Nine wins, two global
podiums, and one
hackathon that
changed everything.
We don't chase awards. We chase good work. Awards tend to follow. Here's the actual timeline — what we won, what we cashed, and which ones really mattered.
ElevenLabs Conversational Agent Hackathon, 2025.
First place out of 2,400+ teams.
The jury: ElevenLabs, Andreessen Horowitz, Runway ML, Twilio. The project: what became Kallina — a voice agent that switched between Romanian and Russian mid-conversation without a detectable lag.
$20,000 · ElevenLabs platform credits · global visibility.
The prize paid for the first months of Kallina engineering. The ElevenLabs credits paid for voice infrastructure during product-market fit iteration.
Led by Oleg & Lilia Chetrean.
Co-founded Bravin and Kallina together in 2024 after pivoting Mega Promoting from a six-year-old marketing agency to an AI-first studio. Strategy, product vision, brand — built in parallel.
Kallina, Bravin, 100+ clients, five countries.
Months after the hackathon we shipped v1 of Kallina to our first paying client. Today 19+ voice agents run in production across Moldova, Romania, UAE, USA, Armenia and Saudi Arabia.
All of it, in order.
ElevenLabs Conversational Agent Hackathon
First place worldwide at the online ElevenLabs Conversational Agent Hackathon. The winning submission became Kallina.
MITP Awards
Moldova IT Park Awards Special Jury Prize — recognition for Kallina's innovation in conversational AI for the Moldovan tech ecosystem.
How To Web 2025
Selected as finalist at How To Web 2025, Romania's flagship tech + startup conference.
Sevan Startup Summit
Silver medal at the flagship South Caucasus startup summit. Pitched Bravin & Kallina to a jury including EBRD and regional VC partners.
EBRD Star Venture
Selected for the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development's flagship startup programme — ongoing mentorship and EU market access.
EU4Innovation East
Part of the EU-funded EU4Innovation East ecosystem supporting regional deep-tech startups.
BIBAN Forum 2025
Presented at BIBAN 2025, the largest SME and startup forum in the Middle East, organised by Monsha'at.
Moldova IT Park
Official resident of Moldova IT Park — the country's flagship tech park and tax-benefit regime for tech companies.
UpNext Accelerator
Acceleration programme focused on EU-market expansion and product-market fit validation.
Most awards are noise. One was everything.House rule · written on the Chișinău office whiteboard