As a subcontractor on the USAID Diaspora Invest project, Restart developed and maintains the online business network platform DiasporaInvest.ba, aimed at connecting entrepreneurs from the diaspora with entrepreneurs and professionals from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Started in November 2017, the platform has reached nearly 1,000 users, who have established more than 1,200 connections. Among them, there are ~500 professionals, across ~100 organizations, with >100 investment projects.
Restart provides support to USAID Diaspora Invest through the implementation of various components of this project, with an emphasis on designing and executing technical services related to establishing a diaspora online business network and conducting diaspora outreach, networking and business-to-business activities.
Diaspora Success Stories
Computer Science Expert: Academy Can Find Solutions to Challenges of the Business Sector
Aida Kamišalić Latifić is an assistant professor and researcher at the University of Maribor, where she received her PhD in...
Sanel Babic, Bosnian that sends robots to the moon
Online platform diasporainvest.ba writes successful stories about Bosnian Herzegovinians and the importance of diaspora in promoting our country. This time...
Maja Hadziselimovic among 25 life stories of successful women engineers in Germany
Maja Hadžiselimović is a robotics and mechatronics engineer currently working in Augsburg (Germany), on projects of robot integration for cooperation...
Izet Bučo left Bosnia and Herzegovina barely alive and two days ago he won an Oscar
Izet Bučo left Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning of 1994, being evacuated from Goražde due to his medical condition...
Edin Miljkovic – REGENERACIJA d. o. o.
Regeneracija d.o.o. company from Velika Kladusa was founded in 2005. The main activity of the company is the manufacture and...
Eddie Čustović – Author of Revolutionary Inventions
Edhem Eddie Čustović (31), a Bosnian who has been living in Australia for the past twenty years, found his way...
Tomislav Ladan – Thermoflux
ThermoFLUX company for installation of heating systems was founded in 2007, starting from a small family craft with three employees....
Hamdija Jusufagic – System Verification
System Verification AB is the largest independent company of quality control in Sweden, whose founder and owner, Hamdija Jusufagić, originally from...
Aida Droce – Molecular biologist
Aida Droce is proof that hard work and effort are always rewarded: from being a refugee to a PhD in...
Maša Čampara – eMedia Patch
Maša Čampara began her career in online advertising in New York City, with companies such as iVillage, NBC, MediaCom, and...
Emina Kadric – Pi Consulting
Since 2012, Pi Consulting has been in the group of BiH OECD Gazelles – SMEs that have demonstrated rapid growth, employment...
Edin Saracevic – HUB 387
Edin Saracevic left his native Sarajevo in 1995 and settled in the United States, where he founded his first IT...