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157 Unicorn Battle, Los Angeles, 10 Октября, 2019

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Стартапы

nFlux AI

Средний балл:
4.25

Победитель Битвы

ECFX

Средний балл:
3.83

Lips

Средний балл:
3.36

Chef Koochooloo

Средний балл:
3.25

Средний балл:
3.00

The JetSet Group Inc.

Средний балл:
2.42

Pulse360

Средний балл:
2.36

Streshi

Средний балл:
1.08

Жюри

Brian Mac Mahon

Serial entrepreneur and investor. Brian has owned companies in over 35 countries. He is also the owner of Expert DOJO, who is the largest International startup accelerator in Southern California. At Expert DOJO early-stage startups receive investment, success coaching, advice, and specialist help in all areas of their business growth. Their patented 12 step accelerator is unlike any other program available and gives direct access to specialists in branding, design, business planning, product fit, strategic planning, web development, growth hacking and so much more. In 2018 Expert DOJO brought 400 companies through their startup programs and made 18 investments. They are planning to bring 2,000 companies through their program this year and make 25 investments. All you want to know about Brian is contained in his TEDx talk - https://youtu.be/Y6f7lFy0oW0

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Tolga Onuk

Investor at Canadian based New Wave Esports Investment Company | Adviser at multiple funded tech companies. Tolga Onuk has 5 years of experience in co-founding an official sports federation and 15 years of entrepreneurial background in design, technology development, and marketing involving LA’s top interactive agencies, tech startups, and publicly traded gaming companies. He has contributed into the success of more than 40 startups and he founded and co-founded several tech companies. Tolga is currently an investor at Canadian based New Wave Esports Investment Company and he is advising multiple funded tech companies.

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Megan McCashland

Senior Associate at WestWave Ventures, an industry agnostic seed stage Venture Capital Firm. Prior Experience in Economic and Litigation Consulting at Berkeley Research Group. Education, Bachelor in Economics at the University of Notre Dame, Master in Finance at the University of Southern California.

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Dan Stefanis

Managing Partner at Switchboard Ventures. Prior to Switchboard, he ran a cryptocurrency focused hedge fund and served as Director of UCLA Anderson's Venture Accelerator Program. Dan is also a successful, venture-backed entrepreneur and Techstars alum with an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

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Frank Grant

Managing Director of Interstate Venture Capital, a venture capital and advisory firm that focuses on the world’s most promising technology companies. Prior to Interstate Venture Capital, Frank was a Partner with Stradling, a leading business law firm, representing entrepreneurs, emerging growth companies, venture capital firms and investors and Senior Counsel at Perkins Coie, an international law firm with 19 offices across the United States and Asia. He focused his practice on assisting clients in solving business problems, executing business strategies and achieving critical business objectives. In addition to investing, Mr. Grant regularly works with public and private companies in fundraising, corporate transactions, and corporate governance matters. He has extensive experience with public and private mergers and acquisitions, asset acquisitions and dispositions, private placements and venture capital financings. He assists private and public companies in the acquisition and sale of full business enterprises, subsidiaries, divisions and other select assets. He also helps operating companies, management groups, founders and investors in various transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, debt and equity financings, distribution and supply arrangements and other strategic transactions.

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Andrew Fielding

Venture investor for Outcomes Fund. Andrew Fielding is a Los Angeles based investor and entrepreneur. He currently serves as the lead venture investor for Outcomes Fund, a single family office direct investment vehicle with a focus on digital health and enterprise software companies. Previously Andrew founded SMSages an early company in the push notification space, Shrewd Travel, and most recently Orana, a data collection and prediction platform for mental healthcare. He has been a guest speaker or judge at Novartis, UCLA, LMU, and Fusion LA, among others. In his free time Andrew is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Loyola Marymount University.

