Judges Startups Partners Agenda Venue

207 Unicorn Battle in Brazil, June 02 2020

Startups

Biosolvit

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Average rate 3.83

Pocket Clinic

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Average rate 3.61

agryo

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Average rate 3.53

Telavita

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Average rate 3.50

H3 DYNAMICS

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Average rate 3.41

88 InsurTech / 88i

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Average rate 3.22

Expediente Azul

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Average rate 2.59

AgendaZap

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Average rate 2.47

GTI PLUG

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Judges

Alexander Soroka

CEO and Founder of Startup.Network

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Derek Lundgren Bittar

Co-Founder of IndicatorCapital, an early-stage venture capital firm operating in São Paulo and Silicon Valley. Before co-founding IndicatorCapital in 2014, Derek acted as an angel investor on the sidelines of his value investment career in Brazilian equities. He is a fellow of the Society of Kauffman Fellows, holds an MBA from Wharton, class of 2008, and a BA in Economics from PUC of Rio de Janeiro. Fluent in English, German, French, and Portuguese, Derek is helping bridge the gap between Brazil and Silicon Valley.

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Michel Freund

Operating Partner at Bain Capital, Board Member. Mr. Freund joined Bain Capital Private Equity in 2015. He is an Operating Partner and a member of the North American Private Equity team. Mr. Freund works extensively in Brazil, supporting Bain Capital local portfolio and assessing new opportunities. He also plays a leading role in Bain Capital portfolio ‘Growth acceleration’ thinking. Prior to Bain Capital, Mr. Freund was a senior member of the Operations Team at CVC Capital, which he joined in 2009 and served as a Managing Director since 2013, based in Europe. During his years in Private Equity, Mr. Freund has had operating responsibility for a number of portfolio companies ranging in size fr om $0.5 to $10 Billion, served on the board of a number of publicly-traded and privately held investments, and led many operational improvements and transformations across various sectors. Prior to CVC, Mr. Freund served as an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company wh ere he focused on technology-enabled growth and operational transformations across the financial, healthcare, transport, industrial and media sectors. Mr. Freund started his career at L’Oréal Group, and also participated in entrepreneurial ventures as he raised to Vice President Sales & Marketing at fast growth online outsourcing platform Smarterwork and Vice President Sales & Marketing Americas at geo-localization software house LocatioNet. Mr. Freund graduated magna cum laude with a Master's Degree in Commercial Engineering from Solvay Business School in Brussels and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Pedro Mesquita

Pedro Mesquita is an Investment Analyst at Mindset Ventures, an early-stage Venture Capital Firm with investment focus primarily in the United States and Israel, helping companies connect with the Latin American market. He joined the firm in 2018 and is currently responsible for supporting deal flow analysis from both U.S. and Israel.

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Roman Nikitov

Head of ICU Ventures Roman leads seed and series A round investments into innovative companies in Central and Eastern Europe with a focus on Ukraine. Roman joined ICU in 2014 as a senior investment banker. In this role, he managed some of the biggest restructuring projects in the Ukrainian market, including more than $1 billion restructuring of a large-scale agricultural holding. He moved to the buy side in 2015 when ICU began investing in distressed debt. From 2015 to 2017, he managed a portfolio of successful investments into corporate distressed debt. Roman had a 15-year career in investment banking. He joined the ICU team from UniCredit where he headed the Corporate Finance Advisory team in Ukraine. He has also held significant advisory roles at ING and Ernst & Young. Roman received a BBA degree in Enterprise and IT Management from International Christian University (Kyiv-Vienna) in 1999. He qualified as a certified chartered accountant in 2002 (ACCA).

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Victoria Mehran

Seasoned financial analyst, worked in various industries of S&T, Semidocuctor, Automotive, E-commerce, and Private Equity. With extensive knowledge in Forecasting, Budgeting, Cash Flow analysis, Business Development, M&A

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Keith Herman

Mr. Herman is an entrepreneur and the founder of IPA Equities. During his career he has owned, restructured and successfully exited more than 50 businesses in the fields of technology, finance, media and real estate. He has raised more than a half a Billion USD and represented over 200 technology companies. Additionally, he architected, incubated and scaled more than 10 startups.

