On Might 7-8, the EU-Startups Summit will rejoice its 2026 version on the iconic Mediterranean Convention Centre in Valletta, Malta. As certainly one of Europe’s premier startup occasions, this gathering guarantees two days of networking, inspiration, and studying, bringing collectively high founders, buyers, corporates, and startup lovers from throughout Europe.
With two phases, a jam-packed agenda, a vibrant exhibition corridor, and an thrilling pitch competitors, the occasion may also welcome as much as 300 buyers keen to find Europe’s most promising startups. Beneath, we’re thrilled to introduce you to 100+ buyers who’ve already secured their tickets.
Aarish Shah: Founder at VC agency EmergeOne, offering CFO help for venture-backed tech startups from Seed to Sequence B and past. They assist handle capital, lengthen runway, observe metrics that matter, and keep investor-ready. Fundraising, M&A, exit prep, board reporting, strategic finance – with out the full-time value.
Aiman Al Zakwani: Co-founder and CEO at Madarek Innovation. With a background in know-how, startups, and administration consulting, he focuses on driving digital transformation and open innovation initiatives throughout the GCC area. Earlier in his profession, he held finance management roles at Halliburton.
Alan Darmanin: As CEO at ISB Applied sciences Alan focuses on serving to companies undertake fashionable digital options within the property and logistics sectors. He’s an occasional enterprise angel and has helped develop the PropTech sector in Malta, supporting the digital transformation of the native actual property trade.
Alberto De Nova: Founder at Midas, a worldwide funding matchmaker for company purchasers, household workplaces, and rich people. An entrepreneur and enterprise strategist with +25 years of expertise in actual property, worldwide enterprise improvement, and high-net-worth consumer providers. His work centres on serving to startups and firms safe funding, enter new markets, and construct strategic partnerships.
Alex Farcet: Co-founder and lead at Raspberry Ventures, a personal syndicate co-investing in ClimateTech and AI, principally in VC-led Seed rounds, in Europe, the US and Africa. He beforehand co-founded Rainmaking, a company innovation and enterprise improvement agency. He was additionally the preliminary spark behind Startupbootcamp, a worldwide accelerator community which has supported & invested in 1000+ startups.
Alexander Zemlyak: Principal at Geek Ventures, a enterprise capital agency investing in pre-Seed and Seed-stage startups throughout numerous sectors. With almost a decade of VC expertise, he brings experience in B2B software program, knowledge, and scaling companies. Beforehand, he led investments at LETA Capital and held key roles at Founders Manufacturing facility and Magical Capital.
Ana Fernandez: Enterprise Capital Investor at Nauta, a European VC agency with over €550 million AUM targeted on early-stage B2B software program startups. Based mostly in London, she helps founders throughout sectors like AI, FinTech, and enterprise software program. Nauta invests in high-growth corporations throughout Europe, leveraging its experience and community to scale progressive applied sciences.
Angelo Burgarello: Managing Companion at Look AI Ventures, a enterprise capital agency specialising in pre-Seed and Seed investments in AI-driven startups tackling international markets. Angelo can be actively concerned as an Investor Director and Board Member in a number of progressive ventures, contributing his experience in enterprise improvement, IT, AI, and automation.
Ann-Christine Roope: Energetic enterprise angel, and in addition the founder and Companion at Ethan Companions, an govt search and expertise advisory firm supporting startups, non-public equity-backed companies, and multinational companies. The agency specialises govt recruiting, and international enlargement hiring throughout greater than 50 markets.
Anna Badurska: Managing Companion at 42 International Ventures. She focuses on supporting corporations within the HealthTech, Life Sciences, and AgeTech sectors by serving to them safe capital, construct strategic partnerships, and scale internationally. Her work centres on growing innovation ecosystems and supporting startups with fundraising, progress technique, and deal-making.
Arjun Sirohi: Operations and Acceleration Director at Soulmates Ventures, specialising in optimising processes, enhancing productiveness, and driving scalability for portfolio corporations. With over 20 years of expertise in technique and operations, he collaborates with founders and govt groups to develop tailor-made options, maximising progress and affect.
