new europe venture contest 2011
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New Europe Events, a Warsaw-based event organizer, would like to invite you to New Europe Venture Contest (NEVC) for the most promising investment projects in the CEE TMT sector. The contest is a series of pitch events held across 12 Central & Eastern European (CEE) countries. Six semi-finals will be held in 2011 in 6 CEE capitals and will lead to the great finale in the Warsaw Stock Exchange.TRANSCRIPT
New Europe Venture Contest 2011
12 CEE countries, 7 events, top 30 CEE companies
Content Partner
New Europe Events
• CEE conference organizer since 2001• Target industries – TMT sector– Technology (ICT / internet, clean-tech, bio-tech)
– Media (digital)
– Telco• Target audience– Entrepreneurs– Investors– Consultants, media
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New Europe Venture Contest (1/3)
• Contest history• 2008 - hosted as ‘7 minutes’ pitch contests in 5 CEE countries • 2009 & 2010 - as ‘7 minutes’ pitch contest in Warsaw, Poland• 2011 - new contest formula – bigger, better, VC/IPO oriented
• NEVC’11 – pitch contest for 12 CEE countries– April-December – SEMI-FINALS: 6 regional events for 12 countries
• TMT.ReStart Warsaw – target market: Poland• TMT.CzS – target market: Czech Republic + Slovakia
TMT.Baltics – target market: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Western Russia• TMT.Ukraine – target market: Ukraine• TMT.BlackSea – target market: Romania + Bulgaria• TMT.Balkans – target market: Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia itd.
– February 2012 – FINALS: TMT.CEE in Warsaw, top 12 finalists competing
New Europe Venture Contest (2/3)
• NEVC objectives – Collect hundreds of project submissions from CEE– Top 30 will pitch their businesses during Semi-Finals– Top 12 will pitch during the CEE Finals in Warsaw– Chosen projects will be invited:
• to be incubated by TMT Incubator and its industry Partners• to be marketed in their home markets, CEE, EU, globally• to raise capital – from BAs, VCs, IPO at NewConnect
• Awards and incentives for entrepreneurs– Main Award – take on IPO at NewConnect, WSEs unregulated
public market (more info)– Moreover – legal, IP protection, marketing services, networking
and recognition among TMT sector players
New Europe Venture Contest (3/3)
Partners benefiting from the project are:• Investment projects / Management teams• Advisory firms (legal, capital, marketing)• Investment funds (seed, early-stage, VC)• Stock brokers• Banks crediting innovative projects• Entrepreneurial organizations• Academic centers and institutions
What is our offer to Partners?
• Marketing and lead generation campaign in CEE– NEVC 2011 biggest CEE marketing project reaching
TMT industry entrepreneurs, opinion leaders, media– Partner representative as a NEVC Jury member– Partner business profile and offer being promoted– Several networking and meeting opportunities
• Investment project pipeline build-up in CEE– Access to all New Europe Venture Contest applications – Pitch screening of submitted projects– Investment process preparation by TMT Incubator
NEVC in previous years
Bottom line…
• NEVC 2011 is the biggest Central & Eastern European marketing project reaching TMT industry entrepreneurs, opinion leaders, media
• We find the most promising investment projects in the Central & Eastern European TMT sector:– Technology (ICT / internet, clean-tech, bio-tech)
– Media (digital)
– Telco / mobile• We enable our Partners to fund / raise capital for
these projects and do business with them…
Let’s do some business together!
Ewa [email protected] +48 607 805 239
Michal [email protected]+48 607 144 001