Baltic Tech Ventures is excited to invite you to the investor pitching session where you will have a chance to hear from SIZZAPP, another brilliant company from their portfolio. The session will be joined by a famous MotoGP racer Karel Abraham who actively uses SIZZAPP and supports the company's growth. SIZZAPP is a simple smart device that connects your vehicle to an app and allows you to track its location and technical condition while staying connected to the community of drivers and service providers. SIZZAPP is about building a complete ecosystem for drivers around the world and has already attracted 500 active users in 31 countries.  The company has generated revenue of €5,000 and has partnerships with the largest dealerships such as BMW, Harley Davidson, Toyota, Lexus, Yamaha, etc. SIZZAPP is raising €250k at the discounted valuation of €2 million for BTV investors. Another €250k funding is already committed by other investors. Contact lm@baltictechventures.com in order to get the pitch deck.

DEPO Ventures would like to invite you to the online event Transatlantic Startup Pitch scheduled for next Tuesday, February 9, and moderated by Shawn Flynn - amentor, speaker, and host of the Silicon Valley Podcast.. This is the only event that brings the American and European startup ecosystem together and creates place with no boarders. Thanks to the unique partnership between two business angel networks, the Bay Angels from San Francisco and the Depo Angels based in the Czech Republic, the event can help Business Angels with an international co-investment. Eight early-stage startup companies from Europe and the US with global ambitions and big potential were selected.  This event is for all Business Angels, VCs, family offices, corporate investors, mentors, and partners of the startup ecosystem from all around the world that are considering investment across the Atlantic.

  EBAN Data, an initiative aimed at elevating the quality of business angel investment research, is delighted to invite you to the upcoming webinar discussing how make best use of the 2020 Guidebook to measure your angel community's investment data. Join us on Wednesday, February 10th at 12:00 PM CET to hear keynote speaker Prof. Colin Mason, world renowned professor and researcher in the area of entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial ecosystems at the University of Glasgow, and members of the EBAN Data Committee discuss the guidebook in detail to learn how to use its contents effectively, whether you are an individual angel investor, affiliated to a business angel network or a national business angel association.

Jyväskylä Business Rally, EBAN Investor Day 2019. Photographer Hanna-Kaisa Hämäläinen Are you running a scale-up company in the field of digital health and well-being? Do you want to grow your business to new markets? Are you interested in international angel funding to boost your business? International Venture Academy is an investor program for companies looking for international growth and investments. During the program, companies will engage with European angel investors in group as well as personal sparring sessions to sharpen their own growth plan, products or services and network in international markets. This year, the theme of the program is Smart Health – how to utilize the opportunities offered by data and AI in providing innovative health and well-being solutions. At the event, you will meet the program Lead Angel, member of EBAN Board Marcel Dridje, as well as other angels running the program. You will also hear the experiences of CEO Kari Aho (Secapp), who participated in last year’s program.

Angel investors are high net worth individuals who invest their own money into seed stage startup companies, providing much-needed capital to bring new companies to market.  Join us for a dynamic panel discussion with leading experts to explore the basics of angel investing, including three reasons to consider angel investing as part of your well-balanced portfolio: opportunity to make a difference, chance to make money, and it is fun! Spend 60 minutes with ACA and you will walk away with a solid understanding of this exciting, game-changing investment class.

Digital Transformation should be seen as essential to keep industrial companies competitive, promote new business models, and drive new value chains. However, if not well managed, this may be an expensive and risky process. Therefore, it is necessary to guarantee that companies, mainly SMEs, have the tools to implement this digital evolution effectively, strongly focused on the return of investment. Thus, this webinar will explore the tools and methodologies that should be used to drive, in the best way, the digital evolution towards industry 4.0. Finally, successful use cases of 4.0 emergent technologies adoption with business impact in textile and aerospace industries will be presented.   Speakers Ph.D António Henrique Almeida, Senior research (Tec4Industry, Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering)

