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Impact Demo Day #4 | Investors & Startups

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 Pitch Event by INOVA

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.

Startup Contests 2021 Call for Startups!

Apply for Startup Contests 2021!     The application process for Startup Contest, an international competition for startups has started. Seed and early-stage startups can now submit their applications to compete for the main prize worth 20,000 EUR in cash and present their projects to the international investors. Register for Startup Pass and send your application form with a detailed pitch deck no later than 31st of July. Based on sent applications, the jury of SC will choose up to 30 best projects going to the Semifinals. Check the details and apply on: https://infoshare.pl/conference/startup-contest/ Startup Contest is part of Infoshare – the biggest tech conference in the CEE region. This year’s edition is going to be an in-person event in Gdańsk, Poland (!). The Semifinals and the Final of Startup Contest will be held during Infoshare, 14-15th of October 2021.  

Demystifying Angel Investing – Webinar

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:

Investors – Join the 3rd e-Pitch session of the Tunisian community INVEST’I on EuroQuity

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.  

How the global agricultural system could be improved through blockchain technology.

DLT4Agrifood is organized by the DLT4All to discuss how the global agricultural system could be improved through blockchain technology. About this event According to the United Nations, about 690 million people, or 8.9% of the world population are hungry while 40% of the food in industrialized countries is wasted. With Covid 19, the situation is worse and the effects on the food and agricultural sector asks for prompt measures to ensure that food supply chains are kept alive to mitigate the risk of hunger especially on the poor and the most vulnerable. DLT4Agrifood is an international online event organized by the DLT4All project partners from Cyprus, Greece and Italy to discuss how the global agricultural system could be improved through the use of blockchain technology. Various use cases within the domain are presented, including smart contracts used for Mediterranean fisheries. The event will close with a round table discussion involving all experts that will also answer questions from the public. If you want to get a deep dive into this topic, do not miss our online event! Agenda: 10.00 SDG2: Zero Hunger and Blockchain Technology, Soulla Louca, UNIC 10.25 The use of smart contracts: MaxiBlue toy-project for Mediterranean fisheries, Dimitrios Sfounis, Gnomon 10.45 Q&A 10.50 Break 11.00 Talks on field applications 11.00 Food Drug Free project, traceability and sustainability of agrifood value chains, Paolo D’Elia, DGS 11.10 The Pinin Project, a traceability system for agri-food products, Claudio Schifanella, UNITO 11.20 The AgTech7 project, on inter-disciplinarity in agro-education, Dimitris Bibikas, SEERC 11.30 Round Table – moderated by Elisabetta Giromini, ComoNExT 11.50 Wrap-up and conclusions      

Hiring Strategies for Early-stage Startups and Small Teams Workshop

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:

SDG INVESTOR CORNER: HEALTHCARE AND WELLBEING

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.

EU-South Asia Investor and Start-up Internationalization Focus

Online by Zoom

The European Union in collaboration with stakeholders has initiated the EU-South Asia
Investor Networking Platform to connect the three major angel and investor networks of
Europe, India and Sri Lanka/South Asia with the objective to explore cross border
collaboration and connect opportunities.

DEPO Startup Pitch | Blockchain & FinTech

A special edition of regular DEPO pitch events is here. This time FINTECH & BLOCKCHAIN edition with corporate partners and experts - FREE access for EBAN members About this event 🤔 Why is Fintech and Blockchain attractive for investors? How can Europe become in Blockchain giant? What is the future of Blockchain and Fintech and what are the current issues? You will find out during the panel discussion at the DEPO Startup Pitch - Fintech & Blockchain edition. 🦄 You will also see 10 promising startups that we selected from Central and Eastern Europe, mainly the early stage funding round. Each startup will pitch for 3 minutes. This time we are using the HOPIN platform and you may schedule 1on1 meeting, thus you can use this event more efficiently. Agenda WELCOMING PANEL DISCUSSION Viktor Gresek - Business Development CEE from Mastercard Jiri Skopovy - Lead of CS Seed Starter program Jaroslav Horvath - Innovations & Insights at Raiffeisenbank Jiri Kobelka - founder of TATUM Juraj Kralik from Fintech Hub Slovakia Michal Ciffra - co-founder of DEPO Ventures PITCH SESSION 5 blockchain startups, 5 fintech startups 3 min pitch Q&A Jury feedback NETWORKING The Jury consists of Viktor Gresek from Mastecard Jiri Skopovy from CS Seed Starter Jaroslav Horvath from Raiffeisen Bank Jiri Kobelka from Tatum Michal Ciffra from DEPO Ventures Juraj Kralik from Fintech Hub Slovakia Patrik Juranek from Startup Disrupt 👇 Details Thursday, September 30, 2021 4 PM (CET) Online HOPIN platform Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/depo-startup-pitch-blockchain-fintech-tickets-169900933265 EBAN members have free access - reach out to us for the code. 

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