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☕ If your #startup is looking for new challenges, you shouldn’t miss our most recent #MorningTalks article.     💡 We spoke to the representatives of the three #corporates that participated in our latest Multicorporate #Matchmaking Event on Energy about why these initiatives are so impactful for both #startups and #corporations.    🙌A big thanks to Björn Bolund (Portfolio manager Wind R&D at Vattenfall), Emanuele Volpe (former Chief Innovation Officer at DTEK), and Juan Moro Alaejos (Principal at PERSEO, Iberdrola) for their valuable insights.    📰Read the full interview here 👉   https://lnkd.in/d-fjQCAB 

🆕 We are glad to announce the upcoming second edition of the #Innovation Radar #Summit, organised together with the European Commission, EurA AG, Dealroom.co, Startup Lisboa, ESNA - Europe Startup Nations Alliance, EU-Startups, and Unicorn Factory Lisboa.    🎉 We invite all the EU-backed startups to apply to the Innovation Radar Prize 2024. Following a pre-selection, the candidates will participate in an online open voting and the finalists will pitch their projects to a jury panel and a room of #investors on 11 November.     ⚠️You won’t also want to miss our guest speakers’ keynotes and the #networking opportunity.     📅 Mark your calendar: 11 November in Lisbon, right before the Web Summit.    👀 Check out our website for regular updates: http://dealflow.eu      #IRSUMMIT24 

📩 Check your inbox now, Dealflow.eu’s Summer 2024 #newsletter was released last week! 📰 In this issue, you can:  → Get an update on our upcoming and latest events  → Explore our newest #interviews  → Discover our #community If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can access the newsletters here: 🔗 For #innovators: https://lnkd.in/dp_4aY5p 🔗 For #investors: https://lnkd.in/dst4PwEn 👉 Don’t forget to sign up for future editions here: https://lnkd.in/dUQBgPVC 

 Did you know...    That #AI is dominating venture capital❓  📈It is now making up a record 18% of #VC #funding in #Europe. This marks a significant increase from just over 4% in 2012.   🚀 AI funding experienced steady growth before plateauing, but Generative AI has sparked a renewed surge. Today, Generative AI alone accounts for more than 10% of VC funding in Europe.    🔎 Read more in Roosh and Dealroom.co’s AI Europe Report 2024: https://lnkd.in/d5a64wsJ     👀 Keep tuned for more curiosities about #Innovation! 

🙌 Thanks to all the participants of last week’s Dealflow.eu’s #Foodtech & #Agritech E-pitching Event, organised by EurA AG.      💻 Last Thursday, 11 July, six innovative companies introduced their disruptive businesses in the fields of #Agrifood, Industry 4.0, #Fertilising, Organic #Waste Management, #Pharmaceutics, #Biotechnology, #Poultry and Alternative #Protein.    👏 Congratulations to all the innovators: Microfy Systems, Cybeletech, AGRISTARBIO, FarmPharma, eggXYt and KYANOS BIOTECHNOLOGIES! We will keep an eye on your future accomplishments. A big thank you also to all the present investors and jury members. 🚀      📸 Do you want to join us for the next picture? Apply here: https://lnkd.in/d8jKwNgG

🚨 Last Call! Join us TODAY for the Dealflow.eu e-pitching session hosted by EurA AG, spotlighting #FoodTech & #AgriTech! 🗓️ Happening today, July 11, 2024, from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM (CET). 🌟 Witness six of the most promising EU-funded innovators as they showcase their technologies to a panel of invited jury members. 🚀 These startups are leaving their mark on #Agrifood, Industry 4.0, #Fertilising, Organic #Waste Management, #Pharmaceutics, #Biotechnology, #Poultry and Alternative #Protein. 🔗 You’re still on time, register now: https://lnkd.in/dxqTTZvH 

