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.

Join investors, startups, and entrepreneurs at EBAN eSports and Gaming Investor Day, for pitches, networking and a rally atmosphere, as well as insights on the eSports and gaming industries! The event is co-organised with Business Jyväskylä and AKK sports and will take place on July 31st in Jyväskylä, Finland, where the fun will continue on August 1st and 2nd with the Jyväskylä Business Rally. For Investors The Investor Day is part of a series of sector-focused events EBAN organizes to give market insights on a given industry and showcase the best startups from our community to later stage investors in Europe. The goal of the Investor Days is to ultimately facilitate the scaling up of business angel investor and accelerator portfolio companies by creating meaningful connections between all the main players in a given industry. Besides speeches from corporates and investors on key market trends and disruptive innovations, the Investor Day features between 8-12 curated startups raising series A rounds who will be presenting their business cases to you for investment. The call for startups to participate in the EBAN eSports and Gaming Investor Day is now open! Register below to attend the event: For Startups Join the selected group of investors and corporates attending the EBAN eSports and Gaming Investor Day – make connections, learn from experts and pitch in front a jury of the world’s best angel investors. Join the selected group of investors and corporates attending the EBAN eSports and Gaming Investor Day – make connections, learn from experts and pitch in front a jury of the world’s best angel investors. Hurry up - the deadline to apply is June 16th! Criteria for Startups to Apply: - Actively fundraising for an equity investment of between €0.3M - €5M. - Already received financing from an angel investor or other early stage investor. - Sectors: Gaming and eSports. - Company based in any European country. What we Offer: - 2 Free Passes to the EBAN eSports and Gaming Investor Day event. - 10-minute pitching slot on the main stage. - 2 Free Passes to the evening dinner party at Savutuvan Apaja. - Profile listed on the event website and promotional campaigns - Access to the Brella event networking app where you can book meetings with investors. Eligible companies can apply by June 16th via the link below: Meet the Speakers Angelo Dalli General Partner at 111 Angelo Dalli is a serial entrepreneur with involvement in a number of companies in the Technology, Entertainment and Gaming industries. Since the late nineties he has distinguished himself for his ability to combine deep technical ability (he holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science) with commercial acumen. Through his innovative disposition, ability to build and lead teams, he has secured over 21 investments into his ideas from EU funds, Private Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists, propelling his companies into the international domain. Kirsi Hakaniemi Chief Digital Officer at Mediahouse Keskisuomalainen Kirsi runs the Mediahouse Keskisuomalainen's digital unit and am part of the executive team. I've built my team, which consists of fullstack and frontend developers, web analysts, project managers and product managers. Our task is to accelerate the digital transition and to find growth from digital business. We build digital services and products for our in-house customers, our over 60 local news rooms and media sales teams. Jeremy Jackson Market Analyst Newzoo I am motivated to constantly learn more and gain a lot of experience in both work and life. I want my career to reflect my creativity and passions in life, while consistently growing. Jukka-Pekka Vuorinen Executive at Finnish eSports League Former Elite Sport Executive in Olympics and International and National High Performance level is now helpingindividual business people, organizations and new innovative companies for the success in their activities by coaching,mentoring and creating operational teams in the area of several business innovations.    

Tech specific Roadshow Program to help Turkish companies to expand in the U.S. on investment and partnership initiatives INNOGATE, a Turkish based international technology accelerator, announced its fourth round in 2019 of Roadshow to be conducted between September 2nd and 20th with 8 technology companies to expand its business development initiatives in the East and West Coast. Participating high-tech companies will meet potential partners, investors and customers to enter and expand into the US market. Supported by the Turkish Government (Istanbul Development Agency), INNOGATE offers a 360-degree program including access to international connections, market penetration, business modeling and strategy development opportunities together with benefits of training, mentorship, counseling, and access to the right people/institutions. Istanbul Technical University’s Technology Park ARI Teknokent leveraged its extensive experience in acceleration programs to design INNOGATE this time for technology companies to expand to the US market, to share their global competitive ability. Innogate program, which has integrated 65 companies to the global market so far, will meet with potential customers, business partners and investors both in San Francisco between September 2 and 10th and New York between September 12th-20th These companies are Matriks, ArkSigner, B2Metric AI, Otokod, Invidyo, Compocket, Woopy and Gobito. The participating firms will have strategic meetings to closely examine their peer and the sector to explore synergies and opportunities. To lean more and to participate:

8 events in 8 different European countries: CEE Unlimited, initiated by Austrian Angel Investors Association(aaia), is more than an event series. From May – October 2019, eight CEE Unlimited events connect angel investors, VC funds, corporate venture capital funds & the most promising startups in the region, to create a true cross-border market and to release its full potential. CEE Unlimited is more than just an event series: it’s the first step towards a powerful ecosystem. The fourth CEE Unlimted event will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on September 12th. -What to Expect-  – Networking and Pitching Event for Business Angels and VCs from Slovenia.  – Presentation of the Business Angel Report 2018 (aaia).  – Business Angels and VCs talk about how to invest in startups, evaluate and select them.  – Pitching Contest: 3 – 5 promising startups from Slovenia compete against each other, the winner will be able to prove himself in the finals at Investors Day 2019 in Vienna.