Betul Yucel: Founding Director at IF Consultancy. With greater than 20 years of expertise as a marketing consultant, mentor, and coach, she works on the intersection of organisational psychology, human-centred AI, and affect investing. Her work focuses on supporting organisations and startups in driving cultural transformation, sustainable innovation, and measurable social and environmental affect.
Bianca Panchetti: Founding father of La Casa, a co-living mission for Seed stage founders in Italy that provides mentorships, co-living areas and neighborhood occasions for members. She is a polymer and supplies scientist with an curiosity in entrepreneurship and in growing options to deal with a number of the world’s most urgent challenges. She is targeted on contributing to the expansion of the Italian startup ecosystem.
Bjoern Schaettgen: Chief Progress Officer at Match-Maker Ventures. With greater than 20 years of expertise in worldwide company environments, together with roles at Samsung and Philips, he focuses on enabling profitable collaborations between corporates and scale-ups. Through the years, he has helped allow greater than 200 partnerships and influenced over €500 million in pipeline or income.
Bosco Amann: Head of Advertising and marketing & Enterprise Improvement at Acurio Ventures, an early-stage VC. He leads model technique, enterprise progress initiatives, and strategic partnerships throughout the agency’s European ecosystem. He works intently with founders, LPs, and company companions to strengthen collaboration, improve portfolio visibility, and help long-term worth creation.
Charles Sidman: Founder and Managing Companion at ECS Capital Companions, investing in Seed and growth-stage tech corporations. After an early profession in tech and biomed analysis, he spent greater than 4 a long time working throughout fields together with immunology, genetic engineering, genomics, and complicated techniques science.
Chrissie Masters: An entrepreneur and artwork market specialist with greater than 20 years of expertise within the valuation and sale of nineteenth and Twentieth-century design, she has overseen transactions value over £4 million. She is the founding father of Palladium Vaults, a platform combining AI and skilled perception to appraise and facilitate the sale of high-value tangible property.
Clara Reich: Senior Affiliate | Platform & Investments at Antler, the place she leads the Antler Platform and Investments in Denmark, and works throughout scouting, residency and portfolio. Antler is without doubt one of the world’s most energetic early-stage buyers. They function in 30+ cities worldwide and have supported over 8,000 entrepreneurs to this point.
Clément Sauvage: Affiliate Principal at Aquilae Ventures, investing between €10k-50k 4 to five occasions a yr in promising companies all around the globe. An entrepreneur and energetic enterprise angel, he has greater than 12 years of expertise supporting startups within the design and improvement of progressive digital merchandise, together with cellular and net purposes.
Dmitry Firskin is a Companion on the enterprise capital agency AltaIR Capital. Dmitry has 15+ years of expertise in tech and enterprise capital and has been deeply concerned in our investments throughout B2B SaaS, FinTech, and Way forward for Work, working intently with founders throughout the US, Europe, and Israel.
Elena Casolari: Co-founder and Government President of the Fondazione Opes-Lcef, an early-stage affect fund offering affected person capital funding. She beforehand served as CEO of ACRA for 10 years and spent over a decade engaged on rising markets at funding banks, together with HSBC, Dresdner Financial institution, and Nikko Securities.
Elie Zemmour: Founding Companion at Awake Companions, a consulting agency specialising in fundraising. They help startups of their progress journey via their experience and community. They craft your fundraising paperwork (pitch deck and marketing strategy) earlier than connecting startups with a certified community of VC companies and household workplaces.
Elisa Vrieze: Startup Lead at Lely, an AgTech firm targeted on dairy farm innovation. They give attention to collaborating with startups growing options for the way forward for farming. By partnerships that mix trade information, funding, and entry to testing services and a worldwide community, they help startups in validating and scaling improvements for the dairy sector.
Elisabet Nyquist: Normal Supervisor at Opes-Lcef, an early-stage affect investor that gives affected person capital and administration help to social enterprises that enhance the lives of low-income folks. Opes-Lcef makes use of a gender lens investing strategy in deploying capital. She beforehand labored as a administration marketing consultant at McKinsey & Firm and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
Elna Bisha: She works within the Innovation Community Improvement crew at Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Centre, supporting collaboration throughout startup ecosystems, corporates, and analysis establishments. Her work focuses on rising applied sciences and innovation traits throughout sectors comparable to life sciences, the area economic system, and the round economic system.