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Barbara Bickham

Founder & Managing Director of Women’s Innovation Fund Accelerator | Founder/CTO - Trailyn Ventures - Blockchain Advisory | Chief of the Block - Blockchain Accelerator for Global Growth. Barbara Bickham, CTO with extensive experience in Technology and Entrepreneurship. Her current areas of expertise are in the Internet of Things, Blockchain, Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence. Barbara is the Managing Director for Women’s Innovation Fund (WifAx.VC), an opportunity zone fund, accelerating growth by using a mix of incubation, shared workspace, and business finance while requiring participants to have a C-suite made up of at least 50% women. Barbara is currently Founder and CTO of Trailyn Ventures, a Blockchain Advisory Company. She provides strategic advice and technical execution for companies incorporating Blockchain and/or Artificial Intelligence into their company and products. Companies include The Aclyd Project - Payment and Remittance on the Blockchain; 2TransFair - Payment and Remittance on the Blockchain; Plaak - Exchange; EVRealities - AR/VR Attribution on the Blockchain; Rechain - Universal Rewards on the Blockchain, and others. Barbara is also The Chief of the Block at the Blockchain Accelerator for Global Growth. The Blockchain Accelerator for Global Growth helps companies become fundable with the Due Diligence. Intensive, a 31-page analysis of the company for traditional and blockchain funding and International Business Focus for growing and scaling a company globally. Previously, Ms. Bickham was the Director of Engineering for Flexeye where she architected, designed and coded the 2014 Gartner Cool Vendor Award Winning REST API for their IoT Platform eyehubiot.com. Ms. Bickham founded TechGenii, Inc., a digital strategy company; Wilderforex.com, a Forex Software company; and PCNLA an investment association connecting Southern California businesses with venture funding. She has 7+ years of experience preparing and evaluating companies for private equity and venture capital financing. She is on the Advisory Board of the MIND Institute, MindMusic and Yummy Society; and a Mentor for Springboard Enterprises, Stubbs Alderton PreCellerator, and MakeInLA. She is an Advisor and EIR at the Bixel Exchange. She holds degrees from the University of Chicago, New Entrepreneurs Program, an MSCS from West Coast University and a BACS from University of California, Berkeley.

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Michael Kline

Venture Partner at Shoreline Venture Management. Michael has spent the last 20 years as a founder and chief operating officer of several leading companies in the local advertising, e-commerce, and digital marketing industries. A founding team member and COO at ReachLocal, Inc. (NASDAQ: RLOC), a leading provider of online marketing services, Michael helped oversee the company’s growth to $500 million in annual revenue with 2,000 employees spanning 60 offices in 8 countries. ReachLocal was recently sold to Gannett. Michael incubated ClubLocal, an on demand home services company later rebranded as Serviz, Inc. As President, he led the expansion of their home services platform to over 35 markets and 10,000 service professionals. Serviz was recently sold to Porch. Previously, Michael was a founding member of online games company, WorldWinner; online classifieds publisher, Recycler.com; and employment advertising platform, AdStar.com. An operator and entrepreneur at heart, Michael currently advises a roster of start-up companies looking to scale their businesses and raise additional capital. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Shoreline Venture Management. Michael graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard College with a B.A. in literature. He is a current member of Young President’s Organization (YPO). Michael loves tennis, skiing and still holds out hope that he will write the Great American novel one day. Until then, more start-ups

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Brad Costello

Venture Partner at Okapi Venture Capital

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Morvareed Salehpour

Attorney and Speaker | Managing Partner at Salehpour Legal Consulting (www.salehpourlaw.com), a law firm specializing in handling a diverse range of complex legal matters both in and outside the courtroom. \r\n\r\nShe is experienced in negotiating a variety of contracts and legal agreements and handling cases from inception to trial and appeal. She has represented clients across the nation ranging from entrepreneurs and small businesses to Fortune 500 companies and works in a variety of industries, including technology, blockchain, cannabis, and real estate among others. \r\nMs. Salehpour is a graduate of UCLA and UCLA School of Law. She also served as a Managing Editor for the UCLA Law Review.\r\nMs. Salehpour previously practiced at BakerHostetler, a national firm, her work included being a member of the legal team seeking to recover the principal lost in the Madoff Ponzi scheme, and then at Strange & Butler, a complex litigation boutique.\r\nMs. Salehpour is also a Trustee of the Santa Monica Bar Association, Board Member of the Rabbit Hole Network Women\'s Blockchain Community, and a regular speaker and writer on blockchain, real estate, and business law issues.