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Marcelo Carrullo

Marcelo leads Drummond Ventures focusing on the Brazil-US connection. He is in charge of the whole fundraising process, and Drummond’s investment thesis is mainly focused on the following sectors: Fintech, Healthcare, Education, and Biotech, investing in a range from USD 500k to USD 5 million. In addition, in the past, Marcelo was in charge of the Venture Forum Program at Brazilian Association of Venture Capital and Private Equity (ABVCAP). He has international experience, working in countries such as France, Canada, USA, Brazil, and Morocco. With experience in all stages of the investment cycle (prospecting, modeling, valuation, legal structuring, operational management and exit), Marcelo's career has focused on Seed/Growth/Venture Capital, M&A, fundraising, business, strategy and management. Marcelo began his career in management positions at Exxon-Mobil, as Superintendent of Operational Terminals of the company in Brazil. At Globopar (a Globo Organizations’ holding company), he held the position of Controller and Investor Relations, which included participating in the Boards of Directors of some companies in the group. At Lafarge-Holcim, he was Director of Strategy and M&A, and later transferred to France and led integration missions in Morocco and Canada. After 12 years in corporate positions, Marcelo became an angel investor, focusing on startups and early stage companies. In the last 15 years, Marcelo has worked with turnaround and professionalization of companies, taking C-level positions in different segments. He has also had a relevant role in the Brazilian private equity and venture capital market, fundraising and preparing companies to receive investments that allow them to fulfill their business plans, expanding their participation in the Brazilian and international market.

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Ruchi Dana, MD, MBA

Venture Partner of FundRx, Board Member of DANA Group Forbes Power Businesswoman 2020| Forbes NexGen 2017,2018,2019| Stanford MBA| Doctor| Board Member| Entrepreneur| Speaker Dr Ruchi Dana is a multi-award winning doctor, thought-leader, innovator and entrepreneur. She is a frequent keynote speaker, panelist and moderator at various industry conferences and sits on several corporate, startup and NGO boards. As a Board Member of Dana Group, Dr Ruchi Dana is responsible for the company’s strategy throughout the GCC and Arab world region, advancing Dana Group’s position as an innovative industry leader, and a socially responsible enterprise that recognizes diversity and inclusion. Ruchi has also worked with Golden Seeds, a women focused Angel Network in New York and New Silk Route Growth Capital, a PE firm in Dubai, she has mainly focused on healthcare related investments at both these firms. While still in her early thirties, Ruchi is a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded three businesses: Jugaad, an on-demand last mile logistics provider in the UAE, Pik A Venture, a crowdfunding accelerator platform for South-East Asia and One Big Family, an app for the elderly. Ruchi has been recognized by Forbes Middle East as the “Next Generation Business Leader, Arab World” for 3 consecutive years 2017, 2018 and 2019 and she has also been recognized by Campden Wealth as the “Women to Watch” in September’18 issue. Ruchi has also been recognized as “Top 75 Family Business Leaders” 2019 by Campden Research (UK)and was conferred with the Yuva Ratna Award, 2018. Most recently, Dr Ruchi was featured by Forbes on Power Businesswomen 2020 Middle East list. Ruchi is the President, COO of Duluth Medical Technologies Inc, a Silicon Valley based Robotic Medical device startup. Duluth is focused to develop intelligent, agile and affordable surgical robots, to improve patient care. Ruchi has been working on medical devices right through her undergraduate college days and has published & presented various papers on low-cost medical devices at international conferences. While at Stanford, Ruchi was part of the Stanford BioDesign Team and her team won NIH grant for needs finding under the C-IDEA consortium at Stanford university. Dr Ruchi Dana is an Experienced Board Member with a demonstrated history of working in the Investing, Startups, MedTech, Life Science, industrial engineering and retail industry. Ruchi completed her MD from AMU and got her full-time MBA and PMP (Public Management and Social Innovation) degrees from Stanford University Ruchi mentors startup founders & also volunteers her time for Médecins Sans Frontières, TiE and AIF (American India Foundation). For speaking & interview opportunities, plz email ruchi AT danagroups.com

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Fredrik Tukk

Head of Innovation Scouting at Maersk Drilling. He is responsible for collaboration with start-ups, innovation labs and universities to drive innovation that can shape the Oil & Gas industry for the future horizons and create growth. Working on a global scale together with incubators, accelerators, innovation platforms, venture capitalists, and innovation labs to find the best partners and build our Ecosystem through connected interest and relationships to create more opportunities. Experienced professional with more than 15+ years from management consulting, innovation, digitalization, and corporate strategy. Keynote Speaker and Advisory Board Member at global events on Innovation, Digital Transformation and Strategy.