Emmie van Halder: Emmie is an angel investor and enterprise improvement skilled targeted on the Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs). With greater than 25 years of expertise in overseas direct funding and worldwide enterprise improvement, she helps corporations in accessing funding and increasing into new markets.
Ena Uffelmann: Funding Affiliate at G+D Ventures, a TrustTech fund investing predominantly in early-stage European TrustTech startups growing options for larger safety and belief within the digital world. G+D shapes belief within the digital age, with built-in safety know-how in three segments: Digital Safety, Monetary Platforms and Forex Know-how.
Ewa Chronowska: CEO and founding father of Vestbee, a number one platform empowering startup founders, VC funds, angels, accelerators and corporates with the fitting neighborhood, infrastructure, and instruments to succeed. Entrepreneur, startup mentor and investor with 15+ years of expertise in consulting and investments.
Fabiana Pompermaier: EU Mission Supervisor at EBAN – European Enterprise Angel Community, the pan-European consultant for the early stage investor neighborhood gathering over 150 member organisations in additional than 50 nations. EBAN represents a sector estimated to take a position €11.4 billion a yr.
Florian Kandler: Startup fundraising marketing consultant and educator at GetFunding.how. Florian has raised €3 million+ for 2 of his personal startups. Since 2012, he has been instructing and advising 3000+ founders, who went on to boost over €1 million, on easy methods to discover the fitting buyers, have higher investor conversations, and lift quicker.
Friedrich von Wulffen: Principal at Burda Principal Investments, offering long-term progress fairness for fast-growing digital know-how and media corporations. BPI invests early progress capital (Sequence A, B, C) in scalable know-how companies with the potential to develop into international class leaders.
Hanim Dogan: Companion at Prime Benefit Capital Companions. She serves as a board advisor to startups, supporting founders with progress technique, enterprise planning, operational optimisation, and fundraising. Her work focuses on serving to corporations safe fairness capital and scale efficiently throughout sectors comparable to ClimateTech, well being and wellness, shopper merchandise, AI, FinTech, and EdTech.
Hans Peter Blahowsky: Startup catalyst on the AIT Austrian Institute of Know-how, Austria’s largest analysis and know-how organisation. He works on supporting the creation and improvement of research-based spin-offs. The institute’s entrepreneurship programme helps rework R&D outcomes into startups by guiding enterprise fashions, market validation, and know-how switch.
Hynek Sochor: Founder at Soulmate Ventures, a sustainable improvements accelerator and enterprise capital agency. Their focus is on investing in Seed-stage corporations with sturdy environmental, social, and governance values and international progress potential. The agency combines hands-on startup improvement with funding, committing as much as €1 million per mission and infrequently main funding rounds.
Igor Madzov: Funding Director and co-founder at Nest. He’s an entrepreneur and angel investor actively supporting the event of the startup ecosystem in Southeast Europe. He has facilitated greater than €25 million in investments throughout almost 30 startups via angel syndication and neighborhood initiatives.
Iwona Safi: Founder at Niemeyer Heritage Basis, Tripoli. A strategist, evaluator, and coverage analyst with greater than 20 years of expertise in worldwide improvement and humanitarian programmes, she has labored with establishments together with the EU and several other UN companies.
Iwona Anna Biernat: COO at Mission Europe and Co-Lead at EU-INC. She works on the intersection of regulation, enterprise, and coverage, specializing in bettering the atmosphere for startups and buyers throughout Europe. Earlier in her profession, she helped construct international authorized processes at Entrepreneur First and later suggested rising fund managers, household workplaces, and enterprise capital companies on fund operations and technique.
James E. Mister: Enterprise Companion at Past Earth Ventures. With greater than 15 years of expertise throughout product, progress, and funding technique, he advises VC companies, governments, and know-how corporations on utilized AI, R&D partnerships, and scaling DeepTech innovation. He beforehand led the funding and innovation workplace of the Bavarian authorities in Silicon Valley.