EBAN has partnered with Nasscom, Global Business Inroads (GBI) and Invest Europe to showcase the best Indian startups to our audience of European early stage investors through the Europe VC Connect Program. Through this partnership, EBAN aims to give it's community first-hand access to the Indian market by offering a series of pitching sessions showcasing promising Indian startups: a unique opportunity to discover the country's startup ecosystem and curate favorable deals! Detailed Agenda of the event:  10:30am-10:35am CET/3:00pm-3:05pm IST Welcome and context setting, NASSCOM, Mr Gagan Sabharwal 10:35am-10:40am CET/3:05pm-3:10pm IST Remarks by Head of Department for International Cooperation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Dr Ajai Garg, 10:40am-10:50am CET/3:10pm-3:20pm IST Remarks by Director of Secretariat, EBAN, Mr. Jacopo Losso Startup pitches: 10 minutes pitch by Startup and 5 minutes Q&A 10:50am-11:06am CET/3:20pm-3:36pm IST Sector: Agritech RMSI Cropalytics 11:06am-11:54am CET/3:36pm-4:24pm IST Sector: Enterprise Solutions FORMCEPT Technologies Quintype Simplify360 11:54am-12:10pm CET/4:24pm-4:40pm IST Sector: IOT Hardware Fabheads 12:10pm-12:26pm CET/4:40pm-4:56pm IST Sector: Mobility Statiq 12:26pm-12:42pm CET/4:56pm-5:12pm IST Sector: Retailtech ParallelDots 12:42pm-12:45pm CET/5:12pm-5:15pm IST Concluding, Director, Global Business Inroads, Ms Leena Pishe Thomas   Learn more about the startups pitching here!

Enterprise Europe Network India, in collaboration with EBAN and NASSCOM, are planning the 2nd edition of the EU VC Connect series to connect European Investors to innovative start-ups from India on 25th February 2021. Investors from Europe will have the opportunity to be associated with the promising and the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem by actively taking part in these pitch session. They will be hosting a series of these virtual pitching sessions starting February 2021 on the last Thursday of every month, where VCs/Investors / Angels / CVCs will get to hear pitches from some the most exciting startups coming out of the Indian eco-system. If you are a VC and you would like us to curate startups to match your specific investment criteria - please fill in a short survey to provide us with your sectoral preference and investment size using the following link. The 1st edition of the EU VC connect series took place on the 27th of November, where 7 Indian startups from the Cybersecurity/Enterprise Solutions/ Fintech /Healthtech and Mobility domains pitched to 30+ investors from Europe. You can access the pitches of the 7 Indian startups here.

During the webinar, AEI Tèxtils will make a short overview of the project and will moderate a debate among professors from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Terrassa – the only institution in Spain that offers bachelor degrees in Textile Engineering, Aeronautic Engineering and Industrial Engineering. Professors from the three departments will make a short overview of the different technologies in industry 4.0, textile use for aerospace application and major trends in aerospace and aeronautics in terms of materials and innovation. The session will also include a Q&A session to facilitate interactions and standup questions. Speakers Prof. Rita Planas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Prof. Monica Ardanuy (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Prof. Miquel Sureda (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

The webinar “Business Plan Development Guide for Startups” will underline the importance of a business plan for any business. During the webinar, the main sections of a business plan, the common business plan guidelines and tools, the development process and the purposes of each, will be described. The aim is to help in developing a business plan that will meet entrepreneurs’ goals, think through all the parts of their business and plan how everything will work efficiently and effectively. Speaker Mr Nikos Vogiatzis (CORALLIA) Dr. Nikos Vogiatzis (male) is the co-founder and Chief Development and Operations Officer of Corallia. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication & Information Systems and a Dipl-Ing. in Electrical & Computer Engineering (both from NTUA, Greece), and a Master in Professional Project Management (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA). In his executive role in Corallia, he oversees activities related to the design and implementation of cluster- management and cluster-funding programmes, the formation of international collaborations and the operation of initiatives for the support of entrepreneurship, as well as financial and administrative operations.