The Agenda of the event:
20:00 – 20:03 – Welcome speech
20:03 – 20:25 – Organizers presentation
20:25 – 20:35 – Introduction for Venture Industry Expert Board
20:35 – 21:25 – Pitch competition
Startup 1 Wishri
Startup 2 Plastalyst
Startup 3 Umenoki
Startup 4 Torana, Inc
Startup 5 Common Suppliz
Startup 6 AXiON Research
Startup 7 AI MusicCompoZAr
21:25 - 21:30 The winners’ announcement
21:30 – 22:00 – Networking: a great opportunity to establish the right and reliable personal contacts
Special thanks to our Jury Expert Board:
Alexander Soroka, CEO & Founder at Startup.Network
Roman Nikitov, Head of ICU Ventures
Abhijeet Kumar, Co-Founder, ah! Ventures
Yunlong Wang, Founder and CEO of Vikcess Business Group,
Vadim Shpak, Operating Managing Director at Vickers Venture Partners
Guillaume Kloof, Managing Partner at Valley Date Venture Partners
Takeshi Ito, CEO at IMG Global Co.
Kanehiro (Shuai Xu) YOSHIDA, Bridging corporates and innovators by open innovation at Agorize Japan.
Amandeep Singh, Venture Partnerships at Honda Motor Co. & Advisor at Investocracy VC
Megumi Ishitobi, Director of Global Network at Osaka Innovation Hub
Ik Kanu, Founding Partner at Atlantica Ventures
Volker Heistermann, Venture Partner at the US$ 100M TPTF fund
Abraham van Wyk, General Partner of Acquipharma BSc Hons,
Ruchi Dana, Venture Partner of FundRx, Board Member of DANA Group
Datuk Paul Chong, Managing Partner, Knights Capital Partners and Camelot Capital Management
William Du, CEO & Founder of Ingenious Haus Group
Akshaya Kumar Sharma, Senior Digital Expert / Associate Partner, Digital at McKinsey & Company
Matthew Zhao, Food Scientist at Big Idea Ventures
Hiroyuki Ono, Partner at ACA Investments Pte Ltd
Mayank Shiromani, Venture Capital | Fintech at MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd
Dalal AlGhawas, Program Director at Big Idea Ventures
Adam Claydon-Platt, COO @ Startupbootcamp Scale Osaka
Andrew Ive, Founder of Big Idea Ventures.
Denis Valvachev, Senior Managing Partner | Chief Business Development Officer at Quarter Partners
The event was started with a Startup.Network introduction and presentation of the global initiative:
We have the winners of the Unicorn Battle in Tokyo!
SUMMER CUP
Global Pitch Competition Finals Online
Welcome to the Summer Unicorn Cup Finals: 3-days pitch & networking event.
Only 50 startups - winners of preliminary Unicorn Battles that took place in 25 countries of the world will pitch live mainstage at the SUMMER UNICORN CUP Finals on July 28-30th, 2020.
You will see best international startups from different industries – three days - LIVE!
Guests of the event will also vote online for the Best Startup in the Audience Awards nomination.
VC industry all over the world comes together for a great cause!
The second part of the Battle was devoted to the Pitch Session.
We have the winners of the Unicorn Battle in Tokyo!
The first place winner is:
Plastalyst by AC Biode
Our catalysts carbonize organic waste with plastic on-site
https://startup.network/projects/416614.html
The Winner of the Unicorn Battle will participate at the Unicorn CUP – Silicon Valley Finals.
The second place went to:
Umenoki
An interactive health-tracking app for pregnant women
https://startup.network/startups/417465.html
The third place went to:
AI Music CompoZAr
Revolutionary web service to obtain customized BGM by AI.
https://startup.network/projects/402800.html
All participating startups are listed here:
https://battle.startup.network/events/411080/#startups
To find a startup's pitch deck please click on the startup logo on the event page.
Many thanks to our Global Sponsors:
Network VC California Seed Fund
ICU Ventures is a Kyiv-based venture capital fund that invests in technology companies with strong ties to Ukraine and Eastern Europe making late seed and series A investments across the tech spectrum.
