Arctic15 Helsinki 2021
Arctic15 is the most efficient place for meetings between startups, investors, corporates, media and business partners.
Arctic15 is the most efficient place for meetings between startups, investors, corporates, media and business partners.
Discover how to generate income and impact with IP licensing in this joint webinar organized by 4iP Council and the EUIPO. This joint webinar will look at intellectual property licensing from the deal-making process, license agreement content, and business leverage. In addition, this webinar will address challenges specific to SMEs and how initiatives such as the SME Fund can help overcome them. After this webinar, you will: be able to identify things that you need to consider when negotiating key license content to avoid unwelcome consequences in the future understand how an adequately drawn non-disclosure agreement can minimize the risk to your valuable information during licensing negotiations understand how competition law may limit the licensing deal that you can make
The EBAN Congress will welcome more than 400 Business Leaders; Early Stage Investors; Business Angels; VCs; Entrepreneurs; Accelerators; Corporates; Policy Makers Seed Funds and Startups for the Annual Congress. The event will focus on how business angel investors can support the EU on accelerating the innovation cycle and overcome the many challenges our society faces in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis. The EBAN Annual Congress is widely recognized as one of Europe’s largest international private investment & entrepreneurship events. The event will take place over a three-days, including Investor Led Workshops, Keynotes, pitching sessions, round table workshops etc. All EBAN Members get a free pass to the event. Calling All Startups! Virtually join hundreds of investors and corporates on June 16-18th 2021– make connections, learn from experts and pitch in front of the world’s best angel investors.
The Geneva Angel Investor Network (GAIN) is delighted to invite you to attend our fourth Impact Demo Day (online) on 29 June 2021 from 12h30-13h30 (CET). During this event, participants will have the opportunity to discover a selection of top impact-driven startups and SMEs based out of the Romandie region in Switzerland. The latter will pitch their project to a jury panel of top-notch investors and domain experts. GAIN is very pleased and honored to host Ashoka Switzerland (part of a global community founded in 1981 and with 3500+ Fellows, 300+ partners across 95 countries) for this event, as we share a common vision of “Everyone A Changemaker" and on the importance of supporting social entrepreneurs at an early stage of their development to improve the world… starting here in Romandie with innnovative startups.
STARTS in Motion is an art-tech accelerator programme led by INOVA, that has been designed to empower artists and technologists in further developing their art-tech project by exploring the business side of the creative endeavors. During the last four months, they have worked with art-tech projects, through mentoring and workshops on key topics (business model and strategy, pitching, storytelling, pricing, etc.), to support them in developing their prototype / solution and bring it to the market. For this session on July 5th, 3 projects have been selected that demonstrate how much the market of transdisciplinary innovation is vibrant in Europe, and how art-driven perspectives can bring disruptive, ethical and sustainable products to life: VYX (NL): a tech-driven wearable tailored to the aging population that enhances vital and beautiful living through preventive health monitoring. VYX is part of the Prosthetic X project. Go Curb carbon (FR): an app which combines a carbon calculator, a green wallet and an information page. It aims to bring a new model for encouraging carbon footprint reduction and empowering citizens to adjust their daily choices. Digital fashion framework (UK): a digital innovation lab building an immersive, v-commerce platform which will allow users to create, trade and wear virtual fashion and game skins in the metaverse using Extended Realities. We pave the way towards a more sustainable and accessible immersive era in fashion, games and entertainment.
Demystifying Angel Investing In the second of our summer webinar series, Demystifying Angel Investing, we will be joined by three members of the HBAN Bloom Equity Syndicate to discuss the ins and outs of the Due Diligence process. The webinar will discuss the overall process of completing thorough due diligence (DD) on a prospective deal. Our members will discuss their experience in participating in the DD process on various HBAN Bloom Equity deals. The discussion will also include: • Tools needed to complete DD; • Sharing of DD with fellow investors; • Verifying business plan details: • And Issuing a DD report Please register for the webinar here:
INVEST'I E-PITCH SESSION This session will showcase 4 promising Tunisian start-ups raising between $200k to $500k from various sectors (Ag-Tech/IoT | Med-Tech/AI | SaaS B2B | SaaS Data Analytics). Find out here more information on the pitching startups. INVEST'I is a community of top Tunisian startups that selects their best portfolio companies to connect with national and international investors to raise funds. The initiative is funded by the European Union through Expertise France as part of Innovi-EU4Innovation project and managed by the organization Tunisian Startups.