Jaren Schippert: Affiliate at identification.vc, a fund backing LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs. The €50 million affect fund invests in startups with LGBTQ+ illustration within the management crew, focusing on early-stage corporations throughout all sectors from pre-Seed to Sequence A in Europe and past.
Jens C. Schneiders: Managing Companion at Schneiders Ventures, an entrepreneurial administration and funding platform to help chosen corporations in phases of transformation, progress, or realignment. An govt chief with greater than 27 years of expertise as CEO, COO, and Managing Director, he has led and scaled organisations throughout scale-ups, mid-sized corporations, and company environments.
Joe Seager-Dupuy: VC Director at True, a shopper and retail sector-specialist funding and advisory agency. Joe’s focus is on investments from pre-Seed to Sequence A. His work centres on shopper and retail startups, significantly tech and tech-enabled enterprise fashions. Along with capital, he helps founders via sector experience and entry to a worldwide community of greater than 200 company companions.
Jonathan Ramaci: Managing Normal Companion at Nice Product Ventures, accelerating consumer corporations within the US by offering funding, governance and commercialisation providers. With greater than 20 years of expertise in know-how innovation, product design, and enterprise improvement, he focuses on sectors together with shopper merchandise, IoT, inexperienced power, healthcare, and micro-mobility.
Joseph Taliana: Director and Co-Founder at ISB Applied sciences. A techniques engineer and ICT infrastructure strategist with greater than 25 years in enterprise IT, he specialises in designing and managing complicated know-how environments. He has led ICT infrastructure initiatives for main hospitality teams and property builders, with a give attention to bettering operational effectivity and good constructing integration.
Karmen Kutnjak: Director at Centar za poduzetništvo d.o.o., an organisation devoted to supporting the event of SME in Croatia. The centre gives providers comparable to enterprise planning, mentoring, coaching, and help for nationwide and EU-funded initiatives. It additionally manages a community of enterprise incubators in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, serving to entrepreneurs begin and develop their companies.
Kim Balle: Co-founder and CEO of International Startup Awards and XO group, driving international innovation by connecting startups, corporates, and governments. As an entrepreneur and investor (GSA Ventures), he specialises in strategic funding, ecosystem constructing, and model improvement, serving to startups scale and thrive.
Kirsten Borggreve: Because the Head of her Household Workplace, she manages their present investments whereas actively pursuing strategic alternatives for progress. They’re a global household with deep roots in Germany and a longstanding historical past within the logistics trade in Ecuador. She brings over a decade of expertise within the transport sector, complemented by a background in startups.
Kyrylo Goncharuk: CEO and Founder at CheckEye, an AI-driven platform for mass screening of power ailments to allow preventive healthcare. With a background in IT, he focuses on advancing digital transformation in healthcare, significantly via initiatives aimed on the early detection and prevention of diabetes.
Leyla F Karaha: Founding Companion at Equisscore. An entrepreneur and social innovation advocate, she focuses on constructing ecosystems that help women-led know-how ventures and social affect initiatives. Her work centres on empowering underrepresented founders, fostering international collaboration, and utilizing know-how as a power for social good.
Lia Hruby: Investor at Futury Capital. She focuses on investing in early-stage tech corporations and supporting their improvement and progress. Launched in cooperation with the State of Hesse, the fund gives capital and strategic help to promising startups. By the Futury Progress Fund, the organisation additionally backs scale-ups and worldwide corporations increasing into Germany.
Lianne Bergeron: Head of International Trade Partnerships at HU College of Utilized Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht). An ecosystem builder with greater than 20 years of expertise connecting founders, corporations, and communities round rising applied sciences. She has co-founded a tech startup and served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Antler in Amsterdam.
Lucas E. Roemer: Managing Director at Roemer Capital, a boutique funding and fundraising advisory agency devoted to supporting early- and growth-stage founders. They’ve helped purchasers increase over $500 million. With a background in funding banking and personal fairness at companies, he additionally brings operational expertise as a former CFO of an investor-backed startup and is energetic as an investor himself.