ICU Ventures is part of the ICU Group, an independent asset management firm founded in 2006 by senior investment professionals from ING. It is one of the largest and most diversified asset managers in the CEE region.
To check the forthcoming events, please, follow our announcements: https://battle.startup.network/events/
We deeply appreciate your involvement and look forward to meeting you at Unicorn Battles again.
I am so happy that I have participated in Dubai Unicorn Battle. Winning the 1st place of this prestigious award is one of many excitements. As an entrepreneur I am actively raising funds and super busy scaling my startup, therefore I was looking for battles with cash prizes! but after I attended the Unicorn Battle, the benefits were more rewarding than immediate cash. All the 18 judges were active investors or consultants who help raising investment, their feedbacks and advices were impressive and helpful to scale to the next level. The organization by Lena and Kateryna was great, the networking and coffee breaks allowed me to make new connections, and we got approached by two interested investors right after the award ceremony.
Will definitely participate again in the future.
Ok, yes I'm excited that we won the Startup Battle this week. But mostly I want to let my other entrepreneur friends out there know that this event is really great. The Judges were all very impressive active investors - and all super engaged with Q&A and feedback - the programming beforehand was excellent, and all the companies that pitched were outstanding. If you have an opportunity to participate in one of these events, do it!
The main thing I would like to share is the event went beyond our expectations.
The venue was really full of interested people and even overcrowded, and that created the right emotional state for the pitching startups and for the audience. We met a few potential investors and made very valuable connections during networking.
After 1 month we are still in connection with the attendees of that Startup Battle. We are working on the Third Opinion Care development together.
We will definitely consider participating in the next events organized by the same team.
Thank you Startup Network for giving Fanalyze the opportunity to pitch at your event! I met some awesome founders and was able to network with several investors. I enjoyed pitching and learning about the other startups in different industries.
After participating in the Startup Battle, which was held by Startup.Network in the Silicon Valley, we gained tremendous amount of experience on how to build the startup and attract investments. Especially it was very cool to talk with MS. He gave us a lot of advice. If it were no it for this event, we would not be able to get such advice. Then we actively worked on searching for investors which we did. We began due diligence but we realised that we did not want to take any investments on the early stage. Again, useful advice from Mike Sandler, his criticism to be precise, helped us to find the way. At this point, we have several investors from among the surgeons, but for now, we are managing on our own.
Now we have an MVP that is not just a set of tools but a surgical robot. The manufacturing of the primary product is taking place in Taiwan. At this point, it is on the stage of being certified.
If somebody asks me whether I need any investments in the early stages, I will say no. It is significantly more important to develop the right network and to get proper advice.
Everything that happened is the credit to Startup.Network!
I want to thank Statup.Network for precious experience and help we've got during startup battles in USA and Berlin.
Mentors your team chooses for jury on battles are always very professional and ready to help.
We got valuable feedback and a good quantity of insights.
Raccoon.World team continues communication and builds relationships with several investors we met on the battles.
Hello!
We took part in several Startup Battles, organised by Startup.Network, in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Minsk, Almaty, Kharkov and attended Startup Battle in San Francisco.
I believe that it helped us to be selected from more than 1000 competitors for acceleration program in the Netherlands, where we were the only startup from Eastern Europe.
Attending the Startup Battles is very beneficial for expending networking and gaining useful feedback. In particular, the feedback, what we got on Startup Battle, from the investor form the Silicon Valley helped us to find new and more perspective niche and make the pivot. We would be glad to collaborate with the Startup.Network team again.
We took part in two Startup.Network events: Startup Battle in Moscow and Startup BAttle in Silicon Valley.
We won the 1st place in Moscow and got a lot of attention from the media and investors. After that event, we received lots of useful pieces of advice and attended meetings with investors.
And we won the 3d place in Silicon Valley, and right after the pitch Marvin Liao
(Partner 500 Startups) offered us to join 500 Startups accelerator. Being acquainted with Marwin helped us one more time in Moscow in some time.
We would be glad to pitch at Startup Battles again!
Thank you.