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Andy Lower

Founder at ADAP. Andy's believes in getting stuff done and focusing on the primary mission of scalable impact by investing and supporting early-stage social entrepreneurs. ADAP (A Different Approach to Poverty) addresses the “pioneer gap” with both monetary capital (ADAP Capital LLC) , and ongoing advisory support (ADAP Advisory LLC). ADAP is challenging the status quo, focusing on the needs of entrepreneurs and their businesses customers to create the foundations necessary to have companies capable of generating financial returns as well as achieving massive social impact. We are driven by empathy understanding the challenges of early-stage business and the complexity and messiness of extreme poverty. ADAP Advisory partners with entrepreneurs and who have innovative approaches and roll up our sleeves to implement and get things done. We utilize our ADAP Entrepreneur Curriculum, Monthly Business Review process and spending time with entrepreneurs as part of our #tacoTuesday program.

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Lev Filimonov

Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2016. Founding partner at LA Fund, LA Ventures and Check_n Bar. Chief Sales and Marketing Officer in American Nightlife Association. An international nightclub franchise owner with 11 years of experience in the nightclub business, Lev was named by Forbes Magazine in 2016 as one of the 30 most successful Ukrainian entrepreneurs under the age of 30.

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Bill Baker

Co-Founder & Inventor at NEWtritionIQ (NQ). Bill is deeply insightful technology-turned-media entrepreneur who truly personifies the ‘think different’ concept. As a Market Creation Strategist Bill has been on the forefront of the most innovative technologies and global markets during the past 2+ decades. Considered one of the founding fathers of broadband and a multi-domain pioneer 'Broadband' Bill continues to connect the dots between online/mobile technologies and new/emerging media markets. With keen vision and unwavering drive Bill has been instrumental in successfully delivering several fundamentally disruptive and patented technologies (wireline & wireless) and video delivery platforms that paved the way for the accelerated adoption and proliferation of consumer broadband worldwide. Subsequently, Bill’s understanding of the underlying broadband infrastructure has allowed him to develop new software platforms and create innovative business models in the globally-exploding online/mobile media markets. As a veteran of emerging markets Bill is not the type to shy away from a challenge and enjoys the concept-to-company creation and evolution processes and has deep and profound understanding of the business transformations associated with the same. Equally comfortable with the creative, technology as well as the business side Bill possesses a rare ability to bridge the gap between these inter-related domains in a truly seamless and holistic manner. As a strategist Bill’s insightful go-to-market initiatives have resulted in optimal industry positioning with high market visibility and early customer acceptance. Bill is also a published author having written numerous articles on broadband infrastructure, content delivery models, entrepreneurship, creative business insights, etc. In addition, several of Bill’s early hires became successful VCs/CEOs demonstrating Bill’s ability to recognize and cultivate top talent.

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David Mandel

Early Stage startup investor since 2013, investing in over 400 companies. Active member of Pasadena Angels and Tech Coast Angels.

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Jon Nathanson

Founding partner at Taste, an early-stage venture capital firm focusing on lifestyle, leisure, and luxury products, both digital and physical. Prior to becoming a VC, Nathanson led global Product Marketing for Media Monetization products at Facebook. Over his career at both Fortune 500 companies and startups, he has launched and managed over $1 billion worth of mobile products as a Product, Corporate Strategy, and Marketing leader. His writing on business and startups has appeared in such publications as Slate, The Week, the Huffington Post, and Priceonomics, and he has been a regular guest on NPR's "Weekend Edition."