Lucas Paul: Funding Director at Redstone, a VC whose targeted strategy with specialised funding groups for every technique has enabled them to develop sturdy sector experience and networks. Lucas builds and manages Redstone’s early-stage Well being & Training fund, with preliminary tickets between €500k and €1.5 million.
Maaike Doyer: Founder and Managing Companion at Epic Angels, a worldwide neighborhood devoted to creating angel investing extra accessible to ladies. The community focuses on early-stage startups, investing from pre-seed to Sequence Some time strongly supporting feminine management. With a background in finance, she additionally trains buyers worldwide on angel investing and helps startups with fundraising and monetary technique.
Maarten ter Keurst: Managing Companion at Pure Ventures. He focuses on investing in know-how corporations addressing international water and meals safety challenges. The agency helps portfolio corporations with capital in addition to entry to a community of trade specialists and companions throughout the Center East and Asia.
Maja Križan: COO at Enterprise Angels of Slovenia, an angel funding membership that connects native startups with angel buyers and VC’s each at house and internationally. With greater than 20 years of expertise in gross sales and procurement improvement for main Slovenian corporations, she focuses on constructing sturdy partnerships between startups and buyers.
Marcel Dridje: GCC Ambassador at EBAN – European Enterprise Angel Community, the pan-European consultant for the early stage investor neighborhood gathering over 150 member organisations in additional than 50 nations. EBAN represents a sector estimated to take a position €11.4 billion a yr.
Marcus Haberstroh: Managing Director (COO/CFO) at SpinLab – the HHL Accelerator, supporting startups with mentorship, funding, and scaling methods. He’s additionally the founding father of BITROAD GmbH, specializing in innovation and digital transformation. With intensive expertise in enterprise improvement and organisational transformation, he helps startups optimise their progress and operational constructions.
Marlieke Lingmont: Head of Startup Innovation at Lely, an AgTech firm targeted on dairy farm innovation. They give attention to collaborating with startups growing options for the way forward for farming. By partnerships that mix trade information, funding, and entry to testing services and a worldwide community, they help startups in validating and scaling improvements for the dairy sector.
Massimiliano Sulpizi: Founder and CEO at EquityMatch. A serial entrepreneur with expertise founding six corporations and reaching three profitable exits, he has suggested companies throughout sectors, together with finance, power, infrastructure, know-how, and actual property. He serves as an advisor and board member to a number of startups and SMEs.
Matei Dumitrescu: Head of Romanian operations, Enterprise Companion at Fil Rouge Capital. As an impact-focused angel and enterprise capital investor with greater than 15 years of expertise, he has backed over 50 startups throughout numerous sectors. He’s additionally Vice President of TechAngels and serves as a jury member for the European Innovation Council Accelerator.
Matthieu Valettas: Enterprise Incubator Supervisor at AVRUL-incubateur, serving to rising progress corporations to outlive and develop. Its foremost choices embrace marketing strategy elaboration, advertising coaching, community constructing, and skilled recommendation. As a real interface between the analysis and enterprise worlds, AVRUL gives help in establishing partnerships.
Mehmet Boyaci: Managing Director at SCC Investments. An entrepreneur and energetic investor with almost 4 a long time of expertise throughout sectors, together with retail, finance, and schooling, he focuses on supporting early-stage startups with sturdy progress potential. Having constructed and scaled a number of companies himself, he brings sensible perception into the challenges founders face.
Michal Sikyta: Funding Director at Soulmates Ventures, main investments in daring, inexperienced improvements with a give attention to sustainability and long-term affect. He performs a key function in figuring out and supporting startups that drive environmental and social change, performing as a bridge between entrepreneurs and buyers to speed up progress.
Michiel de Jongh: Founder and CEO of Valorem Administration, an funding and advisory agency targeted on AgTech, digital buying and selling, and strategic investments. Valorem helps high-potential early-stage corporations, leveraging Michiel’s international experience to drive innovation and progress in agriculture and adjoining industries.