Building scalable infrastructures with small teams and in the early stages of entrepreneurship brings along specific talent requirements and challenges. Former CTO and Snr Startup Solutions Architect Chris Adriaensen, together with former Accelerator lead, founder, investor and Startup & Ecosystem Development Lead, Anna C Mallon, will be sharing strategies as well as personal tips (and mistakes) for hiring the right talent and setting up the business to scale. Session flow: - Introduction & Welcome (20mins) - Presentation - Technical Hiring Needs: Building scalable infrastructures with small teams - talent requirements (Chris Adriaensen, Snr Startup Solutions Architect) (30mins) - Presentation - Business Hiring Needs: (Anna C Mallon, Snr. Startup & Ecosystem Development) (30mins) - Common pitfalls and mistakes in the early stages - Strategies to diverse and inclusive hiring for innovation - Hiring the right talent to match your startup culture Q&A & Discussion (30 mins) - Wrap Up: how AWS can help and next steps (10 mins) About the speakers Chris Adriaensen, Senior Solution Architect, Startups (BENELUX) Chris is a former founder/CTO currently supporting early-stage startups at AWS as a senior architect out of Amsterdam. Before joining AWS, he lead the solution architect team at sec/dev-unicorn Auth0 out of London and prior has been an architect at Norwegian scale-up ForgeRock as well as at US telco Verizon where he helped build out a new cloud-security unit. He holds a Master of Computer Science from the University of Leuven and specialized in cybersecurity. Passionate about technology he’s also a former founder/organizer of TEDxAntwerp. Anna C Mallon, Senior Startup & Ecosystem Business Development (BENELUX) Anna has 20 years of experience transforming global startup innovation, education and marketing businesses across Europe and Southeast Asia. She is a former investor and accelerator lead, multiple founder, pitch coach and startup mentor who was based out of Singapore for 15 years. Experienced in B2B, sales, corporate innovation and Angel scouting, Anna delivered dozens of corporate and VC backed innovation and startup programs for companies including Daimler, Facebook, Bosch, Shell, Schneider Electric, MUFG Bank, Hewlett Packard, MunichRE, SCOR, Denstu Aegis, Investible, Seedstars, CSIRO, Credit Suisse, A*Star and more. As a Director of Southeast Asia's first startup accelerator, JFDI.Asia, Anna facilitated corporate venture building with startups and contributed towards a portfolio of over 70 early stage technology startups worth USD 60m. Startups can SignUp here:
EBAN and FASE are delighted to invite you to a new webinar series showcasing how promising impact ventures are tackling the SDGs, starting with SDG3: Good Health & Wellbeing Curious to hear how Careship and Buurtzorg are tackling the challenge of ageing societies while building strong business cases? Discover the agenda and the speakers: 12:30 - Welcome words - Laura Catana, European Investor Relations Manager - FASE 12:35 - Angel Investing in Healthcare: Tips& Tricks - Christine Bjarkby, Chair EBAN Health 12:45 - Pitch & Q&A: Careship (DE) - Brian Plackis Cheng, CEO & Dagmar Bottenbruch, investor in Careship 13:05: Pitch & Q&A: Buurtzorg (DE) - Gunnar Sande, Managing Director & Dr. Stephan Dyckerhoff, investor in Buurtzorg About Careship Careship provides home care as a managed service matching elderly people and families in need of non-medical companionship care with a new category of caregivers consisting of local and vetted high-quality freelancers. With its fully digitised platform, Careship has already served over 6,000 families in Germany and arranged over 90,000 hours of care in 2020 alone. The company is now raising up to EUR 4mn capital (of which EUR 2mn already committed by existing shareholders) to fund its German growth plans, laying the groundwork for future European wide expansion. About Buurtzorg Buurtzorg (i.e. “neighborhood care”) is a German startup with Dutch roots which transforms the outpatient care market with a nurse-led model. Buurtzorg provides holistic elderly care by means of small, self-managed teams of ambulant nurses, thus enabling optimum efficiency, increasing patient satisfaction as well as employee satisfaction, translated into lower turnover and sickness rates. Today, the model creates better working conditions for more than 15,000 employees and is implemented in 24 countries, including Germany. The German startup is now raising EUR 3mn, of which 1mn is committed by existing shareholders.
The conference will present the main project results to the wider public. The visibility of the 60 start-ups which participated in the Space Academies will be maximized thanks to a dedicated poster exhibition and hearing success stories, best practices and the lessons learned. The event will provide policy recommendations and will reflect on the follow-up of the initiative, its integration into the broader European ecosystem of support for start-ups and the long-term sustainability. There will be plenty of opportunities for further networking between the start-ups, the project partners, investors, policy makers and EU and ESA officials. Participation is free of charge, but registration is mandatory. The event/venue will be fully Covid-compliant. The venue is the Manos Conference Centre, located in Brussels, Chaussée de Charleroi 135
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