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Nektar Baziotis

Serial entrepreneur and investor, with more than 20 years experience in International Business Development, IT Project Management, IT Business Consulting, E-Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Successfully delivered IT products and services for the UN, European Commission, European Parliament, organizations, companies, and startups in several countries. Has invested in several startups and developed successful online products or assisted companies to scale up. With a formal education in Maths (AUTH), International Business (Wharton), MBA (Sheffield) and AI (MIT).

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McKenna Walsh

Head of Business Development at VentureDevs. A Bay Area native, Mc Kenna is one of the original “Digital Natives”. She started her career in Private Equity but quickly shifted back to technology. Prior to VentureDevs, Mc helped Tim Draper launch Draper University, worked with NASA to run their AMES Robotics Lab and founded her own AI startup. At VentureDevs, Mc is the Head of Business Development, splitting her time between LA, SF. and NYC. She additionally writes for Inc, Forbes, and Adweek, and she actively consults and advises for both startups and investment groups.

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Robin Rowe

Venture Hollywood CEO

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Спикеры

Mark Hamade

Moderator, Partner at Stealth. Speaker. Mentor. Advisor. Blockchain. Former PE Partner. Beat Wheel Chair, Stage 4 Cancer, 7x Surgery, -220lbs, USMC Veteran. Supporter of Planet, People and Women Entrepreneurs. Mark Hamade is a Conscious Capitalist, meaning he passionately respects People, the Planet and Profitable enterprise, and believes that organizations have a responsibility to uphold all three Ps equally. He is an accomplished, visionary senior executive with more than twenty years’ experience in driving revenue growth, building world-class teams, enforcing cultures of excellence, strengthening operational effectiveness and increasing profitability. His career spans multiple industries, including renewable energy, enterprise software, industrial engineering and IT services. Mark is globally minded and globally well connected, having established offices in Mexico, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Far East. He maintains business connections in over 50 countries, including those with the wealthiest economies. He has raised/managed/assisted with over $300 million with 50% IRR.

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Rebecca Sadwick Shaddix

Forbes Contributor. Founder and CEO of Strategica Partners, which develops go-to-market and brand positioning strategies for software companies. Rebecca Sadwick Shaddix has a background in marketing, SaaS entrepreneurship, and tech policy research. She previously served as Director of Marketing at GoGuardian, Inc. 500’s fastest-growing education company in U.S. history and #5 fastest-growing software company of 2018. She was recognized as the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Rising Star of 2019 for her track record leading high-growth strategies at Strategica Partners.

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Jor Law

Business advisor, finance and securities attorney. Jor is a pioneer in building out the ecosystem for digitizing and trading securities on the blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies. A finance and securities attorney, he is most well-known for his expertise in secured lending and alternative finance, including EB-5, venture capital, crowdfunding, and tokenized securities, including initial coin offerings (ICOs) or security token offerings (STOs). He co-founded VerifyInvestor.com which was the dominant accredited investor verification service in the world at the time it was acquired. A trusted consultant/adviser to technology companies primarily in regtech, fintech, and crypto, Jor has has advised prominent companies such as tZERO, Polymath, and Prime Trust. Within the crypto space, he's most passionate about securities regulations affecting tokens, identity for regulatory purposes vs privacy and anonymity, and cross-ledger or cross-chain technologies.

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Jordan Wahbeh

Managing Partner at Bay Angels | Partner at Andra Capital. Jordan partners with startups and investors to grow, scale, fundraise and achieve their objectives through operations, fundraising, business development, product development, and team leadership. As an experienced leader and advisor, he assists or leads in business operations and development, market growth, org transformation, and customer management. As a Partner at Andra Capital, and Bay Angels’ Managing Partner, Jordan has a strong network of resources and SMEs along with a varied portfolio of startups companies. His engagements include VCs, Angels groups, Accelerators, and Corp VC in Silicon Valley, across USA, Korea, Dubai, Brazil, MENA region, and EC. With 20+ years’ hands-on and leadership experience, he is quite skilled in engineering, business, SW development, IT, Hi-Tech, customer management, AI, Big Data/Analytics, Industrial IoT, and manufacturing.