Miguel Borg: CEO of Malta Enterprise Capital, a VC that manages a €10 million fund by investing in startup corporations working throughout the digital economic system and progressive financial sectors that contribute to the Maltese economic system. Miguel brings a wealth of data from his various profession in finance and threat administration, alongside his tutorial function as a lecturer on the College of Malta.
Milana Dovzhenko: Angel Investor at AngelsWay. Her major focus is on pre-Seed investments, focusing on startups from ideation to preliminary funding rounds. The first requirement is that the corporate have to be formally established, permitting it to help entrepreneurial ventures proper from their foundational phases.
Monika Uziel: Startup Scout & Assistant to the Administration Board at Startup Angels Alb-Bodensee, connecting early-stage startups with buyers and mentors. She helps founders in securing funding, refining enterprise fashions, and navigating the startup ecosystem to drive innovation and progress.
Necati Gunkan: Director at BGFS Capital. Based mostly out of Cyprus and energetic since 2007, BGFS Capital is made up of economic advisers that present complete Monetary Planning and Wealth Administration recommendation to high-net-worth people and Portfolio and Danger Administration recommendation to establishments.
Noémi Szabó: Based mostly in Vienna, Noémi is a Senior affiliate and key participant at Elevator Ventures, the enterprise arm of Raiffeisen Financial institution Worldwide. The agency backs growth-stage fintech and deeptech startups, and Noémi actively seems for European founders with scalable options and cross-border ambitions.
Oriane Yehoshua: Senior Worldwide Funding Advisor at FIT – Flanders Funding & Commerce. On this function, she helps worldwide enterprise improvement and funding relations between the UK and Flanders. Earlier in her profession, he labored as an Audit Supervisor at KPMG, specializing in monetary reporting, treasury processes, and regulatory compliance.
Paulo Andrez: Advisory Board Member at ESNA. Paulo is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur, and writer of the guide Zero Danger Startup. He’s a former President of EBAN and has been concerned in quite a few profitable investments, together with Sword Well being, which grew to become a unicorn in 2022.
Peter Kovacs: Co-founder of IseeQ and an energetic enterprise angel. A serial entrepreneur, international connector and angel investor identified for difficult the established order via unconventional methods – fostering an distinctive community that unites entrepreneurs, specialists, and buyers throughout tech and innovation ecosystems worldwide.
Piotr Godzinski: Partnerships Director, EMEA at Techstars. Techstars helps entrepreneurs succeed. By the Techstars Worldwide Community, founders and their groups join with different entrepreneurs, specialists, mentors, alumni, buyers, neighborhood leaders, and company companions who will assist their corporations develop.
Purvi Munot: Co-founder and CEO of SAV, the place she focuses on constructing next-generation monetary providers infrastructure on the intersection of open finance, AI, and shopper behaviour. Her expertise centres on launching and scaling progressive shopper monetary merchandise and FinTech options.
Radoslaw Wierzbicki: CEO at Unsung Heroes – Ventures For Humanity, which has supported and accelerated greater than 200 social entrepreneurs from over 20 nations. Along with his work in social innovation, he’s a co-founder of a number of startups. He’s additionally energetic as a mentor for social startups and researchers, specializing in the affect of improvement support and entrepreneurship.
Robert Timms: Director at Earth Capital. An entrepreneur and advisor targeted on technique and sustainable progress, he was beforehand Managing Director and co-founder of Translate Plus. The corporate grew right into a high language service supplier earlier than being acquired by Publicis Groupe in 2017. He now advises companies and non-profit organisations on progress technique and worldwide enlargement.
Ruben Devogelaer: Head of Unit, Cleantech Fairness and Progress Capital at European Funding Financial institution (EIB). His crew focuses on supporting growth-stage ventures, usually from Sequence A onwards, serving to them scale applied sciences that contribute to Europe’s decarbonisation and competitiveness objectives.
Severine Obertelli: Founder and Director at Acutely aware Ventures International, a agency that helps founders and entrepreneurs via enterprise constructing and ecosystem improvement. Its work goals to help founders, corporations, and buyers in constructing companies that obtain sustainable and regenerative progress.