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Magnus Arantes

Managing Partner at LM Ventures. President HBS Alumni Angels of Brazil. Venture Partner at NXTP Labs. Magnus is a serial entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, angel investor and innovator board member. He developed the complete cycle fr om the foundation to exit of a few companies. Magnus serves as board member in a few companies but, his primary occupation is as Managing Partner at LM Ventures, an innovation consulting company that operates Vertical Innovation Hubs, connecting big corporations with startups in an industry vertical ecosystem. These including Okara Hub, Hubble Hub, Pulse Hub and AgriHub Space. LM Ventures is also a venture builder, where they partner with big corporations to co-create new business outside their organizations. As early stage investor, LM manages a few investments vehicles and partner since 2012 with NXTP Labs, the most active early stage investor in Latin America, with more than 200 investments made. Magnus is also co-founder and President of HBS Angels Alumni Association of Brazil, angel investor group formed by former Harvard Alumni, and board member of the HBS Alumni Angels Global since 2014, a global institution that oversees 14 groups of HBS Angels Alumni worldwide, wh ere he served as co-president in 2017-18. Magnus also help big organizations and startups siting in its boards, usually responsibly for a more innovative perspective to the organizations. Magnus holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineer by UFPR, a master’s degree in business administration from FEA-USP and had completed the OPM from Harvard Business School.

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Gabriela Gonçalves

Partner at Brasil Venture Debt. With over 10 years experience in the VC industry, Gabriela has a major in Business Administration and an MBA fr om London Business School. She started her career in Endeavor Brazil wh ere she managed the Search and Selection area. Following this experience, Gabriela was a National Portfolio Manager for Criatec, the first early stage fund in Brazil. After her MBA she went on to be a Co-founder and Managing Director of Lazada Philippines, a Rocket internet initiative later acquired by Alibaba. She is currently the Managing Partner of Brasil Venture Debt, a R$140 million fund which is the first in the country to invest in debt focused on the VC ecosystem.

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Aniko Szigetvari

Founding Partner of Atlantica Ventures, an African impact venture capital fund. Atlantica Ventures invests in seed to Series B funding rounds in tech and tech enabled startups. Prior to founding Atlantica Ventures, Aniko spent 20+ years at the International Finance Corporation ("IFC"), most recently as Global Head of the TMT Group, leading the firm's efforts from deal origination through portfolio management for 4 years. In this position, Aniko oversaw a ~US$1.2 billion portfolio of investments across the capital structure and managed a team of ~50 professionals across eight regional hubs from Colombia to Singapore, including 2 hubs in Africa. Prior to becoming Global Head, Aniko was Head of the Africa and Latin America TMT Group at IFC for 4 years. Prior to IFC, Aniko worked for McKinsey & Company, Kraft Foods International and DHL Worldwide Express. Throughout her 20+ year career, Aniko has built a wide range of contacts across Africa and emerging markets, including entrepreneurs, companies, co-investors, bankers and consultants, as well as government ministers and regulators. Aniko has three graduate degrees, including an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Wharton School, and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania. Aniko received her undergraduate degree in business from the College of Finance and Accountancy in Hungary.

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Abhijeet Kumar

Co-Founder, ah! Ventures

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Marisa Alma McGinnis

LP in Blumberg Capital Fund III and a Managing Director at Golden Seeds. Marisa is a startup investor in 25 startups including RenovoRx, Merge, Namogoo, Kreditech Holding SSL GambH, FundBox Ltd, FeeX Wisdom of the Crowds, Inc. Trulioo Information Services Ltd., WunderCar Mobility Solutions GabH, Yotpo Ltd, Seek Mobile Ltd., Sqream Technologies Ltd., Seek Mobile Ltd., Roam Analytics, SimplyCredit Inc., Arcadia Data, BioCatch, Ltd, Zibby, Inc. Acquired startups are Cyvera by Palo Alto Networks and Zooz (acquired by PayU). She has an undergraduate degree in Microbiology, a law degree (member of the California State Bar) and a broker’s real estate license (licensed by the California Department of Real Estate).