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Miguel Francis

Editor in Chief at The Future is Now. Miguel runs a community driven decentralized film series on disruptive technologies called The Future is Now and same titled media network aimed at mass adoption through cinema, covering fintech, blockchain, A.I. and IoT, while producing everything from branding videos to educational documentary films through his production company Oneday Productions. Miguel holds a Bachelor"s degree from UCLA in Film & Television.

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Расписание

5:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Registration.

6:00 pm - 6:15 pm: Introduction by Organizers.

6:15 pm - 7:00 pm: Panel Discussion on the topic: "Crowdfunding vs Angel-funding vs Venture Capital".

During this section, the true sharks of the investment industry will share their own experiences.

7:00 pm – 7:15 pm: Coffee Break.

7:15 pm – 9:15 pm: Startups Competition.

Each founder will have 4 minutes for a pitch, and another 5-10 minutes for questions, comments, and suggestions by Judges.

9:15 pm - 10:00 pm: Networking.

It is a good opportunity to spend time with the right people of the venture community in an informal setting with pleasure and profit.

Фонды

Interstate Venture Capital

Shoreline Venture Management

WIF AX, Women’s Innovation Fund Accelerator

Venture Hollywood

WestWave Ventures

LA FUND

Okapi Venture Capital

AADAP A Different Approach to Poverty

О событии:

nFlux AI is the winner of the 157th Unicorn Battle, Los Angeles.

nFlux AI is the world's most intelligent video analytics platform.

nFlux’s intelligent analytics platform enables businesses and users to generate contextual insights about their unstructured data, like video footage. The corpus generated by nFlux's engine can be easily queried through natural language or simply used to trigger real-time alerts or other actions. For instance, through nFlux, a nurse could be alerted immediately when a patient has fallen or a port security manager can instantly query surveillance footage to answer questions like how many containers were offloaded in the past 12 hours.

We are grateful to the experienced and influenced VCs and Angel Investors, which joined the Judges’ Panel at the Unicorn Battle!

You can find the list at the section Judges on the event page: https://battle.startup.network/events/396712/#judges

Special gratitude goes to our Venue Partner - Expert DOJO.

Expert DOJO is the largest international growth hacking accelerator in Southern California and has had over 400 companies go through the program. Expert DOJO is not the only train and connects companies but also invest $100,000 into them through their accelerator fund.

The Unicorn Battle was started with Panel Discussion.

Mark Hamade became the Moderator of the Panel Discussion.

All Speakers are announced at the section Speakers on the event page:

https://battle.startup.network/events/396712/#speaker

This time, our sophisticated Speakers talked about differences between investment options"Crowdfunding vs Angel-funding vs Venture Capital".

The second part of the Battle was dedicated to the Pitch Competition.

Ten 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/396712/#startups.

Startup.Network is grateful to Investors, Experts, Entrepreneurs and Guests who attended the 156th Unicorn Battle in Sunnyvale.

Don’t miss the upcoming:

161 Unicorn Battle in New York on November 12 ;

162 Unicorn Battle in Boston on November 14.

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Открыть профиль Лиз Полицци Oртл, CEO and Co-Founder Nanno Анкета Стартапа

Да, я взволнована тем, что мы выиграли Startup Battle на этой неделе. Но в основном я хочу, чтобы мои друзья-предприниматели знали, что это событие действительно великолепно. Все Жюри очень впечатляющие активные инвестора - и все они были очень увлечены вопросами и ответами. Подготовка события была великолепной, и все компании, которые участвовали в Битве, были выдающимися. Если у вас есть возможность принять участие в одном из этих событий, сделайте это!