Silvia Lupu: Founder and CEO at FounderSquare. She focuses on constructing founder and investor communities that foster significant collaboration and long-term partnerships. She is concerned with and invests in sectors comparable to AI, semiconductors, non-public credit score, and actual property. Her work centres on connecting capital, neighborhood, and high-growth alternatives.
Simina Berceanu: VP of Individuals on the Barcelona-based scale-up Immfly. A know-how folks chief with intensive expertise constructing scalable HR infrastructures for international corporations throughout EMEA, APAC, and america. Additionally, Simina is an energetic enterprise angel and a member of Women2Invest.
Sophie Ehrlich: Head of Startup progress at EIT Well being, she is a healthcare funding and enterprise improvement skilled with greater than 20 years of expertise throughout digital well being, HealthTech, and MedTech. Her background combines operational roles in trade with expertise in startup banking and funding, supporting corporations from the seed stage to pre-IPO.
Stefano Magnoni: Vice President at Opes-Lcef, an early-stage affect investor that gives affected person capital and administration help to social enterprises that enhance the lives of low-income folks. Opes-Lcef makes use of a gender lens investing strategy in deploying capital. He holds a PhD in Environmental Physics and has been energetic within the honest commerce and social economic system motion since 1990.
Susana Santos Nogueira: Advisor for Social Innovation and Well being at Amadora Innovation. She helps the event of startups targeted on social innovation and healthcare. With greater than 20 years of expertise in public administration, she has specialised in public coverage administration and the coordination of multidisciplinary groups.
Susanne Rost: Senior Grants Supervisor at SpinLab – the HHL Accelerator, supporting startups with mentorship, funding, and scaling methods. Since 2014, startups taking part on this accelerator programmes have raised greater than €650 million in funding with a survival price of 87%.
Talia Rafaeli: Normal Companion at KOMPAS VC, a enterprise capital agency targeted on backing startups that drive digital transformation and sustainability throughout main industrial sectors. She performs a key function in figuring out and investing in early-stage corporations which are reshaping manufacturing, power, and the constructed atmosphere with progressive and sustainable applied sciences.
Tarek R. Besold: Consultant of Belief Tech Ventures, a VC backing the ‘belief stack’ for transformative AI. An R&D and innovation govt with expertise throughout digital well being, AI testing and certification, and AI for scientific discovery, he has labored in each company and startup environments, main superior analysis and product improvement groups.
Thando Mazomba: Enterprise Improvement Supervisor at Oceanhub Africa. She works on the intersection of sustainability and the ocean economic system, specializing in collaborative initiatives that help marine conservation and local weather motion. Her work centres on selling inclusive sustainability whereas contributing to the event of options that handle environmental challenges within the marine sector.
TJ Jackson:Companion at GSD Enterprise Studio, inviting resilient groups to ascertain partnerships that guarantee organisations develop the fitting means. Based mostly in Helsinki, he’s additionally a Enterprise Coach and Enterprise Adviser for numerous corporations, providing enterprise teaching providers and a wide range of coaching programmes and sources for entrepreneurs, giant companies and startups.
Tomáš Kabeláč: Sustainability and Innovation Supervisor at Soulmate Ventures. He focuses on sustainability-driven investments throughout sectors comparable to power, mobility, well being, and digital applied sciences. In his function, he evaluates and helps progressive startups addressing environmental and social challenges, having reviewed 1000’s of ventures and met greater than 500 sustainability-focused startups.
Vanesa Arroyo Nares: Startup Director at Andbank. With greater than 20 years of expertise throughout life sciences, analysis, and entrepreneurship, she works on designing and evaluating innovation and startup techniques for founders, companies, and establishments. Her focus lies in assessing startups past pitch decks, figuring out execution-ready groups, and supporting decision-makers.
Vazil Hudak: Vazil is an investor with intensive expertise in finance and public coverage throughout each authorities and worldwide establishments. Former minister, VP of EIB and senior banker expert in Company Social Accountability, Political Science, Analytical Expertise, Banking, and Authorities. Earlier in his profession, he labored in senior banking roles at JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup.