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Ik Kanu

Founding Partner at Atlantica Ventures

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Preeti Chaudhary

Venture Partner at ah! Ventures

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Kirill Babich

Kirill has an entrepreneurial mindset with experience from venture capital, startups and management consulting. Passioned about building innovative digital business models and excellent in communication and negotiation. He is the Founder & Chief Executive Agent of the Malamute Startups Agency (MSA), an innovative agency for tech startups and venture capitalists. His aim is to support startups and investors so that they can focus on their core tasks and strengths rather than the day-to-day challenges. Kirill set up several startups from scratch and has successfully built a bright and strong network consisting of well known European venture capital investors and founders of most successful startups globally, while working for some of the most famous VCs in European venture capital industry. Kirill has in-depth insights in FinTech, online e-commerce marketplaces & mobile commerce and is the co-author of a highly recognized fact book in the financial industry.

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Pankaj Gupta

Founder at EthAum Venture Partners

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Mariana Andrade

Founding Partner at Cubo Capital

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Heath Butler

Network Partner at Mercury Fund. Heath Butler is a Network Partner at Mercury Fund, where he manages the organization’s network platform, including corporate, service provider, and startup community relationships. Heath’s investments focus on themes within B2B SaaS, Improved Consumer Targeting and Tech-Enabled Services. Prior to joining Mercury, Heath co-founded Gestalt Theory Venture Partners, a venture studio and angel investing group that made 20 investments in 15 companies over a 4-year period. Prior to Gestalt, Heath held executive roles as a seasoned go-to-market and corporate development executive at Insperity (NYSE: NSP), the nation’s leading HR outsourcing services provider. Prior to Insperity, Heath led business development for EnergyWorkspace.com, founded a fin-tech startup, and developed his foundational management skills at UPS. Heath received an MBA in Marketing from Texas Southern University’s Jesse H. Jones School of Business and a B.S. in Finance from the University of New Orleans. Outside of Mercury, Heath is an active angel investor and mentor in the Houston innovation community and was a founding investor in Station Houston, the programming partner of The Ion. He is passionate about educating, empowering and enabling entrepreneurial ecosystems, and most recently co-founded Urban Capital Network, an angel group focused on democratizing the investment ecosystem for a broader range of investors and entrepreneurs.

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Josh Chapman

Managing Partner at Konvoy Ventures, a VC fund that invests exclusively in video gaming infrastructure.

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Bernardo Arnaud

CEO at Unidire | Co-founder and CTO at OSeuGestor Fintech

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João Luis Olivério

Founder at Sales as a System and investor at Mucker Capital. Serial entrepreneur, investor and executive for global tech companies and investment funds, Joao Luis Oliverio build his first company while still at high school, having his first exit still in the University. As an executive, he is the former Country Manager and Managing Director in Brazil for companies like Zendesk, Indeed and Rocket Internet. Oliverio is the founder of "Sales as a System" methodology, built as a result of his experience with more than 200 advised companies and several acceleration programs in Latin America like Ace, Google Launchpad, Oracle for Startups, among others. He is also member of some investment groups like Mucker Capital and Poli Angels and considered one of the greatest sales specialists in Brazil. He is also the exclusive partner of Apollo.io in the country.

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Speakers

Alexandra Johnson

Co-Founder and Managing Director at HEED Capital, Founder and Managing Director at Global Technology Capital and President of Global Technology Symposium. Sasha is an experienced investor at early-stage companies and was one of the first female partners in the VC community, starting her fund in 2003. She is a board-member of science-enabled tech companies based in Silicon Valley.

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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

Funds

Bain Capital Private Equity

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

Pocket Clinic is developing a smart injector aiming to provide advanced and personalized therapy for diabetics.

The third place went to:

agryo

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!

Global sponsors

Platinum Sponsor

Golden Sponsor

Silver Sponsors

Organizers

Partners

Silicon.Finance

HAG GROUP

Bossa Nova

Venue

The venue is being updated and will be known one week before the event.

Testimonials

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Open profile Alaa Ismail, Founder & CEO AladdinB2B Startup Profile

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.

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Open profile Liz Polizzi Oertle, CEO and Co-Founder Nanno Startup Profile

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!

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Open profile Anna Mesheryakova, CEO Third Opinion Care Startup Profile

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.

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Open profile Juan Juan, CEO & Co-Founder of Fanalyze, Inc. Fanalyze Startup Profile

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.

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Open profile Petr Neustroev, Founder and CEO Nexus Intuitive Surgical technologies Startup Profile

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!

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Open profile Svitlana Malovana, CEO & Founder Raccoon.World Startup Profile

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.

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Open profile Vladimir Goloborodko, Co-Founder SmartPay - hands free payment service Startup Profile

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.

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Open profile Ivan Terekhin, Co-Founder BINO Startup Profile

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.

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