💡 Ahead of the #FoodTech & #AgriTech E-Pitching event organised together with EurA AG, it’s time to introduce you to the members of the jury and the companies they represent.  They will be listening to the #innovators and will select the most promising innovation tomorrow, 11 July, at 10h30 CET. 🚀 ⚙ Albena Todorova holds a position as a Venture Partner with Rabo Ventures, Rabobank's captive food and #agriculture specialist #venture #investment team. She has a significant expertise in food and agriculture venture investments, backed by a previous career in M&A and portfolio management.    ⚙ Daniela Arruda Costa is an Investment Associate at Capricorn Partners. She has a PhD in Agricultural #Microbiology, and a master's in biotechnology. She invests in early-stage companies in the #Cleantech sector, aligned with SDGs.    ⚙ David I. Bassani is the GP of Maia Ventures, an early stage Agrifood Tech fund based in Italy (launch Q3‘24). Previously, he was a partner at ZX Ventures, the corporate venture arm of ABInBev.    ⚙ Fernando Casado Cañeque is the co-founder and GP of the Inclimo Climate Tech Fund, a fund based in Barcelona that invests in technology addressing climate change challenges for a more sustainable world. Fernando has a PhD on Life Cycle Analysis & environmental impact and specialized in economic #sustainable global development.     ⚙ Samantha Barbero, MBA is a CEO & Investor Relations at valueXmatch, a strategic advisory boutique focused on finance and innovation, boosting startups’ scaling up and SMEs’ international development. She is also a General Secretary/General Manager at AssoFintech and a Jury Member & Expert Advisor for the European Commission.     ⚙ Sara Böcking is an investor at ZINTINUS, a €135M early growth fund, fully focused on the sustainable transformation of the future of food.    ⚙ Sara Frykstrand Ångström, MSc, PhD is an Associate at Industrifonden, she focuses on Deep Tech and has a passion for new technologies and innovations. Sara holds a MSc in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Engineering Physics with focus on material science, both from Uppsala University. She is an authorized European Patent Attorney.    👉 Find all details here: https://lnkd.in/dxqTTZvH 

🚀 The #Innovation Radar Prize 2023 was the first to be held within the first Innovation Radar #Summit – a great opportunity for participants to get valuable insights and to network and forge potential collaborations.     🎤 Read what two of last year’s awardees have to say about their journey and the impact of this experience:    💬 “The Innovation Radar is a very nice opportunity to showcase Carbon Waters to VCs and companies in other countries, helping us become more international.”  🗣Alban Chesneau, Carbon Waters    💬 “The Summit provided us with a great opportunity to showcase our work and the positive results we have achieved. To achieve global impact, we need to raise awareness, explore collaboration opportunities, and gather feedback on the benefits derived from #EU funds. The Summit was the perfect platform to kickstart this effort.”  🗣 Luca Emili, InSilicoTrials    🔜 We will start revealing this year’s Innovation Radar Prize details very soon, keep tuned!    👥 Do you want to be part of the Dealflow.eu community? Join here: https://lnkd.in/dqjHad7k #IRSUMMIT23

🚀 Get ready to meet the six EU-funded #FoodTech & #AgriTech #startups that will pitch their groundbreaking solutions on 11 July, at 10:30AM CET.   💥 For our Food & Agri Tech E-pitching #event, organised together with EurA AG, we're thrilled to present you the six innovators: AGRISTARBIO makes premium organomineral fertiliser from organic wastes, recycling all organic matter and nutrients, all in small modular facilities, right next to the waste source. Cybeletech produces data to enable productive and durable production strategies in Agriculture and Forestry. eggXYt makes layer chickens sex-detectable, ending the practice of male chick culling, which claims billions of lives annually. Their bioconvergent solution involves chickens with a sex-detectability trait and an electro-optical scanner. FarmPharma develops an antibiotic-free immunostimulant InterferOx for the treatment and prevention of cattle infections for distribution to farmers who are forced to minimise the use of antibiotics in accordance with the governmental laws and regulations that have been developed due to the high risk of developing antibiotic resistance. KYANOS BIOTECHNOLOGIES focuses on developing a sustainable and disruptive micro-algae-based protein production inspired by natural ecosystems. They use the symbiosis of microorganisms to improve production yields, traceability and minimise contamination. Microfy Systems develops, manufactures, and commercialises affordable automated microscopes, powered by computer vision and AI, allowing non-lab users to carry their autonomous quality analysis within the agrifood industry. 👉 Find more info here: https://lnkd.in/dxqTTZvH

Did you know ❓    That the #Baltic #Deep #Tech startup ecosystem has grown more than 3x, faster than the rest of Europe?     📈 The Baltic countries have raised over €150M in investment for Deep Tech three years in a row.    💡 Deep Tech and AI startups continue to grow and have a combined enterprise value of €6.8B.    🔎 Download the full Dealroom.co Report on Baltic Deep Tech: https://lnkd.in/dyys3fbc     👀 Follow us for more updates on #Innovation!