This is a guest post by TechfluffTV video blogger Sonal, who�covered the highly-anticipated TheNextWomen Investment Pitch Evening. You can read her report and watch her video interviews below!
On Thursday 27th January I attended TheNextWomen & Astia Investment Pitch Evening. The start-ups who pitched ranged from a branding company to inter galactic space games, storing your lifetime memories online, to a luxury resort hotel in Italy and even delivering eastern-influenced cooking classes online!
All the eight companies spent a day at Orrick?s swanky head office, getting trained and mentored for pitching. That evening they had a chance to exhibit their newly acquired and spruced up skills in front of a panel of judges who ranged from London?s venture capitalist and finance companies including HACKFWD, DN Capital, Orrick, Octopus Ventures, Incito Ventures and Piton Capital.
The Next Women European Pitching Event from Newspepper on Vimeo.
After the pitching process, the two winners were announced?drum roll please..Indiluup of Elizabetta Calilleri ? an information hub for parents. Based on the idea that eventually all communication is going to be digitised and uploaded online, this info hub will create a highly resourceful database for parents to track activities of their kids in the future. Indiluup was awarded a free bootcamp in the Astia venture accelerator network.
Astia entrepreneur Maureen Scott was awarded best pitch for EtherBooks, who publish short fiction, articles, poetry and serials from both bestselling and emerging contemporary writers directly to consumers? mobile phones.
Simone Brummelhuis , founder and the CEO of the Next Women was very optimistic about most of the projects eventually connecting to the right investor.
Overall it was a fantastic event, and I thought Polly Gower?s advice, founder of Everyclick, really defined the key points when running a business.
?Surround yourself with people who challenge you, so they can bring important and key skills for making a success of your project.?
You can watch my video report here: The Next Women European Pitching Event from Newspepper on Vimeo.
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