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.
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.
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.
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.
EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN BUSINESS ANGELS NOW HAVE A DEDICATED YEARLY FLAGSHIP EVENT! This event puts a spotlight on the role of BAs in supporting early-stage entrepreneurial ecosystems. It will take place on October 7th, 2021, as part of Bpifrance Inno Génération, the largest entrepreneurial event in Europe, which brings together more than 40,000 entrepreneurs every year. PROMOTING EARLY STAGE INVESTMENT IN EUROPE AND AFRICA CONTEXTEuroQuity, Bpifrance’s online matchmaking platform, and France Angels, the federation of French business angels, have been organizing business meetings between business angels and entrepreneurs for the past four years. On average, 70 business angels are invited to engage in a total of 400 to 600 one-on-one meetings. This year, the event is scaling up to bring together the business angels who matter in Europe and Africa. To support this BIG Angels Day, several key actors have joined France Angels & EuroQuity: Invest’I (Tunisia), Sowalfin (Belgium), EBAN and BAE (European countries and some African countries). EVENT OVERVIEW• Virtual meetings between Business Angels and qualified entrepreneurs. • Workshops: Why and how to become a Business Angel, Business Angels networks in Europe and Africa, Cross-border investment, Women Business Angels, etc. • Special track for Women Entrepreneurs - Women Business Angels meetings. ARE YOU A EUROPEAN OR AFRICAN BUSINESS ANGEL NETWORK?JOIN US AND BECOME ONE OF OUR PARTNERS! • Are you a Business Angels network based in Europe or Africa? • Can you mobilize at least 4 business angels in your network on October 07, 2021 to have online meetings with early-stage start-ups?• Can you commit to promoting the program to your start-up ecosystem? If you meet these requirements, contact us now: marie.dolle@bpifrance.fr
European Business Angels Network is the pan-European representative for the early stage investor community gathering over 100 member organizations.
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