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Открыть профиль Анна Мещерякова, CEO Third Opinion Care Анкета Стартапа

Главное, чем бы я хотела поделиться, событие превзошло все наши ожидания.

Место было действительно наполнено заинтересованной аудиторией, и это создало правильное эмоциональное состояние для стартапов, которые выступали и для зрителей. Мы встретили несколько потенциальных инвесторов и приобрели очень ценные связи во время нетворка после питч сессии.

Через 1 месяц мы все еще на связи с теми, кого встретили на Startup Battle и совместно работаем над развитием Third Opinion Care.

Мы обязательно рассмотрим возможность участия в следующих мероприятиях, организованных этой командой.

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Открыть профиль Петр Неустроев, Основатель и Генеральный директор Nexus Intuitive Surgical technologies Анкета Стартапа

После принятия участия в Битве Стартапов, которая была организована Startup.Network в Силиконовой Долине, мы получили колоссальный опыт как построить свой стартап и привлечь инвесторов. Особенно приятно было поговорить с МС. Он дал множество советов. Если бы не это мероприятия, мы бы их точно никогда не услышали. Потом мы активно работали над поиском инвесторов, которых мы всё-таки нашли. Потом был этап юридического аудита, на котором мы поняли, что мы не хотим инвестиций на раннем этапе. Еще один совет от Майка Сандлера, его критика если быть точным, помогла нам найти правильный путь. На данный момент у нас есть несколько инвесторов из числа хирургов, но пока мы управляем самостоятельно.

Теперь у нас есть MVP, который представляет собой не просто набор инструментов, но и есть хирургическим роботом. Производство первичного продукта происходит на Тайване. На этом этапе он находится на стадии сертификации.

Если кто-нибудь спросит меня, нужны ли мне какие-либо инвестиции на ранних стадиях, я скажу «нет». Намного важнее развивать правильный нетворк и получать правильные советы.
Все, что произошло, это заслуга Startup.Network!

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Открыть профиль Светлана Малеванная, Основатель и Генеральный директор Raccoon.World Анкета Стартапа

Я хочу поблагодарить Statup.Network за ценный опыт и помощь, которую мы получили во время Битв Стартапов в США и Берлине.

Наставники, которые ваша команда выбирает для жюри на Битвах, всегда очень профессиональны и готовы помочь.

Мы получили ценную обратную связь и хорошее количество идей.

Команда Raccoon.World продолжает общение и строит отношения с несколькими инвесторами, которых мы встретили на Битвах Стартапов.

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Открыть профиль Иван Терехин, сооснователь BINO Анкета Стартапа

Привет!
Мы участвовали в двух мероприятиях Startup Network - в Москве (Битва Стартапов Ритейл) и в Mountain View (Silicon Valley Startup Battle).

В Москве заняли 1-е место и получили внимание прессы, инвесторов. Были дельные советы и встречи с несколькими инвесторами.

В Силиконовой Долине заняли 3-е место и прямо на мероприятии Марвин Ляо (партнёр 500 Startups) пригласил нас в акселератор. Знакомство с Марвином нам помогло ещё раз, уже в России.

С удовольствием будем участвовать в мероприятиях Startup Network и далее!

Спасибо.

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Открыть профиль Владимир Голобородько, сооснователь проекта SmartPay - сервис hands free оплаты Анкета Стартапа

Привет!

Мы участвовали в ряде мероприятий Startup.Network: в Москве, Питере, Минске, Алматы, Харькове, а также приняли участие в Startup Battle в Сан Франциско.

Полагаю, это помогло нам пройти отбор из более чем 1000 претендентов в акселерационную программу в Голландии, где мы были единственным стартапом из Восточной Европы.

Мероприятия очень хороши для развития нетворка и получения обратной связи. В частности, отзывы инвестора из Долины, которые мы получили на Startup Battle, помогли нам нащупать более интересную нишу и сделать pivot проекта. С радостью, продолжим сотрудничество со Startup Network!