Vera Uvarova: Advertising and marketing and Communications Lead at CAAN Various Asset Administration, the place she leads end-to-end model, design, and advertising execution throughout digital and offline touchpoints. On the funding agency CAAN her work focuses on creating user-centred digital experiences that mix creative imaginative and prescient with useful design.
Volker Hirsch: Companion at Brainworks Ventures, an early-stage enterprise capital agency for AI-native founders. A know-how entrepreneur and investor with expertise throughout AI, autonomous techniques, cybersecurity, enterprise SaaS, and digital well being. He has based and scaled a number of ventures, contributing to early cellular leisure and gaming platforms and constructing large-scale cellular content material distribution networks.
Xènia Colomer Martin: EU Tasks Supervisor at EBAN – European Enterprise Angel Community, the pan-European consultant for the early stage investor neighborhood gathering over 150 member organisations in additional than 50 nations. EBAN represents a sector estimated to take a position €11.4 billion a yr.
Youssef Boughlem: Normal Director at AVRUL, serving to rising progress corporations to outlive and develop. Its foremost choices embrace marketing strategy elaboration, advertising coaching, community constructing, and skilled recommendation. As a real interface between the analysis and enterprise worlds, AVRUL gives help in establishing partnerships.
Zeynep Koruturk: Founding & Managing Companion at Firgun Ventures, a VC agency investing in Sequence A and B quantum computing, sensing, and communications scale-ups worldwide. Beforehand, she co-founded the Goldman Sachs Tech Initiative. Through the years, she has engaged with greater than 2,000 startups and has been concerned with a number of corporations as an angel investor, board member, or advisor.
Malta Enterpriseis Malta’s financial improvement company, facilitating financial progress, funding, and innovation by providing a spread of help providers for native and overseas enterprises organising a productive presence in Malta. As a key participant in Malta’s financial panorama, it contributes to the nation’s prosperity by attracting investments, supporting companies, and driving innovation, thereby reinforcing Malta’s place as a pretty vacation spot for entrepreneurs and buyers alike. Malta Enterprise actively cultivates a vibrant startup ecosystem, taking part in a pivotal function in fostering a conducive atmosphere for startups and providing tailor-made help and incentives to empower rising companies.
M. Demajo Groupis a number one enterprise participant in Malta, with a profitable historical past spanning 115 years. The Group’s progress and diversification have resulted in a large protection of enterprise sectors via a dedication to long-term outcomes. M. Demajo Group’s workforce is 500 sturdy and their numerous actions have been developed via natural progress, acquisitions, partnerships, and startups. Its sturdy monetary state of affairs and moral requirements, its enterprise repute, and its famend observe report as a enterprise companion are all key elements in its continued enlargement.
The IONOS Cloud Start-up Program gives younger corporations with as much as €100,000 in cloud credit for as much as 5 years after their founding. Begin-ups profit from a sovereign IT infrastructure “Made in Germany,” providing 100% GDPR compliance and full authorized certainty. IONOS Cloud ensures technological freedom with out vendor lock-in. Lengthy-term help can be ensured: unique reductions after the primary yr allow a seamless transition into the IONOS Cloud ISV Companion Program. On this means, digital sovereignty turns into a strategic aggressive benefit from founding to scaling.
Clément Sauvage: Affiliate Principal at Aquilae Ventures, investing between €10k-50k 4 to five occasions a yr in promising companies all around the globe. An entrepreneur and energetic enterprise angel, he has greater than 12 years of expertise supporting startups within the design and improvement of progressive digital merchandise, together with cellular and net purposes.
Elena Casolari: Co-founder and Government President of the Fondazione Opes-Lcef, an early-stage affect fund offering affected person capital funding. She beforehand served as CEO of ACRA for 10 years and spent over a decade engaged on rising markets at funding banks, together with HSBC, Dresdner Financial institution, and Nikko Securities.
Stefano Magnoni: Vice President at Opes-Lcef, an early-stage affect investor that gives affected person capital and administration help to social enterprises that enhance the lives of low-income folks. Opes-Lcef makes use of a gender lens investing strategy in deploying capital. He holds a PhD in Environmental Physics and has been energetic within the honest commerce and social economic system motion since 1990.
