During the London Tech Week, BGTA will be hosting a Close-door Roundtable Meeting on June 14th, at 2.00 - 3.00pm (BST), at St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge. The roundtable meeting is a part of the "Go To China Venture Camp" serial activities, bringing the most remarkable tech companies from both Europe and China together and explore collaboration opportunities. At the roundtable meeting, BGTA is honoured to be joined by the management team of Caohejing Hi-Tech Park, one of China's first state-level economic development zone that has over 3500 high tech enterprises residing in the zone, and some of China's most exceptional tech companies based in Caohejing Hi-Tech Park. For European companies interested in the China market or looking to sharpen your "Go To China" roadmap, BGTA would like to sincerely invite you to join the roundtable meeting.

  Seed&Click and 080 Barcelona Fashion are proud to present the 5th edition of 080 Investor Day, taking place on 26th June, at Recinto Modernista de Sant Pau, including international speakers and the leading International Investment Forum focused on fashion startups and emerging brands. Don't miss it! A panel of national and international jury members will evaluate the five finalists and choose the best fashion startup and the best raising brand, winning both a prize valued at 100k € in services and benefits offered by leading companies in their sector. This is a worldwide call to all startups and entrepreneurs around the globe to apply and participate to the 080 Investor Day,  the Fash Tech International Investment Forum during the 080 Fashion Week of Barcelona. The 080 Investor Day aims to boost the fashion business ecosystem from the city of Barcelona to the world, bringing together the best startups related to fashion on the current world scene. 080 Investor Day Startups: - Entrepreneurs and startups from all over the world are welcome to participate and the requirements is to have a clearly defined business project, legally constituted, related or is applicable to the fashion industry and preferably in Beta phase of product/service/app/portal and be in the commercialization phase. - Projects must be based on at least one of the following areas: mobile app, internet, product, marketing (geolocation, consumer analysis, advertising, neuromarketing, customer loyalty, customer experience, personalization, etc.), new services business / income, services, distribution, logistics, advertising, sustainability, design, technology, "big data", "wearables", smart tissues and social networks.   080 Investor Day Raising Brands: - In this case, designers or raising brands based in Catalonia can participate with their proposal in the same terms as Startups but also must have at least one commercialized collection and a maximum of 4 collections in the market.   Deadline for both Startup Applications and Brand Applications is: May 31st 2019 The entire event will be hosted in English to facilitate the participation and understanding of an international public, thus being consistent with the purpose of positioning Barcelona as an innovative and entrepreneurial hub also in the fashion industry.

The Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC) and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts would like to invite you to the 2019 Swiss Blockchain Investor Day, on June 26 in Zug, Switzerland, SICTIC's flagship blockchain event. This is a matchmaking event where blockchain startups pitch to find experienced investors and supporters and will take place as part of the Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology. If you are an investor, a business angel or are a startup supporter, this event is for you.   For discounted ticket for EBAN members, contact info@eban.org.

4YFN (4 Years From Now) is the innovation platform of MWC, enabling startups, investors, corporations and public institutions to discover, create and launch new ventures together. 4YFN offers unique connecting initiatives including insightful onstage talks, technical workshops, custom networking activities, community outreach, and open innovation programmes, among others. 4YFN Shanghai is from June 26-28.

Join EBAN's latest Health Webinar on Investing in Biotechnology Startups, led by Edward Vali, General Partner at Accelerate Venture Partners on July 1st at 14:00 CEST. The Webinar will focus on how health sciences are becoming more democratized and decentralized, hacking biotechnology investments is getting more accessible, obvious, and transparent. Investing in biotech is no longer reserved for specialized VCs and funds with deep pockets. This one hour webinar will discuss finding the right opportunities in responsible healthcare investing, focusing on investing in biotech companies. Speaker: Edward Vali General Partner at Accelerate Venture Partners Edward Vali is general partner at Accelerate Venture Partners, the investment and advisory arm of private family office with primary focus on transformative technologies, including applications of AI, blockchain, tokenized business models, and innovations in life sciences. Edward has been a contributor to the European Commission’s PRISM project on Intellectual Capital, particularly for healthtech companies in venture-backed investments.

TIIME is organising a 2-day workshop, July 3-4 in Luxembourg, on sustainability in business and finance: from corporate initiatives to investing trends. This course is designed to support decision-makers, asset owners, and practitioners. Why Should I Join? - Navigate through the exciting and evolving world of sustainability and impact - Continue your journey into impact finance and responsible business practices - Exchange and network with like-minded people - Build practical skills for sustainable leadership and implementation techniques - Gather inspiration and tools to make changes in your organisation - Discuss and debate with peers and thought-leaders - Learn about new trends and best practices

Join EBAN Space's Webinar on Tech Funding taking place on July 17 at 12:00 CEST and led by Uli Fricke, CEO at FunderNation. Based on her 22 years as an active tech VC investor, Uli Fricke will discuss typical perceptions of venture capital behaviour and the expectations that most entrepreneurs have when considering venture capital and business angel investments. She compares these to the reality of venture capital investing. Her insights will help entrepreneurs better understand VC behaviour, expectations and determine what is really important to successfully close a funding round.   Speaker: Uli Fricke CEO at FunderNation Uli is the CEO of FunderNation, Germany’s only crowdinvesting platform that is run by a team of investment professionals. She is also one of the founders and CEO of Triangle Venture Capital Group, one of Europe’s leading investors in hightech start-up companies. Uli is a member of the Space-Tech Advisory Council, the aws Seed Financing Board in Vienna, the Kuratorium of Fraunhofer MOEZ in Leipzig and the EBAN Space Executive Committee.

In this one-hour interactive webinar on July 19 at 13:00 CEST, Peter Cowley will take you through his experience with exits, their importance to entrepreneurs and angel investors and the hardships involved in creating and executing them. Speaker: Peter Cowley EBAN President Peter Cowley, a Cambridge university technology graduate, founded and ran over a dozen businesses in technology and property over the last 35+ years. He has built up a portfolio of 67 angel investments with 5 good exits and nine failures. He has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and is on the board of nine startups. He is the President of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN), chair of the Cambridge Business Angels and was UK Angel of the Year 2014/15. In 2011, he founded and has since run Martlet: a Corporate Angel, investing from the balance sheet of Marshall, a £2.5B revenue Cambridge engineering company.

On July 24th at 16.00 CEST, a one-hour webinar will be organised to exchange views on venture capital developments in US and EU. The webinar is organised in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Commerce - International Trade Administration. Its aim is to bring together venture capital funds, entrepreneurial ecosystems and SMEs in need of access to capital from both sides of the Atlantic with private sector and government experts from both the U.S. and EU. This webinar will be a roundtable online format.

Sponsored by Shanghai Municipal Government and BGTA, the Cambridge Innovation Academy is glad to launch the "Go to China" Venture Camp on the 27th of July. This programme is designed for entrepreneurs that are growing their companies with a global view, and looking to explore opportunities of investment, partnership, market expansion and similar in China.   In the past decades, the Cambridge Innovation Academy has organised numerous Venture Camp programmes for European entrepreneurs, offering intensive training in entrepreneurship and building successful technology companies.  Recently, entrepreneurs from previous programmes, with their relatively more established tech companies, are asking whether there is a programme that is tailored to help companies to go global, with a particular interest in the Chinese market. On the other hand, Shanghai is keen to work with world-leading AI companies, providing data, scenarios, soft-launch connections to the ecosystem, to build Shanghai into a successful international AI highland in China. Hence BGTA has joined forces to present the “Go to China” Venture Camp.