Pitching, Matchmaking And Networking In The Heart Of Europe!
The ‘Pitch Perfect and Boost the European Bioeconomy’ event is a one day event of intense cross-border and cross-sectoral pitching, matchmaking and networking, with the aim to link industry to innovative (biobased) technologies, innovators to investors and to create new partnerships for the future and the further development of innovative, cross-border and cross-sectoral industrial value chains in the biobased economy.
JOIN THIS PHYSICAL NETWORKING EVENT ON 26 SEPTEMBER AT THE SHERATON BRUSSELS AIRPORT HOTEL
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This pitching, matchmaking and networking event brings together the networks of seven important bioeconomy platforms: Pilots4U, Tech4Biowaste, BioeconomyVentures, The ProteInn Club, Waste2Func, BIOMAC and Bio Base Connect. As such, we can guarantee a diverse attendance reaching from SMEs, start-ups, scale-ups, large companies/corporates, investors, research organisations, technology providers to organisations offering relevant innovation services such as access to finance, scale-up trials, application testing, business plan writing, feedstock analysis, life cycle assessment, social acceptance, etc.
Participants are invited to submit a pitch application for a 6 minutes pitch. As we are organising 6 pitch sessions of 90 minutes each, we are looking for at least 66 inspiring pitches. Not to exclude any interesting developments, pitch categories are not defined upon registration but should be relevant for further development of the bioeconomy. We can however already announce that we will include a session focusing on technologies for biowaste conversion, one on microbial proteins and one on new investments and developments in the EU scale-up and demonstration scene.
The matchmaking are one-on-one meetings of 20 minutes aimed at finding new partners. The scheduling of these meetings will be supported by an online matchmaking system, easy to use on a smartphone or laptop.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
15+ INVESTORS already confirmed their participation, and more to come! Are you a (to be)start-up/SME looking for finance, apply for a pitch now! Among the confirmed investors: Marc Leduc, Investment Manager at BASF Venture Capital GmbH; Jorge Rodrigues de Almeida, Chairman of the HOOP Circular Investment Board; Arne Hautekiet, Investment Analyst at Astanor Ventures; Rob van der Meij, Partner at Capricorn Partners; Wouter Van de Putte, Investment Manager at Capricorn Partners; Gudbrand. Rødsrud, Technology Director at Borregaard AS; Annick Verween, Business Development Manager at biotope by VIB; Damien van der Bijl, Senior Investment Manager IQCapital at InnovationQuarter; Jisk de Vries, Investment Analyst at the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF), Charles Margarit, PhD, Investment Analyst at V-Bio Ventures; James Cogan, Industry & Policy Analist at Clonbio Group Ltd. Anna Belousova, Analyst Industrial Biotechnology Team at Sofinnova Partners and Peter De Decker, Impact Investment Manager at SFPI-FPIM and more to be announced.
A pitch slot has already been awarded to Avecom (BE), Citribel (BE), EnginZyme (SE), B4Plastics (BE), Borregaard AS (NO), RdA Climate Solutions/HOOP Circular Investors Board (PT), Bodec (NL), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (FI), PIVERT (FR), INN-PRESSME (FI), NovelYeast (BE), B-COS (BE), NoPalm Ingredients (NL), Vienna Textile Lab (AT), AmphiStar (BE), Sophie's BioNutrients (SG), Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BE), Hysytech Srl (IT), University of Naples "Federico II" (Unina) (IT), Cashew Shell BioRefinery (DE), GreenCap Solutions (NO), TripleW (IL), Paleo (BE), Greentech Innovators AS (NO), Holiferm (UK), Avantium Renewable Polymers (NL), proionic GmbH (DE), Lixea ( UK/SE), Greencovery (NL), myBIOS (AT)
