives at once because he loves to experiment with new ideas and concepts. Danielius is an entrepreneur at heart and a dreamer on his journey to make this world a little bit better and more exciting. In 2017, Danielius has co-founded BitDegree, an online learning platform that aims to create affordable online learning paths that would enable 1 billion people globally to up-skill or re-skill into digital careers. The platform has a proprietary learning motivation system that uses blockchain to provide milestones-based economic incentives tied to credentials so that learning becomes gamified and rewards progress. Learners get paid to learn, sponsored by donors or employers who seek digital talent. BitDegree employs a team of 30 in Lithuania, has reached 500k learners globally, 1.3m+ course enrollments and has been recognized as one of the top European EdTech companies. Danielius has been representing BitDegree throughout its journey and is now recognized as one of the global experts in Blockchain in Education and Future or Learning in general. Since 2010 Danielius has been involved with Civitta – a management consulting firm startup in Lithuania that he has helped to grow to become the region’s leader with 300+ consultants in 13 countries. While climbing the career ladder to become a Partner in 2018, he has defined himself as the leader in the fields of Startups and Innovation. Danielius’s involvement in startup ecosystems has resulted in the creation of a Civitta-backed NGO – Startup Division – that has become CEE’s leading innovation lab and startup ecosystem developer operating on the European level. Throughout his career with startups, Danielius has consulted 300+ entrepreneurs, run or contributed to dozens of startup accelerators and incubators, including SkyDeck at U.C. Berkeley, and has co-founded four of his own startups. He is recognized as one of the startup ecosystem leaders in the Baltics and in Europe at large. While in school, Danielius has excitedly taken part in the Lithuanian Junior Achievement programmes and because of them fell in love with business, economics, competition and achievement. Therefore, he went to earn a BSc from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (2009). There he co-founded his first major startup – AdCopy, which provided free-of-charge photocopies to students in Latvia and Lithuania by serving as a marketing channel. Danielius loves running and mountains. He enjoys running ultra-trail races and in 2016 he was on the Lithuanian team in the World Trail Running Championships in Portugal.