207 Unicorn Battle in Brazil, June 02 2020
Startups
Biosolvit
Pocket Clinic
agryo
Telavita
H3 DYNAMICS
88 InsurTech / 88i
Expediente Azul
AgendaZap
GTI PLUG
Judges
Derek Lundgren Bittar
Michel Freund
Pedro Mesquita
Roman Nikitov
Victoria Mehran
Keith Herman
Marcelo Carrullo
Ruchi Dana, MD, MBA
Magnus Arantes
Gabriela Gonçalves
Aniko Szigetvari
Marisa Alma McGinnis
Kirill Babich
Heath Butler
Josh Chapman
João Luis Olivério
Speakers
Alexandra Johnson
Agenda
2:50 pm - 3:05 pm: Registration.
3:05 pm - 3:15 pm: Introduction by Organizers.
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm: Jury introduction.
During this section, Jury will have 1 minute each to introduce themselves.
4:00 pm – 4:55 pm: Startups Competition.
Each founder will have 3 minutes for a pitch, and another 3 minutes for questions, comments, and suggestions by Judges.
4:55 pm - 5:00 pm: Winners announcement.
5:00pm - 5:30pm: Networking
About:
The Winner of the Online Unicorn Battle in Brazil is Biosolvit.
Biosolvit - Bioblue Natural Absorber
A natural absorber which is the most effective oil or derivatives absorber in the world. Besides that, it's natural, made from discarded biomass, it's cheaper and the most important, it's the only one that allows the reuse of spilled oil.
The second place went to:
Pocket Clinic is developing a smart injector aiming to provide advanced and personalized therapy for diabetics.
The third place went to:
Agryo has developed infrastructure for financial services in the agribusiness sector by the combination of big data (+520 variables), AI and DLT.
We are grateful to the experienced and influenced VCs and Angel Investors, which joined the
Judges’ Panel at the Online Unicorn Battle!
You can find full list at the section Judges on the event page: https://battle.startup.network/events/415193/#judges
We greatly appreciate our Platinum sponsor Network.VC (https://network.vc/) and our new Golden sponsor ICU (https://vc.icu.ua/)) - 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.
And Silver sponsor - Silicon Valley Syndicate Club (https://svsy.club/).
The next part of the Battle was dedicated to the Pitch Competition.
Nine pre-selected Startups were presented to the wide audience of the venture community.
During the Pitch Competition, Judges marked each startup.
You can find the rating of all Startups according to the Judges' voting at the section Startups on the event page https://battle.startup.network/events/415193/#startups.
Startup.Network is grateful to Investors, Experts, Entrepreneurs and Guests who attended the Unicorn Battle in Brazil.
Special thanks to our Partners:
Silicon.Finance, Bossanova, Hag Group.
Our Special Guest was Alexandra Johnson and she told us about VC Investments During Pandemic.
We were streaming Live video on our Facebook page. You are welcome to check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/StartupN/videos/580578179508022
After Pitch Competition was networking and sharing contacts.
Looking forward to seeing you all in our next events!
Partners
Venue
The venue is being updated and will be known one week before the event.
Testimonials
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.